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• Blog / About Decisions

  To whom much is given… ...you know the rest!

  

  few weeks. I can tell you with a fair level of certainty that it is just ... might be used. Let me be frank. Any serious applicant to MIT has been ... opportunities and has made choices about how to use those opportunities. I won

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 13, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  having been admitted, of being at MIT. (Though, to be clear, it ... ’t begin to know exactly what those feelings are. But what I can do is share ... birthday. It was a rejection. I’ve got to say, it wasn’t exactly the best

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 16, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The end of a chapter

  

  England. It feels somewhat surreal how time flew by so quickly! I am now a ... all times! It’s supposedly really similar to MIT’s 7.20J Human ... geeky, but it’s truly a fantastic feeling to understand the biological

  • by Linh V. '13
  • July 8, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

  Admissions that started it all: "When we admit a class of students to MIT, it ... challenge me even more to raise my own expectations of what I can achieve ... Friends that sang "If you're voting and you know it, clap your hands" to the

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 6, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  , if one can call 2 years a moment. It’s interesting to note all the ways ... control can make getting out of bed to complete your final really hard, or ... curveball, so to speak. In any case, it may seem like there are only two

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 14, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 2 The median of an introductory trilogy

  

  hanging around quivering in fear and hoping not to be left behind. It was ... time, I did. It kept me rooted still, fixed to the floor, listening to my ... ready to take off. I was keeping everyone waiting. Luckily, I made it in

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Really Just Cannot Write Anymore of My Thesis I wish I can bang out essays like blog entries.

  

  thesis mode. Now I have 60+ pages of it finished, and trying to get words ... me would never change. It is impossible to write a blog detailing why ... innovate. It is not sufficient to just have book knowledge; MIT wants you to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  now—it's easy to forget that this kind of thing isn't really normal in ... made to build more undergraduate housing (that is, East Campus), it was ... ). I made an animated GIF to try to show this visually: it alternates

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  things I never used to let myself have time for. It was very much ... two will describe the mechanics of how I got those gigs, how to use ... ! Suffice to say it wasn’t glamorous. They scheduled new hires for 6am - 2pm

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Institute of Smashing What do you think MIT and a garbage compactor have in common?

  

  more accurately, it can be a good thing. It gives you a chance to build ... academic career is leagues better now than it used to be. So when you get ... on I think it's important to identify roughly two types of people here

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An actual day in the life It's not the most exciting day... but it's a day!

  

  home to find dinner on the table. Hooray for boyfriends who can cook! (It ... smack Adam and ask when he wants me to get him up (he can't get up by ... , and I drink it religiously.) 9:20-9:30 -- Bike across campus from W61 to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  One. I would use the blogs to process my feelings if I had any ... ready to be sad. It’s like, you know when you’re going up stairs, and you ... ’s going to catch you. Two. Most people left last Saturday or Sunday. It

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Is My Home Looking back and saying goodbye

  

  , Delta Phi Epsilon (or as we like to call it, DPhiE). Within my sorority, I ... -day Dynasty family line. True to my wishes, it’s so big now that we’ve never been able to take a photo with truly everyone in it ^^; And of course, I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 13, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How To Make Mediocre Furniture well, maybe i'll let you be the quality judge

  

  on it. Plus, I wanted to be able to use the empty space underneath the ... and carried it up two flights of stairs to my closet. It had waited six ... lesson about trying to get projects done during the semester. It may be

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 17, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parametric Cooking how i make fifty plus recipes with just three!

  

  scripts and formulas you can use. Base Knowledge For you to be able to ... , it can be hard to know what's good and what works. If you try your hand ... Rhino, the software I'm most familiar with, you can use the Box command

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 30, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 things I love about MIT and hopefully you'll learn to love them too.

  

  dismiss quickly. 5. You have freedom to choose your classes It is so cool ... and now it’s time to decide which offer to accept. As a senior blogger ... always bond over how much work that they have to do. It’s an instant

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Decade in Online Posting looking back: from the forums to the blogs

  

  school i go to and can never shut up about it lol please don't talk to me ... [/annotation] and i don’t really know what to make of it can people Stop telling me ... incredibly useful. No showers, no laundry, and it takes forever to get grease

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bumps, slumps, trips, and … Breaking out of a slump, now with more Cleveland!

  

  going to! I'll start with a picture. It is 2014, and an embarrassment to ... it to you to decide whether that's a subtle or profound change. This ... and I calculated what it'd take to build a raft to ride our couch down

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to date at an American college Things we never talk about

  

  --they’ve turned into a “ghost”! Can also be used when simply referring to friends or ... attention to what their friends (or your friends) say, as often it can be ... physically abusive relationships. It is also, uhh, going to be a really long

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  No Chance Why "chance" sites like AdmissionSplash are Bad Things.

  

  , that it is ripe for mockery (or can itself be used to degrade the self ... volunteer or play sports. It then uses an algorithm to give users a ... students how likely it is that they will be admitted to each school on their

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 8, 2011