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  Diversity or Merit? false questions, false answers

  

  students at MIT are sufficiently prepared to succeed at MIT. We do not admit ... token, we do not admit students who are unqualified for admission to MIT ... mean the majority of applicants are sufficiently prepared to do the work

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hacking A performance art that lets students remind the teachers who's smarter.

  

  on hacking at MIT. Hacking at MIT has nothing to do with breaking into ... smiling variety, GoSox! a good example of the "how did they do that!?" while ... ! How do I get into hacking!? Is it a club or something? Well thought out

  • by Snively '11
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Typical Day on the Road Having grown up in NYC, I love coming back.

  

  I am about to head out to do the MIT presentation in Westchester ... was great. It is not always possible, as our alumni do work and have ... chance to meet the alumni who will be doing their interview. Here I'll put

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 17, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choice and the MIT lifestyle ...because "MIT" and "student life" aren't mutually exclusive.

  

  capable of doing a problem set in 45 minutes. Whoa there! I'm not that ... recitation to revise problems or figure out problems I couldn't do on my own. (Note that most people at MIT like to do psets in groups -- it's faster

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  class, I talk to my friends, I do work, I head home, I sleep. Next day ... conversation about how Raymond and I are doing, how it's our last semester, what ... done. It's just a crawl to the end of the school year before you can do

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to decide which classes to take amazing classes and how to pick them

  

  checks: what's your earliest class? Do you have time for lunch? How many back-to-back classes do you have, and how far are they from each other ... ] Finding classes that interest you Where do you find interesting classes

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  the end of a semester, condensed into a single week. So, how exactly do ... , you Will Not Leave This Bed, and simply do not show up for the final. As ... [annotation note="certainly not A, for “I’m doing great!”"]O, for Absence

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

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

  

  of doing a Next Haunt run in the past, the shrieks from the basement ... year doing Next Haunt! I’d heard many great things about it (one of my ... screaming zombies while doing long multiplication (yes, the puzzles were very

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

  0.125 not a course 0 class, but a fraction complete

  

  . I spent the first four days of break doing absolutely, very delicious ... the next go-around. Here's my list (man do I love lists): I learned ... school, I survived on less because there was nothing else I could do. Now

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 4, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  How Wrestling With Snapping Turtles Can Get You Into MIT A student profile of an aspiring limnologist.

  

  kind enough to do a Q&A for my blog, so enjoy! ---------- Did other ... have gotten to do some of the coolest stuff: go swimming in some of the ... better than that. Do you have post-graduation plans, or any particular

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Blogural Inaugural I just wanted to use this title.

  

  (although perhaps they do have a language of their own), but I wanted to start ... 'll see what I can do about that) admissions blogger. I think that means that it's my job to tell you about MIT, the things I do here (or don't do

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Entry About Snow ...Even though we don't have any

  

  middle school, but I figured that if Johnny Tsunami could do it, then it ... snowboarding lesson that would often be able to do things on the first or second ... 'm sure I'll get multiple notes from people that actually do) than we were

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 11, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If man is five Then most people are six, and if most people are six then pre-meds are seven.

  

  oil?! Do you know Sam Maurer? I read his blog!" was something along the ... like, how they react with each other, what their orbitals are doing at ... all. No, really. What you're going to do is take some reaction or some

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How To Make Mediocre Furniture well, maybe i'll let you be the quality judge

  

  just leave them in the hallways to be taken. And we students do so, very ... wtf? why do you have that? why are you keeping it?" I was like, listen ... had to ask a friend with tools to do this for me. Thank you Shophaus

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 17, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HNY from NYC for IAP, 2016 time passes so quickly, help

  

  little to do, and I ended up desperately catching up on fiction, doing ... , and let’s move fast. Go, do–I know I will.” 2015 Now staring down

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  señoritis navigating work/life balance - and spring break photos

  

  simply do not have the energy to do so. here is some of what i have ... fun! work with people you like—you do not need to fill your resume with

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 28, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing is Magic And 15 minutes is all you need

  

  wants to do that? When I do an info session for prospective students, I ... will get them to come. In my writing group we do an exercise when we all

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On Teaching and Learning Minimum requirement: read the last few sentences of this post. They're important.

  

  neither, in all honesty, do I. To recap, I’m here for MIT’s Four Weeks For ... itself now?” Senior: “No.” Me: “So what do we have to do?” Senior: “Divide by negative one.” Me: “Yes! Exactly.” Senior: “I don’t know how to do

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Snively’s Cross Stitch Corner I really enjoy cross stitching

  

  "things alums do in their free time." In late 2011 I taught myself to cross ... E degree. It’s something I can do, mindlessly, while watching TV or ... comfortable with my skills I started doing some commission pieces for people on

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 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…

  

  extracurriculars. On my way to the first one, I realized I just couldn't do it. I didn't want to do anything; I wanted to crawl into a hole and never ... work to do that night, according to my to-do list, but I didn't manage to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 13, 2018