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  Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python

  

  to summarize my senior year. Some of the figures present "real" data ... maintenance on the text. My agenda created plenty of opportunities for me to ... many "failures" served as catalysts for personal growth. In the wake of

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  This post is the second in a series of Guide to MIT posts. Check out ... of upperclassmen to help you, but you can also avoid the learning ... year” a lot, usually referring to the presence of dining, “niceness” of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 14, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Life is Improv say yes

  

  . To negate in improv is to break the flow of absurdity and belief that ... was also one of the toughest for me to master, when I did improv at ... the trends. The end product got a lot of press, and I was asked to join

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Burton 1 Social Club This Thanksgiving, I'm thankful for my ridiculous, hilarious, amazing floor.

  

  individuals to belong to. They're the kind of awesome people who'll be up with ... pretty much like the Chuck Norris of all floors. If we were on Heroes, we ... course - there is no substitute to visiting MIT and checking out the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  to help”. I called Milton, the head of the volunteer department and he ... trying to grasp, to understand the situation. Why? The question of why this ... to a video of students who celebrated the capture in the streets of

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Iron Man, MIT ‘87 (?) After 21 last month, another MIT movie.

  

  of being on MTV." (Thanks!) The film, contrary to the web bios I ... magazine, Technology Review. (I'm trying to track down a copy of the cover) When you go to see the movie, you should stay through the end of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing is Magic And 15 minutes is all you need

  

  writing. The process of writing is what creates the ideas. Sure, it’s ok to ... suggestion of setting or theme, but the one rule is to create something with a ... you don’t create a masterpiece you wish to read aloud, but most of the

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Have Never Been to Beijing A (loose) translation of the previous post written in Chinese

  

  would also say to me, in Amharic (the national language of Ethiopia), “we are Habesha”. “Habesha” is a term that refers to the ethnic group of ... the Jiangsu province area. I remember being able to speak Shanghainese

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes, by the Group Chats and their potential replacement, Interstellar!

  

  percent of the class in the chat! This makes sense to me; the easier the ... . However, the proportion of positive to negative reacts didn't reflect how I ... At the start of each semester, I typically join Facebook Messenger

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Guest Entry: Stephanie Lin Presenting MIT's most recent Rhodes Scholar!

  

  physician but also wanted to study the humanities side of medicine before ... , including the endorsement, was shipped off to one of 16 Districts in early ... parts of the process - because it forced me to think critically about my

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 12, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  [joint post] a guide to mit gyms big brains, big gains 😤

  

  to take part. In addition to the confinement of hours like Gloria noted ... : If we have to nitpick, the gym doesn’t have mirrors in front of the ... . While it has several good machines, the lack of space makes it hard to do

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • September 4, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  's like and to represent our dorm. By the end of February, we've submitted the list of events we plan on running, and we're beginning to plan to ... "]REX[/annotation]committee. Under some amount of wishful thinking, I apply to be co-chair of the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  ; Without further ado:   16 Guidelines to Making the Most of your CPW ... are late at night. You have the rest of high school to sleep. K: Truth ... of the choices you'll have to make pretty soon, and it'll be filled

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 18, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  of other college students. I also valued the chance to try living off ... table, it was convention for the cook team to gather at the base of the ... of the MIT community (but my fellow MIT students were also a delight to

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 31, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.

  

  . The TV show in fact is older than many of you applying to MIT right now ... said goodbye to possibly one of the most amazing decades of my life. A ... pint of ice cream, and then went up to the reading room to study for the

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Advice

  Words of Advice for the Incoming Class you did it! now what?

  

  off, congratulations to the admitted class of 2026. You have taken ... be kind to yourself and others. MIT is probably going to be one of the ... like for you. You might have gotten recently added to the Discord or

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  we chose to admit included 15% of those who scored within the 750 ... accretion of the the sediment which dropped to the bottom of the decisions ... . The decision is about everything else. The response to this, of course

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
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  101 Things To Do Before You Graduate! 102. Read this blog entry.

  

  Four years ago, Melis '08 posted a list of the "101 Things To Do ... of Grace '11, since I have long since lost my own copy due to the chaos ... , considering that I never went out of my way to do anything and most of the list

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 15, 2011
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  I know you’re bad at something And here's what you should do about it. Hint: NOT "do something else"

  

  , Fear Level is inversely proportional to The Number Of Seconds I Think I ... . L, put my trumpet to my mouth, do my thing until the rest of the band ... delightful to you. Freedom! A chance to be expressive and creative in front of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Gangnam Style Yes...........this exists.

  

  the rest of this post to make sense, you should probably catch up ... , and now has the third most views on all of Youtube.  560,719,326 views ... an MIT Gangnam Style. At the beginning of October, I started seeing

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 27, 2012