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  Merit When getting into MIT isn't convincing enough

  

  I’m spending this IAP doing, among other things, five shifts a week ... ,” I said. “Do you mind if I ask why?” (Sometimes we are able assure ... ,” he said. I may have actually leaned back in my chair. “What do you

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • January 22, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  have contributed some insight into how and why we do the things we do ... do we measure and how do we measure it? Is the trait thus measured ... admit rate? Aha! Clearly we DO prefer higher SAT scores! Well no, we don

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Things Advice for the class of 2010.

  

  do your best work late at night, embrace that. It may be the only time ... college career, do something fun and irresponsible when you should be ... 't do so well on the final, but I haven't thought about psych since 1993

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  we should meet, because he was concerned about my ability to do well in ... my thesis. I kept doing that, a few hours at a time, every day that I ... .951, the prospect of teaching myself enough Python to do so, despite

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to date at an American college Things we never talk about

  

  casual relationships right for them. Many people entering college do not ... sure what you're doing (or will do) either. I will provide you first ... " There are some things that we see in movies that we do not believe exist

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  In the Realm of Giants imposter syndrome with a senior year twist

  

  ="though i have some ideas"]what to do,[/annotation] and how to do it as ... "] AAAAAAAAAAAHHHH[/caption] To some extent, this is stuff I’ve been doing for the ... portfolio without actually doing it, I find myself turning inwards and looking

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Diversity or Merit? false questions, false answers

  

  students at MIT are sufficiently prepared to succeed at MIT. We do not admit ... token, we do not admit students who are unqualified for admission to MIT ... mean the majority of applicants are sufficiently prepared to do the work

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

  Hacking A performance art that lets students remind the teachers who's smarter.

  

  on hacking at MIT. Hacking at MIT has nothing to do with breaking into ... smiling variety, GoSox! a good example of the "how did they do that!?" while ... ! How do I get into hacking!? Is it a club or something? Well thought out

  • by Snively '11
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 things I love about MIT and hopefully you'll learn to love them too.

  

  always bond over how much work that they have to do. It’s an instant ... , physics (2004).” These Nobel laureates do not sit perched in ivory towers ... , you can do research for all four years of college and who knows, maybe

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Typical Day on the Road Having grown up in NYC, I love coming back.

  

  I am about to head out to do the MIT presentation in Westchester ... was great. It is not always possible, as our alumni do work and have ... chance to meet the alumni who will be doing their interview. Here I'll put

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 17, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choice and the MIT lifestyle ...because "MIT" and "student life" aren't mutually exclusive.

  

  capable of doing a problem set in 45 minutes. Whoa there! I'm not that ... recitation to revise problems or figure out problems I couldn't do on my own. (Note that most people at MIT like to do psets in groups -- it's faster

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  class, I talk to my friends, I do work, I head home, I sleep. Next day ... conversation about how Raymond and I are doing, how it's our last semester, what ... done. It's just a crawl to the end of the school year before you can do

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to decide which classes to take amazing classes and how to pick them

  

  checks: what's your earliest class? Do you have time for lunch? How many back-to-back classes do you have, and how far are they from each other ... ] Finding classes that interest you Where do you find interesting classes

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We Should Take This Final and Push It Somewhere Else you'll need a lot of mOXie

  

  the end of a semester, condensed into a single week. So, how exactly do ... , you Will Not Leave This Bed, and simply do not show up for the final. As ... [annotation note="certainly not A, for “I’m doing great!”"]O, for Absence

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 14, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Group Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Survivors three bloggers face the horrors of public transit

  

  of doing a Next Haunt run in the past, the shrieks from the basement ... year doing Next Haunt! I’d heard many great things about it (one of my ... screaming zombies while doing long multiplication (yes, the puzzles were very

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  decide what I want to do with my life. OK, perhaps a bit too dramatic of an ... research you do about colleges, things might change in ways you never could ... , and you actually do like having seasons and winter. If I choose to go to

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • April 20, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  0.125 not a course 0 class, but a fraction complete

  

  . I spent the first four days of break doing absolutely, very delicious ... the next go-around. Here's my list (man do I love lists): I learned ... school, I survived on less because there was nothing else I could do. Now

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 4, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Was Deferred And it was not the end of the world

  

  . It was a strange feeling. I don't remember the date, but I do remember ... doing well in science competitions. MIT was the only school that let me ... mentioned in his last post - "I actually do agree that the best thing you can

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 17, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  How Wrestling With Snapping Turtles Can Get You Into MIT A student profile of an aspiring limnologist.

  

  kind enough to do a Q&A for my blog, so enjoy! ---------- Did other ... have gotten to do some of the coolest stuff: go swimming in some of the ... better than that. Do you have post-graduation plans, or any particular

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Blogural Inaugural I just wanted to use this title.

  

  (although perhaps they do have a language of their own), but I wanted to start ... 'll see what I can do about that) admissions blogger. I think that means that it's my job to tell you about MIT, the things I do here (or don't do

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 8, 2009