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  A Comprehensive Guide to My Favorite Places on Campus can't leave without making one more post of this format

  

  it is. A map of all the places that I loved at MIT, color coded and ... how fucking cool that is. Standing in the middle of the Killian Court ... at a sport that I hope to continue doing for the rest of my life

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  did nothing but study and mire in awkwardness. And I learned that a ... Like most MIT students, I was aware when I applied that I was a ... I just said is a horrible lie. Here’s the truth: I have never taken

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

  Diversity or Merit? false questions, false answers

  

  There's something I've been mulling over in my head for a long time ... way of thinking assumes that there is a dichotomy between diversity and ... applicant. I would hope that premise, once so plainly stated, is self

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Cozy Hobbit Times, Cozy Hobbit Food

  

  In 2015 I got to experience a longtime dream of mine, finally finding ... that. Chop things. I don't know what reference to give for how small ... sliced steaks from it. Cooking steak properly is a complicated thing that

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 14, 2016
• 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…

  

  a good GPA is an important factor in applying for grad schools (I ... with a class of 200 each. That worries me - I don't know what it'll be like to be in a class where I don't know everyone's name, and not

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Burton-Conner’s Renovation: A Saga on friendships that transcend shitty infrastructure

  

  somewhere. I love that students can find a family in their living group and ... traditions, something that I fell in love with as soon as I arrived on campus ... tightly-knit my floor culture is and how wonderful it felt to be a part of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 6, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  placement is in a charter school freshman Physics class. Every week, I don my ... improve my grades by holding my bladder. (Though I do wonder how that policy ... “participate” in Harvard College now. What’s even more exciting is now I have

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Dissecting emotion what is feeling

  

  into dust, and there is nothing I can do to save it, because that's just ... One. Time is not real, because the other day I woke up at ten in the ... is not real, because I can sit in front of my text editor for an hour

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 3, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  anxious sometimes but I know rationally that a lot of this is due to outside ... There is empirical evidence to support the idea that males have a ... -analysis found that on average, men outperform women in a cluster of tests related

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  The end of a chapter

  

  England. It feels somewhat surreal how time flew by so quickly! I am now a ... studying abroad, I thought I should do a little reflection on my experience ... abroad. I feel that this is also something freshmen should know about

  • by Linh V. '13
  • July 8, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The Room(s) Where It Happens You've hit submit. What Comes Next?

  

  . That we are there to judge them and find flaws in them. The truth is, we ... about how our process works, but I’ll share a little bit about how our ... and January. My desk is actually less than a foot from my bed. I sit on

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • January 9, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  in IAP]. I got recommended 18.01 and 8.01L, but that had to be a ... during my first and only test in 6.100 A that I realized with horror that ... /b" written in place of numbers. I got a 50% on that one. This past week I had

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Let’s Go Fly A Kite Up to decision night!

  

  myself that I do, in fact, have free will. For example, on a whim, I ... is: Spontaneity! I’m a huge fan of doing random things ... afford to relax. I read an interesting article in the New York Times a few

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sounds like home Quarantine songs, from my home to yours

  

  hoped to meet you in, but since I’m already stuck in a staring contest ... blur together in a clumsy mess. Lately, I've been feeling a sort of ... appropriate. That’s how overdue this post is!"]snow falling

  • by Jeremy W.
  • May 28, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  the future may look like. I suppose this is a sequel of sorts, one that ... mattress, and thinking, in a giddy sort of disbelief, that everything I ... on how I was doing even in semesters I wasn’t taking any of her classes

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later what happened after pi day 2011

  

  tell me what he had been doing in the time since. I thought it was a ... doing so I realized that I wasn't exactly interested in where that planet ... feeling. I think that of all your three points in that blog, nothing is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  WHY? for people who don't like "no"

  

  . The time has gone by so quickly that I can't even think of a good ... to college, but he was sure that I was a great candidate for whatever ... point in keeping that rejected feeling alive. That and I really don't like

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HNY from NYC for IAP, 2016 time passes so quickly, help

  

  eighteen in a week; I feel like my spirit is aging more quickly than my body ... rang in the new year at home with a power outage. I’ve since relocated to ... mild distress that come with being alone in a new place. My room faces

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Events

  smoke and spice my comfort meal

  

  don't know, really. But, at the very least, what I do know is that I ... , which comes out to around once a month. In times when things were tough, I ... " align="aligncenter" width="400"] a snippet of when I had it in Thailand

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 9, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  experiences as a Fellow. Like I said, doing ALL THE (VIDEO) THINGS. Have I ... the style of a Science Out Loud episode. It was a class that I loved ... into making their own. I think that a lot of people underestimate the

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 1, 2015