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  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 ... when even i feel like i'm on a roll and energetic and productive ... , like many of you, i was waiting on college admissions decisions. today i

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  This Is How I Read productivity hacks, but for reading applications

  

  've written countless posts on reading in the abstract: what we look for in your applications, how bleary-eyed we get from reading them, and so on. But the ... , we read on weekends, we read during holiday breaks; when you are hired

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The Adventures of Flat Tim And his admissions officer friend!

  

  Before I started working at MIT, I had never driven on the ... regional term you use for a major road that you drive relatively fast on ... driving on the highway while I was in high school. Living in the Boston area

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • June 6, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Halloween is the best day of the year. Yes, I recognize that it is now closer to Thanksgiving than to Halloween. Sorry.

  

  you an e-mail, or (more commonly) write on your Facebook wall, and the ... . At 10:30pm, I was psetting in the lounge near my room (yes, on my ... lay in wait. After a chorus of "joyeux anniversaire", which ended on a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  No Chance Why "chance" sites like AdmissionSplash are Bad Things.

  

  College Applicants What Their Chances Are. It's created quite a buzz on ... selecting schools to send an application to easier. On Tuesday, the company is ... students how likely it is that they will be admitted to each school on their

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an Easter vigil alive at east campus

  

  closer. A man stands on the stage, a banner fluttering behind him. The ... , simultaneously, this-broadcast-is-live. I live at EC, on the second floor of the east parallel. In a window on the second floor, behind the man standing

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 5, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  and then I’ll swing by to give an update on life from the other side. It ... not belong on the MIT admissions website” post. At least, that's what I ... happened: once Pass/No Record was over, I felt like I was on a boat that was

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  As We Approach Decision Day On getting in and on not getting in

  

  self-esteem drops to unprecedented lows. I applied early action, and on ... . You’ve found something you love. You’ve nerded out on it. You want to ... , skill, and perseverance. It depends more on you than on the school you go

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 8, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Christianity at MIT An intro to Cru!

  

  about the Christian groups on campus and churches in the area. I knew next ... committed to sharing the love of Jesus Christ with people on campus. We do ... . We do our weekly meeting on Tuesdays (called Cruesdays) in the student

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An actual day in the life It's not the most exciting day... but it's a day!

  

  (This seemed like a really good idea for an entry when I was on my ... himself), then sit down at the computer and turn on my (illegal but oh ... class performance on last Thursday's midterm. The lecture is about the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  one. one of my coworkers, john, lives on a boat. last sunday, father ... a wind indicator on the top of the boat?" asked joseph. "yes," said ... . "you have to adjust based on how the wind is blowing," said john. "and so

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 22, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] How to Build a Three Story Fort by Zack I. '27

  

  new generations of MIT students carry on traditions and make them their ... ="the Eastside Party"]a big party[/annotation] on it as part of [annotation note ... "] CAD model of our fort.[/caption] We started work on the morning of

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 1, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  finding place

  

  finding place Note: these are some retrospective thoughts on my experiences finding place at MIT. I reflected back on the patterns and ... exceptions. You can't rely on serendipitously bumping into people at university

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • April 7, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Putting Diversity into Context The diverse ways that colleges and universities define diversity

  

  the dilemma of racial identification on college application forms, with ... have fielded numerous calls and emails soliciting advice on how to ... having to identify my race on all kinds of forms, including standardized

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Blogural Inaugural I just wanted to use this title.

  

  night, I get to put on pants*, step back from a crazy work-filled day, and ... Blacksmithing and Physical Metallurgy. !! At 7pm on Monday nights, I change ... get to work on our own projects. Since I've only been to three sessions

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Some people call me the space cowgirl

  

  More reading going on here tonight, after a yummy Super Burrito and ... ." You may have seen Pink if you came for an on campus information session ... officer? That is, someone admitted on a very tipped scale towards

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  17 Things I’ve Learned in the Past Year growing, growing, grown

  

  It’s spring break and I’m catching up on alone time. I didn’t exactly ... I’ve also been doing a lot of concertgoing (relevant zine lol)—on ... literally 0 times) at 10PM on Thursday. (It's not fun, in case you were

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hard MIT Class ...or is that redundant? And yes, hiiiiii.

  

  ’t have to tell me about that. I knew it. Hours spent fixated on a problem ... . Their difficulty can be so asymmetrical. You spend ten hours stuck on a ... nine, one of my high school teachers took a couple of us on an out

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  I wrote this on my first day of classes this past Tuesday, and ... brushing my teeth and washing my face, throwing on clothes, fussing with my frizzy hair (quite overdue for a wash day by now), giving up on it, rushing

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Love In the Time of Corona lots of evidence that the people are the best part of MIT

  

  was this surreal sense of joy in the air. If you ask any student on ... the impact COVID-19 is having on communities is unimaginable, but I’d like to take some time to shed a different light on the situation. That

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 2020