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  Some people call me the space cowgirl

  

  that SAT scores can't account for all kinds of intelligence. The student ... of the case that was important for me to remember. Also, Jordan (from ... horchata (yummy Mexican drink). I wanted to tell you a little about the last

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Women’s Soccer Talking to the 2009 NEWMAC Champs after they returned from the NCAA National Championship Tournament

  

  intramural pistol team and came to appreciate the huge variety of sporting ... that I didn't even know what the rules were for a lot of the sports I was ... tournament for the first time in program history. They were knocked out of the

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 25, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what am i doing great question.

  

  complaining about a group of people that ruined the party they were coming from ... reminds me of something David Foster Wallace wrote, which I can’t for the life of me remember the title of the book or text, but he says

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Back in Time I change my clock back three hours and read headlines on the magazine of the…

  

  the class of 2011 has been admitted and half of my freshman year is done ... The last time I was on an airplane, I was in an aisle seat getting my chair kicked by the screaming kid beside me (a stereotype for bad flights

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Future Is Grim check it out

  

  buzzing with some exciting new information. Prof. Grimson, head of the ... ordinary changing of the guard though, as Eric Grimson is no ordinary faculty ... deprived butt that week. Those of you who choose to come here in the future

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 28, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Being “qualified” for MIT Let me show you how it's done.

  

  international students. Near the end, someone asked: "Can you give an example of ... institute of numbers-loving folk recognize that numbers don't tell the whole ... of the physics department, which was precisely the opposite of what I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to date at an American college Things we never talk about

  

  real, unfiltered picture of the information you need to know and real ... ", referring to hookup culture or the general idea of casual relationships ... , on the blogs. I am not used to being open about this kind of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] You Have a 50/50 Chance a guest post from my mama

  

  all of the spotlight for this blogpost."]Maybe, but true.[/annotation] All the years of Camille studying, taking tests, volunteering, and ... up at 0400 in the morning on the streets of LA or San Diego for a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  This Is How I Read productivity hacks, but for reading applications

  

  'd give you a window into a day in the life of reading applications. We ... makes. Unlike some parts of the country and the world, here in New ... the day. Toward the end of graduate school, I learned that early

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Beyond the Stop Light it's been a ride, MIT

  

  P.S. Even though we won't be posting on the MIT blogs anymore (at least, not regularly or consistently), we will still have online presences ... starting out with separate artstagrams but may in the near future make a

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 26, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On identity f(x) = x

  

  . I have these kinds of conversations all the time, every day. But these ... walking on the beach and talking to one of the upperclassmen. I listened to ... small, compared to the identities of the people around me, once I try to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Random Ceiling Tiles The ceilings of Random Hall and a friendly message.

  

  the seven of eight floors that have colorful ceilings, separated by ... the assurance and sense of purpose that drove you to follow it. Do it ... , from the bottom of my heart: good luck! Black Hole kitchen         

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 30, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing I don’t have time for hosed into my core

  

  up the points of the things I even wrote anything down for, they just ... strong negative memories of. But it's a requirement for the new 6–14 major ... didn’t try to study 2 hours before the exam on 2 hours of sleep. I

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 25, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  REX at Random Hall Pancakes, LN2 ice cream, board games, game theory, math, raves, staying up entirely too late,…

  

  waking up to the smell of food from surrounding restaurants that always inhabits the streets of Cambridge in the morning, and I spent it wandering ... . One of my best friends Ami G. ‘14 is out to find yellow paint for the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 23, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  VEDA In which I try to vlog every day in April

  

  VEDA (Vlog Every Day in April) is a thing in some parts of the You ... over the course of the month and gradually show more bits of my life ... videos in a playlist below. Here's a masterlist of all the vlogs, with

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 24, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Challenge You Pi day approaches.

  

  reason for wanting to come – and the primary reason of everyone I have ... ) – was not the fear of being unable to succeed without MIT, but rather a ... hearing that MIT is what it is because of the people who go here, but it

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to Make Money at MIT for all of us who don't know how to make a startup :(

  

  with the strength of a firehose, hydrant, or [annotation note ... -comprehensive list of options at/around MIT to do passively throughout the school year, in the random and subjective order I thought of them/was told about

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 4, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the Bloggers’ Personalities! A post about personality tests, part 2!

  

  particular, the scientific invalidity of the Myers-Briggs test. Well, I also ... for all those personality tests! None of this, the tests themselves nor ... bloggers) for yourself! Tests Included The structure of my survey was more or

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 12, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There is no such thing as a typical day on energy levels and productivity

  

  feeling of accomplishing work. (Do I like the work, or do I just like the ... of them, definitely. And it isn’t that every day in the middle was ... . How much effort I’m putting in, the time of day, the last time I ate

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 25, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What I wish I’d known, and what I’m glad I knew Before coming to MIT.

  

  At the CPW Women's Leadership Lunch, one of the prefrosh at my table ... feel low on self-confidence. I'm glad that I learned by the end of Year 1 ... MISTI, is BEFORE THE END OF FALL SEMESTER. Before the end of fall semester

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 17, 2013