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  A Post For Parents, Part 1 The next entry is for the kids...

  

  friend begins to talk about the party that you were not supposed to go to ... admitted to Existentialists University. The frown on your face may be related ... , don't be surprised if the 2nd question is "How am I supposed to get to

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Picking A Southwest Flight Seat How to Make Flying Bearable

  

  you will need to be able to pick your seat. I warn you that all of the ... WILL recline their seat as far as it can go, the person to your left will ... the person to your right will decide that your shoulder is the optimal

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • January 22, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist post Answers to waitlist FAQs.

  

  spot on the waitlist. Not all of those students will choose to remain on ... for large numbers of people. Most people on the waitlist will not be ... this post will be quite helpful! How does the waitlist work? We are

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thirteen Things To Do Over IAP: #1-5 Concerning the half I spent at home

  

  corner during which it will be back to the hard grind of work, work, and ... pencil down and saying goodbye to genetics, at least for the time being, I ... going to be in Southern California, I narrowed the list down to

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • January 17, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Praise Of Holistic Admissions not an admissions machine

  

  Booker T. Washington wrote: "Success is to be measured not so much by the ... office, is emphatically not to admit the "best students" to MIT, but rather to admit those applicants who will become the best MIT students. We are

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  you can’t be everything to everyone you just can't

  

  say, okay, well, i'm going to the party. i'll be there for an hour, max ... usually being one of the faster teams to finish. none of us were feeling it ... that there'd be enough new players to keep the guild going. and i care

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 8, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  21: The Movie Afterthought: You probably have to had seen the movie to understand this entry fully. =/

  

  very end of the movie) are completely only present in the movie. To be ... stereotype" (just check out Miles - he's supposed to be "the geeky, uber ... not spend time trying to "beat the casino" through intelligence on a day

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 30, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Greetings from MIT Labs! Introducing MIT: The Game

  

  Game, you will be able to participate in all the most important aspects ... admissions staff, it allows students to experience all the best parts of an MIT ... ) MIT diploma We began closed beta testing of the game to our Early

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 1, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  actual conversations i definitely had last night happy new year i guess

  

  : is this the way you expected your college life to be A: i mean, i guess ... we'll go back to work A: and the days will pass by one-by-one A: and ... all trying to act normal all the time B: well B: don't say that, that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 1, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons from Loomis and Whitney a math month post

  

  will need will be to write $|A|$ as a sum. In particular, consider the ... , look at it, and think "this must not be the simple way to prove this ... Unfortunately I don't think I will be talking about the duality

  • by Paige B. '24
  • April 23, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Test Taking at MIT The beauty of The Cheat Sheet

  

  might be relevant in order to fill in the rest of the space. To fit ... everything, why not just make it an open notes test? Or perhaps the theory is ... at MIT are rarely just fact recall. Sure there will be the occasional

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor Beans + Peanuts + Crackerjacks i practically pulled another all-nighter, and again, for a non-academic reason.

  

  : "Today is the last day the world will only have 5 Harry Potter books to read." Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince would soon be released. I ... around the office hoping to waste as much time as possible. I count making

  • by Bryan
  • July 17, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2014! That...that's not a factorial

  

  do or not to do something; *New Year’s Resolution: On Jan 1, it means ... times a week. I'll be strong, fit, the works. On Jan 2, it means: ahhhhhh ... 's fine, cuz I promised to work out this year, and that I will. Soon! On

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  February updates Midyear grades and more.

  

  will be hard to choose. We have begun selection committee meetings. Thus, it is too late for any supplemental materials to be considered by the ... come in, we will review them, and the decision will be reviewed if there

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 24, 2009
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Things I Know to Be True: Addendum One A post I hate, and some truths from my first year at MIT

  

  throw down the anchor. I could revisit what I knew to be true. Looking ... points. Here are some of the things I've learned to be true from my ... to Be True. It was meant to be a simple introductory post, and I

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • June 20, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  (My Third) First Day In which I attempt (and fail) to do a timelapse vlog

  

  give me steady enough footage to not cause motion sickness. Whoops. The timelapse component of the video kind of failed, too. It turns out that when ... -processing software couldn't save me; I spent a couple hours trying to stabilize the

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 7, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Mine hands are broken reflections on many a year of carpal tunnel syndrome

  

  , and I began to run long distances again. I kept ignoring the pain, not to be tough but because I was lazy. The funny thing is, I can ... being able to run that week really had less to do with not being able to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 14, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  FourFiveUnits all you could ever want to know about my semester schedule

  

  addition to all of the above, I will be... Cooking food for myself instead ... will amount to about 28 hours of classwork per week, including the time ... to be really fun next semester when I begin the laborious task of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 13, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Two short stories My last three weeks in a nutshell.

  

  was convinced that joining a sorority was not the way to go. Anyway, my ... stereotypes were for the most part nowhere to be found. And when I received a ... 've always been the first person to make fun of them. Between the claims of

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 24, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  July Questions Omnibus 1 Your questions & my answers.

  

  competitive. Also, when will we be able to see the Registrar's Office data for ... 's paper application within the next week or so, and will have it on hand to distribute to on campus visitors. Shortly after that, we will begin mailing the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 6, 2006