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• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT, You Make Me Wanna Wait! Between high school and MIT, I took two years to travel and work as a…

  

  I bet you’re really eager to come – not just for Campus Preview ... besides, what else would you do to prepare for that promising future you ... time. And you’d wake up every day knowing that MIT’s just down the road

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My Brass Rat The Brass Rat is not a subtle thing.

  

  Brief note: I am currently in Ohio, shopping for wedding dresses. And ... 2007 Brass Rat, and Matt has written briefly about the Brass Rats for the ... benevolent than the rough and tough beaver chosen for the 2005 ring. He

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is just a tribute I wrote a really long, funny entry. And then my browser window reloaded.

  

  . This is just par for the course today. Argh. The last entry I wrote was a ... go to Harvard Med, and I'm not even premed. But never fear (?), for I ... , and I'll be doing my PhD for at least the next five or six years, so we

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics If you want to come to MIT, you'd better learn a thing or two about…

  

  statistics. Daniel Kahneman won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2002 for ... program that will save 200 lives for sure. In the second version, one ... . The overall admission rate for the class of 2009 was 14.3%. (From here

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 1, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT Perfect SAT scores and #1 class ranks are so last millennium.

  

  're competing against 10,000 other people for spots in a class of 1000 tends to ... /astro. We broke up. He didn't get in. He was devastated. You may see where ... , blah blah. Besides the terrible motivation for applying, I had a lot of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  i walk through campus and say stuff i cannot vlog to save my life

  

  thought there’d be more. So one of my jobs is being a tour guide for the ... once a week, or we can just pick up tours as they become available. A ... haven’t actually given an admissions tour in a long time. I ended up

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 23, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Coworker Shenanigans Summer friends

  

  more that we haven't found yet. This is Revenge for yesterday. There was ... of the day sitting in front of our computers, but spice things up with ... tried to hug Carl Sagan, but ended up awkwardly covering his mouth

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 5, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Results of My Summer cookies, web usability, and painting

  

  lessons along the way: 1) For the grittiest frosting you'll ever taste (feel ... graphic design for personal websites, music videos, robotics and circuitry ... hundredth) Photoshop, SketchUp or Sculptris project. More specifically, I get

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 10, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Needles That was anticlimactic.

  

  piercing and I decided to tag along, ostensibly for moral support but ... and relaxing music. We picked out our studs for the next eight weeks and ... up. “Is this going to hurt?” I said. “No,” he said, “it’s a marker.” He

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Hello, world

  

  . Here's an abridged version of the whole thing. I grew up in Hampton Bays ... already made up my mind was too nerdy, too narrow, and too, well, male to be ... turned out to have everything I was looking for: in addition to the awesome

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 6, 2004
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Exercises in Style with apologies to queneau

  

  originate, the office appropriate for the guild assassinate. Aftrate a short ... on a grocery cart, that I had taken up the Student Center elevator. On ... of tea. What this gathering was for I do not know, well perhaps this is

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 20, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  The November Rule parete legi novembri

  

  . Here at MIT, the date is significant for a different reason - it's the ... type of relationship you have - on the spectrum from just hooking up to full blown monogamy - it'll take up a non-trivial amount of your time

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 1, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  In many ways on average-posting

  

  over those who offer up their work and their selves to our judgment.  There is something strange about writing for the public. You are giving up ... together and sometimes, I am stuck with the same feeling for months, never

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • October 7, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  how to move carts not an athletics post

  

  movement in that direction. you tell yourself, if i plan for the cart to move ... yourself, if i push in a direction that looks appealing i will surely end up ... you’d like to, and you end up having to correct your course constantly

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 23, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Friday Night, Off-Campus Style come along on our evening of fish and wine

  

  met up at 7pm at a place called Dear Annie, located just off the Red ... Annie team mentions their goal is to “be a center for community.” I think ... comfortable together). We got up from our seats to check out the menu, which was

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 11, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  secondhand stories an allegory

  

  reviews, and i ended up falling in love with a few of them. then i found out ... it. i mean, sure, i went to acting school for four years, but i ... doing improv was a lot of fun, so i tried auditioning for a few groups

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 22, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Beantown, H-Town, Blue Hills, House of Blues With cameos by home, beatboxing, and happiness

  

  riding a bike. October 09-10 (H-Town) I was in Houston for a conference ... Beantown)) One of my resolutions for this semester is to spend more time ... was MIT's Family Weekend; my parents drove up from Philadelphia to visit

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 5, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  Scootah Hockey a sport of tradition, friendship, and raw athleticism

  

  without its teams, and so, the tangled maze of Simmons Hall floors split up ... big plastic horn thing we have for some reason. Those who came to ... the rink were GRAs and friends cheering for whichever team they owed

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 13, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  climbing the wall why so defeatist?

  

  as anticipated. I got some climbing shoes, chalked up my hands ... !! Ever the perfectionist, I resolved to complete every route for the base ... 're going to discourage yourself from reaching for that next step. When you

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • October 7, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  “What the hell is water?” Thinking about and understanding your own context…

  

  . How’s the water?’ And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then ... looking for, and b) even if they understand what we are looking for, most ... partially up to applicants to help us to identify the true trail blazers. As I

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 27, 2024