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  You Are Here a list of things i can't make myself do, and a few i can

  

  getting by, and it feels like I’m regressing. I worry I won’t be able to get ... as I prepare to be distracted. All the while, I hear the voice in my ... it’s foot down when I try to be kinder to myself. Why can’t you just

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 19, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  student. Sorry. There is a way to be qualified to come here, and that's by ... responded the same way we responded to all the questions about minimum SAT ... later* Davie: Do you want to be distracted? Me: YES. Davie: Let's find

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!

  

  busy teaching me to not be fazed by anything. This is how experience ... kids. From September 2010 to May 2011 I barely scraped by on my tutoring ... idea what I wanted to do.  Focusing your job search on mechanical

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  finish. This seems to be the MIT way: punt your psets to help your friends ... being interested in science + wanting to help people and change the world ... continued to disturb me: how can I be so different from my fellow physicists

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

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

  

  bloggers, but I can't link to all the posts here. They're just a quick search ... into the goblet of fire and hope that you’re chosen to be a part of the ... life SO MUCH is going to change SO QUICKLY and you want to hold onto

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Painting by number The anti-formula

  

  out to be woefully short on substance.  I want to revisit and elaborate ... seek ways to unlock the secret formula to secure admission. For starters ... , generally the best that it can aspire to be is a convincing counterfeit, which

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 2, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, by the Calories free food is everywhere

  

  broken by a series of buzzes and dings as our phones simultaneously received a notification. We sprinted together down the hallway to 10 ... -empty tubs back to their dorms to share with friends. [caption id

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what am i doing great question.

  

  by the way passive mechanisms allow us to move about. For example, this ... about when she would turn 21 and be able to purchase alcohol, whilst ... ’ve been able to really be a part of the lab. I attend meetings and reading

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer…” wherein Neil Armstrong's legacy kicks off a year of Unified Engineering, and I reflect on…

  

  semicircular lecture hall as Professor David Darmofal, soon-to-be fluid ... an opening to introduce the Jim Mar Test. Used by Mar to evaluate ... , knew "soon after they were born" that they wanted to be aerospace

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Figuring out what I want to do with my life personal essay time :)

  

  ways to maneuver despite the constraints on available torque, by taking ... intersection by getting way into the first assignment for 16.83, which is to ... ten years, but I’ve finally decided who I want to be when I grow up and

  • by Alex M. '21
  • March 5, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  You don’t have to be a founder move slow and fix things

  

  lifetime?" How many years before it'd have to be rewritten again? The ... ' Guild game and how I got dragged to a square dance class by a hallmate ... ' Guild, work can be anything from helping cart the Nerf guns to and from

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 29, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dear frosh: here are the things we want you to know a firehose of advice from upperclassmen: tips and tricks for freshman year

  

  enjoy can be a good way to force yourself out of bed to go do a thing ... chances of remembering them later. Take selfies with people as a way to get ... UROPs. Don’t be stuck working for a lab you don’t want to work for or

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who

  

  way to change this would be to make marketing decisions earlier. A ... data" about what the audience likes, though. Another way would be to cut ... engaging in, to be part of the structure of a hunt." This can be one way to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 29, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to find your way around MIT mit building numbers are logical, but weirdly

  

  campus is a group of buildings, not to be confused with the building that ... campus. These parts are defined by roads. Everything to the west of ... refers to those buildings by number. If you focus on the Buildings 1

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 11, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Critter gaze upon my son

  

  ." Critters that scale the Stack in search of water or bugs to eat can be ... confers the capability to move randomly in search of a spot to anchor on the ... ?). The smog is believed to have been caused by the volcanic event, but has

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 26, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  cat, I ran quickly to the office and seconds later, was tearing off DHL-branded tape from what appeared to be a thick file. The file was from the ... my essays. To one of them asking why I wanted to be at Penn, I had

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  journalists appreciate. I have the luxury of being able to be a purist in this ... good along the way.  However, much of the time, students fail to connect ... outlets, because in addition to being a positive human-interest piece it

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Thong I Should Be Wearing [UPDATE] Sexy sexy undies.

  

  voting four times a second. MIT, which used to be at 300,000 votes was soon to be catapulted to the upper echelon of schools in the contest. Drexel ... . Obviously, I had no way of knowing this, but kudos to y'all. MIT did help a

  • by Snively '11
  • November 1, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Praise Of Holistic Admissions not an admissions machine

  

  system around "merit", defined, as it always seems to be, by test scores ... Booker T. Washington wrote: "Success is to be measured not so much by the ... this: create an index by multiplying SAT score and GPA. Rank-order the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Ten days of live-action roleplaying no joke, there i was…

  

  4 PM and stayed until 2 or 3 AM. To be clear, I spent this much time ... middle of a semester can be hard, sometimes, due to scheduling and school ... ? Neville was supposed to be good at combat. I started the game with 5 HP

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2023