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• Blog / About Decisions

  Culture, not the bacterial kind Some questions you should be asking about all the schools to which you're applying.

  

  information I can ask students and faculty in the graduate programs to which I ... Triton, where I am hanging out after my UCSF interview, waiting for the ... -affiliated housing? What are the different rooming options? When will I know where I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 4, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Navigating MIT is like flying a spacecraft* the most important things I've learned here so far

  

  excite me, and I can see the direct utility in the material I'm learning ... where you must prepare, you can’t do it. You don’t know how. Even the most gifted person in the world will at some point cross a threshold where it

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 16, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  He’s Making A List and Checking It Twice The things that I found important when looking at colleges

  

  to college. I kind of went about it in a semi-orderly fashion, but I ... : Please keep in mind that these were the things that I found that were ... important. 1. Scholastic This was the most important option in my case. I

  • by Bryan
  • July 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Day 1 A recap, with pictures.

  

  Hi everyone! CPW is in full swing. I haven't been this tired in a long, long time. :-) I got here a little after 8AM, worked the ... - although they're mostly from the Registration Room, as that's where I was all

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 7, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  homecoming to a new school year and adventure

  

  its work or its academics, but for moments where I can sit in someone ... three dioramas every single ride. (There were some days where I'd refuse ... . Although I lived in Somerville in fall 2020, it barely felt like I was living

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 16, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  I Wrote an MIT Application Essay on Getting a B in Calculus College Search 2KChel, how I found MIT, and how I turned the B around

  

  I spent this morning sitting in 1369 Coffee on Mass Ave writing new ... , for one thing. For another, I didn’t actually put “MIT” in the subjects ... emails were instead titled things like, “Have a present - I am sleeping in

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blogger Freebie #2 And a plot twist!

  

  . I still usually feel like I can follow along, at least, in lectures ... to one more blogger freebie. In four years of reading the blogs, I don ... about 18.022; I'd like to elaborate a little on my experiences in that

  • by Cam T. '13
  • November 15, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Comments, UROPs, field trips, and OMG HP7! The most awesome blog entry ever. Because...okay it's probably not. But it's all about how…

  

  in the BioInstrumentation lab, where I'm now the proud owner of a $45 ... BIG moment, where Neville comes in and saves the day. If this happens, I ... things in it. So I ordered the first disc off of Netflix and popped it into

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 20, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  baby steps something tender and new

  

  from august 2018, i can’t help but cringe at the unnecessarily harsh ways ... in the long run. i started reading ask polly articles and subscribed ... like a canned statement, but it couldn’t ring truer for me. i wallowed

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring cleaning and miscellany The Brass Rat club, sending 4-inch heels to Goodwill, and picking a new food-providing graduate…

  

  're weird. And I can scan in writing assignments from fourth grade to prove ... over to the table where Brit '05, Lara '06, and I were chatting and ... , course 7, but they were excited to hear that I was doubling in course 9

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  every book I read in 2022 all nine-plus of them

  

  everything I read in 2022. The Secret History, Donna Tartt (5/5) The Secret History is, of course, a famous book, particularly in certain circles. I ... in.   The City We Became, N. K. Jemisin (3/5) I’ll start off by

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • January 8, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blast From The Past: Garage Hero! Turn your Guitar Hero controller into a MIDI Garageband device.

  

  Facebook didn't suck - where was I - ah yes - in the old days, when I was in ... In the old days, when I was in college - when dinosaurs roamed the ... can play it, and you could set the buttons to play certain notes in a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  the perfect choice doesn’t exist not the same river, not the same you

  

  . they exist, definitely, but not in a way that i can say. nine. of course ... zero. once again you can determine how busy i am by the rate of my ... whatever time i have left, because it can just take an arbitrary amount of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 22, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Life of a Black Person A followup to the amazing Black Lives Matter Post

  

  presented themselves to both black minds and not: "I am not black, can I ... you. Here, I want to try my best to share a few moments in my life that ... moments where I realized that unlike some of my friends, I am still not

  • by Ben O. '19
  • July 11, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Fifth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to blog comments from the last month.

  

  friends on which I can write on in my essays. I would be so grateful if you ... . ------------------------------------- Dheeraj wrote: "Can i take the SAT in jan 2006? Will its scores be ... . Apologies. ------------------------------------- Aziz wrote: "If i'm living in

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 19, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  first week class reflections i am home

  

  as long as i can remember, yet i never really had time for it in high ... in session and i have...an assortment of feelings. i guess my last post ... with pessimism either. i took physics c mechanics in high school and did

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 11, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Everything Everywhere All At Once a free early screening from lsc and a q&a with the directors

  

  and my purpose in what I'm doing and where I want to go and where I see ... screenings of movies and projects them in 26-100. I've gone to a couple of screenings and events in the past in an effort to see more movies (I watched

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 29, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  I’ve been reading applications And I'm still reading them

  

  where I built in dedicated time for healthier behaviors—like setting aside ... compassion as I can. You share so much of yourselves with us in the application ... my makeshift home office can be found. Hello routine, my old friend I

  • by Jeremy W.
  • November 28, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  “Why does my kid have to move again?”

  

  , but I was wondering. What's the policy on non-MIT-students being in ... times. Personally, I can't recall having heard of anyone being hassled ... my 10th in ICSE with 90.4%.but my 12th was not upto the mark.(i have

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 2, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  how to draw dotted lines on chalkboards, mit style dotted lines go brrrrr

  

  over the summer that I lived in Evan T. 19's room, where he installed chalkboards on one of his walls. (I talk about this more in the whiteboard post.) If we were in the same room, I would tell you that I could teach you

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 20, 2021