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  A Half-Century Retrospective Revisiting the MIT Application from the 1972–1973 admissions cycle

  

  location on the Infinite Corridor to its new home in the MIT Welcome Center ... -historyposting-instincts beginning to tingle. At the very bottom of the cabinet, I found the most ... , in perfect condition. I had no choice but to assume this copy of the

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Pretender a message to both you and me.

  

  getting in, reducing getting into MIT to a coin flip. On the ride home, I ... Day. The Pretender is a song about making a resolve to go out there and ... here resulted in the lowest grade I've ever gotten. Doing preliminary

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Mark Zuckerberg Visits MIT NBD.

  

  this technology is going to go in the future? Alls I know is, being at ... conference in the morning. Then we all realized that he was here to basically ... In the time I've been at MIT, we've had some interesting characters

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  believed that what stands in the way becomes the way: it is only by moving to ... history as contingency is too much for the human spirit to bear. And yet ... try to snag the one solo seat, all the way in the back and to the left

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  An Open Letter to MIT Applicants Don’t Panic (and know where your towel is)

  

  extraordinary things about a small subset of people is that they have the power to ... ’m not trying to insult you if you do/did participate in the College ... towards the college search process. I hoped to get in somewhere, but I

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  IHTFParadise – A Journey of Depression at MIT Guest entry by Angelina G.

  

  who is depressed. In my experience, I have only been able to get to know ... health issues. The key, as I have observed, is to genuinely care for each ... living next to you is doing. The world needs us. That’s why we are all at

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tenets or, my only piece of advice for incoming first-years

  

  , even in the smallest ways. It is also one thing to say these things, and ... GIR, and, of course, the overall decision to pursue an MIT education in the first place."]in your hands.[/annotation] You should do your best to

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Putting food on the table daily with Daily Table affordable, nutritious, and delicious groceries near MIT

  

  that option, including the [annotation note='There is an MIT shuttle to ... staffers, they've used the phrase "every shopper is a funder" to describe how ... , like it has of mine. And it is wonderful to have a nutritional oasis in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Favorite Classes at MIT! survey says...

  

  virtually. The teaching team is amazing, they put in so much effort, and it ... based on around 100 responses. In addition, I tried to rank the top 5 ... number of times mentioned, which is the number in parentheses.   

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m not an imposter… I’m going to be featured on the MIT News homepage

  

  applied to do Interphase EDGE, which is a 2-year enrichment program. The ... during high school. Competition here is more difficult for me to spot—in ... to fix it. Here’s a list of things that I thought I’d done in the fall

  • by ana~
  • October 29, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Reflections

  

  celebration. The invitation is a complete honor. It's great to be back in my old ... regularly to ask what the secret is to getting in. My answer hasn't changed ... way. The most important part of your job is to remove the roadblocks and

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the contours of a wild ride 2.009 😤

  

  the experience so much better because I got to know my team and feel ... , and stumble to lab in search of free caffeine. [annotation note="AND the ... its foot in the door, get its bright shiny idea to actually work. Of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2023
• 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 ... ."]Putzen,[/annotation]this is what you get. I carefully brought all the wood to our new apartment ... hitting yourself in the bare skin with the orbital sander and starting to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 17, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  to be [annotation note="in Greek, eudaimonia. this is the standard ... 't buy is "having a major, measurable impact on the world in some way ... good to aim at the optimum. This is in spite of the fact that I know

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  Yultide (credit to the bloggers for the awesome name). Today is Yultide Day ... a large folder of drafts, so I had to publish the most polished piece ... in the works, but I might need another Yultide for motivation to finish

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  16 for the 16’s 16 Guidelines to Making the Most of your CPW

  

  ; Without further ado:   16 Guidelines to Making the Most of your CPW ... events is so much more than that. Food events are a great place to meet new ... best thing you can do is find out if you feel comfortable in the MIT

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 18, 2012
• 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

  

  experience in. This is the time to do that sort of thing. Ask questions when ... classmates is a good place to start. Staying in your comfort zone is easy, but ... the city. Biking: biking in Cambridge/Somerville is great, and

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

  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  , ranging from 1994 all the way back to 1934! In this post, I've embedded the ... to hold their class materials. Professors: Three women in the video ... degrees) is now a Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Distraction News Your internet connection is unstable

  

  interruptions than to the class. My mom is walking in with groceries and is ... front door will trigger Dogs 1-3 to bark. Dog 4 is still mostly non ... tells me there's something wrong with my microphone, which is the built-in

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 31, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Life is Improv say yes

  

  The first and most important rule of improv is this: don't negate. To negate in improv is to break the flow of absurdity and belief that ... stupid the whole scene is. I'm also someone who naturally likes to have a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2011