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

  

  or noteworthy for the blogs. (Also to organize ... from 1969 (or so the label said), and it looks like a bunch of old ... weeks. Maybe in 15 more years, a blogger will find our Pie Day video

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  trivial things, like "Does orange plaid match with a floral green print?" or ... ), engineers of advances in space travel, and doctors who will cure cancer. The ... shifting idea is starting right now in someone's room or the coffee table in

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  disappointing or the spookiest Halloween ever. But right now I’m going to talk ... . The people around me were spending Friday experimental baking or jazz ... should have grape vines or roses. It was quiet, except for the occasional

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what am i doing great question.

  

  ! 21W.755 This past weekend, my homework assignment was to eavesdrop (or ... ’s something different--a smell, a sound, a texture or tactile feeling. This ... life of me remember the title of the book or text, but he says

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  , animal cruelty, or a restraining order. Any Chuck Norris Fact with his ... anatomy of different whale subspecies, or the social behavior of catfish. If ... time swimming in Brazilian rivers or researching in Fiji. It doesn't get

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

  There Is No Formula A formula would take the human component out of our process, which is perhaps the…

  

  . Having bad grades or scores will certainly hurt you, but I’m sorry to say ... . Reading through this thread doesn’t make me think of SAT scores or grades ... reflection on you. At all. Accepted, deferred, or otherwise – you are all

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 16, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Sunrise, Sunset An MIT-Israel student shares his day

  

  right now and soon, I’m told, things will be even more laid-back (!) when ... studying for their bachelor’s, master’s, or PhD. The vast majority of the ... + Cornflakes, or Honey Bunches of Oats (expensive, definitely a treat) 8:45–Walk

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Typical Day on the Road Having grown up in NYC, I love coming back.

  

  inside a subway or a taxi. Some of the other admission staff have written ... chance to meet the alumni who will be doing their interview. Here I'll put ... question applies to musicians, or those who want to do any kind of other

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 17, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Why I wasn’t sad to leave MIT On shedding.

  

  remain on the same campus or even in the same city, there will always be ... priorities – and for that I will always be grateful! But for exactly that ... -mail if you have questions or want to chat. In the meantime, I probably won

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  as being totally smooth at all times), or if my professor had instead ... being real, or your high school econ teacher going to the same gym you do ... Requirement (GIR) class, and one hour of recitation, taught by grad students or

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 7, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mostly Harmless Rifle. As in, the phys ed class. As in, I fired one.

  

  second or third or fourth petri plate with different antibiotics or food in ... . Just kidding, bacteria don’t have mustaches and hats (or do they). I am ... sport rifle shooting proficiency. Please Note: All students will have the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 22, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Reflections

  

  obvious now, but it will be someday. 50 Things supposedly still gets the ... , give or take, when we started the admissions blogs. Yes, this makes me ... beginning, each blogger had his or her own install of MT, i.e. all the blogs

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later what happened after pi day 2011

  

  overstated. Don't be wanton or careless or cruel. Treat those around you with ... people, you will somehow be good in your school as you will be required to ... case or for others as well. I always wonder how things would have been

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what work is bite-sized senior spring

  

  work that i do not expect to get paid for or graded on; it's work that i ... for so long, and i'm excited and terrified to see where the chips will ... you spent the past few years of your life is "good enough" or whether

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Into the Smoke In more ways than one.

  

  thirty days in Heathrow and write a book about it (or shoot a documentary

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  25 Stories of Getting Accepted to MIT told by students and alums

  

  decisions came out. I could get 1 bar of wifi on my phone in one corner of the ... out, or so I thought. I found out later that the server had pretty much ... were waiting to ask if I got in or not, and then they were crying, too

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Upside Down Gnomes From Wisconsin Always look up.

  

  me happy will always make me happy, regardless of the day- or week ... sequel (or what I thought would be a sequel) to 6.046, design and analysis ... , because that's what I do when I'm feeling melodramatic (or feeling, in

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 26, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Move Fast And Break Things just make sure you have a net positive of unbreaks

  

  schedules, lunch menus, and graphs activity in the interns' channel, or a ... , Thursday nights will often devolve in the following manner for the less ... one of my friends apparently pushed out 5000 lines of code that will add

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 25, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Women’s Soccer Talking to the 2009 NEWMAC Champs after they returned from the NCAA National Championship Tournament

  

  ) or Mechanical Engineering (course 2). She's been playing soccer since ... students has made this group very close. Team members will often eat dinner ... athletes out there. Let me know what other questions you have about soccer or

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 25, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Making Connections we live in a society (affectionate)

  

  . Now I'm deciding again who I will live with next year. I've made such ... .[/annotation]And any one of these people who I help or who helps me, helps and is helped ... building, friend group, class, or club to another, and we are all

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