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• Blog / About Decisions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT, part deux The case study of someone else you wouldn't expect to have gotten in

  

  requires passion, and, luckily, you get to define passion on your own terms. ... According to my hit counter as well as by raw comment count, my entry on how I got here is the most popular thing I've ever written

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Move Fast And Break Things just make sure you have a net positive of unbreaks

  

  overtime in which developers stay up all night to work on projects outside of ... something useful to your profile in the near future, I experimented with an ... Facebook is somewhat infamous on the college software developer scene

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a sad sad toaster made of glass. Do you like your toast with tears? Because I'm sad.

  

  go to the Concert in Bad Taste. Or go on the Burton-Conner boat cruise ... passed out on the floor [and you're sprawled out amidst three notebooks and hugging your laptop, which is still on, so it doesn't get stolen; also, you

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Have Never Been to Beijing A (loose) translation of the previous post written in Chinese

  

  them :) I have never been to Beijing. Whenever we returned to China, we always went to Shanghai, Nanjing, or Hangzhou, always somewhere in the Jiangsu province area. I remember being able to speak Shanghainese

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Random Ceiling Tiles The ceilings of Random Hall and a friendly message.

  

  Some of you have to make a decision to come here (or not) by 23:59 tomorrow. If you're on the fence, I have one small bid to make you fall in love. I came to MIT for the people here. I've had wonderful experiences

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 30, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  how to change policies at mit [joint post with Rona W.] our CUP of tea

  

  meant to represent the opinion of the Committee on the Undergraduate ... to 7–10). on average, mit students take 54 units each semester."]60 ... . Ultimately, the faculty members on CUP chose the four of us! Rona: I chose to

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 28, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Merit When getting into MIT isn't convincing enough

  

  ; usually you don’t get old men saying things like this to your face. Usually ... be exceptional—because if you’re accepted to MIT, you are exceptional ... as a Tech Caller, which means I call alumni, talk to them, and ask them

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • January 22, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “So what are you majoring in?” *sweats nervously*

  

  /musing on the topic, I’ve gotten a bit closer to an answer, but the same sort ... necessarily looking to work on third-world water purification, either. I ... describing quite literally everything, depending on your personal philosophy

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  SHASS Hack feminist hacktivism

  

  as substance. It provides a great opportunity to reflect on what MIT ... while these economists deserve recognition for their contributions to MIT ... displayed here have made to both MIT and their fields. However, we disagree

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 4, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take a Load Off Quoting The Band's "The Weight" should make the wait bearable

  

  suggestions are biased?More to the point of that pressing topic on some of your ... at work on that. Nevertheless, and quite understandably, you want to ... . And it's still true of everyone who wants to get in to MIT. And I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” and other ways to improve your test scores

  

  have nothing to do with your actual ability to do well on the test.” The ... caught on that there’s a little bit more to this picture (why would a ... ?). If you’re now wondering whether I’m about to throw some kind of

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Flux and Flow Thermodynamics as therapeutic analogy; or, the longest way I've ever said, "I'm still figuring things…

  

  point, though, it's pointless to be too hard on yourself, if you know you're ... to wear yourself out. After that post, I've gone on to disregard each ... three years after writing that post, I had gone on to unlearn important

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  VEDA In which I try to vlog every day in April

  

  /less well-known) vloggers all try to post a new video every day. It's less ... make sure it stays on the front page -- thankfully I've only needed to do ... elsewhere on campus)! I'm going to try to pop by some events that my friends

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 24, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Halloween is the best day of the year. Yes, I recognize that it is now closer to Thanksgiving than to Halloween. Sorry.

  

  you an e-mail, or (more commonly) write on your Facebook wall, and the ... : Correct response, on your part: Woah, that girl looks so familiar! That ... snowing heavily. Boston's gift to me: the first time I've seen snow on my

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  New Game a comic summary of the semester

  

  • by Anika H. '26
  • January 4, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Super Blood Moon Eclipse bonnie tyler would be proud

  

  supermoon and a lunar eclipse are scheduled to happen on the same day (night ... back to that night, which began on the fourth floor Haus balcony where I ... . Afterwards, a group of us went down to embark on a long and cold journey to the

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)

  

  orientation and had to go through storing everything on my own every summer. You know what builds character? Having to pack up all your crap on your own ... stayed awake during naptime, sitting on my cot waiting for the others to

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes I Won’t Be Able to Take also "What Is Pre-Registration?"

  

  ="NASA pls hire me to do experiments on your astronauts"]16.423/HST.515/IDS.337 ... ="aggghhhhh I want to take this so bad I've been working on DNA damage research ... .001: Introduction to Geology 12.007: Geobiology: History of Life on Earth

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 23, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

  learning what that means to me, but I never forgot this passage that on ... Friends that sang "If you're voting and you know it, clap your hands" to the tune of "If you're happy and you know it" after a full day of talking to

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 6, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Sunrise, Sunset An MIT-Israel student shares his day

  

  song on my kindle to wake me up (This morning was Rodrigo y Gabriela ... unlawful amount of fun playing on the beach, going to an Israeli concert, and ... University, Prof. Ilana Natan This post was first published on Ben Bell in

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012