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  Gee, my life’s a funny thing Remembering the bills I have to pay, or even yesterday.

  

  where my college ranks on any of these lists, I'm pretty lucky. In the ... I owe a lot of that to the fact that I went to MIT. As I've said in ... ambitious in job-hunting (may turn out to be a problem when I get out of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  finding place

  

  evolutions, but in the moment I mostly don't think about this stuff consciously. I haven't posted in a while. Too long. It's been one of the semesters. MIT has taught me a lot of things about community. I was in a small high

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • April 7, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  they don't graduate. In fact, I can't think of a single one off the top ... has become painfully clear that I stand next to no chance of getting in ... checking in on this account. Anyway, I think I have a bit of a unique

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Things Advice for the class of 2010.

  

  for you; beginning with the launch of our new site in early September, I'll begin focusing on the future class of 2011. I hope that you guys won't be ... pictures. One of my major regrets in life is that I didn't take more pictures

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes I Won’t Be Able to Take also "What Is Pre-Registration?"

  

  classes I wanted to take in the fall. Then, as has happened the last few times I have submitted my pre-reg without an ounce of doubt in my mind, I ... .72 Vision in Art and Neuroscience. The last one is sort of the reason why I

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 23, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hilbert’s Third Problem (A Story of Threes) Holy mathematics, Batman! Math at MIT, and why we need calculus to define volume.

  

  -depth explorations of the topics of our final presentations. In 18.304, I got to ... the very start I wrote with the dual purpose of turning in and posting ... upon the method of exhaustion, i.e., in modern phraseology, upon the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  hope you know that I fully support you. I don't believe all of you can ... pennies and published them in my post My Two Cents. I got a lot of responses ... kind of change entire community can bring together. This is what I wanted

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  context of “I wasn’t good enough to get in.” That’s not the right way to ... am the one thing in life I can control.” The single most formative ... , the linchpin in the formation of the United States of America. Worked

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 29, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “You know what would be cool?” some pizza would be a start...

  

  between. It's in these aloof conversations that I really appreciate one of ... That phrase is probably the most uttered string of words I hear. It ... some secret form of Math that no one else knows about. Heck you can even

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  reject modern web design return to 2006

  

  can’t come out tonight i gotta sit alone in front of a muted tv opening and closing the same 4 social media apps until 3am i’m that kid you ... list of games “You know, I just might be depressed.” “could a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” and other ways to improve your test scores

  

  really loudly in my room. I can be introspective to the point of self ... MIT are faced with some of the most brutal exams in the country. But I ... I unleash a blood curdling scream in the general direction of anyone

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  February to April. For Spring HSSP, I was in charge of dealing with class ... track of. And I was just glad that we had other people in the ESP team ... the couch, in that sort of state after you've cried for a while but can

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  señoritis navigating work/life balance - and spring break photos

  

  i participated in my last admissions telethon early last week! it was ... into MIT. but i think the trick is to define what the "life" part of ... non-actor-non-dancer-non-runner like me i just find a bit of solace

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 28, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  An Astrological Guide to the College App Process We all know astrology isn't real...or is it?

  school because of its name. Aquarius A trait that I've admired in all of ... Thanksgiving, I hung out with two of my best friends who have been in my life ... Anyone in the admissions office knows that I have an unhealthy

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  , that I would need to pare down my focus or I'd drown in the torrent of ... pass. I see a life flash before my eyes, one of four years spent in MIT ... more interested in. And the feeling of jumping ship is often like: if I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear My Old Friend, This is quite possibly weirdest way to introduce myself

  

  . I’m sure you have a lot of questions, but I can’t remember what they ... .  Loneliness is a type of grief, maybe. I can’t help but imagine you as little ... you haven’t learned it yet.  There are a lot of things I can’t convince

  • by ana~
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  pretty well, and we can be pretty accurate in our understanding of when and ... , one complaint in the comments on those entries was about a lack of data ... 'm a huge fan of statistics. I read 538 and Football Outsiders every day

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  non-stop / walang hinto what a mess

  

  spring semesters. the only time i can think of that’s comparable was during ... news dangling in front of me, tempting me to pay attention, taunting. i ... group chats. it was in four discord channels. two of the slacks i’m in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 8, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tyrannosaurus REX the prefrosh are coming, the prefrosh are coming!

  

  !"]sophomore[/annotation]and as I drive to MIT for Year 2 (I'm writing this in the car :D), I can ... .) In that vein, I think that one REX-specific piece of advice is that it ... Office of the First Year, where you can learn (among other things) about

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 20, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  journalists appreciate. I have the luxury of being able to be a purist in this ... As I find myself again, railing against something published in the ... to deny just how much of a curmudgeon I have become. I’m pretty sure

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011