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  Parents, Please Read Prefrosh and students, read this too, and make sure to have a discussion with your…

  

  more NOT going to lecture than I would have if I attended. I ended up ... questions that were just really hard that I didn't know how to answer. I ... I have finally made it home for the holidays. Let me tell you, there

  • by Snively '11
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Painting by number The anti-formula

  

  generated by pbnify.com[/caption] In a rant post many years ago, I referenced ... out to be woefully short on substance.  I want to revisit and elaborate ... , I can not argue with the logic of trying to discover the formula for

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 2, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the bridges I’ve crossed in Cambridge, ranked my civil engineering hat is off

  

  , not realizing just how quickly it would drive down Cambridge Street. I ... how modern science interacts with our current environment and I also ... afraid that pressing my body against the glass would tip the train over. I

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 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.

  

  would have if I had just done it now. Other times I try scare tactics and ... I've always been a procrastinator. I've procrastinated on such tasks from toddling around on the carpet and thinking "I suppose I'll try

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  this was a book I would actually like to see published, and I think I ... The week after my semester at MIT ended, I was accompanied by this ... in any case, I was far too busy to contemplate what it meant. I met up

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

  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  Head of House swipes us in and we grab food. I thought it would be a ... of questions I want to ask them about how to do it. Over the course of ... analysis plan when the full explanation of how I pursued it is due tomorrow

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  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 / 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 / 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

  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
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  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