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  Painting by number The anti-formula

  

  , generally the best that it can aspire to be is a convincing counterfeit, which ... on that notion because it remains apropos today as students continue to ... , I can not argue with the logic of trying to discover the formula for

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 2, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bring your stuffed toys to class reflections on liminality

  

  't stay in MIT forever. Talk to all your friends about how you can't stay in ... , literally everyone you can about it. Punt the decision and play board games ... forward again to see that you didn't. Laugh at how silly it all was. Wonder

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 11, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  This Is How I Read productivity hacks, but for reading applications

  

  one, but it's a bit different for me right now, because we've started to ... I start reading, I close everything; it's impossible for me to ... 's schedule, and EthanZ once told me that he always used to block off 3-4 hour

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Women’s Soccer Talking to the 2009 NEWMAC Champs after they returned from the NCAA National Championship Tournament

  

  watching (i.e. water polo), it was hard to know how good MIT's varsity teams ... admission process. I hope that this post has been useful to some high school ... really sure why I'm writing in pink -- Liz and Meghan asked me to do it

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 25, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing is Magic And 15 minutes is all you need

  

  already know how valuable it can be to learn to write and express yourself ... writing. The process of writing is what creates the ideas. Sure, it’s ok to ... a finished poem. Most of the time, it’s actually something you can be

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  past two weeks, and it’s definitely a normal thing to feel. MIT is hard ... , disheartened and hoping that the test will be ridiculously curved - it couldn’t just have been you who did bad, right? You want to sleep, preferably for

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

  This story has to do with professor accessibility. And something awesome that I got in the mail.

  

  a package slip in my mailbox earlier this week; I passed it to the ... things I could do to find out what it's like to be an astronomer ... , and told Professor Dumbledore that it had inspired me to find a UROP in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Happy 21st Birthday to the Random Hall Milk the Milk is now old enough to drink, but *please*, don't drink the Milk

  

  from the supermarket to a dormitory at MIT. It has lived there ever since ... asked, "Why throw something away when you can tell a story about it ... admission to MIT in the Class of 2019, despite its impressive achievements

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  applies to other people. But it goes like this. In any given day, there are always hours when it is impossible for me to work. And these are the hours ... like that every week. Maybe it’d make more sense to plot it on the

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

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

  

  to tell you all about it, but I can't just yet. Very soon though ... myself it's been 3 years since I failed to follow through on this ... how to do it, you've waited too long. You'll raise expectations by

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Love In the Time of Corona lots of evidence that the people are the best part of MIT

  

  simply wasn’t enough time to come to terms with it.  It was hard. All of it. From long phone calls with airlines to making sure everyone in our ... , it was really really hard. But, when it was time to leave campus there

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Merit When getting into MIT isn't convincing enough

  

  to donate to MIT. It’s a fascinating job, and it deserves an entire ... are excited to tell me about how they relate to MIT. Believe it or not ... to talk or donate but are polite about it, and others—a very, very

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • January 22, 2015
• 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…

  

  , this is not important, and you guys can probably stand to wait another ... . You need to actually do the essays first before you can edit them. Just ... of your essays to do this for you, but it doesn’t hurt to do it

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  neighborhoods we move into and come to love. What do pregnant mice, cheerleaders, and four-foot light-up tinsel giraffes have in common?

  

  professors from my program -- it's considered rude to ask a graduate student ... diseases and neurological injuries using the stem cells native to the brain ... 't really have lives outside of lab, but it's fun to pretend.) This year I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 27, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  sea glass turbulent waves in these parts

  

  a bit before throwing it out there for the internet to judge ... scientists is to pump out papers. Conferences can only accept so many papers ... fire, to avoid burning out before the semester has even started. It’s

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 5, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice On The Essay The rules are simple: write your own.

  

  guess my response wasn't very helpful to them. But hopefully it will ... 's the best advice anyone can give to you. Your application is full ... . It's always nice to have someone look over your writing and fix the

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Applying Sideways How to get in to MIT.

  

  speak to students or their families, be it on travel or during a campus ... them something they can do that will get them in. Maybe they need to be ... accepted to MIT? No.   But it doesn't work that way. Because here

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I know you’re bad at something And here's what you should do about it. Hint: NOT "do something else"

  

  . It's your chance to play whatever you want! Maybe this sounds ... straight up told me that I was going to do it. I practiced hard at home and ... mouthpiece so hard to my lips that they went numb and no notes came out. It was

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  my mom I got into MIT. She said congratulations. I went to bed. It ... MIT, and I know how it feels to be sort of "rejected," because even ... gosh darn it I was going to make that a damn good mid year report. So I

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 17, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  Officer Sean, wrote a note yesterday on Facebook that moved me to tears. It ... newsfeed, my twitter, my Facebook, everything… hoping to see closure. And it ... . Arguments, whether it's personal, national or international can get overheated

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2013