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  Blogural Inaugural I just wanted to use this title.

  

  sure how to represent the enormous beast that is MIT, I figured I'd start ... : Boring 101 Honors Boring How to Be Pretentious Polo Shirts (Intro ... night, I get to put on pants*, step back from a crazy work-filled day, and

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python

  

  MIT has brought its own set of failures. It's hard not to get hung up on ... [/caption] Throughout high school I was often lost in confusion. I like to think about ... thing. In my senior year, I used a Google Doc as an agenda to keep track

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There is no such thing as a typical day on energy levels and productivity

  

  . On those days, I get a lot done. I find myself able to work for like ... done. I try to work, I really do. I spend time sitting in front of ... , trying to write a blog post. And on these days, I get constantly distracted

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 25, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why My 5.13 Problem Set Took All Day Moral of the story: Don't procrastinate, or I'll never talk to you again.

  

  to wear velcro." I have never, ever been one to get anything done ... myself that if I get it done now I won't have to worry about it later, and ... possible way for me to get done before 4 AM. Here's exactly why it took me so

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s Not Me, It’s You How to kiss goodbye to a school that rejected you

  

  context of “I wasn’t good enough to get in.” That’s not the right way to ... ambition was to be an officer in the British army. Despite his repeated ... nothing to do with you. I’m making this point because getting rejected from

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 29, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  e) Other Some pretty important stuff, and then just some pretty stuff.

  

  knows exactly how to get what they want in life and I'll convert, but to ... really engaged in my education during high school. Yet you get to college ... me if I haven't written back to you in the past few weeks. This

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  an admissions blogger I only have 23 minutes left, so time to get cracking. 1. Why and how I became an admissions blogger In eighth grade, I ... because I liked to read the blogs. A few years later, I spent a summer in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Applying Sideways How to get in to MIT.

  

  , which is this: How do I get in to MIT? And here is what I tell them ... them something they can do that will get them in. Maybe they need to be ... in and of itself will get you in to MIT. For example: A few years ago

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes, by the Group Chats and their potential replacement, Interstellar!

  

  Canvas, so Stellar might be in the procss of getting phased out. Regardless ... about how it feels to run out of extensions for 6.009 (Fundamentals of ... Messenger group chats to do a little analysis and see if I could get any

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  non-stop / walang hinto what a mess

  

  happened. it’s as if the entire month has just been in my head. to be fair ... refusal to reflect on what is happening in my life, but it is impossible to ... summer camp i went to for two years back in high school, and each time i

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

  50 Things Advice for the class of 2010.

  

  half of your class at some point in the next four years. Get used to it ... journal in taking you back to your favorite moments. Take naps in the ... from you too - in fact, that's part of the reason they chose to be

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Some people call me the space cowgirl

  

  lot of a student who used to work in our office, who we'll call "Pink ... Monica's high school) "dared" me to talk about "how many real fluke ... Jones: There's only one way to get into MIT, and it's the hard way. What

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2004
• Blog / Athletics

  And the Whistle Blows soccer post-season & my last competitive soccer game

  

  like I just stepped on campus to begin preseason, and now I’m handing in my practice gear and taking down the decorations in my locker. So, how ... about our successful regular season. Which leaves me to tell you about how

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 21, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Academic Conference and also things I have learned about publishing research in the past few months

  

  investigating in the paper, and a description of how you're going to investigate ... pretty psyched to get in). The reviewers leave comments and suggestions for ... value, getting rid of the watermark in the draft, and trying to fit those

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  're gone.  Arrive in Zürich. Figure out how to get from ... whenever I wanted to, read a book, go hiking in the Alps, get to know an ... manager will be okay with that. Figure out how to get the exam proctored

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

  what am i doing great question.

  

  actually works in the lab where I’m doing my thesis--we’ll get to that later ... we’re now in a study group together. I feel like I’ve been able to get ... on MIT and I was fortunate enough to apply and get in early action. I

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

  November 1st is my January 1st each november is a new direction

  

  chances of MIT were that of a coin flip. But I managed to get in early ... a night multiple nights in a row if I needed to get an assignment done ... early actioners, whether you get in or not, you did it. You applied, pat

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  smoking. Not trying to get in the building.” You look down. You’re wearing a ... you to get to the food in time. When you reach the student center ... Tuesday, May 5, 2015, in expansion of MIT Gothic. It is up to you to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Thong I Should Be Wearing [UPDATE] Sexy sexy undies.

  

  in the comic strip, Alex, had to decide which college to go to. She was ... HTML file attached to it. An html file that, when opened in a browser ... to be catapulted to the upper echelon of schools in the contest. Drexel

  • by Snively '11
  • November 1, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Critter gaze upon my son

  

  refusal to learn how to do drawing on a computer."]Day 1: Web ... to tap xylem and phloem in the tree. The web secretes enzymes and a ... ; Day 2: Pocket In transitioning from a Web to a Pocket, the critter has

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 26, 2020