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• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to trick yourself into thinking that you’re writing a report The most productive procrastination technique revealed at last!

  

  Laboratory Fundamentals in Biological Engineering, this semester, and you can ... amazing strategy I’ve had the pleasure of discovering via 20.109 this ... the related literature. ALL of it. Read it in depth and pay attention to

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 17, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Entry About Snow ...Even though we don't have any

  

  Over the years, I have discovered that just about anything can be ... that yesterday I permanently restructured the shape of my skull when the back of my head slammed on the ground. The ski patroller asked me if I

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 11, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some More Pi Day Facts and Advice You thought all that was over, didn't you?

  

  spouting some bits of wisdom and occasional pi facts. I put together this ... , not just for MIT. College is a weird place, so I hope you can gain some ... Hello, everyone! Most especially, hello 2019s everywhere! I ran

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 23, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Midsemester Night’s Dream Technically an All-Nighter's Dream, but hey, close enough

  

  I’ve decided to continue a long chain of poor decisions by starting to write this post at 5:38 AM. In front of me is an empty Pringles can ... ’ll do some data mining and see if I can find updated numbers. Now, anyone

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  before. I was hoping fasting would bring me some sort of ease about what ... deprived wasteland in my head. I checked my laptop again. 2 minutes. I ... into the darkness of the jet black irises hoping that I might be able to

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  themselves. As I was getting my food to leave the man in front of me reached ... .   Hey little bro. I wrote this in hopes that you can learn from some of the struggles I had in leaving home and being on my own for the

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT Underwear Exposé (and Sorting Hat) The coolest data you never wanted to have.

  

  grouped with seniors in the MIT people directory. Similarly, I can’t know ... content of the mailing list (I’ve never been on it), but because of the ... undergraduates, even those who have never lived in Burton-Conner, have a wealth of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Queer at MIT, but not on the blogs the map is not the territory, but it's getting closer

  

  . I just happened to be really jealous of that girl in that movie that ... moment with the new and improved lexicon of this day and age, I can ... , because this was the scariest audience I ever had to present in front of. I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  this. They can't do it for all of the reasons I mentioned in the CC ... ? Because the factors of admissions that can be readily apprehended in a forum ... 't have all of the perspective. They can't make sense of the application in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to use these blogs Scattered thoughts on the information age, plus some bonus snark.

  

  came across a collection of things that I had written which can most ... blogging for over 2 years now. Every once in awhile, I run out of ideas. So ... topics. In fact, I think I'll link random words in this entry to some

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  And the Whistle Blows soccer post-season & my last competitive soccer game

  

  exactly did the rest of our season go? In my last update, I regaled you ... like I just stepped on campus to begin preseason, and now I’m handing in ... were unfortunately knocked out in the Round of 32. We won our first game

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 21, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  sea glass turbulent waves in these parts

  

  conference due in a month.  I chose… none of them. I chose to withdraw and to ... the time of publishing this blog since i like to let my writing marinate ... olivia rodrigo"]brutal.[/annotation] Which in part I’ve been expecting. I

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 5, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later what happened after pi day 2011

  

  etc. Later in noon when i was free, some younger sister of one of my ... feeling. I think that of all your three points in that blog, nothing is ... I've gotten a number of email responses to my blog post about the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Bleary-eyed Some thoughts and reflections on this year's admission cycle - particularly for those not admitted.

  

  out of angst or in hopes of pity; I tell it to share my personal ... you received. I can't (and don't) expect any of this to change how you ... (except the statistics in there, of course, have gotten even crazier - e

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 16, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take a Load Off Quoting The Band's "The Weight" should make the wait bearable

  

  . And it's still true of everyone who wants to get in to MIT. And I ... my own story of how unnecessary all that stress can be. Back when I ... would react in each of the three outcomes, and I kept comparing myself to

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Some people call me the space cowgirl

  

  lot of a student who used to work in our office, who we'll call "Pink ... scores?"). But there was no mistake in admitting her. She rocked one of MIT ... that SAT scores can't account for all kinds of intelligence. The student

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  Spanish. I was a beekeeper/researcher for a summer in high school ... jumping from Biology at MIT to Physiology in medical school (I eventually want to work in public health and infectious disease. See, I told you

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

  Choice and the MIT lifestyle ...because "MIT" and "student life" aren't mutually exclusive.

  

  capable of doing a problem set in 45 minutes. Whoa there! I'm not that ... lot of my activities into a few days of the week, so I can enjoy my lazy ... ... I just don't happen to be close to a lot of guys in frats, plus some

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  superhero fan, and I hadn't even heard of Iron Man until only recently ... really like to give these kind of honors to fictional MIT grads, though. In ... ." In the movie version of Carl Sagan's Contact, Ellie Arroway was

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-Med @ MIT The title says it all.

  

  admissions. Why I Chose MIT  In all honesty, there are times (*cough* hell ... gifs) I visited MIT for the first time during CPW, and I came in ... spirit of MIT. People here want to change the world - in whatever way they

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2012