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  Fit or happiness made easy

  

  for those pieces of your current self and the pieces of who you want to ... Nearly nine months after getting into MIT, one question I continue to ... part of it to maintaining something you are not. The idea of fit is

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Women’s Soccer Talking to the 2009 NEWMAC Champs after they returned from the NCAA National Championship Tournament

  

  When I came to MIT I joined the marching band. We played at all sorts ... lacrosse, water polo and crew competitions for the first time. I joined the intramural pistol team and came to appreciate the huge variety of sporting

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 25, 2009
• Blog / Events

  This Blog Post is a Bad Idea Not blogging for several months... that was also a Bad Idea.

  

  enough cookies for every member of the MIT community to have one—undergrads and grad students alike! It is enough for every EC resident to eat over ... cookies than East Campus had room for... so we brought them around to places

  • by Kate R. '14
  • January 27, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  that I could afford to fuck up in math, I could relax for a whole year of ... grown, or so I damn well hope.  # I went to a Q&A for the 2025s, and ... have the audacity to sign up for classes like this, how I always seem

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  The Thong I Should Be Wearing [UPDATE] Sexy sexy undies.

  

  , would register up to four votes per second for MIT. I smell another poll ... over to their website and vote for us! We can do it! ... in the comic strip, Alex, had to decide which college to go to. She was

  • by Snively '11
  • November 1, 2008
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  , which you take to earn credit for an MIT subject without taking the class ... , or I revise for an ASE, or I’m walking over to the other side of campus ... first time in my life, I’ve needed to schedule time for myself. I’ve set

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Application dreaming

  

  technology, about the possibilities for research to improve society, make the ... The reading continues, almost non-stop here... for another ... as part of the application to be reviewed? Will it be interpreted as

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / Challenges

  Rain by any other name lagi na lang umuulan

  

  magpatila ng ulan—to wait for the rain to pass. You wait an hour, and the rain ... languages have a rich vocabulary for rain. The lightest is probably ambon, a ... enough for. We might describe the weather with pumapatak, or dripping

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 22, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  to go mountain climbing. This example works for many, but clearly not ... virtually anyone trying to make sense of the college admissions process. In ... situation is probably not going to change. I can't speak to the situations

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bye (for now)

  

  mattering. snowballs and shuttle buses and moments to save for nostalgia. at ... , then at least for a while. i watched lady bird (excellent and emotional) and swiss army man (also excellent, also emotional) and went to a house

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 12, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  medalist, who also happened to get an 800! The same goes for people who are ... to accompany and support the claims I had made. As one commenter put it ... .   So let's discuss admissions data. First, I'd like to say that I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Iron Man, MIT ‘87 (?) After 21 last month, another MIT movie.

  

  using his own intelligence and sweat of his brow. I would love for that to ... . According to the Wikipedia bio, this is Stark's background:   ... really like to give these kind of honors to fictional MIT grads, though. In

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  So Chance Me Maybe? Hey! I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my SAT...

  

  told myself that it was “practice” for the “real” applications to “real ... super reach for HYPM” “EC's aren't that good imo, to spread out kind of ... -800” “For MIT and Brown, try to bump up your SAT to at least 2200.” “you

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  studying. I think this holds truth for me; to maximize my exposure and ... lot of persistence for me to not get frustrated and give myself time to ... fundraisers and creating petitions to re-emphasize the need for MIT to implement

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Merit When getting into MIT isn't convincing enough

  

  as a Tech Caller, which means I call alumni, talk to them, and ask them to donate to MIT. It’s a fascinating job, and it deserves an entire ... are excited to tell me about how they relate to MIT. Believe it or not

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • January 22, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Into the Smoke In more ways than one.

  

  ever been before. Coming to terms with the fact that this would be my reality for three whole months, I thought to myself: What on Earth am I ... . Now, I shudder to think of life before MIT, condemned to four years of

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Community Projects

  Robo-CJ writes haiku “didn’t you already make a blog post about this?”

  

  , so ready for CPW, because I didn’t get to go to CPW when I got admitted ... format for a haiku. Most of its poems are 2 to 5 lines long, and each line ... one wish i would wish for the haiku bot to reincarnate myself with haiku

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a sad sad toaster made of glass. Do you like your toast with tears? Because I'm sad.

  

  't plan anything to do, so after playing Crystalis for two hours, I decided ... 'm headed to UC Berkeley for grad school. Of course, the data also predicts ... for you. Actually this entry did end up being kind of long, but it's not

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Stove-Cook Your Oatmeal and Never Look Back To not-admitted applicants and anyone who knows anything about fuses.

  

  ’d imagine belongs to two MIT grads and a master’s student:   Here, on the ... stove is on a different fuse, and for that we are very lucky. Here’s how ... mostly gone you have oats. The cooked oats stick to the pot, but they come

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 19, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Early History of International Students at MIT studying the people MIT made, and the people who made MIT

  

  Bulgaria. Then he moved to Persia to do construction work for the Russian ... tenure at MIT with a vision to build a more diverse and inclusive Institute ... they can insure the future peace of the world.” To achieve this ideal

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 9, 2017