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  Meeting FAQ The answers to the FAQs at our Central Meetings.

  

  Presbyterian Church, 10822 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90024San Diego ... , San Diego, CA 92133Los Angeles/Pomona: Sunday, October 2, 2:00pm ... Street (at Mill Street), San Luis Obispo, CA 93401Los Angeles/Long Beach

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 28, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Reflections on 50 Things thinking back on The Blogfather's wisdom in my senior year

  

  Dear Class of 2022, 12 years ago, Ben Jones, aka The Blogfather, shared 50 pieces of wisdom with the Class of 2010, which became 50 Things, the most-read blog on MIT Admissions. As a member of the Class of 2018

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Being “qualified” for MIT Let me show you how it's done.

  

  On Thursday, I sat in front of a camera for an hour (along with ... international students. Near the end, someone asked: "Can you give an example of ... of job applications. "Explain how you are qualified for this position

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Back in Time I change my clock back three hours and read headlines on the magazine of the…

  

  from my MIT education just because of my breakfast condiments. "She's a ... of bed simply to switch out of a class that was too early before ... trip to Cape Cod with a few of my close friends or walked home when it

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  To the class of 2016 - My name is Jess, and I graduated in 2010 ... food that has fallen on the floor. I am probably the age of some of your ... represent my decade of twenty-somethings (my least favorite phrase after "meat

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Application dreaming

  

  as part of the application to be reviewed? Will it be interpreted as ... the applications of ballerinas, inventors, artists, software developers ... 're excited about. While I was in California in early October, I started to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  physician but also wanted to study the humanities side of medicine before ... different style of learning from the US, so I thought this would be a great ... statement, transcript, 2-page resume and between 6-8 letters of recommendation

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

  In the Realm of Giants imposter syndrome with a senior year twist

  

  plagues all seniors at the end of their undergraduate career: getting my act ... school, or go to an extended retreat in the mountains of Italy, you most likely have to submit some sort of documents trying to convince the people

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  winter and the slew of second semester tests starting to take its toll. It ... losses of Matthew Nehring and Christina Tournant. And for you, dear ... a rejection. Or perhaps you were accepted and are worried of the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Decade in Online Posting looking back: from the forums to the blogs

  

  the young kids call a Finsta, or a Fake Instagram. I posted a lot of ... . 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

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Units of Measure A simple question with a lot of cool answers

  

  2, English House. Units of measure were alive and well within the culture of Conner 2 during my stay there. To the best of my knowledge there were only two rules regarding the units of measure. Celebrities get to

  • by Snively '11
  • January 7, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Axes of Confusion ????

  

  , one for the minimum amount of classes we need to finish the 21E degree ... a double major because, well, it equates to the units of one major ... opinions, is the epitome of the epitome of using animation to not just tell a

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 21, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things Charles Has Made fare thee well, rocket powered roller skates

  

  Copenhagen Suborbitals, a group of amateurs trying to launch themselves into ... , no less!) I remember back when CS was getting started - one of their ... few weeks back. This got me thinking of MIT people who just kind of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  i made furry art for Caltech i have art powers and choose to use them for chaos

  

  strips of colored LEDs lining the hallway, a bunch of the hall frosh built a beautiful shrine with linkedin pictures of all of our visitors faces pinned to a corkboard after only two hours of professional stalking. I

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 6, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating The Tunnels…Of Freshman Academics You didn't actually expect me to write about hacking on the internet, did you?

  

  MIT has a lot of resources that could have made my freshman year a ... the 2015 HASS requirements. So, uh, whoops. By way of apology, I'll do ... remainder of your prefroshly days, for once in my brief but glorious

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  150 years of MIT course catalogs the mit history you want to know

  

  courses: organization of departments and schools, course numbers, and degree ... that has a table resembling our modern degree charts: a table of the ... of the department. I don't know the degree charts of other courses

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an Easter vigil alive at east campus

  

  guitar-and-violin cover of Katy Perry's "California Gurls." We laugh and ... , simultaneously, this-broadcast-is-live. I live at EC, on the second floor of the ... ' resurrection because we are uncomfortable with the uncertain temporariness of

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 5, 2015
• Blog / Advice

  You don’t have to be a founder move slow and fix things

  

  published a book named "The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and ... , Standards Engineers, and Introverts Create Technologies that Kind of Work Most of the Time". Philippine science fairs, back in my day, always had

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 29, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Some Advice Sometimes I wish I could tell freshman-me that everything's going to be okay

  

  I've been doing a lot of reflecting lately, maybe because: - I feel ... pass the time ended up being a 2000+ word stream-of-consciousness. So I ... Allan has a similar motivational advice post (some of our thoughts even

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the Bloggers’ Personalities! A post about personality tests, part 2!

  

  (it took a lot of effort not to resort to a clickbait-y title like “ADMISSIONS BLOGGERS---EXPOSED!!!!!!”) Some of you may remember that a ... particular, the scientific invalidity of the Myers-Briggs test. Well, I also

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 12, 2018