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• Blog / Athletics

  Story of a Lifestyle I'm going to kick you - No, for real

  

  divided by their belt levels, with each group lined up sitting around its ... ? Or just right? Obviously the answer is “Just Right”. But by now, I’ve learned that “just right” is pretty much only right when the judge scores a

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • March 30, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  More on balance Some parameters for self-improvement

  

  then I finished reading The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri. It's a novel about ... list, dated 10/02/2015. It contains some parameters by which I have been ... my dorm (East Campus). I've spent a lot of time living by my own agenda

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • October 7, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  How To Write A College Essay and other things too

  

  college application essays is the advice dispensed by books with names like ... American students navigate the college process, and he had been shocked by ... writing were indistinguishable from those written by applicants in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What’s new? Life in Radiohead's hometown

  

  subject, check out the book “How the Immune System Works” by Lauren ... lectures are taught by experts in the field who come from all over the United ... than three hours away from London by train. My course is intense so I

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 2, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Info for MIT QuestBridge Finalists Don’t know what QuestBridge is? You can skip this entry.

  

  : If you have not completed all the testing requirements by the October ... your testing by October, do not worry; you do not have to remove MIT from ... our Early Action process. We will accept up to November test scores for

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • October 23, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Leaf in Face I got hit in the face the other day. By a leaf.

  

  date her Freshman year based solely on their AIME scores. Yeah, I only ... ! If you don't mind me asking, how were your SAT scores and how many ... ! Thanks! I liked my SAT scores. We were friends. I took the SATs enough to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 15, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  On MIT and Humanities I promise I will stop philosophizing (aka. sounding like an old man) in my entries…

  

  by far in high school was AP English Literature. When our Lit teacher ... Yo-Yo Ma when he came to Boston in an outing organized by the Burchard ... some of the highest course evaluation scores at MIT, if you're curious

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 19, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  In which I “get a life” again reclaiming my childhood hobbies

  

  knitting is usually something you imagine your grandma doing as she sits by ... (or YouTube videos to watch), so by the time I got to MIT, I hadn ... no psets at all to do, I picked up a pair of needles and a ball of yarn

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 12, 2024
• Blog / Blog Projects

  slow burn you and the void

  

  morning pale and grey. There are jobs that need doing in the basement by the ... delicate and costly red glass ball at the end, and send it slowly shooting ... ball shatter. To remove the fear of messing up. You could crush that

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 6, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Distance and Displacement "how are you swamped if it's only been a month?"

  

  travels. But what if you throw a ball up into the air and catch it at the same place you released it? The ball travelled twice the length of its ... impressive even by this school's standards, and they've got happy social lives

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 26, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part one) random trinkets from freshman year

  

  ). Unfortunately our Memory Mushroom has finite volume. In fact, by the end of freshman spring, it was basically doing this: (gif made by allan) So in ... pictured getting super soaked by a five year old in the flyer) 8) Tickets

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 29, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Second Semi-Annual Q&A More answers to your questions.

  

  who score 6's and 7's on their A-levels are (respectively) 94 and 93 points behind their american counterparts who score 100. KIDDING ... national exams are ranked by province with the best 100 candidates in each

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 28, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every Piece of Media I Consumed in My First Week of Class that was relevant to my studies, i guess

  

  . For this, we were assigned to listen to Hi My Name Is by Eminem, What's My Name by Snoop Dogg, and We Want Eazy by Eazy E. I also listened to ... a lot of my flow was influenced so much by rappers I was already super

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 13, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Fortune Favors the merits of not working too hard

  

  by a professor of art history at Princeton? Of having been let into ... played by accident in their lives. There's a lot of other good things Lewis ... strings controlled by the twitchy fingers of the Fates. Some fortune comes

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 5, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  You Complete Me What makes an application complete for Early Action, and related Q&A.

  

  to help clarify things a bit. Scores: We don't need to have your full set of scores now; we won't need them until we go into the Early Action selection committee. We will receive November scores in time, so don't worry

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 15, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  How I got recruited to play D3 soccer at MIT the college sports recruiting process

  

  in touch with MIT – updating the coach on my SAT/ ACT scores, letting ... .[/annotation] Get in contact with the coach early by sending an email. Make sure your ... , graduation class, SAT score, or sport accomplishment. If you’re going to an

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 16, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT is hard and I still don't know what I'm doing

  

  "]6.006[/annotation] midterm was a 71. I scored well below that, which ... . The thing is, I don't know anyone who scored higher than the average ... 's comforting. There's no way I could possibly compete with someone scoring a 90

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 12, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Regrade Request Analysis points, please?

  

  when some points were added to my score), split by assignment type (pset ... which they award points. Students don't just see a total score – they see ... the grader. The grader can then resolve the request by awarding the full

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 3, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Life of a Black Person A followup to the amazing Black Lives Matter Post

  

  I would like to preface this by saying if you haven't read Vincent ... that I had to fear for my life, which was already beautifully covered by ... through a very familiar process. “Why? He has nearly perfect scores. He ran

  • by Ben O. '19
  • July 11, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics If you want to come to MIT, you'd better learn a thing or two about…

  

  with SAT scores in the 88th percentile (roughly a 1290 old SAT) have about a 5% admission rate, while those with perfect scores have about a 50 ... 't be lame and fake at said interview. 3. Get good scores on the SAT I and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 1, 2005