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  Diversity or Merit? false questions, false answers

  

  applicant. I would hope that premise, once so plainly stated, is self ... There's something I've been mulling over in my head for a long time ... and bad) that I've had with people on CollegeConfidential and elsewhere

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 13, 2011
• 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 ... and hawk their school. I recently returned from my travel, which took ... in between over the course of a few days. I visited big high schools

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

  On Escaping An introspective vlog about MIT and getting ready to leave

  

  I have five different takes of this video that were scrapped before I finally figured out what I wanted to say. I think that's how this semester is going, though. I'm working on so many different types of projects

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 2, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT Underwear Exposé (and Sorting Hat) The coolest data you never wanted to have.

  

  ). Here is how I went about obtaining my data: I deleted spam and emptied ... ’t let me download such a large file, and I couldn’t figure out if or how I ... content of the mailing list (I’ve never been on it), but because of the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  10 Things I Learned 1st Semester Yeap.

  

  -yogurt-more-endearingly-“Froyo”. I can’t count how many “Ordering Indian in 10! Come to Room # if you ... bomb! How come I've never used Doodle or Google Docs before coming to ... CPW, I remember hearing about how Burton-Conner has no heating. And when

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 24, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Grown Up Well, not quite.

  

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 26, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An actual day in the lab Hectic is my middle name.

  

  would call low-maintenance, mmkay. 8:40 AM. I consider leaving, then check ShuttleTrack and decide that I would get to work faster if I wait for the ... room for a while. Usually I would go chat with the lab techs, but almost

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My Product Design Internship in Austin how to build things: both externally and internally

  

  to save that part before I closed out), but I’ve learned how to right ... prototypes out of foam, then later 3D printed them. I’ve learned how to ... .0001[/annotation] to code that. How many hours is this battery going to last us? I

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • July 26, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m back! (And what I carry on it) "You can tell a lot about a person by what they carry" - Atlas

  

  Hey! I’m back this term to finish my undergrad degree. I realize that with the incoming class of 2019, most of you have no idea who I am. Which I guess makes us even, because I don’t know most of you either. But

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 11, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  0.125 not a course 0 class, but a fraction complete

  

  how to cook! Or it might be more accurate to say I learned how to learn how to cook. It turns out that cooking, unlike baking (where I had far ... healthy, I can start figuring out how to help myself achieve it every night

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 4, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  explain to you how much it was not. I could tell you that I enjoyed my ... could never see yourself doing how they got where they got today. Like I ... knows exactly how to get what they want in life and I'll convert, but to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  Words of Advice for the Incoming Class you did it! now what?

  

  and I can only barely imagine what this excitement and feeling must feel ... . I get it. I know it. I was there. I thought I'd make something to ... , studying. That's probably how you already spent these past four years of high

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The future isn’t the answer reflecting on anxiety

  

  a devastating mistake, and I'm not satisfied with how I'm doing now ... . I wouldn’t know how to respond when they asked me why, so I’d say ... want to say that the future scares me. But how can I be scared of

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The MIT Major Arcana a collaborative art project

  

  thought getting people to make art would be cool, so I wrote a spec doc ... . Anyway, I noticed this a few months ago, made a Twitter thread about some correspondences, and got the idea that I should commission art for this! It was my

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the Deferred I feel your pain.

  

  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 ... From the moment I became an MIT Admissions Blogger, I knew I'd write

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  Manhattan. Makes me feel classier and older than I am. Leaves me wondering how ... .) After finals, my brother and I flew home and stayed there for about two ... little to do, and I ended up desperately catching up on fiction, doing

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Midsemester Night’s Dream Technically an All-Nighter's Dream, but hey, close enough

  

  stressed I am, or how much work MIT is, or how to handle it, because I ... -body diagrams. I had caught myself gushing sob stories to my friends about how ... I’ve decided to continue a long chain of poor decisions by starting

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing is Magic And 15 minutes is all you need

  

  already know why he isn’t getting to them. He isn’t sure how to start. I ... I have a personal blog that I write about my teenagers and I haven’t updated it lately. It’s not because I’m tired of writing- I’m not. And it

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Guest Entry: Stephanie Lin Presenting MIT's most recent Rhodes Scholar!

  

  different style of learning from the US, so I thought this would be a great ... other and the interviewers. I thought it would be terrifying; the bios of ... mostly I go by stephlin, steph or “yoooo.” I’m currently finishing up my

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 12, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  Grand Poobah and which preceded Stephen Colbert’s super PAC army). I met ... administrators saw that the introduction of dormitories would allow for the ... rest of the student life equation: how, thanks to MIT’s flagship

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014