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

  give you. Taurus I know you're used to it, but the hallmark sign of a ... would cringe seeing this post), but I find it fun to read an analysis of ... often receive applications where its obvious a student has only applied to

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 20, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice you’ve heard before and a story you haven’t you can just skip to the pictures if you want to, I wont be offended.

  

  requires you to correct for it all at once. I can't go to lecture if I haven ... to stay warm and cozy in my (over)heated room while it whistled and ... saving time, right? It made sense, of course, until you tried to account

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Dissecting emotion what is feeling

  

  . It's another one of those things I know without words to exist. I can ... into dust, and there is nothing I can do to save it, because that's just ... without writing. Time is not real, because I can close my eyes and listen to

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

  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  through to graduate high school. It’s also a book that has left me with a ... . It’s so easy to get FOMO - fear of missing out - nowadays because our ... notebooks that I used in high school to learn French and Korean, the two

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Gothic You are reading an admissions blog post. You are reading tumblr.

  

  are two more to take its place. Each one has more problems than the last ... that you can drop out now. But you know it’s not true. You can’t leave ... help take down a hack. It’s back the next morning. It wasn’t ready to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Diversity or Merit? false questions, false answers

  

  so forth - can we conclude that you are prepared to handle the material ... process: When we admit a class of students to MIT, it's as if we're choosing ... something useful or intriguing to the team, from a wonderful temperament or

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

  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  middle school. By high school, I had grown used to being treated differently, and I no longer hated it as much, because, to be frank— Imagine a ... to them that I was worth something. If it wasn't enough for them, at

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advisor vs. Advisee a '07 and a '21 answer a series of questions

  

  . Bryson used to do back in the day: Q&A. In our many conversations, I ... therapeutic and it was nice to check in with myself, so I encourage you to ask ... call them regularly. I am working on making it a weekly practice to have

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear My Old Friend, This is quite possibly weirdest way to introduce myself

  

  much it used to bother you when people would say that you’re young, but ... the kitchen. And there’s nothing you can do to stop time from passing ... .  Maybe, this is a better way to explain it: I am still trying to live up to

  • by ana~
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  0.125 not a course 0 class, but a fraction complete

  

  healthy, I can start figuring out how to help myself achieve it every night ... different MIT days; I can use my experience first semester to figure out what ... – so it's best to attempt more unimportant work, or at least things I can

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 4, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  My College Essay Early Action / November 2005. ~500 words await.

  

  when I decided to apply to MIT Early Action. Or precisely why. It was ... . Wouldn't it have been safer to submit the overly-edited essay? I gave MIT ... , that you’re applying to M.I.T. and yet you can’t fill out a form…” I don

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  study spots at MIT not exactly places to cry, but they'll do

  

  serve as perfect mirrors when it gets dark. dancers used to use this as a ... since it's my last semester, I've been trying to spend more time ... someone comfy seats next to a table so I can sit cross-legged I don

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  you. K: MEET PEOPLE. It's awesome when people tell introduce me to ... : Whenever I went to events it felt like EVERYONE already knew each other, but ... . 7. Go to the CPW Prefrosh Welcome! K: Because it might be the only

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 18, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Random Random Projects/Moving Out of Random Randomly zigzagging about until I find myself in the future, somehow no longer in Random.

  

  this year! It's Cthulhu, rising from Rl'yeh to crush the unsuspecting ... crystals. The colors and shapes are as pure as can be.   Above left: To me it makes perfect sense to build a laser into a lip balm tube. It has a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 13, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  compare Melis' to mine you can note the differences - I guess significant ... so I can see what the heck was on it - I was quite surprised actually ... day, blogging about Ring Premiere used to be a BIG DEAL - hey new

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  to take the class. You can submit as many classes as you want for ... figure out what classes they actually want to take. Some people still can ... 't a wrong way to do it, just as long as you submit something. Incoming

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 23, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  endeavors. She is proud of MIT and how it can provide real solutions to ... to immerse herself in completely new cultures and environments. It ... luminaries… which actually took place last week (you can watch it

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

  The leftmost station on your dial WMBR = awesome campus radio

  

  with Hanna '10. We used to come up with playlists, but dropped that ... consists of us whining to each other, making funny faces people can't see ... else, it gives me somewhere to go when I want to hide from papers and

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Move Fast And Break Things just make sure you have a net positive of unbreaks

  

  last week, and it was a chance for each engineer to surface this idea and ... their usual work just because they feel like it. And then go to work the ... makes a lot of sense because it's far easier to code something interesting

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Note To Self Please don't forget this.

  

  orgo TA's office. I don't regret it. I needed to find those limits, I ... how it felt for these to be hammered home. 5. If you don't succeed, the ... know how to do, instead of focusing on the ones you know you can’t do

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2011