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  Applying Sideways How to get in to MIT.

  

  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 ... variants - and countless others - are all just versions of the same question

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  My College Essay Early Action / November 2005. ~500 words await.

  

  was a fantastic twist of fate. How much would have changed if the ... frantic night of keyboard-banging, friend-proofreading, and increasing panic ... where I am now. :D) Living in the graffiti-adorned projects of the Lower

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Solar Car Pulled Over The MIT Solar Car Team got in a little trouble.

  

  Yesterday's Boston Herald had a story about the MIT Solar Electric Vehicle Team (SEVT) getting into a little trouble:   A group of MIT ... friend and SEVT member Ben Glass '07 had somewhat of an explanation:  

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 1, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the Bloggers’ Personalities! A post about personality tests, part 2!

  

  (it took a lot of effort not to resort to a clickbait-y title like “ADMISSIONS BLOGGERS---EXPOSED!!!!!!”) Some of you may remember that a ... particular, the scientific invalidity of the Myers-Briggs test. Well, I also

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 12, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice you’ve heard before and a story you haven’t you can just skip to the pictures if you want to, I wont be offended.

  

  There are going to be a lot of people eager to give you advice on how ... of self respect. At least that's the way it was with me. Something that I heard over and over again from mouths of all shapes and sizes was

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why My 5.13 Problem Set Took All Day Moral of the story: Don't procrastinate, or I'll never talk to you again.

  

  walking later," to my second-grade phase of "Why learn to tie my shoes now ... before it's due. I'm well aware that this is one of my greatest flaws, and ... chemistry is probably one of my favorite subjects - drawing those little arrow

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  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 ... /her, and ultimately most of us usually like the person we have become over

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Pretender a message to both you and me.

  

  most generous of "chance me" scorers would only give me a 50% chance of ... listened to a small playlist of songs I had thrown together for the ride. As ... with a sense of inspiration and a desire for greatness like I wanted to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Some people call me the space cowgirl

  

  lot of a student who used to work in our office, who we'll call "Pink ... scores?"). But there was no mistake in admitting her. She rocked one of MIT ... that SAT scores can't account for all kinds of intelligence. The student

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

  is everyone growing up without me? we're only getting older

  

  The other day, my friend sent me photos of herself trying on ... the grand scheme of things, it felt odd to see a couple that had met ... status for a truth is” and videos of ourselves upending a bucket of ice

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 6, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  This story has to do with professor accessibility. And something awesome that I got in the mail.

  

  name of the sender; it was vaguely familiar, but I couldn’t place it ... read a very old, very tattered copy of it a couple weeks back, which a ... the name of the author. Let’s call him (again, for privacy) William

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  here comes a thought on decisions

  

  ://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHg50mdODFM of course, steven universe is a cartoon show and the lyrics ... because my mind was swarmed with thoughts, thoughts of what my decision ... almost all of us, is a once-in-a-lifetime experience. it's not often that

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 13, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HNY from NYC for IAP, 2016 time passes so quickly, help

  

  live in deep suburbia, the sort of place whose main assets are relative ... month of January on a finance internship in New York City. Both MIT and ... sometimes like i am made of you guys” 2014 “My first semester ended two weeks

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Coping With Anxiety What is anxiety? What is panic? Definitions? Confusion? FINALS?! Cats.

  

  Anxiety. It's a term with a variety of definitions, causes, and ... . Anxiety is an overwhelming flow of feelings within and around oneself. It ... feeling of adrenaline pumping through your body. It can be a part of the

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  It’s Friday, Friday… hacking Mikey

  

  Late last week one of the bloggers was talking about her spring break plans. They were all very exciting, with lots of travel and warm weather ... of my friends here in the office is Mikey Yang. Mikey is an MIT alumnus

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 25, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT What?!? The Long and Illustrious History of the MITMB, as far as Kim knows.

  

  of both the marching band and the modern football team. Looking through ... /kimfad/Public/rightsize/MarchingBand/newspaperarticle.pdf">fascinating piece of history</a> from 1978, we see on page 12 that "the band ... , gimme an A, gimme an S...' cheer," which is a personal favorite of mine

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 10, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  actual conversations i have definitely had with freshmen during orientation

  

  and none of us shower ever ME: beware ME: resistance is futile ... 't know anything about 5w ME: we have a lot of cats * * * ME: hey do you ... * * * ME: [walking somewhere at night] GROUP OF FROSH: [whispering] ME

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 30, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Stove-Cook Your Oatmeal and Never Look Back To not-admitted applicants and anyone who knows anything about fuses.

  

  right wall of the kitchen, is our fuse box:   Do you know about fuses? I ... you cook oatmeal on the stove. You boil a cup of milk. You can hear it ... the heat down and add half a cup of one-minute oats and you stir

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 19, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Computers and their Programs Anecdotes and advice about owning a laptop at MIT

  

  students with all variety of these and more. I've had all three. My first ... of my MacBook Pro scraping against a doorframe when I miscalculate the ... . “Of course I won’t,” he said. And then he did. But it was okay, because

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear My Old Friend, This is quite possibly weirdest way to introduce myself

  

  Some Notes, because I’m myself:  Title is loosely based off of the ... because that’s… that’s just kind of the feeling that goes along with this ... younger, which will be the goal of my blogs! Anyway, I’ll introduce myself

  • by ana~
  • September 24, 2021