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  If the Obama were a unit of measure . . . . . . what would it measure?

  

  conversation (meaning 90 degrees of Tang will sever a conversation clean in two

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself on choosing a college, and realizing one of many possible futures

  

  to go to college, anymore? Because these are MIT admits, they usually ... April 2005, I had my own tricky time of deciding where to go to college ... going to marry. I didn't want to drop out; I wanted to finish college

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Reading aka inhaling all the books i can before school starts

  

  absorbed into a world on paper. College has effectively eaten up the ... affects my actions in reality. Seriously, I wrote like three college essays ... college applications? Affirmative action could have a field day with that

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer…” wherein Neil Armstrong's legacy kicks off a year of Unified Engineering, and I reflect on…

  

  school or early college, far fewer students decide to 'take a shot' at ... 's widely perpetuated, particularly by science media and even college ... through college, grad school, and a few years in industry without getting

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 9, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Really Just Cannot Write Anymore of My Thesis I wish I can bang out essays like blog entries.

  

  HAPPENS AGAIN IN COLLEGE. BEWARE.) Four years ago this time, I was sitting ... someone out to one of them. Party with Boston-area college students, get to ... . Don't get addicted to coffee; don't drink Monsters. Apply for a College

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what am i doing great question.

  

  the stressful questions college students face from beginning to end, why ... , where are you going to college? What are you going to major in? What

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bursting the MIT Bubble 1.0 things to do in Downtown Boston

  

  MIT has the best possible college location. On one side of campus ... ” (more here). It’s a trip worth taking for the struggling college students

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview (the EC edition!) in which you receive advice and an alum surreptitiously gets to blog again

  

  an admissions guru (lolz) when I was still in college, I offer the same ... - I wore hoodies too to my own college interviews :P but just know this

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  happened came up again and again. I am in my last year of college and I can ... more. Life is way too short. Look, my four years of college are almost

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Life is Improv say yes

  

  the core principle is correct. When you get to college - or, for the ... as often as possible. The worst thing you can do in college - and in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sibling dynamics at MIT yes lmao Nisha and I are related

  

  finally separate myself from her in college. With good reason—in high school

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 20, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  about two weeks before the college guidance counselor came up T: Hey I ... was at my house and wanted to eat cookies to celebrate our college ... school I'd applied to (except our state college), I was foolishly confident

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

  dear frosh: here are the things we want you to know a firehose of advice from upperclassmen: tips and tricks for freshman year

  

  , academics still trump clubs, since in theory you’re in college primarily to ... perspectives of undergrads and grads as well as non MIT college experiences ... if you’re not given direction. You’re in college to learn things, but

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Was Deferred And it was not the end of the world

  

  do is to focus on things that are not MIT (or other college) admissions

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 17, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Let’s Go Fly A Kite Up to decision night!

  

  -qualified applicants are admitted to at least one top college. Admittedly, the

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  Facebook is somewhat infamous on the college software developer scene for its 'hackathons'. What exactly is a hackathon? "At Facebook, we believe that every engineer has a great idea within them. We had a Hackathon

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

  I Challenge You Pi day approaches.

  

  what you want out of college. Not because of where you are, but because

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  N.Y. Times, Page B11: “MIT Guard Shows Brains and Hoops Can Mix” Jimmy Bartolotta '09 leads the 16-5 MIT Men's Varsity Basketball team.

  

  handful of Ivy League colleges. But it was M.I.T. that pursued him the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 6, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to use these blogs Scattered thoughts on the information age, plus some bonus snark.

  

  'm serious. Get a tan. Read a book. Stop thinking about college applications so

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The most important blog entry ever This is probably the most valuable entry ever written... not kidding. Bookmark it. Class of…

  

  richer college experience. You'll figure out for yourself how you want to

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 6, 2007