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• Blog / About Decisions

  To the exclusion of everything else on making decisions, and how i chose mit

  

  of course they came through. I take the T to Kendall, and sitting on ... possible to the original, but I did have to edit out some details. It’s the fourth post in a four-part series, so here’s some context. I went to the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Riri Williams Pi Day Video Behind the scenes of an extraordinary three minutes!

  

  video,” he said, “I basically want to make a two-minute trailer for the ... (and/or don’t particularly follow Marvel), Chris was referring to the ... confused that they managed to get Simmons right but somehow messed up the MIT

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Computers and their Programs Anecdotes and advice about owning a laptop at MIT

  

  than that it’s great. I like being able to switch between the Unix terminal and the Apple GUI depending on what I need to do. I also like the ... The day after Valentine's Day is a good time to talk about computers

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  ’s side of the room. Four. MIT was gracious enough to put all of us on a no ... kumot, my mind said, when it tried to reach for the word,) and stuffed it ... , and I had to take a break on the way there. But it was fine. I was in no

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  17 Things I’ve Learned in the Past Year growing, growing, grown

  

  Tuesday night, I went to see Vince Staples for the second time, which was ... understand how much the onus is on me to look out for and take care of myself ... pressure on myself to do self-care activities that the effect ends up being

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  a different number on it, but the only companies that will talk to you ... coming out. They flutter to the floor in a heap. The Milk arrives on ... . After an all-nighter on campus, you try to make your way home through the

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

  What I Did in High School in the actual sense of the phrase

  

  My high school was this tiny sort of dinky-looking building on the ... did in high school, they tend to mean “what went on their application ... the end. I was never a bad student, but initially more the type to go

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Typical Day on the Road Having grown up in NYC, I love coming back.

  

  Stuyvesant. It was great having them join me on the visit to Stuyvesant. We had ... entry on the interview and how to prepare for it. If you haven't yet set ... and the traffic closing on the east side due to the plane crash; there

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Today I hit my TA with a door I didn't MEAN to.

  

  -value level of what you're about to learn is on a par with the Tooth Fairy not ... amount of knowledge on the subject they need to have in order to field your ... student: the never-gone-to-lecture-and-what's-a-TA-but-still-got-800,000%-on-the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 7, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  came on stage to introduce the 2020 Ring Committee. They had microphones ... one of those events that all sophomores look forward to. During the ... get to Kresge by 7:00 p.m., the time the doors opened, but there was

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  's very easy to get caught up in the daily metronome of life, especially when you're on a set schedule. Every day, I wake up, I work out, I go to ... done. It's just a crawl to the end of the school year before you can do

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT Underwear Exposé (and Sorting Hat) The coolest data you never wanted to have.

  

  A lot of socializing at MIT happens on the dorm mailing lists. One of ... content of the mailing list (I’ve never been on it), but because of the ... a sign of respect to sign emails to the Burton-Conner dormwide social

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  . Remembering that parents are watching, the focus changes to a short segment on ... , and how exactly this relates to the emphasis on science here I wouldn ... obligation to educate ourselves on global issues and take a stand to be the

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dear frosh: here are the things we want you to know a firehose of advice from upperclassmen: tips and tricks for freshman year

  

  jarring to suddenly not be the smartest kid in the class, to be on a ... -253-1212 and ask for the Dean on Call. Someone will talk to you and help you ... ’d go through it and try to remember the people who did the things with me

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  10 Things I Learned 1st Semester Yeap.

  

  email that the professor processes in 5 seconds… So what I tried to do is ... Say hello to the holidays and winter break!!! Now, sitting at home in ... because of the spiciness than anything else. While i had to keep chugging

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 24, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2) My take on the MIT short essays.

  

  revitalization of this system. It is no longer sufficient for us to stand on the ... stand on the sidelines - I want to make a difference. To this end, I ... once upon a time, I wrote a blog comparing the college essay to froyo

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  , but over time that was changed to align with the social cohesion on each ... the hall but is secondary information to saying that you live on, say ... want to read up more on what East Campus was like in the 1920s, and what

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

  The leftmost station on your dial WMBR = awesome campus radio

  

  's seen the unpublished posts; I just keep changing the date and planning to ... AM with the (vaguely) shocking realization that I had to read and ... pretend that's how I've spent the last six weeks. We now return to our super

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parents, Please Read Prefrosh and students, read this too, and make sure to have a discussion with your…

  

  regret. They're ready to do well on the next test and tackle their next ... pressuring us to do well. We know what's going on at school, we're in the thick ... pressure on their children to succeed and to get A's. While it's wonderful to

  • by Snively '11
  • December 24, 2008
• 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…

  

  extracurriculars. On my way to the first one, I realized I just couldn't do it. I ... days, you need two or three or five blankets and to lie on the couch for ... fantastic senior spring on the other side, and beyond, to the future filled

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 13, 2018