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  50 Reflections

  

  ultimately guarantee admission. How would I know? Actually Stu and Matt and ... . I wouldn't trade them for anything in the world. MIT alums often ... really, really flattered, the entry I wish everyone would read is More Than

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
• 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 ... two years, I faced a number of questions. This was due in part to my ... seemed absurd. Me? Sure, I had good grades and I work in a lab

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

  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  about me, about MIT, and about why I haven’t talked to you in a month ... said. I have a fantastic dean at S^3. Last year, I also came in feeling ... the sting felt tangible in a way I hadn’t felt in a while. “Why don

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Future Is Grim check it out

  

  email explaining how my body wasn't listening when I told it we had to ... what it's like to be a student here (he got his PhD in Mathematics here in 1980, and presumably hasn't left his lab and doesn't know what year

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 28, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  (Bitter)sweet home meeting high school teachers again, and visiting my hometown for (probably) the last time

  

  hometown in Alabama during the second week. I was staying in Georgia with my ... that this is probably going to be the last time I’ll be in Alabama for a ... I were both in town and had nothing to do. Other than that I cut my

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  how to change policies at mit [joint post with Rona W.] our CUP of tea

  

  wonderful experience, and I wanted to continue in a broader capacity. Paolo ... , how subject evaluations should work in the pandemic, the mission of the ... -year student to take five 12-unit classes in the spring; however, there is also

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 28, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the Bloggers’ Personalities! A post about personality tests, part 2!

  

  (n embarrassingly long) while ago, I wrote a post about personality tests, in ... . Mainly, I just thought this would be fun to read (since you all want to know more about the bloggers, right?!?!) and I thought it would be cool

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 12, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Units of Measure A simple question with a lot of cool answers

  

  I would like to direct you to this blog entry before we begin ... written I moved into the same dorm, the same floor in fact, as Sam - Conner ... at MIT, and in the years since I graduated, I've continued to collect

  • by Snively '11
  • January 7, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On Teaching and Learning Minimum requirement: read the last few sentences of this post. They're important.

  

  by their first four clans; in English, this would sound like “I am (Man ... neither, in all honesty, do I. To recap, I’m here for MIT’s Four Weeks For ... ’ve been out here for two and a half weeks now. I’ve seen seniors in Algebra

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend

  

  'm interested in science. It's probably why I'm at MIT. I have tremendous ... continued to disturb me: how can I be so different from my fellow physicists ... Thursday; I had spent an hour in rapture, as our professor read us a piece he

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

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

  Anyone in the admissions office knows that I have an unhealthy ... would cringe seeing this post), but I find it fun to read an analysis of ... reading." Thus, I've decided to share my secret talent with you all in the

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 20, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  get SLAPped! it doesn't hurt

  

  PIECE????????? (i spent a considerable amount of time in my formative ... life would have been like had I been born into a different century ... live, and I wanted to find out how they did so. [...] For this project

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 21, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  , and because I think those two go hand in hand anyway. I’ll largely put ... since I was nine years old. Back in elementary and middle school it meant ... papers that really disturbed me. This reaction, I would say, was both due

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
• 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.

  

  will probably be my downfall one day when I'm ninety-two in a backless hospital gown thinking, "eh, I'll breathe again in an hour or so. Inhaling is ... would have if I had just done it now. Other times I try scare tactics and

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

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

  

  Solutions In “Why is There No Water”, I’d highlighted some key qualitative ... this project was to try and see how long the water source would last ... . That success would motivate further hand-dug well projects in the region

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  actual conversations i have definitely had with freshmen during orientation

  

  mean the roller coaster's pretty cool FROSH: but i would never live ... * * * ME: hi i'm allan ME: how's it going FROSH: cool ME: cool ME: have i ... : are you in a frat ME: no ME: ME: well i'm in the toons ME: ME: we

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 30, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Best Advice I Ever Got Take it or leave it.

  

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 30, 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 ... exactly what needs to be done. I stick my cell culture media in the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Search of Answers Seeking recommendations, rather than providing them...

  

  I need to know typically comes together in a nice, tidy package. For ... institution)? If you have, I’d love to hear about it in the comments section ... When most people learn what kind of work I do, they often speculate

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  here comes a thought on decisions

  

  find negative emotions during this time in your life. i remember decisions day when i applied early action. i could barely concentrate in class ... would be, i felt sick to my stomach. a college's admission decision, for

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 13, 2019