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

  

  In response to an earlier entry of mine, this post appeared on College Confidential: You know, I get sick of college admissions officers ... your dream of being at MIT didn't become my dream on some small level

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  at MIT - you can really focus on getting a good grasp of the material ... year. On the interview trail, many of the most interesting applicants are ... do, go ahead and do it! One of the applicants I met on my Harvard

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tenets or, my only piece of advice for incoming first-years

  

  decision hinges on that fundamental, ineffable question of what do I want to ... campus, eager to experience MIT and everything it has to offer. Many of ... buildings on campus, and the classes which they will take in the coming four

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT, part deux The case study of someone else you wouldn't expect to have gotten in

  

  math, he actually got a 600 on verbal. But lucky for all of us, the MIT ... , pictures of rockets on the wall -- and I can't imagine he hadn't dreamed of ... on how I got here is the most popular thing I've ever written

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)

  

  some people get stuck playing the game of life on a much harder level ... . And on top of that, I had the priviledge of spending four years ... that I should have learned when I was four years old. And on top of that

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Entry About Snow ...Even though we don't have any

  

  back of my head slammed on the ground. The ski patroller asked me if I ... with supposedly clever sayings about boxes of chocolates, games of cards, onions or riding bicycles (have fun looking these up). Of course, that

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 11, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Some people call me the space cowgirl

  

  More reading going on here tonight, after a yummy Super Burrito and ... lot of a student who used to work in our office, who we'll call "Pink." You may have seen Pink if you came for an on campus information session

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  reject modern web design return to 2006

  

  can’t come out tonight i gotta sit alone in front of a muted tv opening ... ’re friends with for the first few days of school before you meet an actually ... crying” on the symptom list and the nurse got really confused and told me

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ATHack A day well spent helping others

  

  impressive model of what we wanted to build. On the day of the event... My ... One of the amazing things about going to a techy school like MIT is that there are always tons of opportunities to apply what you know while

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Being “qualified” for MIT Let me show you how it's done.

  

  On Thursday, I sat in front of a camera for an hour (along with ... " to come here. I'd like to take that back, because of what happened on ... international students. Near the end, someone asked: "Can you give an example of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  procrastinating on picking classes for the semester, I went online, made a list of ... on Earth to provide very high-resolution data. It's the equivalent of ... communicators about their specialty, but am equally admiring of writers like David

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Shiny Circuits Shiny, in some subcultures at MIT, means REALLY AWESOME

  

  lives of MIT students. BUT, right now even though I have both pictures and the life of an MIT student, my pictures are not about my life as an MIT ... Fall). That's because most of the things I'm doing now as an MIT student

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Robo-CJ writes haiku “didn’t you already make a blog post about this?”

  

  old blog posts, and then used gpt-2-simple to retrain it on a bunch of ... of you in meet the bloggers! Robo-CJ writes haiku On HaikuBot i am in ... Poetry Day! It's not very much of a leap to think that I could be bisexual

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Stove-Cook Your Oatmeal and Never Look Back To not-admitted applicants and anyone who knows anything about fuses.

  

  you cook oatmeal on the stove. You boil a cup of milk. You can hear it ... if you are, like me, on the edges of weighty but possibly ... Oatmeal cooked on the stove is so good. I wouldn’t know this, but a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 19, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an Easter vigil alive at east campus

  

  , simultaneously, this-broadcast-is-live. I live at EC, on the second floor of the east parallel. In a window on the second floor, behind the man standing ... closer. A man stands on the stage, a banner fluttering behind him. The

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 5, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Guest Entry: Christina Bognet Supplemental materials to help you through the next few days.

  

  of my best friends, Colin, as we chatted about getting into our ... rational in convincing myself that things would turn out okay, at the end of ... and sobbed. They were not tears of joy. Flash forward one year. I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 8, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  better on? LOSS OF POTENTIAL. DISAPPOINTMENT. BAGGAGE. For the past three ... In 1st grade, there were these 1-sided sheets of simple math problems called “Minute Math”. Some of the strongest memories of my childhood is

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what am i doing great question.

  

  on the politics of framing. This means, the politics of how the frame ... can repeatedly land on a perch, the way birds do, and he is fascinated ... effective. So, we should really be taking more advantage of that in robotics

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Women’s Soccer Talking to the 2009 NEWMAC Champs after they returned from the NCAA National Championship Tournament

  

  she was 4 (!) and is one of two goalies on MIT's team. Her profile on ... about the 'goal dance' one of the freshmen on the team did after scoring ... of sporting events, some of which I had never seen before. I saw

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 25, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fit or happiness made easy

  

  natural, where you can focus your efforts on achieving instead of diverting part of it to maintaining something you are not. The idea of fit is ... along with a big helping of the word "fit". At this point, it's a buzzword

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 15, 2011