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  Merit When getting into MIT isn't convincing enough

  

  , innate cleverness. I know that I did not get in by some fluke. The truth ... stronger sense of who you are and what you want to do. This is the thing ... ; usually you don’t get old men saying things like this to your face. Usually

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • January 22, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m not an imposter… I’m going to be featured on the MIT News homepage

  

  applied to do Interphase EDGE, which is a 2-year enrichment program. The ... ’d the test go?” instead of “what’d you get?” and you never have to give a ... by just overexerting myself.  Learn, for the first time, how to

  • by ana~
  • October 29, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Putting food on the table daily with Daily Table affordable, nutritious, and delicious groceries near MIT

  

  that option, including the [annotation note='There is an MIT shuttle to ... staffers, they've used the phrase "every shopper is a funder" to describe how ... getting all my groceries here might bankrupt me, given the kind and quantity

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There is no such thing as a typical day on energy levels and productivity

  

  always hours when it is impossible for me to work. And these are the hours ... like this: In the moment, all I see is this: I have to tell myself that the way it actually works, is this: And that lying on the couch

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 25, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Snively’s Cross Stitch Corner I really enjoy cross stitching

  

  stitched the more and more I tried to figure out a way to monetize cross ... ! And that gets us to today! I’m just finishing up the cross stitch for ... the comments and I’ll do my best to answer. Cheers!

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  explaining "Chechnya Is Not the Czech Republic”, next to immigration debate ... hard to come by these days. So I decided to follow a religion, the ... floor, whether it is forgiving someone, whether it is giving thanks to the

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The most important blog entry ever This is probably the most valuable entry ever written... not kidding. Bookmark it. Class of…

  

  about x or y, etc. The least I can do is try to make your research a ... ! (probably the best way to advertise anything ever): http ... thing I can do for you is to connect you with things that will give you a

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 6, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  world, I believe in the scientific method, which is to say I believe in ... hypothesis as the best, and sometimes only, route to understanding most things ... medalist, who also happened to get an 800! The same goes for people who are

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Units of Measure A simple question with a lot of cool answers

  

  desire to get other celebrities to answer the question - "If your last ... culture of Conner 2 during my stay there. To the best of my knowledge there were only two rules regarding the units of measure. Celebrities get to

  • by Snively '11
  • January 7, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Fireside Chat with President Sally Kornbluth get to know our president!

  

  is one of the greatest issues of our day has led her to pioneer the Climate Project at MIT. The goal of this project is to figure out how to get ... ’s how we know it. The elegance of science is something to be admired. If

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Dissecting emotion what is feeling

  

  walk, when I run, bouncing, being blown by the wind. When I get my hair ... something, you need to be open to the possibility of getting cut. When you ... feeling to the rest of the nervous system. When whatever blockage is removed

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 3, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes I Won’t Be Able to Take also "What Is Pre-Registration?"

  

  you don't get to take the HASS you want to take that semester. I ... went from this:to this: ...which is quite the leap. (The pictures are ... only have a year left at MIT, and there's no way I'm going to get to take

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 23, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the exclusion of everything else on making decisions, and how i chose mit

  

  . So the proper way to think about an NFA is not by making a transition ... what I’m feeling is this quote from one of the lectures I went to during ... black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet. Seven

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  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 ... the Internet (even typing that number is terribly guilt-inducing, BUT

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

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

  

  . The best part is that Tom and I didn’t have to follow the dress code. Thank god. The school building is small, so we were able to find our ... that this is probably going to be the last time I’ll be in Alabama for a

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tell your friends you love them for we are but blips in a timeline

  

  • by Anika H. '26
  • May 9, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Random Ceiling Tiles The ceilings of Random Hall and a friendly message.

  

  Some of you have to make a decision to come here (or not) by 23:59 tomorrow. If you're on the fence, I have one small bid to make you fall in ... the path you choose gets difficult, it will be very helpful to rekindle

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 30, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  opt to cook for themselves and the drop off in who uses meal plans is so ... less affordable for many students; the price differential is way too high ... at risk of not getting into a Cook-For-Yourself dorm due to the group

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

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

  

  There is empirical evidence to support the idea that males have a ... trifecta covered, your score would be up to some combination of fate and the ... the “score is based on your personal intellect” condition performed

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

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

  

  you are, when you go out into the world, it is best to hold hands and ... to forgo the rest of the summer to get to Boston sooner." I remember ... learned, the biggest word of all: LOOK. Everything you need to know is in

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013