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  What’s the big deal about 40^2?

  

  Okay, so I'm in the middle (towards the end) of a long day of reading ... application, I just glance at the test scores to get a sense of them before moving on to the more important parts of the application -- that is, who

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 20, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  “I’ve Got 99 Problems… Admissions Is Not One” Really 52, but who's counting? I know that you love numbers, stats and checklists, so…

  

  it's time for me to lighten the mood around here. So to all of you uber ... at the end of an Ashante concert. (This is NOT an endorsement of ... that do not exist... irregardless of how much you orientate the direction

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Advice From The Elderly My last blog entry, at least from this chapter.

  

  To the class of 2016 - My name is Jess, and I graduated in 2010 ... food that has fallen on the floor. I am probably the age of some of your ... undergrad [Janet] if she had seen Silence of the Lambs, which came out in 1991

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Pretender a message to both you and me.

  

  listened to a small playlist of songs I had thrown together for the ride. As ... continue giving my best every second of my life. And each day for the next ... deal. What would the rest of your life look like if you chose to never

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Where WAS I? Honestly? I still don't know.

  

  and the arm of my coat ripped three-quarters of the way off. I always ... , and, well, it's a month later. I woke up on the floor of the blood bank ... wear their hats sometimes, and made fun of me when I try to use the word

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If man is five Then most people are six, and if most people are six then pre-meds are seven.

  

  just to be in the same room for a minute and catch a glimpse of his well ... '07 spoke at the Class of 2010 choice of major fair on Monday. I wanted to go myself to reveal the wonders of Chemical Engineering to excited

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thoughts for the New Year A semester's worth of thoughts, tbh

  

  the sidequests I planned at the beginning of the year. Sidequest 1 ... , though, I generally know the number of the building that I happen to be ... of cases, be willing to help you learn. Sidequest 8: Survive the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Guest Entry: Christina Bognet Supplemental materials to help you through the next few days.

  

  rational in convincing myself that things would turn out okay, at the end of ... that seemed perfect at the age of 18, that I actually feel as though my ... This post is written by the beautiful and talented Christina '10

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 8, 2006
• 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

  

  in the case of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II -- wait, are you all too ... beginning of this summer -- and he's been told by one of the professors in the Aero/Astro department that he's one of the best undergrads to come

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  senioritis not to be confused with señoritis

  

  the cosmic fabric of the universe, you certainly can do positive work ... a bit of personal direction. the moment i realized it was okay for my ... 'm hoping the rest of my (and your) senior year pans out like that.

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  señoritis navigating work/life balance - and spring break photos

  

  little bit of time every day to have to yourself—the unsatisfying answer is that it depends on the person. many of my friends never experienced a ... into MIT. but i think the trick is to define what the "life" part of

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 28, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting for Decision Day In which I give a pep talk of sorts (with a little help from my…

  

  't stick exactly to all of the words, but you'll get the gist of it. Best of ... this feeling. And it can be kind of terrifying. Even applying in the ... into the goblet of fire and hope that you’re chosen to be a part of the

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • December 7, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Alums Direct New OK Go Video OK Go always has the awesomest videos. Jeff and Eric don't disappoint.

  

  You know the band OK Go, right? You remember, the guys with the treadmill video, and the Rube Goldberg machine video, and the marching band ... ," and it is directed by two of my MIT classmates, Jeff Lieberman '00 and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 16, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Grad school admissions My (limited) insight into the graduate admissions process.

  

  's true for biology is pretty true for all of the natural sciences). First ... I'm interviewing at five of the top seven programs in biology -- and ... 're like in the lab. This is a pretty important part of the package, since

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 20, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paths there are so many

  

  just the start of receiving these types of decisions; after it come ... often, and it does wonders. It takes us out of the toxic "what if I did ... actually end it! Think of it as the universe guiding you along the messy

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 19, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We Should Take This Final and Push It Somewhere Else you'll need a lot of mOXie

  

  Even though we’re only two weeks into the start of the Spring semester, I have already taken a final exam. In the midst of sitting down for ... the end of a semester, condensed into a single week. So, how exactly do

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 14, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  whether to share it with the rest of you guys, but I thought that this ... midafternoon lunch rush. "wassgood?" A familiar question snapped me out of the monotony of my day and brought me face to face with the cashier. "you good

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Have Never Been to Beijing A (loose) translation of the previous post written in Chinese

  

  would also say to me, in Amharic (the national language of Ethiopia), “we are Habesha”. “Habesha” is a term that refers to the ethnic group of ... two types of first-generation children. The first kind didn’t appreciate

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sibling dynamics at MIT yes lmao Nisha and I are related

  

  exploded with laughter in the middle of my physics lecture as soon as i saw it:   I thought OP probably was a reader of the blogs, because ... ’ve been going to the same school for most of our lives, so I wanted to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mind and hand

  

  't particularly meaningful. It's a slogan that sounds cute. In the case of MIT, I ... is because, as these students go through MIT, most of the scientists ... here, I was pretty far along the science extreme. I'd done plenty of

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 3, 2006