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  All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)

  

  way I had spent my last four years halfway across the country ... out a way to succeed. At that point I had to stop yelling at him and ... faced with presenting a defense of all the ways I had changed in the last

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  ” in any way except that now, “Chloe” seems to be a marker of all the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-Med @ MIT The title says it all.

  

  spirit of MIT. People here want to change the world - in whatever way they

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  As We Approach Decision Day On getting in and on not getting in

  

  journey with many prizes along the way, if you choose to accept it. If you

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 8, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s not fair! ... and why that's OK.

  

  the courtroom, and you can argue your way in. It doesn’t. In fact, the

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )

  

  new random obstacles along the way, like the herd of wandering cows and ... loops on a highway of rainbows. There is no way to uniformly describe how ... in the subject than you are. Either way, you'll benefit from further

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I know you’re bad at something And here's what you should do about it. Hint: NOT "do something else"

  

  things that way. It takes a whole new dimension of gut, though, to hold

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Challenge You Pi day approaches.

  

  . You are guaranteed to meet hurdles and obstacles on the way to getting

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Applying Sideways How to get in to MIT.

  

  accepted to MIT? No.   But it doesn't work that way. Because here

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

  Perkus Nonacademia MIT will give you more than just an engineering degree.

  

  that's out of the way, it's worth mentioning that they are an incredible

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Into the Smoke In more ways than one.

  

  twenty minutes by bike, faster than the Underground and way faster than the

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I put on my robe and graduation hat It's sortof hard to believe it's time for this already.

  

  Part way through the ceremony, some people broke out half a dozen beach

  • by Kim D. '09
  • June 7, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  neighborhoods we move into and come to love. What do pregnant mice, cheerleaders, and four-foot light-up tinsel giraffes have in common?

  

  didn't happen), try to remember forgotten cheers, and get way too

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 27, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Essay: Yogurt Edition! You like froyo? I like froyo! ^___^V

  

  will come my way." I feel like the most beautiful college essays are the ... the MIT main essay) - but don't approach it in the same way as you would ... "luring" the reader in. The college essay is very much the same way - the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT wedding Paper airplanes instead of rice and a reception at a science museum... what's not to…

  

  friends and family, and it went way too fast. I hate being schmoopy above

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Gee, my life’s a funny thing Remembering the bills I have to pay, or even yesterday.

  

  ashes sprinkled into the soup of someone I don't like. On our way back on

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  There Is No Formula A formula would take the human component out of our process, which is perhaps the…

  

  who chose to commute an hour each way to attend a certain school, and

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 16, 2004
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  Choosing Your Own Adventure and other things you can do when you live off campus

  

  you live off campus is so variable, there's no way to make a universal ... ways I can get there, how long each would take, and when I would need to ... for students. Because I live in Cambridge, the most effective way to me

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 8, 2019
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  Burton-Conner’s Renovation: A Saga on friendships that transcend shitty infrastructure

  

  less affordable for many students; the price differential is way too high ... one of the options will eventually be removed. That way, we can take a student's preferences into account in a way that doesn't force them between

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 6, 2020
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  The rise and fall of CPW all the cpw history, plus proof the weather machine is fake

  

  , there were also way more FSILGs that wanted to host prefrosh than there ... , that they were assigned way fewer prefrosh than they requested. This was ... author, by the way, wrote another column about their CPW experience this

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2021