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  Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python

  

  many "failures" served as catalysts for personal growth. In the wake of ... MIT has brought its own set of failures. It's hard not to get hung up on ... and the process of making new friends. I hated being confused over

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself on choosing a college, and realizing one of many possible futures

  

  , Facebooked, Slacked, or spoken on the phone with many members of the Class of ... . Typically, these students ascribe this ambiguity to a set of questions they ... works; sometimes, it's as simple as helping them clarify a matter of fact

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend

  

  communicators about their specialty, but am equally admiring of writers like David ... The Flight of the Iguana and First Light, respectively; reading those ... my dream job. You learn and write about any area of science that

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes I Won’t Be Able to Take also "What Is Pre-Registration?"

  

  different from most other universities where you register several weeks or months before the first day of classes. Pre-registration is not as ... times I have submitted my pre-reg without an ounce of doubt in my mind, I

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 23, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parametric Cooking how i make fifty plus recipes with just three!

  

  hang of intuitively knowing this. To save you the effort of years of ... In the world of design, there's this idea of parametric design: designing based on a set of parameters and functions, rather than by just modeling

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 30, 2019
• 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 / Best of the Blogs

  What I wish I’d known, and what I’m glad I knew Before coming to MIT.

  

  . Freshman year, I could hang onto a talk for an average of probably 5 minutes ... , 80% of the time. I'm glad that I made friends at other universities ... At the CPW Women's Leadership Lunch, one of the prefrosh at my table

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  Technology, one of the world's most famous universities. MIT students are some ... Department and the Institute for Systems Research at the University of Maryland ... university are basically the same as the frontiers of human concerns, whether

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dragons A blog post for deferred students (and everybody else waiting on decisions).

  

  , about two months ago. Because I’m a senior all but one of my finals were ... of his finals. If you would like to spread happiness with your every step and dramatically improve the lives of all the people you encounter

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 14, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  What I Did in High School in the actual sense of the phrase

  

  My high school was this tiny sort of dinky-looking building on the campus of a community college, forty-five minutes from my house. It was a ... .” There is obviously a lot of your high school self that is conveyed when

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Long Road to Happiness Stuff no one likes to talk about...

  

  . Being happy, to a degree, is part of your health--in particular your ... the difficulty of adjusting to MIT called How to Fail. Since then, I ... or sad is sort of like being full or hungry. When I’m really full

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 22, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later what happened after pi day 2011

  

  . Ultimately, next year instead of joining a purely research University on ... I've gotten a number of email responses to my blog post about the different paths our lives can take. One of them was from a student whom we

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  without visiting another college or university.  One of Nikayah ... , and Kenneth ‘19, to talk about their experiences as members of ... there is a D9 presence at MIT and show the many benefits of joining one

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Reflections on 50 Things thinking back on The Blogfather's wisdom in my senior year

  

  Dear Class of 2022, 12 years ago, Ben Jones, aka The Blogfather, shared 50 pieces of wisdom with the Class of 2010, which became 50 Things, the most-read blog on MIT Admissions. As a member of the Class of 2018

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ideate, Model, TEST! A long, behind-the-scenes look at 2.009 like, really long.

  

  laser cut acrylic parts, high degree of fit and finish, and working ... ;Top left photo by John Chow.   End-of-the-semester class ... a live band, an audience of 3300, and an overall class budget of a

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  If the Obama were a unit of measure . . . . . . what would it measure?

  

  conversation (meaning 90 degrees of Tang will sever a conversation clean in two ... , and is the talk of campus. . . President Obama came and visited on ... as brilliant as some of the professors are, we still get super excited

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Brief History of Cars on Fire at MIT You didn't think I would miss an anniversary, did you?

  

  anything about fire? The thing is just hanging off of a building. It's ... If you're the kind of person who remembers to look up once in a ... of one or more of the people in this photo: Why those people

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dear frosh: here are the things we want you to know a firehose of advice from upperclassmen: tips and tricks for freshman year

  

  primary responsibility is to learn. You’re at one of the best universities ... . I added some of my own advice. Then I organized everything into the following categories. Some of it is excellent advice. Some of it will not make

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  that outer layer, so despite the 34-degree air outside of this 2250 Acela ... heading back to MIT (well, South Station in Boston) from my hometown of New ... legs and walk the length of the car. As I headed back to my seat, I

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  winter and the slew of second semester tests starting to take its toll. It ... losses of Matthew Nehring and Christina Tournant. And for you, dear ... a rejection. Or perhaps you were accepted and are worried of the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 14, 2015