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  50 Reflections

  

  push boundaries, to improve the world. There isn't a day that goes by in ... changed my life. Every so often I google them to see what they're up to. I have yet to be disappointed. Some of them didn't get admitted to MIT

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Advice

  finding place

  

  putting on events where your friends meet each other/grow the cohesion to ... within my technical interests. When I got to MIT, looking back I think I ... astounded by all these people with whom I had a lot of shared technical

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • April 7, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  protesting to get. We got it after basically asking nicely, and a few email ... color? Perhaps you still have the ability to see color, but let’s pretend everything around you is grayscale. All of your clothing, furniture, and decor

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  “You are capable of more than you know.” Reflections from six MIT transfer students

  

  follow the same path to MIT. Colored by the patina of life experience ... , trying to get a clear picture of what I wanted career-wise. I was involved ... managed my own business. II. Applying to MIT Walk us briefly through your

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 13, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The joys of web development or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the web

  

  different, and that's okay. My goal is to encourage you to reflect on your own experiences, so I'd love to hear your thoughts. 1. The project I hated [caption ... shapes and colors and shadows, and I get to see, in real-time, what the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 9, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  to spatial ability by nearly a full standard deviation, and in attempt ... ?). If you’re now wondering whether I’m about to throw some kind of ... were asked to take a mental rotation test presented as independent of the

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  -campus in a new neighborhood. Moreover, it would be an opportunity to get to ... get to know better). [caption id="attachment_55158" align ... used a ladder to get in and out of bed. Rather than the conventional four

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 31, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  'm hoping to get some answers this fall by taking a business class, 15 ... . I've been thinking a lot about the many steps I took to get here, as ... mutate more and more as the months go by. The journey to figure out what

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the bridges I’ve crossed in Cambridge, ranked my civil engineering hat is off

  

  University, to name a few. To get from Cambridge to [annotation note ... what kind of bridge it is to flex my [annotation note="read: googling ... Watertown or Waltham, I’ll get to experience more of them. Alas, I don’t think

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  find cheap plane tickets and the ways I tried to not get [annotation note ... was these disgusting soggy noodles that I made by getting boiling water ... ’s almost done, y’all. You’re watching the months go by and you know what

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  books being published by small, independent presses to renowned authors ... surrounded by this deluge of words and stories had something to do with my ... want to read this. And then there’s the bigger scope—trying to get the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 17, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s More Than A Job Thoughts On The Eve Of RA Decisions

  

  . Your application is read by a senior staff member who will look for deal ... close to you who died. I read about your small towns, your big cities, the ... getting divorced, your house burning down, your girlfriend cheating on you

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Let’s Go Fly A Kite Up to decision night!

  

  great way to waste time and you’re sure to get a laugh and a memory. And ... off-by-one error on your application: But even if you didn’t discover ... : maybe you’re accepted, and you envision yourself instantly getting a job

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting for Decision Day In which I give a pep talk of sorts (with a little help from my…

  

  might lift your spirits: An Open Letter to MIT Applicants and Life is Like ... 't stick exactly to all of the words, but you'll get the gist of it. Best of ... ’s no chance of getting in when secretly your heart/brain/stomach is

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This Bathroom Ceiling Some science, some fiction: traverse the space and time of our bathroom ceiling.

  

  18 of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, painted by ... do I mean by who am I? Calm down, get a grip now . . . oh! this is an ... to our own galaxy, the Milky Way, painted by Drew A. ‘08: our familiar

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Burton-Conner’s Renovation: A Saga on friendships that transcend shitty infrastructure

  

  at risk of not getting into a Cook-For-Yourself dorm due to the group ... 2024 to get to know BC since the Class of 2023 might be barred from ever ... able to get BC shirts! Here's the design: [caption id="attachment_53779

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 6, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Some Advice Sometimes I wish I could tell freshman-me that everything's going to be okay

  

  don't have to become your closest (or only) friends. Keep exploring ... where you instantly figure out what you want to do for the rest of your ... scribble down quotes that inspire you. You're going to change a lot in a very

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  non-stop / walang hinto what a mess

  

  ’s monday, i thought, and maybe i should try to get work done today. that day ... ignore it. you switch back to your editor, but your thoughts are elsewhere ... , to think that you have no ceiling in your power! yes, i am feeling it

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

  Note To Self Please don't forget this.

  

  and forget to ask your TA about. Maybe you keep one eye on the answer ... test scores to prove it. 4. Get off campus at least once a week. It's all too easy for MIT to become a bubble: your entire college existence

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  If the Obama were a unit of measure . . . . . . what would it measure?

  

  , is like when you have 10 minutes before your parents come upstairs to check to see if you cleaned your room. MIT was repairing buildings ... ticket. So that was that, I'd stalk around and try to get some money shots

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2009