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  “You know what would be cool?” some pizza would be a start...

  

  Science to Student Life, the best way to get free food and every tangent in ... universities that you can go to for your education. It's not like MIT teaches ... 's like to be here (as a sidenote, I recently learned that going for 35

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )

  

  /No Record is your friend, and you will be able to cruise through the semester ... will be the semester when you're handling a tough courseload, but also ... the hoops of applying to graduate school, you will probably not take a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  do I think that I will be able to find the people that I want to be ... the sun rather than the shade. But then I wouldn’t be able to type as easily because of the glare. And that’s why I’m out here, primarily: to

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • April 20, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  opened my eyes to the problems engineering alone will never be able to ... small drop in the ocean of what needs to be done, and which will hopefully ... children are not sent to fetch water from wells) During the rainy season

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  certainly should not be construed as advice to start ignoring the suggestions ... ="I am not trying to wander into a philosophical discussion here. the point of this advice is not that your intent necessarily matters to the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  is not required to reply to the offer of admission until May 1, the ... together with the $15 APPLICATION FEE made payable to "M.I.T." Include the ... forms Aside from the application form needing to be typewritten or written

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Challenge You Pi day approaches.

  

  ) – was not the fear of being unable to succeed without MIT, but rather a ... , beat them down, and not allow yourself to be defined by the school you ... . “Who will get in? What happens to the people who don’t? Who will I become

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to Freshman Days composed in the wee hours of morning

  

  shocker. The next ones amuse. Why not enjoy a learned human being making ... , unreasonable psets. The fight to rise will start in your subconscious. Without ... UROP or a job. Those are tricky to balance. Which UROP will accept the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 29, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Favorite Classes at MIT! survey says...

  

  to still benefit from a class that was not easy to transfer to remote ... your project turns out to be, and you are not subject to cutesy sound ... stress. Larry encouraged the class to be creative which really showed in my

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

  Note To Self Please don't forget this.

  

  more. A note to my future self, though: there will be reason to regret all this, if you fail to learn and change accordingly. So here I am, the ... how it felt for these to be hammered home. 5. If you don't succeed, the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Flying Close to the Sun a semester of fire

  

  to spare. I’m not sure how much the reviewers will like it (I’ll find ... the lab, suggested to me, “It would be cool if you could make this more ... come together to make MIT one epic battle against the elements. I

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  leave may or may not be the right path for you to take. But you don’t need ... Health understood. They all wanted to give me the tools to handle it. I ... conclusion that I wanted to be home. The realization hit me like a train: if I

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a sad sad toaster made of glass. Do you like your toast with tears? Because I'm sad.

  

  be AWESOME. What I expect to happen is that MIT will invent time travel ... DID YOU KNOW? The state of Arizona does not celebrate daylight ... for you. Actually this entry did end up being kind of long, but it's not

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Blogural Inaugural I just wanted to use this title.

  

  . I'm not quite done with it; I still need to finish the tapers on all three points, and then I will bend them to point in the fork-hat direction ... of Vectors). After that, I will touch up the handle and clean the whole

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  journalists appreciate. I have the luxury of being able to be a purist in this ... good along the way.  However, much of the time, students fail to connect ... something that one is not, is destined for failure. Why then, would the

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Applying Sideways How to get in to MIT.

  

  them something they can do that will get them in. Maybe they need to be ... on a slant route over the middle. Terrifying? Yes. Required to be ... . If you do these three things, you will be applying sideways to MIT

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  prepared to do the work at MIT, you will not be admitted, because we don ... students how likely it is that they will be admitted to each school on their ... does not communicate the degree to which you are a vibrant member of the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  , the legend, has taught for Splash. And this will be yet another post ... going to be ducks, and the poster was to get people in the MIT community ... so much that had to be done before the day-of. After teachers submit

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me

  

  why you want to Do The Thing MIT did not convince me to Do The Thing ... , essentially, why you want to Do The Thing, why that exact program will help you ... school admissions. Now, you do NOT need to be worrying about grad school as

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  players and be done with it? For a football team, why not choose all the ... situation is probably not going to change. I can't speak to the situations ... more adversarial you are, the less likely that you are going to be

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 25, 2011