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  context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?

  

  could do it, then so can I.  I looked up how to conduct research at ... amazing in ways I can’t even begin to count. It’s so easy to fall into the ... poverty. A quick google search of her name brings many articles listing the

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  identical one being demoed here. To use it, a roll of music programmed on ... stairs. I mainly used my mini-fridge it to refrigerate the produce I ... -campus in a new neighborhood. Moreover, it would be an opportunity to get to

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 31, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later what happened after pi day 2011

  

  to take a gap year. It was strange, most of my friends from school had ... said no to anyone who asked for help, even though it would mean taking ... , which happened this monday. I had been back to college as it was our

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  to whatever it was you were originally doing, but can’t because you are ... longer possessed the ability to use all ten fingers to type, so it had ... me getting into MIT and why it meant so much to me. Enjoy!!!! Finally

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Praise Of Holistic Admissions not an admissions machine

  

  didn't mean that it's a place to idly chat with people (although it is ... within it. This leads me to another point I'd like to discuss, which is ... system around "merit", defined, as it always seems to be, by test scores

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to MIT: Choosing a Dorm the good and not-so-good reasons

  

  ’re absolutely certain where you want to live, it’s helpful to discover different ... of upperclassmen to help you, but you can also avoid the learning ... find that it’s actually pretty easy to feed yourself, and that the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 14, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Semester 1 fantastic dishes and how to cook them

  

  exposure to American food has mostly been limited to what I can acquire ... . At best. I tried to believe that it was a personal problem, but other internationals echoed my sentiment; I tried to believe that it was part of this

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 8, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to decide which classes to take amazing classes and how to pick them

  

  used it. An infallible method is asking your friends. Schedule checks ... . There's also OfCourse, a website that uses algorithms™ to recommend which ... best way to know if you'll like a class is to take it. "Shopping" is the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take a Load Off Quoting The Band's "The Weight" should make the wait bearable

  

  . And it's still true of everyone who wants to get in to MIT. And I ... is visible from my awesome double.As much as I would've liked for it to ... 's kind of a big deal. To illustrate that, I invite you to go to Google and

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Search of Answers Seeking recommendations, rather than providing them...

  

  admitted to the class. Even though they are certainly right, I am quick to ... criteria that will be used to make the decision. Fortunately, everything that ... process thoughtfully, there are no shortcuts. Guidebooks can be useful if

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  10 Things I Learned 1st Semester Yeap.

  

  bomb! How come I've never used Doodle or Google Docs before coming to ... . Chris used it in the beginning of the year to schedule the first Blogger Meet-Up. Just this week, I used it to set up a get-together in New York

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 24, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Google

  

  , using Google’s MapReduce system, I was able to compute and classify ... what I’d learned at MIT to great use. It was about newfound confidence ... evening, I received an e-mail about a talk Google was having on campus. It

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 5, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  wave and a corral. I'm wave 4, corral 4. It used to bother me that we ... to improve. It is possible to overtrain your brain as much as you can ... lines to strategize how last-minute I can rush to pee before the last

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dormspam-the-game (Part 3) parting remarks from no-longer-anonymous gamemasters

  

  , I can't really stop you? I think it's more fun to play individually ... points to anyone who can guess what in the world it refers to. [annotation ... it took to make these games come to life! a history WZ: Paolo was

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Iron Man, MIT ‘87 (?) After 21 last month, another MIT movie.

  

  using his own intelligence and sweat of his brow. I would love for that to ... . I could tell it meant something to the die-hard fans, but I was ... (Google has failed me on this one). It's towards the end of the credits

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Day in the Life Liveblog of my Thursday complete with (not so great) pictures

  

  I decided to share a day of mine too! Quick disclaimer: I thought it ... 's super approachable, kind, and down-to-earth and it turns out we have a lot ... Central Square 12:35pm decide to take the T instead because it's chilly 12

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 15, 2014
• 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 ... , I was dealing with it: I tried to occupy my attention with other

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

  What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj

  

  , and I’d really like to see it get picked up again. Maybe you can even ... and tell you the best way to save it. He can give you the right advice ... minds. It is not a cheap, easy, or quick thing to do. It requires

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• 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…

  

  thing I can do for you is to connect you with things that will give you a ... about x or y, etc. The least I can do is try to make your research a ... : http://web.mit.edu/acadinfo/sse/courselist.html How to use the MIT logo

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

  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  connections, networks of people, and more. I get to keep using tools and methods ... . But I didn’t expect that when it came time to write that blog, I would ... , you don’t need to read it first, but it might help you to understand

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • April 20, 2021