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  An Admissions Excavation Chris gave me a box of stuff and this is what I found inside

  

  only printed and not uploaded anywhere online because the file size was ... that this is, indeed, the 2011 EA poster!) There were extensive Power ... old iterations of the MIT Admissions website (back to pieces from 2000

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  Ahh, the application essay. Why is it so agonizing for students ... amazing happened. The website crashed. ZOMG THE SITE CRASHED If I recall ... essay is like, I share mine with you. You'll learn more about me in the

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 11, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  some of the time, which is generally not recommended. You should have an ... in the first semester is good. First, you're in P/NR; second, you get a ... ="aligncenter" width="356"] this is based off the prereq chain for 20.375[/caption

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [joint post] we visited every station on the MBTA and the Logan Airport Rental Car Center

  

  motivation for what we did? Alan: …not really. But there is, at the very least ... —it, too, is not accepting passengers. It passes by the Braintree platform ... pretend I know what CJ is talking about. All I know is that the Green Line D

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  Charlotte Blonsky a patent: In case reading the crumbly Times New Roman is ... apparatus is that if you spin a mother around in a circle with her head at the ... official website, and here's the Wikipedia page. This year, the Ig Nobel

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  definitely say that this is not the case. When professors are teaching an ... it all...except the attention is not always negative (especially when ... order.) 1. The students This one is a no-brainer. Thanks to the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating The Tunnels…Of Freshman Academics You didn't actually expect me to write about hacking on the internet, did you?

  

  freshman class website is often frustratingly vague on this topic ... ) ...balance extracurriculars and schoolwork? As is only inevitable, all of the ... 8.012 is really hard hell survival guides Jess on getting through the

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to Make Money at MIT for all of us who don't know how to make a startup :(

  

  universities might continue to work off-campus jobs, this is very much not the culture at MIT. Considering that the workload here is commonly referred to ... As someone who is notably not a millionaire, I started working in

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 4, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Night at the Office A bit longer than I expected.

  

  one is permitted to touch it until exactly 6:30pm. 7:06pm: The first draft of the article of the night – on McCormick transfers – is finished ... our chairman for telling us about the ice cream when we're not permitted

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  On Tuesday and Thursday mornings, when the sun has not yet heated the ... sense when you get stuck between the two. Neither college is, of course ... stops and worlds apart. The most often cited difference is in the color

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Coping With Anxiety What is anxiety? What is panic? Definitions? Confusion? FINALS?! Cats.

  

  feelings all the time. Here are a few! 1. Breathing This is the number one ... . If you are not in a safe space, try to find one. Whether it is your ... Oneself Grounding oneself is reminding yourself that you are here and not

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 6, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  I recently saw a comic where a professor says "This is not the type ... certainly receive a hefty sum of homework, the main problem is time management ... must say, is endemic on campus. This semester, for the first time in my

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.

  

  is reasonably safe to do so, meaning any day during which the rain hasn ... say, it's also greener - assuming the increased calorie intake is offset ... the last few years. If you're not a policy wonk, you may have missed

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The rise and fall of CPW all the cpw history, plus proof the weather machine is fake

  

  ="aligncenter" width="500"] the website design is actually web 2.0 now, if you check it ... actually is mentioned in the report. We do not make any policy ... sure to note which is which. We'll continue the convention of "now

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  25 Stories of Getting Accepted to MIT told by students and alums

  

  eat the ice cream to celebrate; if I did not, I would eat the ice cream ... field, but not enough speed to load my decision before the server timed ... the math competition that actually know what they’re doing, not silly me

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The joys of web development or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the web

  

  is fun. Not in the aesthetic, Learning Is Fun sense. It's more in the ... isn’t for me. I’m not entirely excluding the possibility. […] But Java ... is kind of annoying, and I enjoyed programming more when I’m not doing

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 9, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  Penn. I checked out the university’s website and Wikipedia page. I found ... -related books Shade let me borrow from the US Embassy. I went through websites and ... were good. *** I’m not really going to talk about CPW or about making the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.

  

  . The TV show in fact is older than many of you applying to MIT right now ... is where the heart is and happily chose to switch from mechanical ... !!!) When I was applying to MIT, I got something in the mail. The website was

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who

  

  is today, a work of art. But I'm not sure I'd call the 1981, single ... [annotation note='The trope is called executive meddling, not distribution ... this is the key to understanding why: it's not the puzzles or puzzlehunts

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 29, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  it’s not. Fate is always determined by the people that know more about ... applied to do Interphase EDGE, which is a 2-year enrichment program. The ... during my summer of Interphase is that this isn’t the case. People ask “how

  • by ana~
  • October 29, 2021