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  Let’s Go Fly A Kite Up to decision night!

  

  ’t. After Saturday, you’ll still be the same person you are today, so cling to ... ’s face it - you aren’t going to. So, to distract from the impending ... hike somewhere new or nature-like. It doesn’t have to be far, as long as

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014
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  Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!

  

  tell you about my life after MIT.  But in order for me to properly tell ... language. I know it’s long, so you can skip to around 15:30 and watch from ... negate how excited I was to graduate.     After graduation I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014
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  How To Make Mediocre Furniture well, maybe i'll let you be the quality judge

  

  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 possible, but it would take a greater man than I, or at least one with fewer

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 17, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  November 1st is my January 1st each november is a new direction

  

  . Was it really possible that I could go to MIT? Of course not, I was just ... everything I could to raise my chances and still only got it up to a 50% - my ... four days in a row to finish a 6.005 coding pset. After taking two

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 3, 2015
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  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  in any case, I was far too busy to contemplate what it meant. I met up ... , BEA was fun and immersive. To me, it was also somewhat intimidating ... just remembered, in some sense, what it means to want to write—not just

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 17, 2014
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  Computers and their Programs Anecdotes and advice about owning a laptop at MIT

  

  The day after Valentine's Day is a good time to talk about computers ... than that it’s great. I like being able to switch between the Unix ... trip over the power cord. I’m a klutz. It’s important to me that my

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 15, 2012
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  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  possibility. Opportunity. Another future opened itself to me, sparkly and ... , creative kids whom it was a pleasure to talk with and learn from. But most of ... . After New Zealand, I’m irrevocably different in some senses—more prone to

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
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  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  Tuesday, May 5, 2015, in expansion of MIT Gothic. It is up to you to ... . ‘18 It is 5 am. You are startled awake by the answer to a pset problem ... . You raise it to your wall and take a reading. Your eye twitches

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Some people call me the space cowgirl

  

  just presented to the committee as objectively as possible. I had to ... Jones: There's only one way to get into MIT, and it's the hard way. What ... More reading going on here tonight, after a yummy Super Burrito and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  system, for a while, but after querying the 2015s, I discovered, to my ... long as your advisor signs off on them. For the month after that (up to ... is totally not worth it. You have to take eight HASSes anyways, it

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011
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  Hacking A performance art that lets students remind the teachers who's smarter.

  

  MIT a lot, which is natural; I talk about it in my biography after all ... Facilities stared at it in awe, not quite sure what to think. How, erm, how ... you're interested in seeing it. After the police car other stuff

  • by Snively '11
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  about the job - and consider that it's possible to write a post in half an ... write a blog post, but was struggling with writer's block (it's easier to ... when it came time to apply to college, MIT was naturally on the list, and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012
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  [Guest Post] How to Build a Three Story Fort by Zack I. '27

  

  and attach them to the components below. This made it possible to make ... stretched the length was actually longer than what we measured it to be. We ... measurements longer down the line, and it caused our overall footprint to

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 1, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  about why I decided to commit to MIT. I tried to keep it as close as possible to the original, but I did have to edit out some details. It’s the ... do in college, and what I don’t want to do after college. It’s easy

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020
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  Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python

  

  revisions). Date reindexing made it possible to visualize a weekly pattern in ... MIT has brought its own set of failures. It's hard not to get hung up on ... learned how painful it is to be sleep deprived for weeks on end; how sad it

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s More Than A Job Thoughts On The Eve Of RA Decisions

  

  's supposed to be comforting, obviously, I just find it really insincere. I mean ... and write their own summaries. Then it will go to selection committee ... might actually turn out to be okay after all. In March I go into

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  a bit this week was how possible is it to balance the tough academic ... Stuyvesant. It was great having them join me on the visit to Stuyvesant. We had ... . After calling home and the office, I went to the meeting accompanied by

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 17, 2006
• 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 ... accepted to MIT? No.   But it doesn't work that way. Because here ... you want to do it, DO IT. But don't do it because you think it's your

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  And the Whistle Blows soccer post-season & my last competitive soccer game

  

  ="Funny story actually: it was during recess when I tried to jump and touch the ... would want to play in college, and honestly, I hadn’t thought about it ... became a conscious idea in my mind. It is almost absurd to think that the

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 21, 2024
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  In the Realm of Giants imposter syndrome with a senior year twist

  

  cancelled before it even started due to COVID-19, so that hope is effectively ... ="though i have some ideas"]what to do,[/annotation] and how to do it as ... line of progress from point A to B. In some angles, it looks like an

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2020