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  Choice and the MIT lifestyle ...because "MIT" and "student life" aren't mutually exclusive.

  

  happen to be amazing). Monday and Wednesday nights are usually dedicated 5.60 pset nights, so I had already worked on the pset for around 6 hours. On ... , less frustrating, and more fun. But I don't know that many people in the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Decade in Online Posting looking back: from the forums to the blogs

  

  movies I watched, being bored constantly, traveling to the Dominican ... be coming from the large bushes that surrounded the home and its ... interests. I met a few people on Tumblr after being pretty active in the Fire

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Being “qualified” for MIT Let me show you how it's done.

  

  international students. Near the end, someone asked: "Can you give an example of something international students have done in the past to make them qualified ... . I thought about how the MIT application was nothing like a job

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice On The Essay The rules are simple: write your own.

  

  being this: the more you pay, the less it will be your voice!) Oooops. I ... "team of professional journalists" who will help you craft the ... be helpful to you. The rules are simple: write your own essays. That

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends

  

  into the floor on which I'm standing. I love being able to make progress ... in Bitcoin because he thought the banks were going to fail. Now I had ... be okay with that. I have to attend to the weather and the wind and the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  ;   And I know, that I wanted to be faster, smarter, to do all the ... don’t need my value and worth be lessened because of the things I’m not ... ’m working on right now is the most important thing that I could be doing and

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

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

  

  ended. I will no doubt be tearing it up on the pickup fields at MIT and ... we really wanted was the big shiny silver trophy you get for being the ... be able to play ten more years of soccer at the time was if I was

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 21, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  to MIT’s Class of 2022 have asked us if their acceptance will be ... the public interest. And in this case, when the threat of being denied 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

  A Brief History of Cars on Fire at MIT You didn't think I would miss an anniversary, did you?

  

  . There will not be any burning cars, sorry. (The Cambridge Fire Department ... , there will be some fire, courtesy of the MIT Spinning Arts Club performance ... parking lot. Since it was said to be too much of an eyesore, however, the

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to Crying on Campus It’s right about that time of year.

  

  , disheartened and hoping that the test will be ridiculously curved - it couldn ... I do, it will probably be in one of the lounges on my floor at East ... us expand the list of places to be sad, so fill out this survey and let

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 16, 2017
• 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

  

  . Deal with it how you may, but it will always be true. The time you spend ... —find it. Being excited to learn will do far more for you in the long run ... , the ones you live with are probably all great, but there might be days

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Chose MIT On deciding where to go, now that you're in

  

  maybe the first time in your life, all of your peers will be as smart as ... you will live away from your parents for potentially the first time in ... few years would probably be just like the one before it. I lived at home

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 29, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Application dreaming

  

  as part of the application to be reviewed? Will it be interpreted as ... , research etc) ?? I am an international applicant, and I will definitly be ... The reading continues, almost non-stop here... for another

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  the committee. Then a second reader (and sometimes a third) will read ... will weigh in on it. Assuming you've made it that far, the senior staff ... to be a teacher in the first place, that they're better people for

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

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  will continue to grow and become yourself, that this is not the end of a road, but the start of a new journey. I know that those words can be ... post will be a way for you to start processing all of those thoughts, a

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 16, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Axes of Confusion ????

  

  6 classes, even if barely passing the classes will be an uphill climb, we will learn a LOT in the process. And maybe that's enough to be more ... can go into. And the career we envision we want will impact our choice

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  the[annotation note="Terrain being a word which here means: the view ... , on Tuesday, the international students and FPOPs will come ... , everyone else will arrive, flooding the student center, picking up shiny new

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

  Rain by any other name lagi na lang umuulan

  

  shower, a drizzle. Ambon is the kind of rain that a light jacket would be ... different from the rain here. Back at home, if it does rain, it will rain for ... be felt droplets, and even the lightest of rains would be felt if you

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

  Burton-Conner’s Renovation: A Saga on friendships that transcend shitty infrastructure

  

  's size. Murals — All the walls will be painted over in the renovation, so ... one of the options will eventually be removed. That way, we can take a ... for next year. At the end of it, she assured us that we will be hanging

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 6, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to Freshman Days composed in the wee hours of morning

  

  I ever pset-partied in} The hardest thing you will do in college is ... , unreasonable psets. The fight to rise will start in your subconscious. Without ... you will do in college is do too much. Try it. On the 1st week, you only

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 29, 2015