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  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  university has to offer are unparalleled relative to anything I’ve seen before ... CC, asking one of the common “What are my chances” post. Some said I ... application, we are unfortunately unable to offer you admission into Penn

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  you get something like this to happen? Final exams and projects are ... curveball, so to speak. In any case, it may seem like there are only two ... life hard has also made you unable to FOCUS or STUDY, and promptly bomb

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

  “Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” and other ways to improve your test scores

  

  ’re familiar with common notions that men are spatial and logical thinkers, while females are more verbally proficient. A man being tested for spatial ability ... incorporate innate or nature-driven difference. Is testosterone key? Are women

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  , got back to my dorm around five, and made some notes:  # sorta realizing ... who you are as long as you are smart enough. And once you’re not, you ... hyperbole, is it."]smart.[/annotation] # Most of us are not that way at MIT

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m not an imposter… I’m going to be featured on the MIT News homepage

  

  identifying where my feelings are coming from.[annotation note="Maybe even a ... of things I now realize I was doing: 4 MIT classes that are a ... ’d never experienced in high school.[annotation note="There are some people

  • by ana~
  • October 29, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  things that are golden a zine

  

  Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief,…

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 25, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “You know what would be cool?” some pizza would be a start...

  

  Science to Student Life, the best way to get free food and every tangent in ... the more unsung parts of MIT: People here are very clever. You see, let's be honest here for a second. There are plenty of very respectable

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 8, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

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

  's awesome, but be sure that you are applying to colleges where you would ... obsession with astrology. Scientifically speaking, there are tons of reasons ... in the comments! Capricorn My capricorn friends are some of the most

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 20, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  freshmen and score lots of free food, but I had a class taught by Pulitzer ... like, how they react with each other, what their orbitals are doing at ... , and one in kinetics. Because of the way the courses are structured (no

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Fireside Chat with President Sally Kornbluth get to know our president!

  

  of science because you are surrounded by such amazing people and ... something uniquely special about MIT.  What are some other things that you ... then something occurred to me: “Wait, are you allowed to take classes

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.

  

  spring protections. A spring protection is made where there’s a source of ... funding from MIT. That is where we are now. Muti still has no well ... .013 (General Biology), a class with at least 300 people in it, where I would not

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Flying Close to the Sun a semester of fire

  

  note="Fire props are made out of flame retardant kevlar (not socks). The ... firejams and rehearsals where people are spinning props on fire ... down” “Pants on fire” There are so many figures of speech involving

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Reflections

  

  Hello old friends. The blogs are turning ten years old today, and ... MIT." Which made us all think, "hmmmmmm." Amrys also introduced me to ... commanding most of the traffic -- another thing that made us think, "hmmmmmm

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  ’s homegrown musical Hack, Punt, Tool, “hackers are anonymous technological ... epidemic the prior year: “A great many of our students are this year living under conditions which are not conducive to either health or study

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Views of Campus, the Charles River, and the First Snow with a snowman and a snow dalek

  

  are panorama photos stitched together using Hugin and edited with Gimp (both free), and all are clickable for a larger view. The first snow of ... large open lobbies separated from the classrooms and offices. These are

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 20, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  failures are gifts that will lead to successes down the road. [caption id ... confusion as a feeling that comes in many different flavors. Some are sweet and others are bitter. I liked being confused by interesting projects

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The leftmost station on your dial WMBR = awesome campus radio

  

  familiar, it's because the call letters are those of TBS, the TV station ... stuff, but Hanna's visceral reactions are completely worth it.) This year ... -monthly free concerts in the Student Center's Coffeehouse. Last week was the

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  funds do? To amuse myself, I briefly pictured manicured shrubs made from ... your dreams are apparent to you, pursue them. Creating optionality and buying lottery tickets are not way stations on the road to pursuing your

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every now and then, my mind = blown. Thanks, Science!

  

  article that actually made me go like this:  <-- (I actually look like ... know you all are all: so I will take you there. I will take you to

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 11, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Sunrise, Sunset An MIT-Israel student shares his day

  

  early afternoon to see the sights. There are a few attractions to the town ... -Gurion University makes this place a college town. Students are in the midst of finals ... they all evacuate. There are about 20,000 students from all over Israel

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012