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  Stove-Cook Your Oatmeal and Never Look Back To not-admitted applicants and anyone who knows anything about fuses.

  

  bottom left fuse does not have a tab, it has a spring. It turns out the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 19, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” and other ways to improve your test scores

  

  a stereotypical manly man who is tough, risk-taking, and does weight ... nurture,” it does add a tremendous structural asset to the growing mountain ... ’s performance in activities from chess to negotiation to driving. Nor does it

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Was Deferred And it was not the end of the world

  

  replied "Yay!! What does that mean?" because it's an odd term and people don

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 17, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Midsemester Night’s Dream Technically an All-Nighter's Dream, but hey, close enough

  

  is a beautiful film, even if the physics does get artistically bent on

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  This story has to do with professor accessibility. And something awesome that I got in the mail.

  

  reluctance I returned it. Friend: ...does Professor Dumbledore know William

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  topic or an additional faux activity that frequently does more harm than

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

  How Wrestling With Snapping Turtles Can Get You Into MIT A student profile of an aspiring limnologist.

  

  this really obscure interest in fish that MIT does not specialize in, I

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Institute of Smashing What do you think MIT and a garbage compactor have in common?

  

  finish with flying colors. Sound familiar? It does to me, because that

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  neighborhoods we move into and come to love. What do pregnant mice, cheerleaders, and four-foot light-up tinsel giraffes have in common?

  

  on his office's 3D printer (picture, which does not really do justice

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 27, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to use these blogs Scattered thoughts on the information age, plus some bonus snark.

  

  give me some of yours. =) 3. Ask good questions. If you ask me “does MIT

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Entry About Snow ...Even though we don't have any

  

  farther (further? does anyone really know the difference?...Of course, now I

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 11, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mind and hand

  

  it does. For some people, this is old hat. For me, it's really

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT, part deux The case study of someone else you wouldn't expect to have gotten in

  

  his writing score, since I got a 790 on the writing SAT II. Me: "Does

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  There Is No Formula A formula would take the human component out of our process, which is perhaps the…

  

  ’s passion. And yes, that stuff really does drip off the page in the best of

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 16, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  You Are Here a list of things i can't make myself do, and a few i can

  

  Wild West table top RPG with my roommates. Consider buying a cowboy hat

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 19, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself on choosing a college, and realizing one of many possible futures

  

  should leave my apartment and buy a gallon of milk at the store across the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The future isn’t the answer reflecting on anxiety

  

  throughout the day. But if I’m scared of nothing like I say I am, why does the fear make it hard to breathe? Why does it feel like someone is

  • by Jenny B. '25
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to decide which classes to take amazing classes and how to pick them

  

  on this blog post. But this does mean you'll be skipping some classes ... colleges have wildly different academic calendars and deadlines than MIT does

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Academic Conference and also things I have learned about publishing research in the past few months

  

  have in my paper were results. Does that sound important? Yes, it totally does. But because of COVID-19, my ability to run an in-person study where

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the Bloggers’ Personalities! A post about personality tests, part 2!

  

  (which sadly does happen, as I wrote before). They have no place in serious ... from raspberry fingertip disease as she does*). Also, this is the third

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 12, 2018