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  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  's like and to represent our dorm. By the end of February, we've submitted the list of events we plan on running, and we're beginning to plan to ... on my list of worries, which have suddenly expanded dramatically to

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  16 for the 16’s 16 Guidelines to Making the Most of your CPW

  

  ; Without further ado:   16 Guidelines to Making the Most of your CPW ... are late at night. You have the rest of high school to sleep. K: Truth ... don't feel like you need to be on a strict schedule :) 11. For those of

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 18, 2012
• 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 ... . Smaller and lighter than your choice of where to apply to college, but ... into long pants and close-toed shoes and head down to the basement of

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  years, compete well in three different forms of debate, and go to Worlds with the robotics team. This made it much harder to disguise criticism of ... bi—I was closest to the last option. This realization was kind of

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  test I flunked, dropping out of a musical to take care of my chem grade when I’d never had to make compromises before, the dissolution of my ... college diet of frozen foods that added extra pounds of jiggle to my hips

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why My 5.13 Problem Set Took All Day Moral of the story: Don't procrastinate, or I'll never talk to you again.

  

  walking later," to my second-grade phase of "Why learn to tie my shoes now ... , discussing chemistry of epoxides. 12:35 PM: Open backpack to rediscover failed ... to wear velcro." I have never, ever been one to get anything done

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I know you’re bad at something And here's what you should do about it. Hint: NOT "do something else"

  

  delightful to you. Freedom! A chance to be expressive and creative in front of ... chance to freak out and embarrass myself in front of lots of other people ... , Fear Level is inversely proportional to The Number Of Seconds I Think I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to My Favorite Places on Campus can't leave without making one more post of this format

  

  up being useful - or at the very least informative - to most of the ... at a sport that I hope to continue doing for the rest of my life ... tables and desks in the lobby of the Nano building were a great place to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Solar Catsby Turning my little ray of sunshine into a solar cell

  

  of him. This semester, I was fortunate enough to take a class at MIT ... vast array of advanced (and expensive) machinery used to control and measure material properties down to the nanometer – that’s a billionth of a

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 2, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Putting Diversity into Context The diverse ways that colleges and universities define diversity

  

  having to identify my race on all kinds of forms, including standardized ... identification.  In reality, most of the confusion is about how to best leverage a dimension of one's personal background to maximize the likelihood of admission

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  to explain this, researchers have hypothesized about the impact of ... mental rotation exercises. “Mental rotation” here refers to the act of ... might assume that he’s going to have an easier time than a woman of

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advisor vs. Advisee a '07 and a '21 answer a series of questions

  

  trilogy (finally). I resume teaching this week and managed to cross most of my tasks off of my to-do list this weekend.   Afeefah: All ... eight hours of sleep per night and if I don’t have anywhere to be I will

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  to help”. I called Milton, the head of the volunteer department and he ... trying to grasp, to understand the situation. Why? The question of why this ... to a video of students who celebrated the capture in the streets of

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2013
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  Mark Zuckerberg Visits MIT NBD.

  

  , we got to add Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder and current CEO of Facebook, to that weird, weird group of people. After finding out that my name had been drawn for the lottery to see him and Mike Schroepfer (VP of

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Underwater Dreams (from a distance) A reflection on immigration, student activism, and civic engagement at MIT.

  

  students thinking of applying to MIT, his response was quick. “Do it,” he ... part of it, at least. No one’s journey to MIT is typical. His wasn ... to college [because of your undocumented status]. Some teachers didn

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Things Advice for the class of 2010.

  

  . I've thought about the experience of going to that show (with the guy ... from you too - in fact, that's part of the reason they chose to be ... college kids. In the first month of college, send a hand-written letter to

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

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  self arrives to campus, you’re given a booklet with pages and pages of ... something with a pile of Legos that seemed to reach my knees. Knowing no one ... , they come with a price tag of your time and an expectation for them to be

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  An Astrological Guide to the College App Process We all know astrology isn't real...or is it?

  would cringe seeing this post), but I find it fun to read an analysis of ... give you. Taurus I know you're used to it, but the hallmark sign of a ... most authentic version of yourself as possible. We try to gauge your fit

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 20, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Diversity or Merit? false questions, false answers

  

  , even though they are *unqualified* Let's cut to the core of the matter ... vast majority of applicants, is closer to the idea of qualified or ... 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

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

  

  .[annotation note= "And then some of them will leave again! To everyone heading to ... about ten percent of freshmen change their minds; they have a chance to ... ."]where you want to live.[/annotation] This year, I'm serving as one of the two

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 20, 2019