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• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  As I find myself again, railing against something published in the ... to deny just how much of a curmudgeon I have become. I’m pretty sure ... journalists appreciate. I have the luxury of being able to be a purist in this

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Reflections on 50 Things thinking back on The Blogfather's wisdom in my senior year

  

  still tell my friends about that conversation. I can still use it in ... . As I get ready to graduate, I wanted to share how I experienced Ben ... , but I discovered that my brain works much better in emergency conditions

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Dissecting emotion what is feeling

  

  is not real, because I can sit in front of my text editor for an hour ... nice things about having long hair, like how I can bleach just the lower ... ? I mean, I wouldn't know. I can only really talk about how I've learned

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 3, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking the L On "failure" at a place like MIT.

  

  and back on again. So I go to the #1 tech school in the world but I can ... its true. I can sit in a room with [annotation note="heck, even a ... textbook a lot of Psets are done through. I did well in Calc BC in high

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  smoke and spice my comfort meal

  

  as well relish in it.  To quote the above almond can that I snacked ... , which comes out to around once a month. In times when things were tough, I ... other. It’s neat having things in life that you can always count on to

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • May 9, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Reading aka inhaling all the books i can before school starts

  

  partners in crime, my enemies, my friends. I had a wild imagination as a kid ... writing phase in middle and high school. I eventually moved on to RPG video ... /minor/major, so I wound up not getting in. I spent a few days scrambling around for

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer…” wherein Neil Armstrong's legacy kicks off a year of Unified Engineering, and I reflect on…

  

  The quote, in full: "I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket ... , I felt somewhat reassured once more that I was in the right department ... in theology might ask me about how astronomy influenced and affirmed my

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 9, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Queer at MIT, but not on the blogs the map is not the territory, but it's getting closer

  

  at least I have some security in mind that I can come out to them ... thing is being organized (thanks Petey!), so in the meantime I can throw ... they want to write but can’t have the blog be associated with them. I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Masquerading as a Liberal Arts Student The life of an MIT student abroad

  

  program. While I have been throwing numbers into my classes when I can (I ... theirs. This post has been several months in the making, as I navigate ... experiences I have had in Brazil, South Africa and now Vietnam, but also because

  • by Becca H. '12
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  displacement I can’t quite explain—like whatever was cycling around me in MIT has ... in any case, I was far too busy to contemplate what it meant. I met up ... up with, even in the absence of much else, and I’m sure being

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

  Choice and the MIT lifestyle ...because "MIT" and "student life" aren't mutually exclusive.

  

  First, questions answered: 1. Many people wondered aloud how I was capable of doing a problem set in 45 minutes. Whoa there! I'm not that ... , less frustrating, and more fun. But I don't know that many people in the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  101 Things To Do Before You Graduate! 102. Read this blog entry.

  

  compare Melis' to mine you can note the differences - I guess significant ... so I can see what the heck was on it - I was quite surprised actually ... them in college >____< one of my friends that I respect

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 15, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  No Chance Why "chance" sites like AdmissionSplash are Bad Things.

  

  this. They can't do it for all of the reasons I mentioned in the CC ... , not even me, can give you an accurate chance at MIT! What I said then ... ? Because the factors of admissions that can be readily apprehended in a forum

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Best Advice I Ever Got Take it or leave it.

  

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 30, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the Deferred I feel your pain.

  

  . ~*~ I started tossing essay ideas around in my mind soon after the 2009 ... about how much I loved reading, how Course 9 (Brain and Cognitive Sciences) blew my mind, how my school was teeming with energy and diversity, how I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Random Random Projects/Moving Out of Random Randomly zigzagging about until I find myself in the future, somehow no longer in Random.

  

  corners in the two photos to figure out how to line up the images, and then ... of pretty paper art. In fact, I did a UROP on designing this stuff over ... :)   Rose R. ‘17 Mural-ish thing :) In order to brighten up my room a bit, I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 13, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  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 ... Confidential had the answers to all of my questions - about how I should approach

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  even in all the dorms at MIT. Yeah, I said it. BURTON 1 FREAKIN' ROCKS ... that I've established that, we can all go home. I say this lightly, of ... than just dorms in a hall, and also I totally just ruined the joke by

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

  tyrannosaurus REX the prefrosh are coming, the prefrosh are coming!

  

  !"]sophomore[/annotation]and as I drive to MIT for Year 2 (I'm writing this in the car :D), I can ... KNOW nothing I say will change that. But trust me, in four years, you ... .) In that vein, I think that one REX-specific piece of advice is that it

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 20, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take a Load Off Quoting The Band's "The Weight" should make the wait bearable

  

  my own story of how unnecessary all that stress can be. Back when I ... . And it's still true of everyone who wants to get in to MIT. And I ... that were in my eyes, I counted every possible point against me: a 690 on

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 1, 2010