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  Do I have a story for you… *SPOILER* I do

  

  ....very soon..." One of many lessons I've learned is that waiting for things to ... critical flaw in production units that would cost several orders of magnitude ... for what's ahead and I think the blogs are no different. There are 10

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.

  

  also got Facebook accounts for the first time. OK, enough about pre-2007 ... been waiting for? Bryan’s life after the blogs Big secret: I actually ... lot of other things happened too: most important was my purchase of an

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what am i doing great question.

  

  by the way passive mechanisms allow us to move about. For example, this ... about when she would turn 21 and be able to purchase alcohol, whilst ... reminds me of something David Foster Wallace wrote, which I can’t for the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / CPW

  CPW Problem: What Can People Wear? CJ pragmatically writes concerning poor weather

  

  , purchasing winter clothing. Ponder, weigh, consider: present wardrobe clothing

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 5, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  senioritis not to be confused with señoritis

  

  grand visions for senioritis in college. i would go out all the time! do ... for someone. there is enough positive work for you to do until you find a bit of personal direction. the moment i realized it was okay for my

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 10, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  that people can cope with anxiety and panic attacks and get help for what ... . Breathe in as long as you can, hold your breathe for six seconds, and then let the breath out for at least six seconds (even longer if you can). Do

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 6, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  rigueur activity that everyone needed to do in order to look good for ... New York Times about the college admissions process, it is hard for me ... am not discouraging them from applying for admission, but rather making

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  club. The club was responsible for purchasing and lining up smiley face ... —a time for high school seniors to visit campus to see if MIT is really the ... that is good about life as a student. For the visiting senior, there is

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  enough seats next to each other for all of us. And when we finally sat down ... Bezel is a tradition (I'm not sure for how long, but at least since the ... to ring sales, and purchased our rings! I can't wait to get mine at

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Feeling Many Feelings :) and :( and everything in between about decisions

  

  , in order for connection to happen, we have to allow ourselves to be ... dollar for every time my mother told me to lower my voice, I could probably ... lines in Harry Potter, I relate to this moment in Order of the Phoenix the

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • March 16, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Painting by number The anti-formula

  

  seek ways to unlock the secret formula to secure admission. For starters, I can not argue with the logic of trying to discover the formula for ... is typically not what we are going for when selecting students for our

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 2, 2024
• Blog / Featured Blogs

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

  

  wanted to be when he grew up. I reached for the right words to validate the ... -year-old Elizabeth were both gunning for the same job, he said he ... put up with me, and it would be an even bigger miracle for a full

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  AOs write the “What do you do for fun?” essay Ever wondered what admissions officers do when they're not reading applications?

  

  which are required of you. Tell us about something you do for the pleasure ... ’re looking for that, we have plenty of great essay advice on our site already ... Officers of MIT™ who are responsible for reading your applications. We get to

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  To whom much is given… ...you know the rest!

  

  reflect this value. In short order, our decisions will be released and the ... officers showed in you when they selected you for admission, it is not really ... it this far if you didn't have someone in your corner. For some it is a

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 13, 2012
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  MIT grads, 10 years later What is the MIT Class of 2000 doing, 10 years after graduating?

  

  This past weekend was the 10-year reunion for the MIT Class of 2000 ... the members of our class (about 1000 people) and asked for "10-year ... responded; I have listed all responses below in the order that the emails show

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 9, 2010
• Blog / Events

  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  a struggle: their patent was for an "Apparatus for facilitating the ... question now is: was a baby ever delivered using this apparatus? For better or for worse, no one seems to know. 32 years after Mr. and Mrs

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  wear once — over my running shorts. I'll sit and stretch for awhile, and ... look around for my mom and dad, who always try to see me off; last year ... MIT as a staff member for a few years, knew my way around the Institute

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  How to find your way around MIT mit building numbers are logical, but weirdly

  

  . Similarly, N for buildings in north campus and NW for buildings in northwest ... branches off in the end at Building 8. It’s a pretty important hallway for ... 36 all lie on one straight north–south line, in that order, and if you

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 11, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Why I wasn’t sad to leave MIT On shedding.

  

  leave the Boston area for graduate school. I think that those two questions have the same answer. When I arrived as a freshman, I signed up for ... sinking. Actually, that’s how I felt for my first three and a half years at

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  How Wrestling With Snapping Turtles Can Get You Into MIT A student profile of an aspiring limnologist.

  

  different technical persuasions did for fun, until I came here. Let me ... , animal cruelty, or a restraining order. Any Chuck Norris Fact with his ... beguiles me into poring for hours over topics like subtle differences in the

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011