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• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  made me eat a really terrible burrito against my will (or something ... 's true. That said, it doesn't sound very helpful, or even convincing, but I ... , or worse still, raising the possibility that the agonizing wait would

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2) My take on the MIT short essays.

  

  QUOTE: (i) Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech ... a short one will do. (iii) If it is possible to cut a word out ... . (v) Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  incorporate innate or nature-driven difference. Is testosterone key? Are women ... , and if so, is this difference breadboarded by biology or by social ... rotation, for example, found inconsistent or absent effects across cultures

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Applying Sideways How to get in to MIT.

  

  because you think they will help you get into MIT (or Harvard, or Cal ... speak to students or their families, be it on travel or during a campus ... them something they can do that will get them in. Maybe they need to be

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Random Random Projects/Moving Out of Random Randomly zigzagging about until I find myself in the future, somehow no longer in Random.

  

  'm creating a shattered glass looking thing on all of my walls (1 down, 3 to go ... linkage based so that hobbyists can easily build them (or something). (Click ... and the radiator may or may not be falling through the floor. Here is

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 13, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Policies, Principles, and Protests thinking about responsible citizenship in a time of student protests

  

  announced that students who demonstrate will face disciplinary action, which ... report to our office any conduct that may result or has resulted in any disciplinary or other action that occurs after your admission to MIT. We have the

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • February 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  is beautiful: (1) Because I get to see this view every day walking ... Court... (4) ...or take a walk by the boathouse: (5) I'd show you ... with in class: ^a Form1+ we used in 2.008.  Yay MIT alum companies

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Guest Entry: Stephanie Lin Presenting MIT's most recent Rhodes Scholar!

  

  mostly I go by stephlin, steph or “yoooo.” I’m currently finishing up my ... (as you will soon see…). I’m incredibly excited to be going to Oxford ... on: The Rhodes Application – you know the drill. A 1,000 word personal

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 12, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  I continue to regularly eat peanut butter straight from the jar, or ... older brothers or sisters, with whom I am competing for a space in an ... back to California to start medical school, where I will be wearing flip

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The future isn’t the answer reflecting on anxiety

  

  something that doesn't exist yet, or something that will never exist? When I ... important exam or a first date. It's this persistent worry that something is going to go wrong, no matter how unlikely or disproportionate to the

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “So what are you majoring in?” *sweats nervously*

  

  reading biology or neuroscience research. More generally, people who know ... little bit more so: And the 15 or 20 that followed took me all sorts of ... enough. At least I’d narrowed it down. Although I still haven’t reached

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The end of a chapter

  

  for MIT students who are considering spending one or two semesters ... , every time someone sneezes, coughs, has an abrasion or even just talks of ... physiology lab sessions on exercise physiology Checkout my review walls (or

  • by Linh V. '13
  • July 8, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  halloween down the infinite

  

  . [carousel image1="105154" image2="105162" image3="105173" image4 ... collect candy at all the different offices. [carousel image1="105171" image ... more interesting than the stalls themselves though. [carousel image1

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 1, 2024
• 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.

  

  will probably be my downfall one day when I'm ninety-two in a backless hospital gown thinking, "eh, I'll breathe again in an hour or so. Inhaling is ... remember whether oxymercuration of an alkene yields syn or anti

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  struggling to do so in a way that’s pretty and poetic, that will stick in ... to my freshman advisor (or maybe my parents, I don’t recall; I still have gaps in my memory from that time that will probably never be filled

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions advice from someone who’s been there

  

  discovered these, for better or for worse, but I'm sure that most have not ... getting in were, or who posted their very high SAT scores and then asked if ... extracurriculars or major awards, and asks what their chances are of getting into MIT

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 17, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  strip every couple of posts, if I think of a joke or something.

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 7, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to My Favorite Places on Campus can't leave without making one more post of this format

  

  up being useful - or at the very least informative - to most of the ... going to be useful or informative to anybody, except for future me who ... (outside locations that evoke memories, or are just pretty) Crossing Mass

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  know you all are all: so I will take you there. I will take you to ... offending hardcore geneticists out there, or if I breezed over some of the

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 11, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  Some of you have to make a decision to come here (or not) by 23 ... opportunities—for fun, for work, or both—than you have time for, even if you don’t sleep. But whether you choose MIT or not, own your decision, because when

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 30, 2013