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  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  are much smarter than I. Also, I'm kind of an asshole about how smart I ... out of an A, but deep down I know I deserved that B. Not only that, but ... has become painfully clear that I stand next to no chance of getting in

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012
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  (Bitter)sweet home meeting high school teachers again, and visiting my hometown for (probably) the last time

  

  with my friend Tom to meet some of our former teachers. It’s been a while since we’ve talked. Our group chat of nerd friends eventually fell quiet ... walked down the halls, there was a good chunk of name tags next to the

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2) My take on the MIT short essays.

  

  QUOTE: (i) Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech ... you can think of an everyday English equivalent. (vi) Break any of ... in the merits of the first blog in regards to a long college admissions

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  -themed escape room in the Next House basement. In my opinion, it’s one of the coolest showcases of student culture here. Students pitch in their talents ... of doing a Next Haunt run in the past, the shrieks from the basement

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
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  tyrannosaurus REX the prefrosh are coming, the prefrosh are coming!

  

  're not freshmen/freshpeople until after convocation! ~Conservation of frosh ... .[annotation note= "And then some of them will leave again! To everyone heading to ... kicks off "welcome week" for the Class of 2023. At some schools, maybe

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 20, 2019
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  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  In 1st grade, there were these 1-sided sheets of simple math problems called “Minute Math”. Some of the strongest memories of my childhood is ... reigning champion of the visual speed game SET, constantly ‘challenging

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thoughts for the New Year A semester's worth of thoughts, tbh

  

  feelings on things, so in honor of New Year’s Eve, I decided to reflect on the sidequests I planned at the beginning of the year. Sidequest 1 ... , though, I generally know the number of the building that I happen to be

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An actual day in the lab Hectic is my middle name.

  

  body is not pleased that I'm getting up so early. 7:54 AM. I roll out of ... waterbath and grab a bucket of ice. 9:10 AM. My postdoc and I discuss the ... wait until some of the other postdocs come in. 9:15 AM. Since I can

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  I could be exploring a new and fascinating part of the institute I'll soon be graduating from!! to try to get myself out of my room more, I embarked on a quest to document the best study spots at MIT. most of these

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
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  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  whether to share it with the rest of you guys, but I thought that this letter may be of benefit to some current student, or some future student. I hope someone might be able to connect or learn something from a few of my

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019
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  Back in Time I change my clock back three hours and read headlines on the magazine of the…

  

  from my MIT education just because of my breakfast condiments. "She's a ... of bed simply to switch out of a class that was too early before ... trip to Cape Cod with a few of my close friends or walked home when it

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 22, 2006
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  Masquerading as a Liberal Arts Student The life of an MIT student abroad

  

  given me a glimpse into the life of a liberal arts student, a life very different from those we live at MIT. Without the constant stream of problem ... kitch, lots of skits and picture drawing for my taste, I have learned an

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

  Mind and hand

  

  As some of you probably know, MIT's motto is "Mens et manus", which ... 't particularly meaningful. It's a slogan that sounds cute. In the case of MIT, I ... . It reflects something I consider to be an important component of MIT

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  There Is No Formula A formula would take the human component out of our process, which is perhaps the…

  

  the human component out of it, which is perhaps the most important part. Reading through this thread doesn’t make me think of SAT scores or grades. It makes me think of the guy who fell in love with trains as a kid and

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 16, 2004
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  A Comprehensive Guide to My Favorite Places on Campus can't leave without making one more post of this format

  

  format. Some of these went [annotation note="if you know..you know"]viral[/annotation] and some remained fairly unread, but I *think* that most of them ended up being useful - or at the very least informative - to most of the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  And the Whistle Blows soccer post-season & my last competitive soccer game

  

  exactly did the rest of our season go? In my last update, I regaled you ... results of that week. Tuesday: 2-1 win against Coast Guard Thursday: 1 ... were unfortunately knocked out in the Round of 32. We won our first game

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 21, 2024
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  Train Coming on navigating

  

  exception of one or two family trips to Las Vegas. So, when I went to the east ... Curious Incidence of a Dog in the Nighttime (one of my favorite books and ... flow". But following a sequence of steps? That-- that I can do. And these

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 15, 2023
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  Avatar and Desserts Exploring Food Art

  

  episodes. Here are some pictures. The rest of the blog is me explaining how this happened and what the food means with a lot bit of fangirling. Enjoy:) ~~~ Table of Contents The Beginnings The Planning Phase What I Made and

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • December 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  quite a bit this summer and I think I wrote a few drafts but none of them ... recommends a math course for you. Your advisor is also informed of this ... textbook a lot of Psets are done through. I did well in Calc BC in high

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 16, 2024
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  Robo-CJ writes haiku “didn’t you already make a blog post about this?”

  

  Poetry Day! It's not very much of a leap to think that I could be bisexual the end result of this is that i now have far too many haikus Also i ... old blog posts, and then used gpt-2-simple to retrain it on a bunch of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020