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• Blog / About Decisions

  So Chance Me Maybe? Hey! I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my SAT...

  

  chance of getting admitted, that these top-tier universities were way out ... convinced I failed my interview, I once almost cofounded half of a club, my ... ’t very anxious about applying because I knew beyond a shadow of a doubt

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the exclusion of everything else on making decisions, and how i chose mit

  

  admitted students weekend of another school in the Northeast, which we ... . Three. The process of growing up is that of continual disenchantment, of ... of course they came through. I take the T to Kendall, and sitting on

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  focus on the aspects of MITese that are (in my opinion) universal across ... words and abbreviations and numbers are part and parcel of our culture ... showcase this phenomenon of "speaking in MITese," because I personally feel

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  that outer layer, so despite the 34-degree air outside of this 2250 Acela ... heading back to MIT (well, South Station in Boston) from my hometown of New ... legs and walk the length of the car. As I headed back to my seat, I

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  An Astrological Guide to the College App Process We all know astrology isn't real...or is it?

  obsession with astrology. Scientifically speaking, there are tons of reasons ... would cringe seeing this post), but I find it fun to read an analysis of ... everything I say with a grain of salt. However, whether you agree with what I

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What I wish I’d known, and what I’m glad I knew Before coming to MIT.

  

  , 80% of the time. I'm glad that I made friends at other universities ... At the CPW Women's Leadership Lunch, one of the prefrosh at my table ... from Day 1 that most of my professors didn't waltz unobstructed from

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  You Are Here a list of things i can't make myself do, and a few i can

  

  the endless noise of constant motion that comes with living in a house of seven people. I read over the problems again, eyes moving to and from the class notes open on the other half of the screen. Nothing sticks

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 19, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  . If the amusing rivalry of Harvard and MIT was ever unclear, it makes sense when you get stuck between the two. Neither college is, of course ... . Harvard has solemn portraits of old men looking smart in decorated frames

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Boomeranging The day before classes start is Registration Day. It’s also the day we welcome readmitted…

  

  is my eighth Reg Day, although I only count seven of them. It’s also the fourth time I’ve sat on the Returning Student Luncheon panel of… the ... are four of us. We’re a good group, a healthy mix of ages, genders, and

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  University, Boston University, Olin College of Engineering, Berklee College of ... three main housing options (listed below in order of increasing personal ... apartment. Lots of people sign year-long leases on apartments (including those

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 31, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Merit When getting into MIT isn't convincing enough

  

  of good experiences as a Tech Caller, good calls with good people who ... small subset of the whole—have no qualms about telling us exactly what is ... ’re female?” I took a couple of seconds to respond, and when I did I said

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • January 22, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend

  

  communicators about their specialty, but am equally admiring of writers like David ... The Flight of the Iguana and First Light, respectively; reading those ... my dream job. You learn and write about any area of science that

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On Teaching and Learning Minimum requirement: read the last few sentences of this post. They're important.

  

  When you last heard from me, I had just arrived at The Middle Of ... the most. Each of us is paired up with a Teach For America teacher; my ... 100% Navajo, and about a quarter of its students go on to graduate. Even

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On identity f(x) = x

  

  surrounded by people who excel in every corner of the universe, and no longer ... . I have these kinds of conversations all the time, every day. But these ... walking on the beach and talking to one of the upperclassmen. I listened to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2019
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  Fig. 6: Eigenverantwortung The time of my life. What responsibilities?

  

  ;Register for the intensive German course at University of Zürich.   ... !  Through the University of Zürich Language Centre, sign up for a ... They're not kidding when they say the Swiss are some of the most

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • August 28, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  My high school was this tiny sort of dinky-looking building on the campus of a community college, forty-five minutes from my house. It was a ... .” There is obviously a lot of your high school self that is conveyed when

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
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  dear frosh: here are the things we want you to know a firehose of advice from upperclassmen: tips and tricks for freshman year

  

  primary responsibility is to learn. You’re at one of the best universities ... . I added some of my own advice. Then I organized everything into the following categories. Some of it is excellent advice. Some of it will not make

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Reflections

  

  among the best -- and, at the same time, the hardest -- years of my life ... which I am not grateful for the privilege of having been a part of that ... world and about what I wanted to contribute to it. Much of the time I am

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
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  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  now and then, I’d stare out the window -- of my car, of a plane, of a ... where you think of yourself in a movie. Or, y’know, a blog. I know a lot of students are gapping this year, and others are considering taking

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
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  A Decade in Online Posting looking back: from the forums to the blogs

  

  . For many of you reading this, perhaps resting after submitting your ... past ten years made up the bulk of your adolescence. It’s certainly true ... fondness, as a decade of so many Firsts that made me the person I am today

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020