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• Blog / About Decisions

  Being “qualified” for MIT Let me show you how it's done.

  

  was in the mood to do. I don't need to tell you that everything seems ... ...3...4", I realized that I wasn't really composed enough to hold a conversation ... 's go for a walk. It's nice out. Davie: Okay. Feel free to either talk

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  I realized I needed to run upstairs to grab something. It was a very ... -campus in a new neighborhood. Moreover, it would be an opportunity to get to ... , meal times. Summer residents contributed to a rotating cook

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 31, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This Bathroom Ceiling Some science, some fiction: traverse the space and time of our bathroom ceiling.

  

  697665727365: Le Voyage dans la Lune (A Trip to the Moon) went to the ... little time to come to terms with its identity as a whale before it then had to come to terms with not being a whale any more. This is a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Snively’s Cross Stitch Corner I really enjoy cross stitching

  

  much. Stitching custom pieces was almost impossible to turn a profit on ... Park lends itself to cross stitching so a lot of my early work was South ... size and infrastructure required. When I needed to get out and actually

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Group Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Survivors three bloggers face the horrors of public transit

  

  and skills—ranging from puzzle-making to set design—to put on a spooky ... friends was even a cast member two years ago), but I was always too lazy to ... a slot this year, I had no excuse not to sign up. I really enjoy

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Boomeranging The day before classes start is Registration Day. It’s also the day we welcome readmitted…

  

  . Last week, I spoke to a girl who enjoys being here so much that she might ... ’t have a voluntary represented on the panel. The advice voluntaries need to ... grounding, now. You know what you need to do. There’s a line I say at this

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We Should Take This Final and Push It Somewhere Else you'll need a lot of mOXie

  

  , being bedridden for a month and your mom having to fly in to take care of ... ) option, that just involves a [annotation note="as much planning as you can ... my classes. One night, I stayed up late to help paint a banner for my

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 14, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  AOs write the “What do you do for fun?” essay Ever wondered what admissions officers do when they're not reading applications?

  

  learn so much about all of you, so I thought it was our turn to share a ... carefully crafted prose, while others take a much more casual approach to ... colleagues, Bintou (thanks Bintou!). It’s been a go-to spot whenever I need a

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking the L On "failure" at a place like MIT.

  

  ’t need anything." This refers to being tested in faith, and it applies to a ... to take a math assessment. This essentially assess your skills and ... on 18.01 before getting to 18.02."]18.01a/18.02a[/annotation], and

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Dissecting emotion what is feeling

  

  talking. The next day a friend invited me to have lunch with his friends ... , and I'll be graduating. That's probably the closest I'll ever come to a ... drinking soda without the fizz. Yeah, I've talked to people. I have a pod, we

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 3, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  much better score if I tried. So after taking them a second time, I ... . I now realize that I am probably going to go a lame local college and ... Reddit comment needs to be published here, so here it is, reproduced below

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  study spots at MIT not exactly places to cry, but they'll do

  

  display I'd use to play dance videos whenever I needed a break. Pros ... embarked on a quest to document the best study spots at MIT. most of these ... .2%) I also asked them to choose the most important characteristics of a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to Crying on Campus It’s right about that time of year.

  

  , you’re probably undergoing what I like to call This Is Fine Syndrome, a ... past two weeks, and it’s definitely a normal thing to feel. MIT is hard ... concentration of crying spots on the right of the map). We need all of you to help

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 16, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  zero bandwidth it’s not burnout if you have to keep going

  

  enjoyable. Together, they cost too much. I needed to relax; I needed to ... hold closest to my heart, my self-described raison d'être, is “being a ... reason to motivate me to expend a little more emotional energy to make sure

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 17, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Masquerading as a Liberal Arts Student The life of an MIT student abroad

  

  , this semester has given me a much greater appreciation for what it means ... experience and exposes you to a wide range of types of people and cultures (and ... fulfill my wanderlust. While it is great to do MISTI for a summer (they just

  • by Becca H. '12
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ideate, Model, TEST! A long, behind-the-scenes look at 2.009 like, really long.

  

  especially important for a product that absolutely needs to be reliable ... ’ll find at MIT to the campus spirit-unifying atmosphere of a football game ... convey convincingly to others. The difference between a great idea and a

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  3 weeks in northern Italy Global Teaching Labs and MISTI-Italy

  

  Italy (which means I had a hard time getting myself to go every day) but ... did Joan Didion, why does anyone? Because we want to write about ... the way we are, and to convince ourselves and everyone that—a nutria or

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Gothic You are reading an admissions blog post. You are reading tumblr.

  

  . You don’t know how to get back down. You finish a problem set. There ... help take down a hack. It’s back the next morning. It wasn’t ready to ... a different number on it, but the only companies that will talk to you

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Cozy Hobbit Times, Cozy Hobbit Food

  

  In 2015 I got to experience a longtime dream of mine, finally finding ... fourth floor. We have a beautiful view, and three large windows to watch it ... to cut them. Place the potato (or equivalent) and garlic cloves in a

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

  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  fly. This is a place that is very conducive to taking these passions ... . To begin the cringe, the video opens with two students in a lab. They ... . Remembering that parents are watching, the focus changes to a short segment on

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020