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  Ben’s Fifth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to blog comments from the last month.

  

  4 honors.) What do you think?" I think you should take what you want ... 1000's I suppose. However, what I want to ask is that do you want proof ... done there... which is quite a lot.) As I do not intend to write an essay

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 3

  

  admissions officer glances at in an application? Do you guys (officers) have anything that automatically bids off an applicant? GPA's, SAT? or do you see ... ask, but who do I contact/email about services for kids with LD?" This

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 1 A Questions Omnibus is a post where I answer your lingering questions left in the…

  

  you do? Well, here's what I can tell you. We're not going to reject you because of the length of your essay. We do not have an auto-word-counter for ... know, do have more to say than what fits in 500 words. If that is you, I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  transitions memories of first snow

  

  like, "what are you doing?" And I thought, and maybe I even said, "you ... overstatement. But, I do know that, that December, I began to feel a lot more ... 't really know what I'm doing; or, at least, I don't feel like I'm making

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 1, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Sophomore Fall Goals So you can bully me when I write a post saying they didn't work out

  

  not sound like an ass in doing so. I've got them all written down, and ... genuinely brings me joy career-wise, and I'm doing personal projects simply ... into reality. I'm not sure if I believe in that. What I do believe in is

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 11, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  by the time you notice it’s too late anime, bloons, and piano

  

  ’ll probably do even worse on subsequent rounds, so unless you’re experienced or ... piano keys were, so i thought i was doing fine. then there was a time ... the end of college you should probably have a good idea about what to do

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • June 4, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  knot again my spread for Infinite Magazine Issue 9

  

  chaos! I couldn't wait to see what everyone would do with this prompt ... knew I definitely wanted to do a spread for Issue 9, and specifically a ... 's involvement. I hadn't really gotten to do that before because of covid and

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 20, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  i ran out of social energy and other great ways to say no

  

  lead on the project i'm working on knows how to cad and do physics and ... 've talked before about how i do mystery hunt with galactic. well galactic also ... things that's like, why are we doing this? we're doing it because it's fun

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 18, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in the Life of an Over-Scheduled Frosh Another hosed blogger? ShOcKiNg

  

  ; 1:05 PM: My girlfriend calls. I know I have things to do, but she ... time, but I do it anyways.   2:00 PM: Finally, I get to work on ... that MIT's Musical Theater Guild is doing this season."]'A Chorus Line

  • by Powers '23
  • October 21, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  The Tech profiled Lydia about resilience @ MIT "I’m building my vocabulary and I’m building my mind and I’m building myself as a…

  

  to tell their true stories, and, by doing so, to give prospective ... out. Not with their laptops in front of them, not doing a little work in ... ’t realize what people are doing in your life, what roles they’re playing

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 17, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things I Learned From Freshman Year Overanalyzing all my bad habits.

  

  ”--because they never tell you how to do any of that, and though the sentiments ... studying, I work best when I do not listen to music. The best sound ... libraries and cafes are good environments. I do not work well in my own room

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 23, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Derailment My Gap Year

  

  rooms; walls do. The room contains equipment to treat the most severe life ... , “Do you want to see this?” “Yes, I do.” During the fall of my senior ... was going to do; rather, it was where I would attend college. As my

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • September 18, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  On MIT and Humanities I promise I will stop philosophizing (aka. sounding like an old man) in my entries…

  

  you should really ask yourself about MIT, just to begin with: 1. Do you like science? 11. Do you want MIT to completely change the way you think ... , do you think you will be able to complete the core sequence of 2

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 19, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Application Advice v2.0 How to survive the application process without losing your mind.

  

  cooler you could be doing with your time that will do far more to help your ... , the differences really don’t matter too much. Do you really think that ... do simply for the pleasure of it,” I’m going to be a little worried

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two answers on a Saturday night Because SNL's a rerun and we just finished our movie from Netflix

  

  know how to do is stick their noses in books and that older doctors dread ... no idea what I'm going to do, but medicine is definitely a possibility ... twenty some years since my dad has been in med school... Do you know any

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 2, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Surviving My deep thoughts on surviving and thriving at MIT, straight from three years ago.

  

  to cross streets in the city, but I do know how to get anywhere in ... still be happy and successful and go on to do great things. Hey, I failed ... ) Do you have any secrets dealing with the black rings or/and wrinkles

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 11, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  You oughta know Answers to many, many questions.

  

  take outside the General Institute Requirements. (If you're only doing ... programs and a blank Excel spreadsheet, but I don't know if it will do you ... international orientation will go from August 21 to August 23. Students doing

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Living la vida lab rat So the moral of the story is that freedom is relative in science. And that…

  

  and are the experiments you do designed by yourself or postdocs ... postdoc with whom I work directly, Albert. I was still learning how to do all the different lab protocols, and since I didn't know how to do most

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Conversations with graders And other ramblings of a frosh...

  

  . I didn't do nearly as well as I had hoped. There were a couple of concepts that I couldn't quite remember how to do and a couple that I just ... 'm not really sure why I do these things; I suppose its just one of my

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Long-Overdue Responses Questions answered.

  

  description, nor is it in Matt's. It's something we do in our spare time because ... school who was killed. You couldn't have said it better - people do need to ... . Thanks for doing your part to keep these threads on the right path. As you

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 20, 2004