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• Blog / About Decisions

  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  shallow. I would look at the time on my phone, then on my laptop, then on my ... ; however, it was all for naught the moment my efforts would matter most. I ... lack the oxygen that was so often taken for granted. There were two types

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  frustrating, for I still haven’t found the optimal waiting spot on the platform ... . And just look at the two campus maps. MIT is a school of numbers ... the way back from Harvard, I look forward to seeing familiar faces and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to trick yourself into thinking that you’re writing a report The most productive procrastination technique revealed at last!

  

  system for organizing all the useful portions of the literature that you ... bookmarking the tab (try to keep switching it up for fun) should work fine. If ... overheats or the deadline for the report has passed. Take home message: Don

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 17, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  get SLAPped! it doesn't hurt

  

  for our living spaces, and 2. the free art is REALLY GOOD. the program is called SLAP, which stands for the student lending art program, and i suspect they chose the name at least partially for the sake of an amusing

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 21, 2024
• Blog / Blog Projects

  reject modern web design return to 2006

  

  does anyone else remember when the internet looked like this? sorry ... and closing the same 4 social media apps until 3am i’m that kid you’re friends with for the first few days of school before you meet an actually

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who

  

  I go. Overview In Searching for legitimacy, we look at compare the ... permanence For transience The gift of puzzles Sandbagging Free as in ... the Mystery Hunt as the Hunt. That'll suffice for now; I'll give more

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 29, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to get a UROP A lesson on stalking.

  

  ’re looking for a UROP in the first place (I trust it’s something other than “I ... someone at the UROP office. Finally, keep your eyes peeled for information ... they receive from their respective departments. I signed up for the Brain

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating The Tunnels…Of Freshman Academics You didn't actually expect me to write about hacking on the internet, did you?

  

  don't formally have the prerequisites for. Go look at the curriculum ... system, for a while, but after querying the 2015s, I discovered, to my ... stay in hell Sam looking back at undergrad Keri on getting the most out

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The MIT Major Arcana a collaborative art project

  

  correspondences, and got the idea that I should commission art for this! It was my ... 't have tight specifications for each card either. I constrained the size ... . Even when you think you've accounted for the buffer time, you haven

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

  Classes, by the Group Chats and their potential replacement, Interstellar!

  

  class, the less of a need there is for a group chat. The harder the class ... felt about the class. For example, I had a ton of negative reacts in 6 ... ? Harvard and MIT students can cross-register for classes at the other school

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  spill from my fingertips: dropping a class for the first time, changing my ... except for the seniors. The semester itself was difficult, but the normalcy ... days of my junior year studying for and taking exams. By the time I had

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 31, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  The Room(s) Where It Happens You've hit submit. What Comes Next?

  

  what they think the selection committee looks like. Their answers ... with the same people. Moving at a [annotation note='For those of you who ... -played song from the soundtrack. For more Hamilton content on the blogs, see

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • January 9, 2019
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  An actual day in the life It's not the most exciting day... but it's a day!

  

  was looking for criticisms, as the paper is due to be published soon ... , running the digested DNA on a gel, and choosing nice-looking plasmids for ... Macgregor Convenience for my morning Froot Loops and 20 oz. Mountain Dew. The

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Riri Williams Pi Day Video Behind the scenes of an extraordinary three minutes!

  

  sat down in an office in MIT Admissions. “For the spring admissions video,” he said, “I basically want to make a two-minute trailer for the ... (then) recently released new concept for the Iron Man comic series, a 15

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017
• 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 ... ? The application volume is such that there is more capacity for students

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  neighborhoods we move into and come to love. What do pregnant mice, cheerleaders, and four-foot light-up tinsel giraffes have in common?

  

  For anybody too young to have seen my name at the top of the recent ... . I'm specifically looking at the role of My Favorite Gene (MFG) in the ... why, so my job is to look at the mechanisms of MFG function in the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 27, 2008
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  MIT Gothic You are reading an admissions blog post. You are reading tumblr.

  

  . You’re walking back from Boston across the Harvard Bridge. You look down and see the scrawled marker: “Halfway to Hell.” You turn and look back ... of your friends says that the biometric for the Guest Indemnity changes

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Ten days of live-action roleplaying no joke, there i was…

  

  for space police, and a Wookiee stuck in a tavern in the middle of a ... , the glorious time of year when classes aren't as big of a deal for most ... many of my friends to sign up as I could. The pandemic's been rough for

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

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  New York Times about the college admissions process, it is hard for me ... not clear, applying for admission involves the submission of academic ... rigueur activity that everyone needed to do in order to look good for

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  An Unofficial Guide to Unstandard MITglish, 1st Edition The joy of jargon.

  

  software on your language processors. So, for the gentle edification of ... euphemism for a depressing lack of something. Ex. 1: I had the null set for ... nimble adjective for describing things that look exactly as they should. Ex

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009