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  Applying Sideways How to get in to MIT.

  

  of them built a nuclear reactor! I don't mean to discourage anything ... you want to do it, DO IT. But don't do it because you think it's your ... intelligent than not. Be nice. This cannot be overstated. Don't be wanton or

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Guest Entry: Christina Bognet Supplemental materials to help you through the next few days.

  

  for you, Christina," he told me. "Ahhhh, I don't know. Probably not ... college admissions process, I've gained a lot of perspective. I don't know ... like my old self, if you don't get the news you are hoping for on

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 8, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mostly Harmless Rifle. As in, the phys ed class. As in, I fired one.

  

  uninhabited petri plate. It is important that you mash steadily. If you don’t ... . Just kidding, bacteria don’t have mustaches and hats (or do they). I am ... . Focus on the action, not the result. Don’t look up at the target. Fire

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 22, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  No Chance Why "chance" sites like AdmissionSplash are Bad Things.

  

  -esteem of others), and so forth. I don't want anyone who isn't aware of this ... don't matter. If your grades and scores suggest that you are not prepared to do the work at MIT, you will not be admitted, because we don't

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Burton 1 Social Club This Thanksgiving, I'm thankful for my ridiculous, hilarious, amazing floor.

  

  don't have an 14.01 pset, you'll wake up to at least ten emails between ... write what everyone brought because I don't want to make you jealous. But I made two pumpkin pies and the best apple torte of your life. Don't

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Subtle Black MIT Traits A few things I have experienced as a black person at MIT

  

  . For those of you that don’t know S.A.T is a page for Asian people to ... be a lot more of the same. A lot of “I don’t feel left out exactly, but there is a level of connection that I just can’t or don’t have with you

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  senioritis not to be confused with señoritis

  

  i never really had senioritis in high school—it was probably the surprising amount of momentum behind me, but i don't think i managed to pull ... on my plate. today, i don't even remember what else i had to do. i

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 10, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  savings time. Okay, so it's been like a month. I don't know what happened, dawg. I don't even have some great, 1,000-googol-page-long entry saved up ... term since coming to MIT. The results were intriguing: Don't you love

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

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  growing up, he consistently told me that "if you don't enjoy medicine, it ... GPA are all accurate. (note: we don't get 0.3 or 0.7 for plusses and ... you don't fail any classes, simply -1 from your MIT GPA to find the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The Adventures of Flat Tim And his admissions officer friend!

  

  ="I should note that we don't track demonstrated interest, so whether or not ... vibrant. I don’t know – I’m not a scientist! I have, however, taken to ...   [annotation note="I don't usually take pictures during my visits to high schools

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • June 6, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to choose your major putting people in boxes, feat. credit for reddit, social science, and lots of yarn.

  

  So you don't know what to major in. You have no idea what to do with ... people know what course 2 is (mechanical engineering), but most people don't ... choosing between two majors, and eliminated one because they "don't like

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 6, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Miss the South Musings on a secret Instagram account

  

  ’ll notice and change the subject. I should also say that I don’t believe I am ... in my right hand.  Sometimes, I don’t even write in English. If I have ... intermediate grasp of the language I have.  I don’t think this is an unhealthy

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  101 Things To Do Before You Graduate! 102. Read this blog entry.

  

  of the $3.50 cups in Boston that don't even taste that good (I never ... Harvard Square - their (endless) chips and salsa are amazing. I don't care ... too! 45. Eat at Mike's Pastries - I don't know how many times I

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On Teaching and Learning Minimum requirement: read the last few sentences of this post. They're important.

  

  don't get cellphone signal here? GPS doesn't know where it is, and ... II who don’t know the difference between subtraction and division, and ... don’t know.” Me: “Okay, so remember our formula for probability

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  College Shopping List Everybody do the shopping cart!

  

  , closet, desk, shelves, phone. Most people don't even connect their phone ... pillows, but most of them don't, so getting your own is a pretty good idea ... it fit right in the bottom of my suitcase, and has handles, so I don't

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 26, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Computers and their Programs Anecdotes and advice about owning a laptop at MIT

  

  with age, which seems like bad programming. I don't particularly like ... dangerously close to my laptop. “Please don’t spill that on my laptop,” I said ... don’t have to play musical laptops at airport security. (If your

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear My Old Friend, This is quite possibly weirdest way to introduce myself

  

  ’m studying math and philosophy. You don’t like either of those subjects yet ... journalist.  Second, you don’t talk to your friends from Minnesota anymore ... time, you were afraid of the future.  Afraid of what? You don’t know. I

  • by ana~
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  non-stop / walang hinto what a mess

  

  of june has felt like a blur. i don’t feel like anything really ... answer, but i don’t want to believe in it. four Ang gulo, gulo Gusto ko? O ... wail. and when that happens, you don’t. you take all that air, and you

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 8, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tyrannosaurus REX the prefrosh are coming, the prefrosh are coming!

  

  else's way, and don't feel bad about that. If it turns out you don't ... balance, and don't feel pressured to follow others' lead. Some people ... ! Definitely don't make it to everything! Have fun anyway!"), but despite that

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 20, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to trick yourself into thinking that you’re writing a report The most productive procrastination technique revealed at last!

  

  you do, don’t stop reading until you’ve learned the complete history and ... frequently mentally compare. Don’t forget to really explore all the sub-branches, mechanisms, and implications. It’s also really important that you don’t have a

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 17, 2015