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  As We Approach Decision Day On getting in and on not getting in

  

  like. I cried. I ate an entire box of mandarin oranges. I arranged the ... it does work out, it will take years of love and dedication and ... succeeding, since the positive impact of your successes will eventually far

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 8, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On identity f(x) = x

  

  One What does it take to get to know someone? I hate the feeling that ... . I have these kinds of conversations all the time, every day. But these ... walking on the beach and talking to one of the upperclassmen. I listened to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to trick yourself into thinking that you’re writing a report The most productive procrastination technique revealed at last!

  

  amazing strategy I’ve had the pleasure of discovering via 20.109 this ... procrastination, but work of the utmost and immediate importance. It may seem ... the related literature. ALL of it. Read it in depth and pay attention to

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 17, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  to explain this, researchers have hypothesized about the impact of ... mental rotation exercises. “Mental rotation” here refers to the act of ... the romance of egalitarianism aside, though, to talk about empiricism

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  good kind of contagious In these challenging times The students are ... together. The good kind of contagious Teacher registration opened. We sent ... -to-back, is tiring. But each of the interviews felt good, in their own ways

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  some warmth on a cold decisiony day "there have been times that I thought I couldn't last for long / but now…

  

  have good ones -- and they're not of my decision, but of the time I got ... to be reminded, it is that time of year: the time when tensions run ... the beginning of this semester feels like a blurry, faded memory from

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  that I was admitted off of the waitlist. Remember, one school does not ... winter and the slew of second semester tests starting to take its toll. It ... a rejection. Or perhaps you were accepted and are worried of the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advisor vs. Advisee a '07 and a '21 answer a series of questions

  

  things considered, I’m doing pretty good! I got my first dose of the COVID ... chain: Bryan Bryson. My advisor in biological engineering and one of the ... . What is and isn't common in the lives of a MIT senior and a MIT Alum and

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  -campus[annotation note="Independent Activities Period, a part of the school year in January ... proceeds throughout the month of February. The pandemic looms larger in the ... the steps of the traditional planning process—looking at past events

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

  My College Essay Early Action / November 2005. ~500 words await.

  

  there's the essay. Like a good hopeful applicant, I spent weeks thinking ... was a fantastic twist of fate. How much would have changed if the ... where I am now. :D) Living in the graffiti-adorned projects of the Lower

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 11, 2008
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  101 Things To Do Before You Graduate! 102. Read this blog entry.

  

  of the $3.50 cups in Boston that don't even taste that good (I never ... one of the good things about going to med school is that we don't have ... Four years ago, Melis '08 posted a list of the "101 Things To Do

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 15, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  that is good about life as a student. For the visiting senior, there is ... work or results. The definition of the MIT experience, however, is not ... theme song on the piano in the middle of the room. Nearby, an

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  broad set of characteristics that set me aside from the other students. I ... of a nerd. I spent a good amount of time feeling sorry for myself in ... with the robotics team. This made it much harder to disguise criticism of

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Diversity or Merit? false questions, false answers

  

  . It's an issue at the intersection of other excellent posts that folks ... communities, I often am asked something along the lines of the following ... , even though they are *unqualified* Let's cut to the core of the matter

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 13, 2011
• 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 ... accurately be titled, "How to get the most out of reading the MITblogs," or ... ago about all of the machine shops on campus? That was done by request

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “So what are you majoring in?” *sweats nervously*

  

  I figured I would suck it up and power through for the purpose of a ... . I started having thoughts to the effect of “everyone else is already ... ’t considered and I could be any of them and oh my god what the everloving egg am

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  Student Affairs Ken Wadleigh's effort to effect "the development of good ... that outer layer, so despite the 34-degree air outside of this 2250 Acela ... legs and walk the length of the car. As I headed back to my seat, I

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Miss the South Musings on a secret Instagram account

  

  understand the irony of that statement, since I am paid to share my life with ... different. I am of the opinion that there should be a latency between what we ... in my reservedness is a rare and mythical thing. Most of the time I

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2022
• Blog / Advice

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

  

  bioengineering programs in the country. But not all of them were a good fit for me ... name of your undergrad institution and more with how you make the most of ... ’s the next rung to climb, or because they tie their sense of self-worth to

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

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

  

  Preface In the process of moving our office from its inaugural ... Corridor. A copy of the MIT Bulletin from 1930 makes reference to the ... the site of the MIT Admissions visitor center. As the admissions office

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022