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• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  . Starting in August, I studied prompts and scoured websites. September saw me ... an AP test in my life. My GPA wasn’t perfect (still isn’t). I was ... a good sense of how competitive of an applicant I was or what sort of

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  , but about how I can rise above a letter of rejection, I’d have handled ... me and said I had a package awaiting me in the secretary’s office. I ... Penn. I checked out the university’s website and Wikipedia page. I found

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to use these blogs Scattered thoughts on the information age, plus some bonus snark.

  

  came across a collection of things that I had written which can most ... maybe "How to not get a sarcastic reply to a question from me." I fixed ... topics. In fact, I think I'll link random words in this entry to some

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Really Just Cannot Write Anymore of My Thesis I wish I can bang out essays like blog entries.

  

  fateful day in September, so long ago. So, no, I have not forgotten about my ... blogs I promised in here will still get written, but I need to finish my ... half - I have never taken just four classes in one semester at MIT. I did

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  REX at Random Hall Pancakes, LN2 ice cream, board games, game theory, math, raves, staying up entirely too late,…

  

  knowledge of knots is not for naught. I can knot understand how anyone could ... Three years ago I was in the room I’m still in now, and just like ... inhabits the streets of Cambridge in the morning, and I spent it wandering

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 23, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the exclusion of everything else on making decisions, and how i chose mit

  

  Here's a post I made in my personal blog, around a year ago, talking ... fourth post in a four-part series, so here’s some context. I went to the ... Boston. It got delayed, so I had to stay in Boston for another night

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The Great Wifi Outage of 2007 Burton-Conner's wifi went out two days ago; Evan will tell you more by the end…

  

  , not the Claymation videos.) The only similar event I can recall would be ... ! Here's more of your questions: Nihar queried: I was wondering how and ... like to be in a class where I don't know everyone's name, and not

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fig. 6: Eigenverantwortung The time of my life. What responsibilities?

  

  . Instead, I can be happy and content and find meaning and value even in ... , but do I know anyone still in Boston during Winter Break?   ... 're gone.  Arrive in Zürich. Figure out how to get from

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • August 28, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science Out Loud! On teaching/making/producing educational videos and why it's so much fun

  

  't quite emulate that in your own projects. But you can't keep improving ... is the only organ that can regrow large amounts of cells in vivo and ... , how I ended up talking to Elizabeth about helping out with some other

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  classes, [like] 18.100B/Real Analysis, to see how well I can do on difficult ... interested in writing, mathematics, and computer science. It turns out I can ... different translations"]back in Cambridge,[/annotation] I still remember from

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to date at an American college Things we never talk about

  

  in this blog post, and I realized that unfortunately, no matter how ... sexually explicit. I wanted to include such terms in an effort to present a ... draining pathways of dating in college, I want you to know what I wish I, and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  by a Q&A session) at MIT, in 26-100 (I sit through biology lecture in 26-100, three times a week!) It was impossible to pass up, so I ... the other two, and found out that the man lives in Italy (I think it was

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  beautiful summer day in Boston[/caption] I stayed in Boston last summer. For ... . In the end, it was an imperfect fit but a fantastic summer. I'm so glad I took the risk. I was in search of a summer rich in feelings

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 31, 2020
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  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  people in ESP, checking in on me, asking how I was doing, both from the day ... . It feels like I've grown. That much, I can tell. But in what ways, I ... Representations of Girlhood in Modern Cinema, Lambda Calculus and Puzzles, how 2

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 2 The median of an introductory trilogy

  

  late, so I quickly checked in two of my luggage bags, hugged my uncle and ... ready to take off. I was keeping everyone waiting. Luckily, I made it in ... collapsed onto my seat, breathing out in exhaustion. “Classic Vincent,” I

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things Charles Has Made fare thee well, rocket powered roller skates

  

  just made these really cool things. In the same vein I posted Carlos, the ... So the other day I was reading an article on slashdot about ... , no less!) I remember back when CS was getting started - one of their

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye

  

  on how I was doing even in semesters I wasn’t taking any of her classes ... close. I graduate in June, if all goes well. A short while afterward, I ... day soaking in the endless activities freshmen could partake in. I ate

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Have Never Been to Beijing A (loose) translation of the previous post written in Chinese

  

  China, I was four years old. We arrived in Shanghai and went straight to ... speaking Shanghainese, and now I remember that moment in English, which is kinda funny. When I was little, my mother would often say, in the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  non-stop / walang hinto what a mess

  

  spring semesters. the only time i can think of that’s comparable was during ... , this entire quarantine has been a blur, and i remember almost nothing in ... the things i’ve been doing this summer: i am in a urop. i talked

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 8, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Applying to College vs. Applying to Jobs yes you heard me, the application process NEVER ENDS

  

  because the application process can be somewhat of a crapshoot. I'll add a disclaimer here to say that I'll mostly be talking about internships in the ... challenge is basically a quiz on how fast you can come up with good solutions

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 6, 2019