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• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Second Semi-Annual Q&A More answers to your questions.

  

  indeed fun, you just need to show why - and be convincing. Does that make ... 't have a foreign language requirement, so you don't really need to worry ... reader the tools that he/she needs to really share your passion. If you

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 28, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Livin’ La Vida PRoCa I take my clothes off and go dancing in the rain... with Clay Aiken.

  

  Sam's Mom successfully conspired with Mitra to drag me to the Clay ... may not post offered to make a Clay-themed nametag for me, featuring ... Clay inside a television, or what this has to do with TV Guide or why it

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 30, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  “what if I get rejected” for everyone nervous about admissions decisions

  

  my favorite book he disagreed with my taste and told me I needed to be ... I'll cut to the chase: it's November, which means that a lot of the ... application season, and are either trying to vibe out whether they want to apply

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • November 13, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Homecoming some musings on memory

  

  've learned to appreciate how much of the Institute is its people, but I've also learned how much the place shapes its people. Four. I used to play tennis ... from it, and you need to remember to switch when you're moving between

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 13, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  SUMMER ROSES stop and smell 'em

  

  and what needs to be changed. Currently, I’m acquiring diagnostic and ... can’t really tell you much about how it’s going. To be continued. But ... now. And while it still feels insanely weird to be moving so slowly, I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 25, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  The One and Only Melis

  

  person -- much to my surprise, she asked if I wanted to meet her in person ... . My roommate couldn't figure it out either, so I decided to ask Melis for help over AIM -- she patiently explained to me how to solve it, but

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • May 21, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  CMU / Parallel Universe i am not a clown

  

  dinner at the airport, then took another flight to Pittsburgh. I'm not much ... they call UC, much like how MIT's is nicknamed the Stud. Thanks to ... the substitutes we had to use. Gram shares how he and David once tried

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Studying For Finals Study study study study study

  

  . How does one go about studying? The general recipe is to just lock ... actually need to use trig. My study strategy at this point is to just copy ... average final grade of 17%) and am about to be thrown into another. Finals

  • by Snively '11
  • May 17, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  beauty is overrated

  

  else does. Not every moment in life needs to be intellectualized, and I ... adjacent to beauty, but beauty does not give others the feeling of an elastic ... value our relationship so much for that, but to paint it all as simply

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Television Show Decisions Three hours is about as much time as I'm willing to waste on television each…

  

  , and three hours is about as much time as I'm willing to waste on ... . Problem: I need to know who Robert Hawkins really is.     ... So here's the story. Each year I allow myself to faithfully follow

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Chang Ning District, Shanghai 上海，长宁区

  

  Ethiopia in January, much more able to handle myself in Shanghai, to get ... bringing cutting-edge technology to the public, are much, much better in ... I won’t mind so much today. In a week, I’ll head to Zhejiang

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 4, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Junior Fall we're back in person baybee

  

  just needed to take a CS class this year and I heard very good things ... press is still not where it needs to be but we're seeing improvement so ... does she get to stay in?" or "She hit it too hard" even though it was

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 20, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Numbers are names too What, you don't speak entirely in numbers at your school?

  

  talking to someone whom they suspect does not know the numbering system. I ... classes per semester... It does not look strikingly difficult to me, but ... this is great for MITers, but it seems rather arcane to the outside world

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Trouble with External Validation Which came first? The admit or the awesome...

  

  maintain that if it were obvious to everyone, then I wouldn’t need to say it ... applicant less awesome. It just means that they need to be awesome somewhere ... . That may be too much to ask, and this may simply be another of my

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • January 9, 2012
• Blog / Personal Projects

  How to Build an LED Acrylic Sign Your Complete Beginners Guide

  

  undiffused LED strips prior to step 6 32FT of much cooler, much more ... wood sheets which was the thickness we needed to have the LEDs face out ... bought them. Once they arrived, all that was left was to remove the sign

  • by Richard O. '28
  • November 30, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Should I include my ethnicity on the MIT Application? As a minority, how many times have you heard some off-handed comment about someone of…

  

  the vast majority of our applicant pool. We need to capture as much ... border. Once the puzzle is framed, the remaining pieces are easier to ... be hesitant to report your ethnicity because you don't want to be

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  I Get To Blog Today! Is this meta enough?

  

  's something that I've simply convinced myself to be true, but MIT in fact does ... . Even when you have somewhere you need to be, spend the extra 30 seconds ... had was being dedicated to internal debates and assignments that needed

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  I get by with a lot of help from my friends Lend me your ears and I'll sing you a song! You just might walk out…

  

  and for once this year, I hated saying bye to MIT. I was unusually ... much work either of you have to do – you always talk to about your day at ... 've-only-met-once-during-freshman-orientation-and-does-that-merit

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 1, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  What do you want? the story of college fit and how i stole from jeremy

  

  figuring that out, researching schools becomes much easier. You go to the ... is a great place to go to school, but I also recognize that it’s not a great place for everyone.” Full disclosure: I heard Jeremy say this once

  • by kellen manning
  • August 19, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  hello applicants, i don’t know what to say but i can try

  

  too much for me to handle. and i’m hoping, how i’m hoping, that you can ... to classes for a while. maybe some of you are far away from any ... through the air, i’d stand by my window all day and whisper comfort to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 13, 2020