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

  

  . Your application is read by a senior staff member who will look for deal ... application is then read by a primary reader who will summarize it at length for ... a few who really got to me, and when they didn't get in, the tears

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things Charles Has Made fare thee well, rocket powered roller skates

  

  man who built a 20 foot flamethrowing exoskeleton in my linkdump post a ... students here who could build a giant flamethrowing exoskeleton to invade ... there is someone at MIT who falls into that mold, it's probably Charles

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Burton 1 Social Club This Thanksgiving, I'm thankful for my ridiculous, hilarious, amazing floor.

  

  confident in declaring that Burton 1 is the best floor in Burton-Conner. Maybe ... floor works for me. We're a cohesive unit, not just a bunch of people who ... people competing to see who stayed up the longest (though whoever wins is

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  of the night. Malingap is someone organizing a grocery run based on an ... prefrosh temped on the same floor he was living in. Malingap is the feeling ... about our high schools. Malingap is someone offering to grill me a burger

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A (Belated) Letter to July In which I start blogging again with an angsty video

  

  is the way my hiatus ends Not with a bang but a vaguely-poetic angsty video.  It's been a crazy 101 days since I last posted in this corner of ... be many more somethings in the near future, now that there's a little

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mind and hand

  

  is Latin for "Mind and hand". Now, in most cases, a school motto isn't particularly meaningful. It's a slogan that sounds cute. In the case of MIT, I ... answered that question at that time, but this is sort of a more extensive

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Institute of Smashing What do you think MIT and a garbage compactor have in common?

  

  who are billiantly talented. Of course that's a generalization but let ... it in and make better marks than my classmates who diligently plugged ... defeated in a lot of ways. My grades in a lot of classes weren't what I

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take a Load Off Quoting The Band's "The Weight" should make the wait bearable

  

  . And it's still true of everyone who wants to get in to MIT. And I talked about humanity as a perk; that is, the admissions office has high ... that were in my eyes, I counted every possible point against me: a 690 on

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  you have a pretty good understanding of what is going on in general and ... each pixel? There is such a joy in eyeballing where things should be ... definitely opened up a brand new skillset for me to flounder in and ultimately

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 17, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Challenge You Pi day approaches.

  

  . “Who will get in? What happens to the people who don’t? Who will I become if I get in? Who will I be, who will I become, if I don’t?” First, I ... is the only path to success, which is a topic for another post.) I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to Freshman Days composed in the wee hours of morning

  

  -nighter. Relief is a powerful force.   The coolest things you will hear in college ... you will learn in college is The Value of Friendship. I have a friend who dreams with me of a blissful life on a boat in neutral waters where

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 29, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  10 reasons why MIT is beautiful if I do say so myself.

  

  with in class: ^a Form1+ we used in 2.008.  Yay MIT alum companies! (9) Because the Esplanade is only a short walk from campus: and ... this post were taken with a compact camera that I carry in my pocket.  I

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  the main filter is: Can I see myself doing this as a career in the ... Back in October of 2019, just about a month into my fall semester, I wrote A Major Crisis, a blogpost in which I discussed my major prospects

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hard MIT Class ...or is that redundant? And yes, hiiiiii.

  

  the whites show, thinking, “A class is hard? An MIT class is hard? Who ... your wits, and in place of the solution’s space will be a black hole ... a sad story. So, a few years back, in Nigeria’s equivalent of grade

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Life is like a Game Elaborate metaphors from an amateur comic artist

  

  It's been a pretty rough week, so I took a break and drew out my struggles. For some reason (mostly the fact that I'm a media dork at heart), a video game metaphor was easiest to conceptualize in comic form, so enjoy

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 7, 2013
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Brief History of Cars on Fire at MIT You didn't think I would miss an anniversary, did you?

  

  If you're the kind of person who remembers to look up once in a ... , on this date in 1936, a similar thought likely went through the minds ... ; Yes, that is a Ford Model T, hanging from the roof. The car, which

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  I Miss the South Musings on a secret Instagram account

  

  in my reservedness is a rare and mythical thing. Most of the time I ... , but in a way that is less intense and more mechanical and hilarious all ... some friends. We stood in line for hours next to a sixteen year old who

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Application dreaming

  

  majoring in BME. I am a published poet in my country. Should I send my book ... world a better place. And we hope that you share in that excitement. But ... , this is a paraphrase):   "MIT is not a good place to be if you don

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advisor vs. Advisee a '07 and a '21 answer a series of questions

  

  . What is and isn't common in the lives of a MIT senior and a MIT Alum and ... time and energy of a trainee and it is very important to put them in a ... least once a week I ask myself who I haven't heard from in a while and

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Making Connections we live in a society (affectionate)

  

  A few hours ago, I was on my way to my room in the[annotation note ... delivering dinner to a friend who wasn't feeling well. Because it's (very ... of one of them: they're a student in[annotation note="Elements of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 26, 2021