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  The end of a chapter

  

  farewell to all my friends. I then flew back to Boston on 20th June and ... to take, since my schedule for senior year is already so packed ... focus on biochemistry, molecular and cell biology. Physiology to me, acts

  • by Linh V. '13
  • July 8, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  So Chance Me Maybe? Hey! I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my SAT...

  

  needed to get serious about applications very, very soon, so I hopped on ... told myself that it was “practice” for the “real” applications to “real ... ’t pay attention to the chatter on College Confidential. Although (arguably

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Masquerading as a Liberal Arts Student The life of an MIT student abroad

  

  counted traffic today!), for the most part our studies are focused on three ... environment and it has been immensely beneficial for me to understand the ‘other ... fulfill my wanderlust. While it is great to do MISTI for a summer (they just

  • by Becca H. '12
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the blogs at twenty some reflections, plus an index of posts

  

  world that's constructed to help you become yourself for four(ish) years ... asked to hold off on posting until this challenge was over. Maybe it only ... godsend for those who might want to get a sense of what life was like at

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  Enjoy Life Farewells and New Beginnings

  

  summer, I’ve been thinking about what to do for my last blog post. I ... is a long one and remember that life is meant to be enjoyed. Thanks for ... bioengineer. I am grateful to have had wonderful mentors and scientists and

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 5, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things Charles Has Made fare thee well, rocket powered roller skates

  

  . Congratulations on your graduation, Charles - and thanks for all of the dangerously ... So the other day I was reading an article on slashdot about Copenhagen Suborbitals, a group of amateurs trying to launch themselves into

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Rain by any other name lagi na lang umuulan

  

  magpatila ng ulan—to wait for the rain to pass. You wait an hour, and the rain ... from Signal Number 1 to Signal Number 5, which are based on the maximum ... school year due to typhoons. It was just something that happened. On the

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

  A Different Voice some words about MIT, by someone who's not me

  

  to work for multinational companies by their sophomore summer. kids ... we’re a strange bunch. the news articles ascribe to us an almost mythical legitimacy–we’re those kids. the ones that grow up to be new

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 24, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  A Half-Century Retrospective Revisiting the MIT Application from the 1972–1973 admissions cycle

  

  location on the Infinite Corridor to its new home in the MIT Welcome Center ... grew, so did our footprint on the Infinite. We eventually went on to ... a VHS player handy? I’d love to see what’s on this tape."]VHS tape

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the Bloggers’ Personalities! A post about personality tests, part 2!

  

  old and cranky to have a comment on any of these things but numerology ... %)Neuroticism - Low (13%) Type 1 wing 3 On being Libra: “For the most part, I do ... would be interested to have somebody else take the test based on their

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 12, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Robo-CJ writes haiku “didn’t you already make a blog post about this?”

  

  old blog posts, and then used gpt-2-simple to retrain it on a bunch of ... , so ready for CPW, because I didn’t get to go to CPW when I got admitted ... where MIT invites all its admitted students on campus to find out what MIT

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s Not Me, It’s You How to kiss goodbye to a school that rejected you

  

  university, for some reason or another, is not recognizing what you have to ... render judgment on you? You know what you have to offer. It’s not worth ... ambition was to be an officer in the British army. Despite his repeated

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 29, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s not fair! ... and why that's OK.

  

  for all the children in the world, but I will give you my take on the ... to go mountain climbing. This example works for many, but clearly not ... virtually anyone trying to make sense of the college admissions process. In

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  , which you take to earn credit for an MIT subject without taking the class ... , or I revise for an ASE, or I’m walking over to the other side of campus ... first time in my life, I’ve needed to schedule time for myself. I’ve set

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  for presenting recommendations to MIT administration on the needs of ... ” party, people from MIT went to Yale for the Harvard-Yale football game. I ... point, and these organizations began to evaluate their own on

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Favorite Classes at MIT! survey says...

  

  thankful for that because it enabled me to focus on improving without the ... Class Year I forgot to add class year as an option on my form, and by the ... based on around 100 responses. In addition, I tried to rank the top 5

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Muti Water Project ...is finished!!!

  

  on since my sophomore year. I worked to design and build a longer ... to water will be safer for these children. People regularly die digging ... problems are solved mainly for those living nearest to the well, and the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  different, and that's okay. My goal is to encourage you to reflect on your own ... participants. My actual job was to work on the app used to collect data. It ... experiences. One project wasn't enough to make generalizations for. My list

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

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself on choosing a college, and realizing one of many possible futures

  

  told me that he had a problem. On Pi Day, he had been admitted to MIT ... local university and gone on to do some pretty cool things. I expected him to advocate for his alma mater, but he didn't. Instead, he told me that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  or noteworthy for the blogs. (Also to organize ... graduates. Also on an unlabeled CD, there was this folder called “to tim” with ... -lived time capsule, which was actually pretty fun to delve into for a couple

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 17, 2014