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  An Admissions Excavation Chris gave me a box of stuff and this is what I found inside

  

  Flashback to about a month ago, when Chris sent an email to all the ... to help out with a side project. A couple back-and-forth emails later ... -lived time capsule, which was actually pretty fun to delve into for a couple

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

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

  

  courage to move to a floor where I knew almost no one. And it turned out ... to get us where we need to go, and I quickly learned at MIT, a few ... to Science Magazine, who published a study on my expected lifespan in

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Grey and Other Colors

  

  conversations with people because it would be a hassle to find a mutual time that ... moving to a new place, falling in and out of love with SF, trying to stay ... about it. Where I am and where I want to be. Sometimes things happen in

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 8, 2016
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  An Unofficial Guide to Unstandard MITglish, 1st Edition The joy of jargon.

  

  of mentioning this to a dinner table-ful of MIT students, who crisply ... Question #12 on your 18.03 problem set, which happens to use a lot of ... penitentiary or a zoo, where in random erratic surges, with sparrowlike

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?

  

  supportive parents. I live in a suburban house where I don’t have to worry ... ’s shelters, and how this inspired her to start her organization. As a result ... of a permanent house[annotation note="To be very clear, I do not want

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice On The Essay The rules are simple: write your own.

  

  place where you get to say "hey, I'm a human being, let me ... I recently opened my in-box to find an email from someone who " ... response: Hi, Essays are a wonderful way to connect with the selection

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Today I hit my TA with a door I didn't MEAN to.

  

  need to give different ones a shot, and you need to find which one fits ... up there because I'd attended a couple other sections and found his to ... tuned me even more to the subtleties of what makes a good TA, though I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 7, 2007
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.

  

  reasons. With a little googling, you may even be able to find some of my ... is where the heart is and happily chose to switch from mechanical engineering to pursue a PhD in biological engineering at MIT. (It’s not as crazy

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  study spots at MIT not exactly places to cry, but they'll do

  

  polling my friends to find out where they like to study on campus and what ... embarked on a quest to document the best study spots at MIT. most of these ... those will continue to be gatekept by the student body :)) I tried to find

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)

  

  walk up three flights of stairs to find a hallway full of friends, where ... hometown (where I'd lived my whole life) to go to MIT. I was in such a hurry ... harder to find. Think of what a better world it would be if we all - the

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Burton-Conner’s Renovation: A Saga on friendships that transcend shitty infrastructure

  

  prefrosh can choose where they want to live instead of being randomly placed somewhere. I love that students can find a family in their living group and ... community. Most of all, I love that dorm culture enables students to find

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 6, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why My 5.13 Problem Set Took All Day Moral of the story: Don't procrastinate, or I'll never talk to you again.

  

  prone to ants. 9:43 AM: Finding tupperware to put sugar in. 9:45 AM ... bathroom, the film centers around the thing that happened to a freshman named ... : "IT'S A JOKE." 9:21 PM: Realize nobody actually knows what happened to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to trick yourself into thinking that you’re writing a report The most productive procrastination technique revealed at last!

  

  definitely opened up a brand new skillset for me to flounder in and ultimately ... thinking that you're writing a report I would like to share with you an ... with, you will find this technique very easy to master and even quite

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 17, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  need to find a better balance, something that I thought I had learned to ... when you're on a set schedule. Every day, I wake up, I work out, I go to ... done. It's just a crawl to the end of the school year before you can do

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  ’s alright to be invested. If this is about where you will spend a good chunk ... . Genuinely care about the places you apply to, and if you do find that a ... sitting in the library, studying for a Geography exam when someone ran up to

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  How Wrestling With Snapping Turtles Can Get You Into MIT A student profile of an aspiring limnologist.

  

  makes you a candidate to attend MIT. Just find things you love to do, and ... , writing search algorithms to help fictional cows find salt licks in ... kind enough to do a Q&A for my blog, so enjoy! ---------- Did other

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  What I Did in High School in the actual sense of the phrase

  

  ’s not what I wanted to write about. Instead, here’s a genuine account of one way to be a living human person in high school and end up at MIT ... ’t understand. It took a bit of time for me to start working as hard as I did in

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s More Than A Job Thoughts On The Eve Of RA Decisions

  

  's supposed to be comforting, obviously, I just find it really insincere. I mean ... 'm too tired to dig up the post so I'll give a quick recap. First you apply ... . Three days a week, I take a random bunch of applications to the public

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  room hoping to find something to occupy my parading thoughts. A binder ... her I would find a cure to cancer. My binder was that promise. A promise ... To a lot of people, myself included, getting into MIT is the dream we

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a freshman year 🦴🧠🩸🖐️🫀 my first year at mit, told through the body

  

  every week where i was “forced” to dedicate the time to drawing, a hobby ... , where i learned how to use a telescope to observe stars from atop the roof ... history of an accomplished 40-year-old writer, where an acceptance to a top

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025