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  Ben’s Fourth Semi-Annual Q&A Even yet still more answers to your questions.

  

  A real entry is coming soon! I promise! In the meantime, more ... and 680! writing). I was wondering if it would help my application if I ... won't be in place until 2006 at the earliest. "Also I know you stated

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  The Marks of a Student or, let's catch up

  

  being good enough in computer science to succeed. I would just like to ... I have to because one of my goals for this blog in general is to be ... , really wanted to do, something I had brought up in our group chat because I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 4, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Not in my own words. 90% of this entry = not written by me.

  

  Background, Cover Letter, or some comparable title.) I would guess virtually ... in speech therapy. When I asked her why, Jennifer said she had taken a class in it for fun and really loved it. But then I pressed her: was there

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 1, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  October ‘06 Questions Omnibus Some advice from MIT interviewers, and answers to your questions.

  

  both counts. In my case, I tell the students to dress however they would ... I submit two essays in a doc. file? If I did so, would AOs be kind ... good scores. how can I report my IELTS score, as in Part 2 of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Deciding to Live on Campus a 4 month long emotional rollercoaster

  

  campus, and their explorations in finding new places to live. Today, I ... trying to boot out of the country, nor do I have any in-person graduation ... started to sink in that not only would we not be back by May, we might not

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 26, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Surviving Self-Quarantine 101 tldr; memes (haha jk...unless)

  

  high school. wild... i can't speak to how other MIT students are surviving this lull in academics, but i've developed a few coping mechanisms ... drop your own techniques in the comments :)   Reading oh man, i

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 19, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Spontaneous 5-Minute Classes on Whatever You Want These are too good not to share

  

  process of "WHAT???? HOW DID SOMEONE EVEN COME UP WITH THIS???"-->"I KNOW ... tangentially related to this"-->"Okay, I have an idea for how to begin, at ... improvising 5-minute classes on these topics, I would love to know what

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 14, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the (New) Bloggers! CONTENT COMING IN HOT

  

  filled with pipes (is that how it goes?). So, I studied architecture in a ... : 6 About: Hey guys! I’ve lived in exactly two places my ... and blogging about my projects. I never thought MIT would be the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 10, 2015
• Blog / IAP

  Liminal Activities Period IAP is a mindset and you can keep it forever

  

  accessible in the liminal space between semesters. I remember starting every ... the fall semester, barely able to believe that I passed and do not in ... three movies a day. I remember wondering how long it could last. If the

  • by Joel G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Things I’ve Missed About Home My top six.

  

  experience that I never would've had without my family pushing me to get in the ... So I'm writing from the end of a well-needed break back in San ... , and the fraternity I was living in over the summer had free cereal 24

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 16, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  avatar a weird metaphor for careers

  

  people had to do all of those things for you you know how in ‘avatar ... making decisions like what job to work at after college. i think we’d be in ... friend, and they asked me how i’d want to resolve this discrepancy. at

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  College Application Anxiety what if your biggest fear is getting *into* MIT

  

  up and figure out how I would measure up at that instant. What I didn ... get in— I completely understand the fear and anxiety that comes with ... my accomplishments and all my skills would be frozen in time and

  • by Connie H. '15
  • June 26, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  chaos and an exam that I technically failed irl deus ex machina

  

  understood that I learned how to answer them at some point in the past but my ... wanted to sleep. The only other time I remember feeling this tired was in ... extended essay in order to get the IB diploma. I remember thinking (as many

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 28, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Everything You Ever Wanted to Know All your wishes have been magically granted.

  

  the exact same credentials, I'm not confident I would get in. Admissions ... confused applicants. I'm not going to tell you how to get into MIT. That ... less than 2012's. I can tell you how to maximize the strength of your

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 13, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  but her emails how to assert?

  

  in my emails.I do not know how not to Feel, Think, or have things Seem To Me. I am self-conscious about the number of "I"s in my writing ... this is I don't know how to do this for emails to adults who would be

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 5, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Fall Festival 2014 Some actors came to MIT and told me about their units of measurement

  

  ' grilled cheese would be here from 3-5pm today. Either 1) I am getting very ... would it be and why?" Kumail thought I was referencing a bit he had done ... Festival. I was unaware of this until I happened upon a food truck giving out

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 4, 2014
• Blog / Class Projects

  Make a Lamp! and cart the pieces of it from IDM to IDC, the forge, Metropolis, and back…

  

  "]CAD[/annotation] for thorns because I didn’t know how wide they would need to be to fit ... This fall, I enrolled in EM.S21: Design and Make a Lamp. It's a 3 ... showed us CAD modeling. I came in to this class expecting to have a good

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Not Farewell After All Hello again!

  

  . MIT forced me to figure out, early in my undergrad career, how I should ... In my last entry, way back in June 2013, I painstakingly bid good ... : “Farewell, MIT blogosphere”). But I’m back!! Just in time to join other

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Sensations On Having Feelings

  

  . I think, in amassing these colors, I was figuring out how to be ... past it like some of the giant ideas in this area. I had no beginning ... intertwined.   I remember high school as a blur of grey; in one word, I

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 9, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  7 / Pressure is a privilege Training for my last hurrah, the US Championships

  

  hard classes to finish up to graduate in time. Some weeks I would only ... Boston with some good practices, but I wasn't sure how my hip would hold up ... easy tomorrow, but I would have to somehow find that fire in my belly

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • February 15, 2019