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  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  So drastic and inevitable, the leap from high school to college seems like the perfect opportunity to change yourself and become the person you ... yourself”. In the novel, James Gatz created and became Jay Gatsby - the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who

  

  and make a final decision. How does any of this apply to Mystery Hunt ... what? Gift economies To buy a Hunt Conclusion Open questions ... submitting ridiculous dance videos." I might refer to puzzlehunts as hunts, and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 29, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  To whom much is given… ...you know the rest!

  

  given much. That does not mean that everyone has received in equal measure ... opportunities and has made choices about how to use those opportunities. I won ... it to say, we may look just as favorably on the trajectory and distance

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 13, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Diversity or Merit? false questions, false answers

  

  is one thing that all students admitted to MIT have in common. And that ... succeeded somewhere else. Everybody loses. And I hate to lose. By the same token, we do not admit students who are unqualified for admission to MIT

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 13, 2011
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  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  them, and how much fun it was. No one bothered explaining to me, that ... came to play the game at least once, and of those, three people played it ... ’s a weekend where high schoolers come to MIT and take classes about

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

  9 things I wish I had known before freshman year lessons from an almost-sophomore (see: law of conservation of freshmen)

  

  Oxford comma advocate.  Gotta stick to some principles in life.) And so I ... -electronic tracks like the Tron soundtrack to be very good background music. ... sobering fact the other day when I looked at my MIT blogger profile and

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 15, 2013
• 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

  

  I asked people around me for advice, tips, tricks, and things to know ... when you want to switch it up and hang out with people you don’t see ... experiences/fun things and every week first semester I tried to add to it, and I

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015
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  Some Advice Sometimes I wish I could tell freshman-me that everything's going to be okay

  

  . 9) Be yourself as much as you can. It's exhausting to try and maintain ... 's okay to step away from technology once in a while and catch up with all ... stories so much richer. 24) It's okay to want to love yourself, and it

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 20, 2015