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• Blog / About Decisions

  Tips from Me to You 15% is standard most places, but my tips are 100%! (awesome that is)

  

  on my application, do you think that's enough? Do you think I'll get in because I expressed my number in scientific notation? Do I need more Sig ... that one, even though when I was in your spot I probably wouldn't have

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meeting our new president! my very brief foray into professional journalism

  

  to attend in person." I was now press! I straightened my coat and tried ... . In our brief conversation, we talked about how it can be difficult to ... ; I told her that MIT students will express their concerns in any avenue

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 20, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  king of boston -> king of the world? the only good fight there is

  

  find work I can absolutely lose myself in and put every beautiful thing I ... ceiling in the dark once again, overwhelmed by the feeling that, here, I ... , brilliant white, it towered over me in a way that seemed to say “ok, you can

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 29, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  07/07/07 Speaking of numbers: the number seven in particular, brought to you by the birthday of…

  

  big in advance for my birthday - no one's ever around to celebrate, so I ... what?" "I dunno, seven.. meaningful things." With that helpful advice in ... Cafe: breakfast in PJs. After sleeping through half the day (what'd I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 9, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Free-For-All Week! Movies, Music, and Baby Names.

  

  to my neck in applications (I just want to save my wrist watch!) For ... your responses I'm sure that if I put a piece of coal in a chair, and ... think and I'll post my favorites in a few days. Be prepared for vigorous

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / Personal Projects

  An emoji alethiometer to help you make decisions I'm not saying I will use this in committee, but I'm not saying I won't

  

  shaped how I move through the world, as you may have seen in my blog posts ... graduates might consider their obligations to their fellow humans. In a way, I ... compass in their pockets. While I didn't get as involved as I would have

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 7, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  The Latest Updates Updates about MyMIT and the EA interview deadline.

  

  . Sometimes a kind and gentle reminder can be helpful. Otherwise, I hope you ... at least as normal as things can be less than two weeks before the ... 23. I do recommend contacting your EC this weekend, if you haven't done

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Enrolled 09’s: Watch Your Mailbox I've been getting a lot of questions about the Next Big Mailing (NBM®). Here's the…

  

  enormous pile of folders they have waiting to go out. So here's what I can ... I've been getting a lot of questions about the Next Big Mailing (NBM ... by the ARC - so my knowledge thereof is a bit limited. I just spoke

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 4, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Do You Wanna Build A Snowman? And thanks to an awesome friend, I built my first one!

  

  ’s nighttime when my eyes open, and the middle of the day when I go to bed. In ... that I can’t sleep an arbitrary number of hours per day, which I can ... something about snow. Now, I saw snow for the first time in November 2013

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 25, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  What My College Essays Were [Not] Unsolicited advice about writing.

  

  , I love my parents, but this was neither helpful nor encouraging1. In ... essays are not advice, or even guidelines. I can only tell you what I did ... ? Well, I’m not on any admissions committee, so I can only speculate

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Classes

  Hydranting My Spring Semester 5 stages of courseroad grief

  

  abysmal amount of time[annotation note="oops can u tell this has been in the ... "]17.307[/annotation]this year. I'm leaning towards a concentration in ... difficult considering I'm not entirely set on what I'd like to concentrate in

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • March 5, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  How to Foil a UFO Abduction 1. Control your thoughts.

  

  'd raise my SAT verbal scores through the roof - to this day I can't remember ... . Not really, but yeah, I'm getting paid. BUT in my defense, I blogged all ... -than-perfect SAT scores aren't in that category. Karen answered this pretty well: "I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 26, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT References

  

  year. Not too shabby, eh? Anyway, I bring up Freakonomics in the first ... dating websites. When I read it in Freakonomics, I freaked out. And then I ... bioengineering! (...Look how I manage to work in all this random MIT stuff. It

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 25, 2005
• Blog / Events

  RecomMITted On Ring Delivery and the halfway mark

  

  esoteric diagrams, numbers, and concepts than I can keep track. Exams are ... . Why I gave up the opportunity to go to school in the same department as ... sucks when instead I could've be basking in sun taking naps on the quad in

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • May 2, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  O’Reilly Primes?

  

  primes (if you can factor nine-digit composite numbers in your head -- and ... awe of Josh's ability to slip in the clue months beforehand. I feel bad ... important (such as the Mystery Hunt). Current music: Alice In Chains, "I Stay

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 12, 2004
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rambax MIT Goes To Senegal Like Mr. Smith Goes To Washington, except with fewer filibusters and more dancing.

  

  name is Jess, and I graduated in 2010. That doesn't mean I'm not allowed ... version of Nutella: In sum: there are a lot of things you can do at MIT ... This week in blog entries posted by people who no longer go to MIT

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 18, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  There Goes My Baby The first music video from the MIT Logs.

  

  As it says in my introduction, I used to sing in the MIT Logarhythms ... when I was in the group. Yes, I'm a proud Log papa. :) It definitely ... first single off their new upcoming album (to be released in October). A

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 27, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Looking Backwards Sherman, set the WABAC machine to....

  

  Like Bellamy’s young hero, I too am back in Boston. Except its been about a week, and as far as I can tell the city hasn’t been transformed ... stuff is as neat as I do, and want more,you are in luck! As part of the

  • by Alina G. '11
  • March 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Feeling Good And mostly musing

  

  I’m in my room, clacking away on my laptop, my fingers slowly ... -set I turned in one Ed Sheeran song before the deadline. Needless to say ... time in MIT I had completed an exam with several minutes to spare. This

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 26, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  US News & World Report… Just Save Your Wrist Watch. If I were to create a minority-based ranking of colleges, here are some of the…

  

  this meant: "I'm already up to my neck in BS, I just want to save my ... with social and cultural adjustments to campus? (Can I get my dreads done? Can I get ethnic food? Is there a decent radio station?) How do

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 24, 2005