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

  

  did in high school, they tend to mean “what went on their application ... was to get service hours to qualify for National Honor Society come our ... ’t understand. It took a bit of time for me to start working as hard as I did in

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Back in Time I change my clock back three hours and read headlines on the magazine of the…

  

  everywhere, but for some reason, for me, it always seems to hold true). The ... Francisco to Boston - and the last time I was on an airplane, I'd envisioned ... promptly going back to sleep. I had never met Regina Spektor, been on a road

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  ask for complete strangers on the Internet to assess their likelihood of ... selecting schools to send an application to easier. On Tuesday, the company is ... students how likely it is that they will be admitted to each school on their

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  pulls out an inflatable for me to sleep on. He introduces me to Jeffery ... crammed my work for NOI.PH a little bit, before I ride on a plane to Detroit ... Boston. It got delayed, so I had to stay in Boston for another night

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  must say, is endemic on campus. This semester, for the first time in my ... any day of the week. This left me more time to work on graduate ... . On the bright side, though, those obligations can also contract to fit

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

  Policies, Principles, and Protests thinking about responsible citizenship in a time of student protests

  

  , advocating for policies to prevent such a shooting from happening again. They ... integrity on its face. The purpose of this blog post is to communicate that ... from MIT solely on the basis of being disciplined for participating in a

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • February 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tyrannosaurus REX the prefrosh are coming, the prefrosh are coming!

  

  !"]sophomore[/annotation]and as I drive to MIT for Year 2 (I'm writing this in the car :D), I can ... up to the event. Our group chat was exploding with people asking for ... 's more important, now, to begin as you mean to go on. What does that entail

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 20, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Guest Entry: Stephanie Lin Presenting MIT's most recent Rhodes Scholar!

  

  (sounds so official, right?). I made the decision to apply for the Rhodes ... flew to California. The actual interviews take place on Saturday, but all Finalists attend the cocktail party on Friday night in order to meet each

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 12, 2012
• 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 ... (This seemed like a really good idea for an entry when I was on my ... building 56 Athena cluster to check email and print readings for classes

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

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

  

  professor in the physics department lent to me. For privacy, let’s call him ... notice him. And then for Shakespeare to actually send the book…” She ... ask for it take the initiative to reach out for them.

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  sea glass turbulent waves in these parts

  

  the time of publishing this blog since i like to let my writing marinate a bit before throwing it out there for the internet to judge ... 've held for so long, than to finally break the inertia and deal with the

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 5, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  señoritis navigating work/life balance - and spring break photos

  

  student? it's no secret that coming to MIT is signing yourself up for ... and family and drop everything if i need to make time for someone. "life ... great to send out warm fuzzy greetings, but i received one question

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 28, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  understand how much the onus is on me to look out for and take care of myself ... Tuesday night, I went to see Vince Staples for the second time, which was ... ’s like to start studying for a Friday 8AM exam (for a class you’ve attended

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

  [Guest Post] We’re Not in ~Kansas~ Missouri Anymore Going From a Small Town to Boston, by Claire S. '25

  

  -school-senior-me didn’t know how to answer. So I gave the only response I knew for sure ... decided to sacrifice the comfort of a small town for all MIT had to offer ... for me to adjust to: Struggling to find people with my background. As

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 17, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  Yultide (credit to the bloggers for the awesome name). Today is Yultide Day ... Elizabeth C. ‘13 asked me if I wanted to write an open letter on the topic. I ... in the works, but I might need another Yultide for motivation to finish

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why My 5.13 Problem Set Took All Day Moral of the story: Don't procrastinate, or I'll never talk to you again.

  

  possible way for me to get done before 4 AM. Here's exactly why it took me so ... : Off to Steam Cafe (to which people submit their own recipes), on the ... , and decide to make quick pasta for dinner with Phyo, another TA and '10

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tenets or, my only piece of advice for incoming first-years

  

  [/annotation] ready to give you their tips and tricks for surviving classes and getting ... pressure for you to do so. I don’t mean to say that you should make ... preparing for the future. The number of decisions you have to make as an

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an Easter vigil alive at east campus

  

  not know her. The man on the stage insists that he is not here to ... is the only food I eat all day. I am asked to emcee for part of the ... . The full moon will bleed crimson-red for three hours before returning to

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 5, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  to “create myself”, even literally. Since “Jenny” is not on any of my ... is also a good time to explore who you really are. For several weeks ... , I chose to maximize bonding activities especially helpful for me

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HOW TO FORGE A DRAGON SWORD and other skills picked up in 3.096

  

  [/caption] I started looking for inspiration and was pleased to find that while ... , which is the temperature needed for iron to turn red"]cold[/annotation] by ... too loud to be turned on during the work day, so I mostly used a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 7, 2023