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  November 1st is my January 1st each november is a new direction

  

  chances of MIT were that of a coin flip. But I managed to get in early ... a night multiple nights in a row if I needed to get an assignment done ... early actioners, whether you get in or not, you did it. You applied, pat

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Axes of Confusion ????

  

  in. We initially chose 21E to get a taste of both CMS and 6 to try to ... representation, and that is EXTREMELY important to us. Steven Universe, in our ... everything in between! Here is a diagram to slightly better (but definitely not

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the 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 ... , in the comments please let us know if you have other anecdotes to add ... about their children or where they were going or how to get where she was

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

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  difference in perspective relating to what applying to college is supposed to ... journalists appreciate. I have the luxury of being able to be a purist in this ... suggesting to potential applicants that they should avoid trying to get

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Unofficial Guide to Unstandard MITglish, 1st Edition The joy of jargon.

  

  was hard to deny that MIT does in fact wipe the hard drives of your high school English Lit. education in order to install diskloads of nerdly lingo ... evolved need to consume nutritious minerals? In either case, the spacial

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
• Blog / Advice

  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  , to his boat for a sailing trip. in the hours before we set sail, we ate ... head-to-head, and in this example, the boat and the wind were in opposite ... their intake process to get an initial appointment. i had my meeting with

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 22, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My blogger bio over time what does it take to get to know someone?

  

  graduate. September 2019 What does it take to get to know someone? I could ... 2020 What does it take to get to know someone? I could tell you that I ... , and if we get enough people we could play Castlefall. We could listen to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 26, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

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

  

  like I just stepped on campus to begin preseason, and now I’m handing in ... conference tournament champion.  To get our hands on that trophy, we had to ... would want to play in college, and honestly, I hadn’t thought about it

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 21, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Things Wot I Did Whilst Studying at MIT A tale told in pictures (and someone else's words).

  

  to be present in the now. You won't get the most out of college if you ... are done, my grades are in, I've nothing to do but work 40 hours a week ... builds character. 37. In the long run, where you go to college doesn

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 27, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  -campus in a new neighborhood. Moreover, it would be an opportunity to get to ... used a ladder to get in and out of bed. Rather than the conventional four ... sure liked to get in my food if I wasn't attending to it. One morning, I

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 31, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Some Advice Sometimes I wish I could tell freshman-me that everything's going to be okay

  

  you could get involved in. Not to mention classes. College will be a ... 'll be happy to hear from you. 2) The first people you meet in a new place ... scribble down quotes that inspire you. You're going to change a lot in a very

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  lecture at 11, so I rush to get ready at 9:45, going through the motions of ... try to figure out where my lecture hall is. It’s in a room I’ve never ... so we don’t really know how to do it). In other years at MIT, I would

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paths there are so many

  

  statistics of how many deferred students get admitted, it was painful to think ... who was able to get through the door you wanted to, or through a ... in you to move forward, fueled by your determination and goals

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 19, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  Science to Student Life, the best way to get free food and every tangent in ... with a severe mental disorder in an MRI. This makes me want to wear a ... (scientific ones nonetheless. You know, the ones that are hard to get

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 8, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  e) Other Some pretty important stuff, and then just some pretty stuff.

  

  really engaged in my education during high school. Yet you get to college ... knows exactly how to get what they want in life and I'll convert, but to ... me if I haven't written back to you in the past few weeks. This

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting for Decision Day In which I give a pep talk of sorts (with a little help from my…

  

  't stick exactly to all of the words, but you'll get the gist of it. Best of ... ’s no chance of getting in when secretly your heart/brain/stomach is ... confidence in yourself and your abilities and your passions to throw your name

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Application dreaming

  

  're excited about. While I was in California in early October, I started to ... . You get the point) The best candidates to MIT bring much more to the ... score. MIT students are three-dimensional, are good people in addition to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m not an imposter… I’m going to be featured on the MIT News homepage

  

  student do you need to be to get one? Those types of articles feel like a ... ’ll get to it. Here’s one tricky thing about being at MIT: you never know how you compare to anyone else directly. I remember in high school

  • by ana~
  • October 29, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes, by the Group Chats and their potential replacement, Interstellar!

  

  Canvas, so Stellar might be in the procss of getting phased out. Regardless ... Messenger group chats to do a little analysis and see if I could get any ... percent of the class in the chat! This makes sense to me; the easier the

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  an admissions blogger I only have 23 minutes left, so time to get ... because I liked to read the blogs. A few years later, I spent a summer in ... other words: you do not need to have had a blog for a zillion years in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012