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• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  match. Trying to get admitted, on the other hand, is essentially the exact ... be appealing at first glance, but is woefully short on substance. End ... is on who they are and what is right for them, rather than the prized

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Challenge You Pi day approaches.

  

  admitted, and those who are not - to concentrate on what you wanted out of an ... . You are guaranteed to meet hurdles and obstacles on the way to getting ... day? I'll start: To have something of my design land on Mars." I

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

  How Wrestling With Snapping Turtles Can Get You Into MIT A student profile of an aspiring limnologist.

  

  exhibits, sit in on a sea turtle surgery, and play with the octopus. The ... life goals? My parents said I couldn't take a job as a crab fisherman on ... avoid such maulings.) So, to end on a sappy but true cliché that the

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mind and hand

  

  culture. At some point in the past, someone on this blog asked me whether ... do, but couldn't build anything if their life depended on it. They don ... hacksaw, a bandsaw, a scroll saw, and a lathe, and perform minor repairs on

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Critter gaze upon my son

  

  refusal to learn how to do drawing on a computer."]Day 1: Web ... confers the capability to move randomly in search of a spot to anchor on the ... reproduce by replicating themselves on the inner lining of their pits and then

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

  learning what that means to me, but I never forgot this passage that on ... -buzz my hair and set me on a path of never having to pay for a haircut ever ... others who are still struggling on their way up. But meanwhile, the view

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 6, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  demons on depression

  

  several other church leaders, he went on a retreat somewhere along a ... be an engineer". I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life, so on ... dad knocked on my door and asked to talk. As I discussed my feelings and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 28, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  engineer. If you ask Matt McGann, he can dig up the essay on my MIT ... at MIT - you can really focus on getting a good grasp of the material ... . Do the things that matter to you, not just things to tick off on your

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011
• 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 ... of gold that most MIT students and alums wear on a finger; colloquial ... from putting a firetruck on the Great Dome to subtly sabotaging the

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

  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  is on that single spectrum. Houses would be painted black and white ... scientist discusses a theory on why tetrachromats (people with four color ... that, on a much less international level, here in the United States, many

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Subtle Black MIT Traits A few things I have experienced as a black person at MIT

  

  So quite recently I made a post on Facebook about a few things I had ... a little bit deeper on what I meant by a few of these things, and what ... on my list are just a matter of the small size of the black population

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  Enjoy Life Farewells and New Beginnings

  

  engineers in my life, but he was my favorite; his influence on my life, the

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 5, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  Sam, because that is not his name. As we sat on a bench in Lobby 7, Sam told me that he had a problem. On Pi Day, he had been admitted to MIT ... , Facebooked, Slacked, or spoken on the phone with many members of the Class of

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

  Random Ceiling Tiles The ceilings of Random Hall and a friendly message.

  

  Some of you have to make a decision to come here (or not) by 23:59 tomorrow. If you're on the fence, I have one small bid to make you fall in love. I came to MIT for the people here. I've had wonderful experiences

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 30, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, by the Calories free food is everywhere

  

  notifying student subscribers about free food available on campus. That night ... production in some way, but I was so focused on solving the problem that I didn

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s Not Me, It’s You How to kiss goodbye to a school that rejected you

  

  render judgment on you? You know what you have to offer. It’s not worth ... ’t hand you a perfect life on a glittering platter. And if you’re ambitious

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 29, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s not fair! ... and why that's OK.

  

  for all the children in the world, but I will give you my take on the ... each one of these admissions offices, and not one of them is MIT. On the

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  There Is No Formula A formula would take the human component out of our process, which is perhaps the…

  

  trying to pin it on anything else – race, gender, whatever – is just ... reflection on you. At all. Accepted, deferred, or otherwise – you are all

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 16, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Muti Water Project ...is finished!!!

  

  on since my sophomore year. I worked to design and build a longer ... typhus/typhoid infection The AfriDev pump is, on the one hand, simply ... springs (and, importantly, not on a hill) so that any interference with the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Search of Answers Seeking recommendations, rather than providing them...

  

  parents face. For me to weigh in on the merits of an individual applicant

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 13, 2011