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  “Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” and other ways to improve your test scores

  

  's awful and unfortunate that we live in a society that can impair us based

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paths there are so many

  

  We were deferred when we applied early to MIT, and remember how heartbreaking it felt. We obsessed over MIT unhealthily to the point where going to MIT was the only…

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 19, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  subjects, I would shrug and figure I just wasn't ‘naturally' good at e.g ... this because it had been my deeply-felt and lived experience: that I had

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.08: Intro to EECS via Interconnected Embedded Systems aka: the class that convinced me i belong at mit

  

  ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9gUS6XQ914[/embed] Raymond: Speech to Text The server maintains the ... punishment database that would live on the server and the function to access it

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 21, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  group of friends dragged me to Epsilon Theta, an independent living group ... friends who taught for Splash. Jenny G. ’22 and Andrew, the two Splash

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  150 years of MIT course catalogs the mit history you want to know

  

  now M11 Calculus and M12 Calculus. Other subjects include E40 English, G ... to the great advantage of all freshmen who do not live in fraternities or at home to live in the Institute dormitories", with specific mention

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Midsemester Night’s Dream Technically an All-Nighter's Dream, but hey, close enough

  

  I’ve decided to continue a long chain of poor decisions by starting to write this post at 5:38 AM. In front of me is an empty Pringles can and some…

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an Easter vigil alive at east campus

  

  banner says "Live at EC." EC is short for East Campus. I do not know if "live" means verb, "to live," or "live", as in concurrently, alive, simultaneously, this-broadcast-is-live. I live at EC, on the second floor of the

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 5, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Burton 1 Social Club This Thanksgiving, I'm thankful for my ridiculous, hilarious, amazing floor.

  

  living groups but also of universities), so it's really fantastic that at MIT, you get to make the choice not only where you live but who you live with. Having a really awesome living group can make all the difference

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT Underwear Exposé (and Sorting Hat) The coolest data you never wanted to have.

  

  undergraduates, even those who have never lived in Burton-Conner, have a wealth of ... if a person switched living groups or departments after sending their email; they are grouped with the living group and department they belonged

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Happy 21st Birthday to the Random Hall Milk the Milk is now old enough to drink, but *please*, don't drink the Milk

  

  from the supermarket to a dormitory at MIT. It has lived there ever since ... to live, and is currently one of the oldest and proudest residents of ... that lived in a hermetically sealed jar in Random Hall and is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  — THREE WEEKS AGO — Thursday night, while debugging an Arithmetic Logic Unit for a 6.004 lab, after registers and stack pointers and opcodes began to blur together into hexadecimal…

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab How to lose a phone in 90 seconds

  

  This story ends with me losing my phone on a drone on a yacht on an island in an ocean, but it’s going to start with me at a desk…

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  So you might be looking at the CPW schedule and thinking…         about the ridiculous number of awesome events, but don’t worry! We’re here to help. And…

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 18, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Avatar and Desserts Exploring Food Art

  

  "]value[/annotation] which is especially helpful when trying to accurately recreate still lives ... recipe starts at 3:56.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tczNwJMnG6M

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • December 10, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  Enjoy Life Farewells and New Beginnings

  

  example to all and lived a beautiful, full life. These are some snippets ... curiosity, mentorship, gratitude, and living a good life. A lot of lessons I

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 5, 2018
• Blog / Advice

  My Product Design Internship in Austin how to build things: both externally and internally

  

  first and is now a G. Higgins is THE BEST CHARACTER he’s been a homie from

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • July 26, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  I wrote this on my first day of classes this past Tuesday, and decided to throw it up here mostly unedited (meaning, excuse all the typos lol) as a real-time…

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  This Is How I Read productivity hacks, but for reading applications

  

  I really love the "day in the life" posts that have gone up recently (see, e.g., Krystal, Rachel, Ceri, Ana). I've been thinking about doing one, but it's a bit different for me right now, because we've started to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  So Chance Me Maybe? Hey! I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my SAT...

  

  Like most MIT students, I was aware when I applied that I was a highly competitive applicant. I had taken several AP classes, I had a perfect GPA, my interviewer…

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014