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  Writing I don’t have time for hosed into my core

  

  just how much OTHER work I’ve punted that is now knocking down my door ... , tell them I am trying and doing things differently and really putting in effort, just in case I end up being a borderline case of C-. But I also

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 25, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  world, to do things with purpose, and I’ll never learn that from doing a ... could hear of the room. "Um, school is good," I said. After a few more ... moment’s notice.” In retrospect, it’s a cynical take—in college, I’ve had

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Advice From The Elderly My last blog entry, at least from this chapter.

  

  of Thrones in one sitting. (I would never do that! I hate Twizzlers ... ! You know, things like that. Change is a good thing. As a freshman, I ... hoped to do in order to get me to where I needed to be. Embracing that

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

  that wanted to do good in the world. The past few years, I've been ... community while being honest in what I do, believe, and want so that I can ... understand that yes I do in fact have ADHD, and no I'm not taking advantage of

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 6, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A Night at the Office A bit longer than I expected.

  

  Verde's – come in. 11:29pm: I discover that our slightly eccentric John '98 has a ... interim at looked at another article in progress. Okay, this is still a long ... As a news editor for The Tech, every couple weeks, I have the

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty people later ✈✈✈ (pronounced whoosh) ✈✈✈ (pronounced nyeowww)

  

  't want to do it. I can't understand wanting to do puzzles in a vacuum. It ... 't have fifty people; the number's closer to 65. But this is a series, and I ... observation could probably be made about a lot of things? Maybe my point is that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Are people on the East Coast friendly? An entry especially for those from the Midwest.

  

  work to do) at MIT that I haven't spent a whole lot of time in Boston ... with strangers in the street. Really, I think that you get a similar mix ... : Yesterday, my boyfriend and I rented a Zipcar. We were way out in Weymouth

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 21, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2) My take on the MIT short essays.

  

  ; The word limit is kinda short. Now, a disclaimer: I want to stay that ... waits in the hospital, unable to obtain assistance. It is possible that a ... a short one will do. (iii) If it is possible to cut a word out

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python

  

  independence is a gift and a responsibility that I haven't quite found a way to ... confusion as a feeling that comes in many different flavors. Some are sweet ... thing. In my senior year, I used a Google Doc as an agenda to keep track

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  anxious sometimes but I know rationally that a lot of this is due to outside ... There is empirical evidence to support the idea that males have a ... -analysis found that on average, men outperform women in a cluster of tests related

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

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

  

  there is a level of connection that I just can’t or don’t have with you ... around campus. So with that in mind, I hope to see a lot more of you guys ... experienced as a black person at MIT, and I put it in the form of the popular

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

  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  , these students had a presence in MIT’s hallways. In the same way that I ... firestorm, but a similar event called firehose that happens in cpw, which is ... questions, so I didn’t do much in the actual class. It turns out that the main

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  dear frosh: here are the things we want you to know a firehose of advice from upperclassmen: tips and tricks for freshman year

  

  experience in. This is the time to do that sort of thing. Ask questions when ... “do we like each other.” Think of your interviews like a date. Is that ... . Tasty and healthy. There is a farmer’s market in Stata on Tuesdays that is

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  WHY? for people who don't like "no"

  

  . The time has gone by so quickly that I can't even think of a good ... to college, but he was sure that I was a great candidate for whatever ... point in keeping that rejected feeling alive. That and I really don't like

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Am I Smart Enough for MIT? On second thought...don't answer that.

  

  environment!). (Btw, I find it funny that in Ben's original post, he wrote ... and brightest... and I'm a bit worried that I'm not as bright and shiny ... . And I've never done any of that... I'm basically a kid who likes math

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Computers and their Programs Anecdotes and advice about owning a laptop at MIT

  

  . My only qualm is that it occasionally gives me a kernel panic, and I ... trip over the power cord. I’m a klutz. It’s important to me that my ... . Sometimes I leave my laptop alone (in its waterproof sleeve) on a table in a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  [Guest Post] You Have a 50/50 Chance a guest post from my mama

  

  . "What if I don't get in?" "Am I good enough?" (That is a question we all ask ourselves). "The acceptance rate is only a 5% or 6%" I've always ... participating in extracurricular activities. Years of attending a school that

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  this song. But apart from listening to that song, I am a sad sad toaster ... would be taking next term at MIT. So, I added a trendline in the form of a ... be AWESOME. What I expect to happen is that MIT will invent time travel

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

  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  't then you don't. It is as simple as that. I remember back in school the ... and in doing so I was not a part of us. When I first got into MIT, I ... in tone as I approached the cash register. His moving from a soft and

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The joys of web development or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the web

  

  I liked doing than disliked doing. In one sense, that's a good thing ... , that I didn't find in competitive programming. It's a feeling I felt even ... is kind of annoying, and I enjoyed programming more when I’m not doing

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 9, 2022