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• Blog / MIT Life

  Odds and Ends My brain is too fried to think of any original content. So I'm commenting on…

  

  knees. (Hint: to find me in any picture of the squad, scan the picture for ... . And I'm trying not to get skin cancer.) A better picture of me ... : lots of people are glad to hear that even a wreck like me can get into

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 22, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics If you want to come to MIT, you'd better learn a thing or two about…

  

  to MIT many times, you would expect to get in in approximately 1 in 3 ... course in probability and/or statistics, so you might as well get a head start in statistical thinking now. First, a few facts on which to chew: 1

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 1, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  New York City in which i go to work on some days and eat lots of cheap food…

  

  currently in Manhattan trying to find my bearings and eat as much cheap food ... . I take every chance I get to try new places for dinner. Otafuku has a ... compared to many other similarly priced brunch options in the city

  • by Connie H. '15
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / MISTI

  Total immersion An MIT-Italy student finds her way around Rome

  

  wondering…was there another way to get to and from work? A week or so ... stop would take me to another bus that could in turn take me all the way ... five other routes to get to work, and Justas many to get home. Some I

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / CPW

  I’m nervous to meet you A letter to the prefrosh at the dawn of CP*

  

  in person. I’ve been looking forward to being a Blogger at the “Meet ... convinced I could never fit in. I wanted to shake your hands, give you hugs ... mostly at ease talking to strangers in-person. But now we have “Meet the

  • by Powers '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Jupiter’s Moons, Doge, and a Tub of Icing how to CPW from Yuliya the Undecided HS Senior

  

  participants get to burn food and then eat it)? What's worse, is that 6 minutes ... of lectures entitled “FIREHOSE” (in reference to a popular descriptor ... throughout campus, prefrosh will get to learn about Algebraic Topology, Space

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fall 2024 🍂 aka, things settle down.

  

  an incoming freshman because “I’d never get in!” and then proceeded to ... "]RAT[/annotation] in my room and I had to call Unit 12 to get rid of it and some lady ... well with my learning style. I found it really cool to program in a

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 21, 2025
• Blog / MISTI

  The train in Spain is ungainly, take a plane I'm an MITblogger, get me out of here!

  

  there waiting for one of the two or three daily trains to get us into ... you than getting stranded in an expensive Mediterranean resort town. So ... , did she not?) and enjoyable to swim in. Which reminds me! According to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fight Fire With Fire How is MIT so hard?

  

  train people in how to acquire knowledge, which is the purpose of high ... ’m going to actually teach you things now/get you closer to the “real world ... professors who do that. In contrast to high school, here is how MIT teaches, a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The best Metro station ever The Metro does it best.

  

  Metro, to get downtown. While I was waiting around the Medical Center station, which is located next to the NIH and my house, I saw this ... blotting in a Metro station! (By the way, a Western blot analysis is a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 6, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  GEL-ing Gordon Engineering Leadership program, that is

  

  Track teams here at the ‘tute, in which I get to hang out with some of the ... bring these atypical students together. Best of all, you get to share in ... selected for GEL learn how to best tackle working in a group and take

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 14, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  The Marks of a Student or, let's catch up

  

  situation in the most gracious way. Does it still feel bad not to get an A ... I have to because one of my goals for this blog in general is to be ... , really wanted to do, something I had brought up in our group chat because I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 4, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Will the pie be bitter or sweet? Hint: it's a trick question.

  

  : encyclopedia dramatica So don't ever let anything get you down enough to stop ... open up to you, wherever you end up. Best of luck to you all -- in ... While I may lack Ben's ability to speak to the heart, Matt's wisdom

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 11, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Randomness

  

  life in the city, and my friends. I should get on that. At least I got my fifth stack of homework in today on time. Yeah. I'm going to sleep ... Well, as Laura said in her latest entry, tonight was the "telethon

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  To the Class of 2016 General life advice

  

  how you decide it'll be. Here's just some things to keep in mind as you ... participated more in recitation and made sure to ask questions, and at the end of ... can get yourself involved in. You'll find that here, time will become

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • September 12, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ring Committee With a title like that, it has to be good!var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol)…

  

  administration in some form or fashion. Most of these get sent to dorm mailing ... audience of this site. I support Snively 100% in wanting to have that ... or negatively), not something that needs to be worked out in real time

  • by Snively '11
  • May 31, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action FAQs Yes, yes, we got your emails!

  

  people seem to be panicking about getting all the required materials in for ... are patiently waiting, please check out the FAQs below in case I can get ... application. In that case, go to your MyMIT account -> “Online Application

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 24, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Everyone at MIT should take this class. How often do you get to design toys in class?

  

  to get as much experience as possible in the fields I was considering ... What do you want to do in life?  For some people, the answer to that ... 'm in the latter group.  I came to MIT intending to major in something Bio

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 3, 2013
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Letters from the 2023 decisions threads

  

  journey in the time since. I wanted to blog some wise words shared by prior ... ongoing record of what happens after you don't get into MIT.  From @Wox, in ... as though there was everything to lose, all the work you put in, the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 25, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Many Ways To Define “The Best” A long response to a CC thread in which I offer my opinions on AP…

  

  enough to post it here as well: As with most of my posts in the parents ... classes get rejected. Why? Because often these kids knew how to grind, but ... want to, or simply because you think it will get you into college

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 5, 2005