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

  

  something international students have done in the past to make them qualified ... responded the same way we responded to all the questions about minimum SAT ... double back, at around 4pm on Friday, and make the trek to the third floor

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2011
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  The rise and fall of CPW all the cpw history, plus proof the weather machine is fake

  

  've been. The author criticized FSILGs to be "MIT's willing accomplices" in ... one-fifth of the time. And when it's not raining, it tends to be pretty ... not be tolerated[/caption] Unfortunately, I was weak of will. It

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I know you’re bad at something And here's what you should do about it. Hint: NOT "do something else"

  

  measures and symbols telling you what key you're supposed to be soloing in ... delightful to you. Freedom! A chance to be expressive and creative in front of ... , Fear Level is inversely proportional to The Number Of Seconds I Think I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2011
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  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  : “There seems to be no limit to their aspirations. The Lounger would not be ... car.” The Goblin was not to be a one-hit wonder, either: on March 3, a ... TeX-based CAPTCHA, and the super PAC Why Not ZoidPAC?, of which he is President and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
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  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  ’s common in Nigeria for novels to be officially shown to the public in a ... with my dad in New York. He had traveled to the US for a program called ... up with, even in the absence of much else, and I’m sure being

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 17, 2014
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  A Mischievous Anniversary Tonight Four score and ten years ago...

  

  : What next—the Station 16 sign? There seems to be no limit to their aspirations. [The editors] would not be surprised to find the gilt ... built just to the west. In February of 1931, the buildings would be

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • June 1, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  some warmth on a cold decisiony day "there have been times that I thought I couldn't last for long / but now…

  

  As I'm sure those of you to whom this post is relevant will not need to be reminded, it is that time of year: the time when tensions run ... , how it would feel to be rejected so that the emotion wouldn't come as a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 13, 2018
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  Do I have a story for you… *SPOILER* I do

  

  you can too. Many more will be able to in just a short while. And before you know it, then-frosh will be writing about what they've been up to ... to be glimpsed and archived and embarassed in the future by. Here

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to MIT: Choosing a Dorm the good and not-so-good reasons

  

  )convenient the accommodations are, you will not be happy in a dorm that doesn ... CONVENIENCE: I’ve heard the phrase, “I want things to be convenient my freshman ... will be happy as long as you fit into the dorm. LOCATION: I lived in the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 14, 2018
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  A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.

  

  when I was seven, and at the time that I would one day be determined to ... pride and energy seems only to be blossoming more. The conversation I had ... , the ones that had stopped working and failed and a couple that seemed to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Shiny Circuits Shiny, in some subcultures at MIT, means REALLY AWESOME

  

  student (they tend to be about how neat trees look right after rain in the ... one of those classes that reminds students why they came to MIT in the ... through the bulb, it needs to be able to jump from one atom of metal to the

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paths there are so many

  

  ! Just keeping dreaming, and to quote Dory again because why not, just keep ... heartbreaking it felt. We obsessed over MIT unhealthily to the point where going to MIT was the only future we saw for ourselves. Looking at the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 19, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The leftmost station on your dial WMBR = awesome campus radio

  

  first show, which went really well! The concerts will build up to a huge ... 's seen the unpublished posts; I just keep changing the date and planning to ... AM with the (vaguely) shocking realization that I had to read and

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  25 Stories of Getting Accepted to MIT told by students and alums

  

  eat the ice cream to celebrate; if I did not, I would eat the ice cream ... field, but not enough speed to load my decision before the server timed ... the couch at home and hoping I'd be able to load the website before

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
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  On Teaching and Learning Minimum requirement: read the last few sentences of this post. They're important.

  

  . - I’m not here specifically to be a teacher; I’m here to help out in the ... shy away from participating for the rest of the semester. Fail to ... the rest of the world, and wonder what will happen to it if its children

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
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  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 ... parking lot. Since it was said to be too much of an eyesore, however, the ... , there will be some fire, courtesy of the MIT Spinning Arts Club performance

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fall 2014 Transfer Decisions Will Be Sent Today see title, more or less

  

  applicants, receive decisions via email from our office to the address listed on their application. The emails will be sent at 5 PM Eastern ... traffic in the tubes. Our transfer admissions process was quite competitive

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 7, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  applicants from Wisconsin! When the reality would be much closer to: we took ... to characterize what will happen the next day is often no better than ... applicant) will be, and hazard a guess as to whether it will rain. But until

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
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  Parametric Cooking how i make fifty plus recipes with just three!

  

  of easily editable cubes[/caption] The same idea can be applied to ... constants in all of these recipes, not to be confused with chemical formulas ... , then transfer to a large sheet pan. When the oven is done preheating

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 30, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  16 for the 16’s 16 Guidelines to Making the Most of your CPW

  

  since you guys will have a meal card! 2. Don't be afraid to randomly talk ... that's not the case. You tend to only notice the large groups, but the ... events that YOU want to do. You're the one who'll be spending four years

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 18, 2012