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  Some people call me the space cowgirl

  

  horchata (yummy Mexican drink). I wanted to tell you a little about the last ... lot of a student who used to work in our office, who we'll call "Pink ... , which would make some in the audience gasp ("She got into MIT with those

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Blogural Inaugural I just wanted to use this title.

  

  sure how to represent the enormous beast that is MIT, I figured I'd start ... quite the case. (And of course, the jab above is all in good fun -- I have ... is worth the sacrifice. We start most nights with a demonstration

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  will continue to grow and become yourself, that this is not the end of a ... desperately want. But the person that I am in this universe is a function of ... -averse person. My utility function is decidedly concave. I don’t try to beat the

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 16, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting for Decision Day In which I give a pep talk of sorts (with a little help from my…

  

  so much more than the school you go to. Appreciate who you are right ... life SO MUCH is going to change SO QUICKLY and you want to hold onto ... to start conversations in the comments, or email me if you want to talk

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “You know what would be cool?” some pizza would be a start...

  

  That phrase is probably the most uttered string of words I hear. It ... Science to Student Life, the best way to get free food and every tangent in ... shifting idea is starting right now in someone's room or the coffee table in

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Mischievous Anniversary Tonight Four score and ten years ago...

  

  built just to the west. In February of 1931, the buildings would be ... were strained to see what was about to happen. In a few moments the ... relocated the Fleming cannon from Caltech to Cambridge in 2006. (If you like

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • June 1, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  enough, so without thinking too much about it, I wrote the following in ... 's the best advice anyone can give to you. Your application is full ... in clubs and sports and whatever else you do... the essay is the one

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ATHack A day well spent helping others

  

  One of the amazing things about going to a techy school like MIT is ... students with people living with disabilities to solve a problem in the home ... ) and also amazing. I teared up a little when I got to see him in the

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The leftmost station on your dial WMBR = awesome campus radio

  

  basement of an entry in Senior House, eventually moving to a studio in the basement of Walker Memorial in 1960. The call letters were changed to WTBS ... ,000 to WTBS in exchange for the call letters. The deal worked out, WTBS

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  No Chance Why "chance" sites like AdmissionSplash are Bad Things.

  

  selecting schools to send an application to easier. On Tuesday, the company is ... to create a helpful tool.* However, this tool is unhelpful. In fact ... process. Because listing the school you go to or ECAs you are involved in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hard MIT Class ...or is that redundant? And yes, hiiiiii.

  

  nagging, awful feeling that the clever trick is going to be forever beyond ... problem your friend figured out in the time it took him to pee. You sit in ... that we had only two goals for the rest of the semester—to have fun in

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Units of Measure A simple question with a lot of cool answers

  

  to conversation. A Graybill is a unit of harem. The Itani is a unit of negative tact.  A Snively is equal to 1 byte wasted on the internet. Friends ... at MIT, and in the years since I graduated, I've continued to collect

  • by Snively '11
  • January 7, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions of Travel a guest post by Spencer W. '15

  

  Scholarship is the most selective graduate fellowship available to American ... . After receiving the Marshall Scholarship to attend postgrad in the UK for ... to: “Why?”. At first I thought, “Tsk, the answer to that is both

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  How to look over your application and advice about breathing. My older younger brother is your age. I am fully aware of how much you’re…

  

  I was back in the day, or my younger brother is right now, or like ... that it is not in my job description to deal with. 3) Read over your ... through it. Remember that your application is your only voice to the

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Applying Sideways How to get in to MIT.

  

  , which is this: How do I get in to MIT? And here is what I tell them ... officers follow the winds to the corners of the country to talk to students ... in between over the course of a few days. I visited big high schools

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  10 reasons why MIT is beautiful if I do say so myself.

  

  we have wacky (modern? postmodern?) buildings, the best river views in ... is beautiful: (1) Because I get to see this view every day walking ... sailing photos, but I'm not confident enough in my abilities to bring

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT Underwear Exposé (and Sorting Hat) The coolest data you never wanted to have.

  

  , using the most comprehensive, unbiased data available to me (which is ... restaurants in Boston; decisions about when to turn off the heating for spring ... , the probability of A given that B has happened or is true is equal to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Dissecting emotion what is feeling

  

  One. Time is not real, because the other day I woke up at ten in the ... feeling to the rest of the nervous system. When whatever blockage is removed ... move you. This is frigidity. There's the feeling of lying in bed and not

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 3, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  Enjoy Life Farewells and New Beginnings

  

  engineers in my life, but he was my favorite; his influence on my life, the most profound. Ever since I officially left the Admissions office this ... ’ve mostly been thinking about the past and saying goodbye. And I thought that

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 5, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some More Pi Day Facts and Advice You thought all that was over, didn't you?

  

  you will all enjoy it! It is a bit belated, but all the footage was ... , no matter where you are going. This is a video for pre-frosh in general ... Hello, everyone! Most especially, hello 2019s everywhere! I ran

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 23, 2015