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  MacGyvering Bacon-tine’s Day decathlon brought to you by a paperback, a sledgehammer, and a scooter

  

  tendency to sit fascinated for hours by the refraction of light through pens ... granted by the structure of a shoestring's weave, internal discussions on ... other than that of the dried wood pulp from which it had once been

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  nervous because I share a lot of qualities with the author's young self ... big deal). Basically: academic failure is not the end of the world, even ... graduate from college, I can say now that failing out of MIT was one of the

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  called “Minute Math”. Some of the strongest memories of my childhood is ... reigning champion of the visual speed game SET, constantly ‘challenging’ people, knowing that I would win. But as I moved up in the hierarchy of

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  The Pink Hair Problem What do you do for your college interview if you have dyed hair and a…

  

  't want everyone to be the same -- part of what makes MIT exciting is ... , piercings of all sorts, bare feet, tattoos... We tell both the interviewers and the application readers to be careful not to fall into trap of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 7, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to MIT: Choosing a Dorm the good and not-so-good reasons

  

  This post is the second in a series of Guide to MIT posts. Check out ... when making your decision. Ask if the floors or lounges of the dorm ... of upperclassmen to help you, but you can also avoid the learning

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 14, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Robo-CJ writes haiku “didn’t you already make a blog post about this?”

  

  the end result of this is that i now have far too many haikus Also i ... Alright, story time. Since the beginning of spring semester, I’ve been so ... ’ve helped run lots of events: the Filipino Students Association was supposed

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Few Words

  

  had reported the same level of satisfaction with their lives. I'm sorry ... . And to those of you who get waitlisted: Waiting's hard, yes. But the ... get off the waitlist, and you could be one of them :) To everyone: As

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 14, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  There Is No Formula A formula would take the human component out of our process, which is perhaps the…

  

  the human component out of it, which is perhaps the most important part ... . It makes me think of the guy who fell in love with trains as a kid and ... gave him a job before he could even drive. It makes me think of the girl

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 16, 2004
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an Easter vigil alive at east campus

  

  , simultaneously, this-broadcast-is-live. I live at EC, on the second floor of the ... ' resurrection because we are uncomfortable with the uncertain temporariness of ... meant feeling the heat of the sun, hearing Jesus gasping for air and

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 5, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  ; I'm just rambling. What follows is one of the most insightful and ... to heart, it's some of the best advice concerning MIT you'll find ... perspective. I've seen MIT admissions from the perspective of the applicant, a

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  1 Week of Meals for $8: How-To’s and Tricks Tackling Food Insecurity

  

  harder. This semester the four of us were on CASE’s (Class Awareness ... and knowledge of the social class system. Some of their programs have ... -term food insecurity Been a voice for the 10% of students that have lacked

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • May 2, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Note To Self Please don't forget this.

  

  freshman you, preserving five of those lessons in a blog post that the world ... simply hit the limit of my intelligence? Was this as good as it could get ... know how to do, instead of focusing on the ones you know you can’t do

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  As we hurtle towards Pi Day… A post of posts.

  

  've already had a lot of "bleary eyed" moments in the last few weeks (my eyes are actually pretty sore as I type this), which reminded me of the post ... respond to much of anything in the next 42 hours or so as we wrap everything

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 12, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  When you last heard from me, I had just arrived at The Middle Of ... the most. Each of us is paired up with a Teach For America teacher; my ... shy away from participating for the rest of the semester. Fail to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Thong I Should Be Wearing [UPDATE] Sexy sexy undies.

  

  of the funniest things ever. I lol'd and lol'd, and then Melis wrote a wrap up entry that showed the end result of MIT's poll-bombing. Fast ... of 31 colleges and you could vote for yours. Whichever college had the

  • by Snively '11
  • November 1, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Why I wasn’t sad to leave MIT On shedding.

  

  my interests, without the burden of commitments I wasn’t totally ... to know there. I didn’t have a “group of friends” in college the same ... times to several people separately, but at the end of the day it just

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thank you for reading A rigorous study of 26-year-olds (n=1) showed that getting older is positively correlated to the…

  

  We were asked to write an entry for the anniversary of the blogs, a ... the time since I was 17, that girl from Beasts of the Southern Wild was ... the car after this parenthetical ends?) One of the things that I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

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

  predicted for your sign or not, the pieces of advice for every sign in this ... in the comments! Capricorn My capricorn friends are some of the most ... us because of the prestige of MIT and doesn't actually know what this

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 20, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  that the Maryland Institute of Technology? Sameer had moved to London ... . Lulu was one of my TAs - I almost swooned when I made the connection that ... ; it had the advantage of feeling like a friend I'd grown up with. If the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012
• Blog / Advice

  Enjoy Life Farewells and New Beginnings

  

  of my favorite poems, all about looking toward the future and starting ... the rest of the talking. https://youtu.be/vdCQoajVQds Hope your road ... Today is my first day of school as a PhD student at MIT. Today is

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 5, 2018