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  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  hardships. But in times like this when we go through hardships, no matter how ... pennies and published them in my post My Two Cents. I got a lot of responses ... students telling me how I had encouraged them to continue striving on past

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

  Home Under the Dome sorority recruitment, tips, and my experience

  

  .[/caption] Some Tips for Recruitment Keep an open mind! In high school, I would ... a sorority? How do I sign up? When is recruitment? What’s the ... [annotation note="Like many others, I didn’t know a lot about what being in a

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • August 14, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Things Advice for the class of 2010.

  

  for you; beginning with the launch of our new site in early September, I ... I'd leave you with the things that, in retrospect, I think are ... pictures. One of my major regrets in life is that I didn't take more pictures

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

  Admissions advice from someone who’s been there

  

  living in Switzerland, I didn't really have a social life outside of work ... stats post, you are approaching MIT Admissions in the wrong way. When I ... interested in me. I was a very good young runner, but I wasn't one of the best

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 17, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Critter gaze upon my son

  

  . The assignment isn't about making something that would exist in reality ... /herself/itself laying down in vastness of debris, accumulated waste. How does the ... have a lot of freedom in adapting it, so I started with a literal sheet

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 26, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  for all the children in the world, but I will give you my take on the ... fairness was the priority, what would it look like and how would you define ... admissions staff thinks that you can hack it, you're in. How can they do that

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

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  grasping. I soaked it all in and confirmed that MIT was for me. I was ... engineering major. Given my interest in the major I was curious to hear about ...  from juggling things that I would be unable to get out of bed for hours, unable to

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Pictures from a Semester of Classes The Sequel Society Didn't Know It Needed

  

  So about a week and a half ago I handed in my last final in Johnson ... things I was really excited about. In short, there are about two times ... fun locked in with... As I noted in my first photoblog, PSets are not

  • by Richard O. '28
  • December 29, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Praise Of Holistic Admissions not an admissions machine

  

  In last week's blog entry Diversity or Merit? I included the ... air-quoting so hard I might sprain a knuckle) in their admissions ... decision we make. Some people would strike a slightly different balance in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reaffirming our commitment to diversity in uncertain times

  

  statement on the role of diversity in MIT’s educational mission, I would like ... [annotation note='In that role, I saw how both our alumni and our applicants ... importance of diversity in STEM education and workforce development, I would

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 7, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bad Ideas Weekend 2019 good times

  

  and down in excitement. I had a bunch of them and they were really good ... worst of the bad ideas I took part in. It was so bad that I wrote an ... someone had the bad idea to run the test in the East Campus courtyard, I

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 3, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Dissecting emotion what is feeling

  

  One. Time is not real, because the other day I woke up at ten in the ... is not real, because I can sit in front of my text editor for an hour ... friends on hall. The next day I had dinner with some friends in the area

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 3, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  senioritis not to be confused with señoritis

  

  off the effortlessly forget to turn in an assignment thing. so i had grand visions for senioritis in college. i would go out all the time! do ... i never really had senioritis in high school—it was probably the

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 10, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT, part deux The case study of someone else you wouldn't expect to have gotten in

  

  on how I got here is the most popular thing I've ever written ... physics... and a 450 in writing. (Note: Adam and I are always warring about ... in the case of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II -- wait, are you all too

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005
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  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  same way, if I was in their shoes. How could we have solved this? How do ... I: Exposition. To be able to tell this story in full, we must start in late January. I'm living in Next House after a busy on

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Solar Catsby Turning my little ray of sunshine into a solar cell

  

  , so I had a vague notion of how it would work. The main idea was to use ... Meet Catsby: He was a sweet boy who loved food, sleeping in the dirt, and sunbathing. Sadly, he passed away shortly after I moved to MIT

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 2, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, by the Calories free food is everywhere

  

  , I was lucky – if I hadn’t happened to stay late in a classroom near 10-250, other students would have gotten there before I could. Last week, I had ... describing the content, I’ll tell you about my classes in terms of the free

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Let’s Go Fly A Kite Up to decision night!

  

  afford to relax. I read an interesting article in the New York Times a few ... a breath of perspective. Even if I had been rejected, my dog would ... myself that I do, in fact, have free will. For example, on a whim, I

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  i dissected a roach *cronch* *slurp*

  

  food or drink water, I would catch a bit of hair in my mouth. Even when I ... exception of half a leg and an antenna. I figured it would be a waste of a ... with the tweezers. I still ended up accidentally poking a hole in the

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 28, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Shiny Circuits Shiny, in some subcultures at MIT, means REALLY AWESOME

  

  student (they tend to be about how neat trees look right after rain in the ... Hey guys! I know it's been a little while since I have blogged. The ... lives of MIT students. BUT, right now even though I have both pictures and

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 31, 2009