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  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  somehow managed not to get them. Recently I took the SATs as well, which I ... has become painfully clear that I stand next to no chance of getting in ... wanted to start by writing out standard admissions advice (e.g. no one

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  . Last Wednesday was a typical day: up at 5:00 am to get a workout in and eat a little something before heading out to get to Stuyvesant for an 8 ... . After calling home and the office, I went to the meeting accompanied by

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

  REX at Random Hall Pancakes, LN2 ice cream, board games, game theory, math, raves, staying up entirely too late,…

  

  missed. We’re furiously unpacking the dorm and getting excited to see you ... Mural Painting   Leave your own mark in Random Hall by painting murals ... International House of Pancakes, and you don't have to drive to get here. See how

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 23, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  halloween down the infinite

  

  with 30+ photos at 11:30pm is a good way to get a blog out on time is ... post some of them here. My day started off by running to lecture because ... note="we're supposed to take 4 PE classes by the end of sophomore year. i

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 1, 2024
• 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 ... , some alumni actually look forward to getting calls from us because they ... said, "don’t you think you had a leg up getting into MIT because you’re

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

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

  

  selective colleges, is really tough. It's hard to know how to gauge your ... determinist by any means. But there is still something to the law of the ... to selective schools - or, at the very least, if you're thinking of

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

  Dissecting emotion what is feeling

  

  wanting to get up. Of looking at your to-do list, seeing only three items in ... , there's just lots of people. But if you're surrounded by people who are ... walk, when I run, bouncing, being blown by the wind. When I get my hair

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 3, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  This story has to do with professor accessibility. And something awesome that I got in the mail.

  

  ; I get responses to my e-mails within a day or two (or, often, within ... I love getting mail. Actual mail, that is: packages and postcards and letters with actual human handwriting. I was therefore super pumped to find

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  outside of Native Americans. I want to preface this all by the fact that I ... ). This in turn leads to things like casual use of the n word by non ... people having strong feelings about how ‘easy’ it was for me to get into

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Reading aka inhaling all the books i can before school starts

  

  float in and out of your list of movies to watch, but you never quite get ... didn’t spend slaving over psets was dedicated to getting up to all sorts ... Immersive Media Production), but it was lotteried and it’s difficult to get

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Upside Down Gnomes From Wisconsin Always look up.

  

  I need to be, something I need to be doing, but there's no way to get ... to a tune, upside down gnomes from Wisconsin sneaking into your classes ... chalk. (If only to finally get some sleep.) We all sometimes wish we could

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 26, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Grey and Other Colors

  

  student, you’re driven by the mentality of getting into a good school ... pleasure of getting to know. Hope it provides some perspective from life on ... get to touch the skills and knowledge that I spent 4 years cultivating

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 8, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Are people on the East Coast friendly? An entry especially for those from the Midwest.

  

  about their children or where they were going or how to get where she was ... you if you're nice to them first. What have other people's experiences ... When I applied to MIT, I didn't consider whether the people of Boston

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 21, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  WHY? for people who don't like "no"

  

  know I would have done anything to get in, and still would. Depression ... healthy dose of Acceptance to wash down your Rejection ... 't getting an A in this class. WHY? Your work is not good enough, and here are

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice you’ve heard before and a story you haven’t you can just skip to the pictures if you want to, I wont be offended.

  

  all your MIT classes, eventually, you will have to fall into a pattern ... differently. If you learn best by going to every lecture, taking meticulous ... in your room- except to sneak out late at night in a trenchcoat to turn

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hard MIT Class ...or is that redundant? And yes, hiiiiii.

  

  Picture this. You’re trying to shuffle past a gaggle of camera ... problem your friend figured out in the time it took him to pee. You sit in ... and nodded and gave me a thumbs up and said, “You’re getting it! You’re

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  self arrives to campus, you’re given a booklet with pages and pages of ... , they come with a price tag of your time and an expectation for them to be ... even if you go to every recitation and lecture, you might still fail your

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what work is bite-sized senior spring

  

  work that i do not expect to get paid for or graded on; it's work that i'm doing so i can get back to the place where i approach the days of my life ... and replacing them with the econ courses i won't get to take, but i

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend

  

  interests you - FOR A LIVING! You get to make connections with renowned ... : I walked to my special spot on Mem. Drive, by the river (where I used to ... finish. This seems to be the MIT way: punt your psets to help your friends

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Diversity or Merit? false questions, false answers

  

  succeeded somewhere else. Everybody loses. And I hate to lose. By the same ... who apply to MIT every year are qualified for admittance, by which I ... principle from which to derive a conclusion: Oh, [that student] did / did not

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 13, 2011