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  I Challenge You Pi day approaches.

  

  . You are guaranteed to meet hurdles and obstacles on the way to getting ... . “Who will get in? What happens to the people who don’t? Who will I become ... is the only path to success, which is a topic for another post.) I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 9, 2011
• 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 / Best of the Blogs

  Train Coming on navigating

  

  decided to move to the east coast for reasons I'll get into later."] the ... exception of one or two family trips to Las Vegas. So, when I went to the east ...  worked-- even the supposedly "simple" things. I had no clue how to even board a

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 15, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to Crying on Campus It’s right about that time of year.

  

  . Seriously, when’s the last time you went to bed before 5 AM? But alas, your ... , you’re probably undergoing what I like to call This Is Fine Syndrome, a ... dome!), which is where I go when I really need to get work done. If you

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 16, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Do I have a story for you… *SPOILER* I do

  

  to be glimpsed and archived and embarassed in the future by. Here ... feels an odd mix of distant and weirdly close. Like the first time your ... , you're so heads down in your work that you hardly notice dates flying by

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Was Deferred And it was not the end of the world

  

  didn't match up to MIT standards, my grades were not the best, I had not ... . But not everyone who is deferred gets offered a spot in the class, and ... end of the world. Even if you don't get into MIT, there is some place

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 17, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  enables the admissions office to determine whether an applicant is a good match. Trying to get admitted, on the other hand, is essentially the exact ... manipulate the process in order to gain admission. In case this distinction is

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  problem is that people like pictures. And people like to know about the ... next, all the way to the end of the bulb. Signal Generator in Power Electronics Lab at MIT So that's the first difference: to get the light going

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

  Mark Zuckerberg Visits MIT NBD.

  

  sense of horror. Take, for instance, the way he responds to the question ... repercussions to the way Facebook has handled their privacy policies, yet he ... this technology is going to go in the future? Alls I know is, being at

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The end of a chapter

  

  Biochemistry. By the way, Pathology is a really fascinating Tripos too! Now ... year. The ball is organized by any one of the colleges of the University ... traveling to all these places though, is the company of all my wonderful

  • by Linh V. '13
  • July 8, 2012
• 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 ... devoted to. As the semesters went by, I developed priorities alongside ... 't be able to resist creeping on the blogs to see what everybody is up to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Flux and Flow Thermodynamics as therapeutic analogy; or, the longest way I've ever said, "I'm still figuring things…

  

  to continue to progress, and knowing the way forward is a jagged line ... you to reflect on it if you've ever felt the same way. Let's say that ... is.) What would it mean to the omniscient observer to stand still

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  101 Things To Do Before You Graduate! 102. Read this blog entry.

  

  , considering that I never went out of my way to do anything and most of the list ... one of the good things about going to med school is that we don't have ... because I was at Brown, though. :( 62. Get your name and/or picture in the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 15, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  As We Approach Decision Day On getting in and on not getting in

  

  ’ve already given your all, for almost two decades, to get where you are now. I ... and the people you are with. Take chances; be bold enough to put your ... , and get far. But an undergraduate education is only the first step

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 8, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m back! (And what I carry on it) "You can tell a lot about a person by what they carry" - Atlas

  

  -tool - Best thing you can carry as long as you’re not going to the airport. I ... like the ends of the earth when I was an undergrad before). I tend to get ... quite long or comfortable enough to bust out the laptop and get some work

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 11, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We Should Take This Final and Push It Somewhere Else you'll need a lot of mOXie

  

  control can make getting out of bed to complete your final really hard, or ... you in your dorm room. Or, your dorm is in the process of being closed ... realize that it counts the same as an F, and your GPA is tanked yet again

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 14, 2020
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  In the Realm of Giants imposter syndrome with a senior year twist

  

  "] AAAAAAAAAAAHHHH[/caption] To some extent, this is stuff I’ve been doing for the ... imposter, not in the way that plagues so many students here. Chalk it up to ... and graduate students to try to get some sense of the whole process and

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  Oatmeal cooked on the stove is so good. I wouldn’t know this, but a ... working. Here is our kitchen, which is probably not the kitchen you’d imagine belongs to two MIT grads and a master’s student:   Here, on the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 19, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  16 for the 16’s 16 Guidelines to Making the Most of your CPW

  

  ; Without further ado:   16 Guidelines to Making the Most of your CPW ... an event. N: Go to the events and form your own opinions. There's a ... events that YOU want to do. You're the one who'll be spending four years

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 18, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  How to look over your application and advice about breathing. My older younger brother is your age. I am fully aware of how much you’re…

  

  through it. Remember that your application is your only voice to the ... trying to get across, then you need to fix something. If you don’t like the ... that it is not in my job description to deal with. 3) Read over your

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 28, 2009