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  here comes a thought on decisions

  

  would be, i felt sick to my stomach. a college's admission decision, for ... i've been thinking about pi day and decisions lately and the song [annotation note="i debated with myself for such a long time on whether or not i

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 13, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  As We Approach Decision Day On getting in and on not getting in

  

  When I hit puberty my inability to assess risk thank goodness manifested itself academically. I had a close relationship with my parents, and I didn’t have a rebellious streak beyond my accidental goth

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 8, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  In the Realm of Giants imposter syndrome with a senior year twist

  

  ="though i have some ideas"]what to do,[/annotation] and how to do it as ... figure out how. Over the last two months, I’ve been meeting with professors ... i think 90% of the way would be nice"]rebuilding will be done

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  ? Would you even see it? How would you react to it? Maybe, even if you had ... most definitely many, many red apples I would be unable to see or wouldn ... is on that single spectrum. Houses would be painted black and white

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  student) would normally afford for dinner. I never missed a group meeting ... on campus on the mainland. It will get progressively exciting, I swear. One day last summer, while I was working as a UROP in the Media Lab

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

  To whom much is given… ...you know the rest!

  

  Much is expected. I can't tell you how many times I have heard ... opportunities and has made choices about how to use those opportunities. I won ... few weeks. I can tell you with a fair level of certainty that it is just

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 13, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions of Travel a guest post by Spencer W. '15

  

  . “In the States, that would never work. There would be riots,” I said ... GBP per GB. I quickly calculated how many episodes of Archer I could ... drive to Cambridge if admitted.   I still have the first email I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Into the Smoke In more ways than one.

  

  doing here? That was two years ago. In retrospect, that was just how I ... I still remember when I first stepped into the arrivals hall at Tel ... unremarkable Monday morning. I had just come off a pair of flights totalling

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 2, 2010
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  [Guest Post] We’re Not in ~Kansas~ Missouri Anymore Going From a Small Town to Boston, by Claire S. '25

  

  -school-senior-me didn’t know how to answer. So I gave the only response I knew for sure ... bearings and figure out how to use public transportation (the “T”). I started ... with phone calls and text messages and FaceTime, I would be able to stay

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 17, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  , is "well, so release the data on everything else!" To which I ask: how ... Over the last few weeks I've posted entries about diversity vs merit and the holistic admissions process. And while I hope that these entries

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  papers that really disturbed me. This reaction, I would say, was both due ... math ability and performance,” a reminder that I know I would personally ... girls' scores significantly improved, an effect which I would assume holds

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
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  Rain by any other name lagi na lang umuulan

  

  , it would begin raining and pouring. But it never did. I didn't have a ... shower, a drizzle. Ambon is the kind of rain that a light jacket would be ... window, ampiyas, and the action is umaanggi. Where I'm from, the dry

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 22, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  students telling me how I had encouraged them to continue striving on past ... thought that I would love MIT. It was hard to let it go when I found out ... you, YOU define you. Sometimes I think it would've been better if I had

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT wedding Paper airplanes instead of rice and a reception at a science museum... what's not to…

  

  life he loves the most. I have trouble conveying just how perfect the ... (For those of you just tuning in, I'm Mollie. I graduated from MIT in 2006 with degrees in brain and cognitive sciences and biology, and I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Muti Water Project ...is finished!!!

  

  this project was to try and see how long the water source would last ... don’t know how to do this” (I literally knew nothing about water before ... know about the Muti Water Project, an initiative I had been busy working

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Super Blood Moon Eclipse bonnie tyler would be proud

  

  “Isn’t it crazy how we’re all a part of this?” my friend says to me while I stare up at the sky. I break out of my reverie and I cant help but ... , too.” These are the words that echo in my head when I remember last

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s not fair! ... and why that's OK.

  

  fairness was the priority, what would it look like and how would you define ... situation is probably not going to change. I can't speak to the situations for all the children in the world, but I will give you my take on the

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  An Astrological Guide to the College App Process We all know astrology isn't real...or is it?

  would cringe seeing this post), but I find it fun to read an analysis of ... thought about how much fun it would be to go to college together. This is ... Anyone in the admissions office knows that I have an unhealthy

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 20, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

   from juggling things that I would be unable to get out of bed for hours, unable to ... friends asked me how I was doing a few days before finals, I struggled to ... how our situations had reversed. I finally understood that day. It didn

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions advice from someone who’s been there

  

  official list of these, but I would say that some of them are: (Responsible ... I've been working on my grad school apps lately, when I'm not busy with other stuff. I bet that a lot of you are working on college

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 17, 2006