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• Blog / Admissions

  A Brief Addition to My Last Exposition (Or was it a narrative? My FCAT Writing skills are long gone.)

  

  the Center for Talent Development at Northwestern University. Many of ... up at a good college doing something I loved once the whole application ... 't nearly as certain anymore. Pooooooop. Meh, it'll be fine. I'll end up

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 20, 2010
• Blog / Hacks

  Practice Safe Hacking No, there are no LEDs

  

  , but I'll let you be the judge of that. This morning I woke up and saw ... up using their own explosives to "detonate it," deem it inert, and then ... concrete sphere to Kresge anyway? So that's the excitement for the day. Giant

  • by Snively '11
  • April 24, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Love is Blinds A short, fairly irrelevent entry, as told from the perspective of the 7+ people who…

  

  . ANGELA MONSTER: Sure, I'll come wake you up at 11. this morning, leaving ... way home YING-FEI: Hey, Jess! ME: Hey, Ying-fei. YING-FEI: What's up? ME ... : (thinking) Seriously? ME: (thinking) Seriously. (thanks to Allin for

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 31, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Impossible Design Project See what it's like to be a Course VI student.

  

  to try to solve it. This year, we have to create a controller for a ... store what you want. My friends and I spent multiple days coming up with ... hard time coming up with something that works. You can not solve this

  • by Evan B. '10
  • February 27, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Baby Steps It made tonight's newswire. The grass is still green in Boston Common.

  

  tense about a funny story from our lives. If nothing else, I'm waking up ... . I began searching for answers toward the end of last semester. School ... be marooned in the desert. Sure, I arrived on campus, picked up my new

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Back to Life, Back to Reality Did you know that you can make an equation out of anything?

  

  stayed up until 3 am studying. The next morning, I woke up having had the ... , in the world of math, while I was deriving the equations for the heat

  • by Bryan
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  Reflections from the STARS@MIT Fly-In a 15-author guest blog, featuring the small town/rural students that visited us this october!

  

  From October 16-19, MIT hosted twenty juniors in high school for our ... for fun! What made you want to come to the MIT fly-in? “I live in a ... knit. For example, on the day of my return, they had a hotdog eating

  • by Sara N. '28
  • November 11, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  like a freight train a schedule post

  

  Hello everyone! I thought up this title as a metaphor for how the week a few weeks ago hit me, but apparently said week hit too hard for me ... ’s a discussion for a different blog."]five[/annotation] classes this

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 19, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Think About This and maybe it will help you.

  

  of delight for some, and anger and confusion for others. Guidance ... respectful, thoughtful, and in many cases difficult to answer. Especially for ... 'll take." It seemed a little bold for this quiet introverted type guy. But

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • March 21, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  my room an evolution

  

  green as its fitting complement. I leveled up in many ways. I got throw ... pillows. I made hanging flower arrangements and put up vines all around my ... ’t sure if I’d even be on campus junior year so I didn’t bother coming up

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • February 8, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Decisions, Decisions decisions!

  

  average confidence in their choices was 66%, but 96% of them ended up ... minds less often than we think. Last semester I applied for an NSF ... , Harvard, Columbia, UChicago, and UC Berkeley, and I'd looked up the

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • April 26, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2021 another year another book post

  

  I made. UPDATE: Here's the 2022 post. Things I read for class I took ... ). Content warning for domestic violence. This isn't a short story, but I think ... (3381 words). Content warning for violence. This one's cheating because

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 20, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  [ hard mode ] i'm on hard mode and i'm just a noob

  

  got switched to hard mode for me after November started (and no, this ... before I sat in Bates Hall for about two hours and made progress on my ... [/caption] Monday: I woke up with cramps. On top of my 3-week old ankle sprain, the

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 25, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  On Moving A goodbye that took me a semester, and some distance, to write.

  

  corner of the Internet, to sum up all my feelings from the past four years ... . I'm a full-time employee writing and editing scripts for the You ... of school for a loooong time. And I do, and I did, and I took a break

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 16, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  About MIT Recommendation Letters Some helpful tips and guidelines for your teacher letters.

  

  away. I recommend giving them all of the recommendation forms for every ... yourself as a match for each place. Teachers often find these conversations very helpful. If a teacher asks you to write the recommendation for them

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 16, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mocha Show ’22: Mo’Mixtape creating and performing a dance showcase, from start to finish

  

  also signed up for MoToxic, which was to be taught by an alum who was on ... month of January to prepare for the show, dancing from 6-11 every weekday ... week of December, the team held Mocha Formal and met to discuss ideas for

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 16, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  17,707 words writing at night like you're running out of time

  

  volunteers and coaches for the MIT Science Bowl Invitational. It’s coming up in ... you’re feeling like you need that, scroll below the bullet points for ... . But now that that’s out of the way, hi hi hi! Last week, I finished up

  • by Phi A. '21
  • October 24, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  July Questions Omnibus 1 Answers to the many questions left in the comments of McGann's Factors.

  

  close to the deadline and everyone signs up for their interview, interview ... up for it. I feel like I can definitely do better on the SAT were I to ... , probably. You can sign up for that on the MyMIT website. A summer visit can

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  6.115 Microcomputer Lab! literally the coolest class i've taken so far

  

  laborious and difficult yet so so worth it. I signed up for 6.115 because I ... handful of my friends felt like signing up for [annotation note="more on ... graduate, and I know for sure that [annotation note="or 6.2060 according to

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 16, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  walking the marathon… part of a four-day weekend

  

  and walk the Boston Marathon path. The planning for the walk started ... of proof-of-concept for both my planning methods and the distance ... distances and times for the trip. Eventually, Sunday hit, and it was time to

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 25, 2021