The process of applying to college isn’t always straightforward (though we try to be as transparent as possible at MIT!) and it can take the ... the experience of being a rural student at MIT.
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working at MIT Admissions is more than a job: it is a privilege, an honor ... ’s application passes through at least five distinct stages of review and is
of an undergraduate college degree. My friend, who I love very dearly ... of what he is like, he taught my little brother (who was four at the ... trying to belittle the diploma that I'd received less than a week before
respectful, more generous, and more kind.
The diplomas start at 3:23:45. See if ... Box CEO Drew Houston ‘05’s commencement speech, at 2:45:42, transcribed by ... graduates, at 3:11:50, transcribed by the MIT News Office here. President Reif
back to this, I promise.
To give us a running start, let's look back at ... intimidating. Like they're all just plain better at math than me. I kind of feel ... downs, but by my last semester, I felt comfortable at MIT. This did not
One. Time is not real, because the other day I woke up at ten in the morning and slept at midnight and yet I felt like I didn't do anything. Time ... , because the other night I slept at 9:35 PM telling myself that it'd just be
should make a point of getting on that train.* I get asked about hacking at ... Truman's blog.
A-ha! Hacking at MIT! There have been a bunch of entries ... you may have at MIT that involve hacks. And so with that, a quick primer
in squalor, but Second Degree Squalor. Most times when people laugh I assume they are laughing at me, so I asked them what the heck Second Degree ... discourage people from entering your house.
Third degree squalor: At this
life, or at least life at MIT, is like snowboarding.
You may or may not ... that a snowboarding PE course existed over IAP, I jumped at the chance to ... who were really really good at not falling as well.
I wasn't one of
lurker at heart and have loved keeping up with the other bloggers' summers ... worries in a tangled cloud around me.
I'm trying to sort through them one at ... conversations at all).
Early adulthood feels like purgatory. It's so easy to hide
, if I was successful enough at the former. I would get a UROP at the ... prospective 6-3 diploma. My initial attitude was something like, you got this, Michelle. You were Good at Things in high school, remember? You won stuff
going into it. Many of the weeks have been unfortunate at best and excruciating at worst. It is possible, of course, that this pain was inevitable ... . There would still be friends hanging around campus, at least for a little
the idea at first. When you come to MIT, you will often find your people ... museums at the time of the night when few tourists were out and the city got ... pulling an all-nighter). I have been awful at starting assignments early
setbacks and mistakes, I gained resilience and principle. My freshman year at ... , collected from my agenda, and others have “fake” data, collected from my memories, to describe my time at Ward Melville. To analyze the data, I wrote some