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

  advice. However, the best way to navigate the college process is to be open ... 't think you'd apply to, or being open to the way financial aid may influence ... be great! You aren't afraid to throw in an application to a school that

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 20, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A (Belated) Letter to July In which I start blogging again with an angsty video

  

  hope your brothers and sisters will be kind, July. I'll try to be kind to ... This is the way my hiatus ends This is the way my hiatus ends This is the way my hiatus ends Not with a bang but a vaguely-poetic angsty

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Favorite Classes at MIT! survey says...

  

  Class Year I forgot to add class year as an option on my form, and by the ... , which I tried to capture by separating them into different categories ... experience with product design and the different methods/ways to go about it

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reaffirming our commitment to diversity in uncertain times

  

  [/annotation] to all the wildly different ways one can be in the world: can dress ... benefits, we would be required to use those instead, and required to not ... class to be “more diverse” is a complex and contested question. For the

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 7, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  here's my honest assessment of being a premed at MIT. I. I didn't come to MIT intending to be premed. My father is an urologist, and when I was ... 's not worth your time or energy." I came to MIT wanting to be a chemical

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing is Magic And 15 minutes is all you need

  

  lately with one kid on his way to college and the other on his way to a ... already know how valuable it can be to learn to write and express yourself this way. My son has a pile of graduation thank you notes to write and I

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  (Bitter)sweet home meeting high school teachers again, and visiting my hometown for (probably) the last time

  

  that this is probably going to be the last time I’ll be in Alabama for a ... when we all went off to different colleges. It was by chance that Tom and ... robotics team, which used to be a fairly small club when I first joined, now

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Some people call me the space cowgirl

  

  Jones: There's only one way to get into MIT, and it's the hard way. What ... to be said, but for now I'm going to get back to the reading... ... horchata (yummy Mexican drink). I wanted to tell you a little about the last

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2004
• Blog / About Decisions

  some warmth on a cold decisiony day "there have been times that I thought I couldn't last for long / but now…

  

  to be reminded, it is that time of year: the time when tensions run ... , how it would feel to be rejected so that the emotion wouldn't come as a ... rejection letters so that I would be able to recognize mine immediately and

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  it.   This should not be construed as advice to be selfish, and it certainly should not be construed as advice to start ignoring the suggestions ... ."]the people around you.[/annotation] You should be generous to the people around

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

  Advice On The Essay The rules are simple: write your own.

  

  response: Hi, Essays are a wonderful way to connect with the selection ... been edited to be something other than his or her true voice. Encourage students to write from the heart and to not have their essays edited by any

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  demons on depression

  

  could be so vivid as to touch it. When I "visualize" a banana, well, I ... some people feel it. It just is that way to some people, and it's not that way to me. There's a Quora answer that describes anosmia in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 28, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  to graduate. You blink. Your code must be done by Wednesday. You drink ... . ‘18 It is 5 am. You are startled awake by the answer to a pset problem ... . You are startled awake by the answer to a pset problem. You are in

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Today I hit my TA with a door I didn't MEAN to.

  

  being real, or your high school econ teacher going to the same gym you do: being brilliant in a subject does, by no means, translate to being a good ... happened to be standing right there, going on about amide formation. And then

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 7, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  minutes left in my assignment. So - this will have to be quick. Consider ... half an hour," he said, "to write about being an MIT admissions blogger ... requirements would be some sort of writing portfolio - and that it helps to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Love In the Time of Corona lots of evidence that the people are the best part of MIT

  

  together in an unprecedented way to be there for one another, to take care of ... , students were being asked to leave campus. No one had expected that. No one ... carry boxes to fighting for our friends who weren’t being granted

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  . losing interest in a hobby you used to be passionate about, with things formerly joyful turned to chores. like being blown by erratic winds, ones ... optionality and buying lottery tickets are not way stations on the road to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 22, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Why I wasn’t sad to leave MIT On shedding.

  

  and then I’ll swing by to give an update on life from the other side. It ... a zillion clubs (it would be indecent to say just how many) and ... lead to becoming narrow-minded. Wasn’t it good to be interested in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  [joint post] a guide to mit gyms big brains, big gains 😤

  

  Center[/annotation] have limited hours, those looking to squeeze in a quick ... be confused with the homonymous dorm. this is instead referring to a ... be used in certain hours due to noise to nearby rooms. Additionally

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • September 4, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Diversity or Merit? false questions, false answers

  

  as to be effectively indistinguishable. There is no easy way into MIT ... another way: while not all students admitted to MIT are equally well ... succeeded somewhere else. Everybody loses. And I hate to lose. By the same

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