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  ATHack A day well spent helping others

  

  One of the amazing things about going to a techy school like MIT is ... actually make it. Some are more free form and allow teams to create a solution to a problem they define. Others are more focused and have everyone

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

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

  

  America Challenge, which sends about a dozen students to schools around the country during IAP, to try and make a difference in communities that need it ... 100% Navajo, and about a quarter of its students go on to graduate. Even

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  What I Did in High School in the actual sense of the phrase

  

  ’s not what I wanted to write about. Instead, here’s a genuine account of one way to be a living human person in high school and end up at MIT ... ’t understand. It took a bit of time for me to start working as hard as I did in

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Life is Improv say yes

  

  summer camps and in high school. Though I like to think I'm a kind person ... stupid the whole scene is. I'm also someone who naturally likes to have a sense of control over things. I'm not a "control freak." But I like to do

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s More Than A Job Thoughts On The Eve Of RA Decisions

  

  'm too tired to dig up the post so I'll give a quick recap. First you apply ... . Three days a week, I take a random bunch of applications to the public ... to be a teacher in the first place, that they're better people for

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

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

  be great! You aren't afraid to throw in an application to a school that ... often receive applications where its obvious a student has only applied to ... research and find schools where you'll be happy than just applying to a

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 20, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  November 1st is my January 1st each november is a new direction

  

  heartbreaking. Takes a lot of courage to put yourself out there for a school with such a reputation to accept you or not. I remember when I applied ... everything I could to raise my chances and still only got it up to a 50% - my

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  of assignment you can do the night before," to which a student ... considered a full course load (supposedly equivalent to 48 hours of work per ... because they need to, of course). I didn't have a single class before 1pm

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  that it takes me a couple tries to even get in the right mindset to make ... being a senior at MIT, and I think that was enough for me to finally ... finally figured out what I wanted to say. I think that's how this semester

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 2, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  We’ve been there, too. It feels like the calm before the storm. Please don't forget to breathe.

  

  exceedingly real to me, despite the fact that I haven't had a panic attack on ... displays everywhere I looked. As a New Yorker, I have some desire to avoid ... gut wasn't churning with worry-anticipation. And so I decided to get a

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Burton 1 Social Club This Thanksgiving, I'm thankful for my ridiculous, hilarious, amazing floor.

  

  and totally deserve to let off a little steam. And they'll definitely be ... missing the floor Halloween party). It's a fantastic place to come home to ... lot of food and I'm kind of still in a food coma, so I'm not going to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Diversity or Merit? false questions, false answers

  

  principle from which to derive a conclusion: Oh, [that student] did / did not ... process: When we admit a class of students to MIT, it's as if we're choosing a 1,000-person team to climb a very interesting, fairly rugged

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice On The Essay The rules are simple: write your own.

  

  response: Hi, Essays are a wonderful way to connect with the selection ... basic proofreading to three figures for a full-blown rewrite - the irony ... place where you get to say "hey, I'm a human being, let me

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python

  

  thing. In my senior year, I used a Google Doc as an agenda to keep track of my assignments. I used a Google Chrome extension called Draftback to ... be viewed here. Figure 1: Daily Activity I made a box-plot to

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  a yoga ball chair to reduce back pain. I read on an external monitor ... excruciating. I miss talking to my colleagues, and I’m a notorious waffler, often ... interaction, I sometimes take a brisk walk to the drugstore and purposefully

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • January 9, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Axes of Confusion ????

  

  Humanities and Engineering. It is a super cool joint major that allows you to ... a double major because, well, it equates to the units of one major ... opinions, is the epitome of the epitome of using animation to not just tell a

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 21, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

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

  

  that this is probably going to be the last time I’ll be in Alabama for a ... with my friend Tom to meet some of our former teachers. It’s been a while ... walked down the halls, there was a good chunk of name tags next to the

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

  Parametric Cooking how i make fifty plus recipes with just three!

  

  way to model a cube in 3D? Certainly, there's a very easy way to make a ... , where you'll click and drag to make a planar [annotation note="hold shift while you do it to make a square"]rectangle,[/annotation] and then drag to

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 30, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  Classes I Won’t Be Able to Take also "What Is Pre-Registration?"

  

  't a wrong way to do it, just as long as you submit something. Incoming freshmen do not have to pre-register. I panicked a little about this after an ... only have a year left at MIT, and there's no way I'm going to get to take

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 23, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what work is bite-sized senior spring

  

  the work of not working this is going to be a challenging semester ... night, working, working, working. i'm trying to challenge myself to do a ... (especially when i feel productive) because i have a tendency to over

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2018