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

  

  usually at the end of the semester, occasionally mid-semester for half ... do when Life’s Coming At You FAST"]little bit of planning ... didn’t think of the class at all. I spent a lot of this time period

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 14, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Upside Down Gnomes From Wisconsin Always look up.

  

  of algorithms (TAs are capped at two classes). TAing is hard ... behind in in 6.854 in the first week of the semester and never caught up ... . The start of the semester was a long string of all-nighters. I came close, I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 26, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  'd show you my freshman year. I moved into one of the dorms at MIT thinking ... difficult math class at MIT), and a slew of other math courses. And to top it ... difficulties and coached me. I ended up pulling a B+ at the end of a semester and

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

  0.125 not a course 0 class, but a fraction complete

  

  . Oh, boy did I learn about the importance of sleep. For me at least ... productive, and feel more satisfied and less frustrated at the end of the day ... Well, I'm 45.6 smoots of the way across this bridge we call MIT. The

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 4, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  Venus of Urbino, lounging naked women that Titian would draw staring at ... at least five copies of Machiavelli’s The Prince -- all in Italian. It ... now and then, I’d stare out the window -- of my car, of a plane, of a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Super Blood Moon Eclipse bonnie tyler would be proud

  

  “Isn’t it crazy how we’re all a part of this?” my friend says to me while I stare up at the sky. I break out of my reverie and I cant help but ... and turns red because of science I won’t get into. Now, this itself

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  On Thursday, I sat in front of a camera for an hour (along with ... international students. Near the end, someone asked: "Can you give an example of ... of job applications. "Explain how you are qualified for this position

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2011
• Blog / Advice

  You don’t have to be a founder move slow and fix things

  

  . Running any of ESP's programs at our thousand student scale would be ... made of layers that change at different rates, from furniture that can ... published a book named "The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 29, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paths there are so many

  

  to MIT was the only future we saw for ourselves. Looking at the statistics of how many deferred students get admitted, it was painful to think ... 't feel pleasant. Not at all. But negative *college* decisions were

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 19, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Challenge You Pi day approaches.

  

  individual creates his own experience at the Institvte: he takes advantages of ... reason for wanting to come – and the primary reason of everyone I have ... ) – was not the fear of being unable to succeed without MIT, but rather a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  This story has to do with professor accessibility. And something awesome that I got in the mail.

  

  name of the sender; it was vaguely familiar, but I couldn’t place it ... read a very old, very tattered copy of it a couple weeks back, which a ... the name of the author. Let’s call him (again, for privacy) William

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to find your way around MIT mit building numbers are logical, but weirdly

  

  has the dorms, the student center, and most of the athletics buildings ... campus is a group of buildings, not to be confused with the building that ... campus. These parts are defined by roads. Everything to the west of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 11, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  An Astrological Guide to the College App Process We all know astrology isn't real...or is it?

  well-balanced sign of the zodiac. They're great at thinking through ... obsession with astrology. Scientifically speaking, there are tons of reasons ... would cringe seeing this post), but I find it fun to read an analysis of

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 20, 2018
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  Computers and their Programs Anecdotes and advice about owning a laptop at MIT

  

  '14 has been useful at all of his internships. An alternative is emacs ... students with all variety of these and more. I've had all three. My first ... of my MacBook Pro scraping against a doorframe when I miscalculate the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Some people call me the space cowgirl

  

  lot of a student who used to work in our office, who we'll call "Pink ... scores?"). But there was no mistake in admitting her. She rocked one of MIT ... that SAT scores can't account for all kinds of intelligence. The student

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2004
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  Guest Entry: Stephanie Lin Presenting MIT's most recent Rhodes Scholar!

  

  physician but also wanted to study the humanities side of medicine before jumping from Biology at MIT to Physiology in medical school (I eventually ... different style of learning from the US, so I thought this would be a great

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

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

  

  sky. And so my college application season began. My interview was at the Cosi at 13th Street and 6th Avenue with a young recent graduate named Steve. I always get really nervous at interviews. I remember nothing

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Some Advice Sometimes I wish I could tell freshman-me that everything's going to be okay

  

  climbing trees and bake dozens of cookies at 3am. 27) Changing majors is not ... instead of a confused freshman. It will feel incredibly strange at first ... I've been doing a lot of reflecting lately, maybe because: - I feel

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Making Connections we live in a society (affectionate)

  

  ="EC has two buildings; one is to the west of the other"]west parallel[/annotation]of ... ) rainy today, instead of going outside to get from one parallel to the ... the names and emails of EC's Medlinks (students who are trained to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice On The Essay The rules are simple: write your own.

  

  to measure the impact of the admissions essay on today's college applicant." The email included a bunch of questions. Seemed harmless ... committee on a human level, i.e. beyond all of the test scores, grades, etc

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 25, 2007