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• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  -- i.e., that that would be measured by an very large MIT in the limit of ... to MIT many times, you would expect to get in in approximately 1 in 3 ... applying 500 times would probably give a good result, but I don't feel like

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 1, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Yo quiero… A Spanish themed entry?Ok, not really.

  

  . (Where would mankind be without microwaves?) I hope I didn't get grease on ... Today I took a nap fom 5 AM to 9 AM. Then I went to class. When I came back, I slept from 3:30 PM tp 8:30 PM. That's 9 whole hours of sleep

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  senior appreciation post in which i rant about my idol

  

  deserved to walk those hallowed halls of MIT. I would NOT have made it ... niche in the giant machine of moving parts that is college? I was sure ... I showed up, she took me under her wing in a heartbeat. She taught me

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 15, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  it’s ok that it’s not ok sometimes things will happen, and you have to just let yourself be.

  

  loud with wailing. But in that moment I think it would have been too ... anxiety.   In Infinite Jest, which I’ve been reading with a group ... a depressed character, Kate Gompert, in the book, the more I realized

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 4, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  And I realize I’m going home Cards for sorrow, cards for pain, cards for my last blog entry from Germany.

  

  'll be on the internet in Germany, unless I succumb to temptation and go to ... -mates, hopefully figure out some way to use the myriad 5-cent coins I've amassed in ... Sam's Mom in the early morning for the 8-hour trip up Boston way. I can

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 31, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Undercover Admissions Officer ...or how I saw the campus through "fresh eyes".

  

  would I willingly slog around the campus in a large group in the pouring ... orientation and jumped right in, learning the campus as a student. What did I ... most of the tour guides, several live in my house and I appreciate seeing

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • August 5, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hometown Heroes The first of articles about awesome MIT '09s.

  

  's realizing what's important and what has to be done in order to succeed. I mean ... with his African ancestry in his summer visits to Minnesota. "I have ... , and if I don't, I will be disappointed in myself the most. Far from

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 25, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  a farewell to my phone which hurled itself repeatedly into the icy arms of death

  

  -of-the-line when I bought it in 2020, but the powers that be had rendered it just about ancient in terms of repairs. The first shop I went to didn’t have a ... that would have wifi. I walked there, checked online with a few other

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 14, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Toga, Toga, Toga On being in a fraternity (info for parents too)

  

  in high school, I was a pretty shy person. I was very quiet, went to ... freshman year. (resume anecdotes) While I tell myself I would come to MIT ... , I'll be honest. I went to high school in the south, and you know

  • by Bryan
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vaccine Externalities Health economics applied to the decreased odds of my getting the flu, courtesy of my…

  

  So in my previous entry, I talked about how the Medlinks were ... Gabe '08 got one today, but I didn't end up getting one for myself. In 14.21J: Health Economics, a class in which I had an exam today, we recently

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Personal Projects

  loftblogging 2: acoustic boogaloo turns out that at mit, even the non-academics are incredibly hard and deeply rewarding

  

  another plan for this blog post: I was going to build a loft in the first ... .[/annotation]My parents and I were in SoCal last March Break (to visit my four-year-old twin ... could build in their beautiful Arts & Crafts style. I still have the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 29, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Sophomore Spring this time, with on-campus features!

  

  I am taking. In fact, this is actually the last GIR I need in order to ... -S requirement and luckily for me 9.00 is offered in the spring time! I'm really ... psychology. AP Psychology was one of my favorite classes in high school so I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 24, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Life, IHTFP, and Everything answer: 42 (and snow!)

  

  clarity. Gyroscopes would seem fascinating in those times, and I didn’t mind ... , things would improve. Even sooner than that, I would catch up on sleep ... lack of solutions, nor monitor the clock. In 5.112, I’d slide to the edge

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Good Morning or Good Night? seven am adventures where people say good morning and good night

  

  countries – in Canada, or the UK, or France, the signs you see would read: Red ... than me >:("][/annotation] Course? 14 and 18. (In which I usually ... interest you in games such as [annotation note="cj: i learned the correct

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 6, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Choosing between a career and motherhood A reflection on the ideas expressed in the 9/20/05 NY Times article, "Many Women at…

  

  , I would be interested in hearing the opinions of women studying ... in general? I have a completely different point of view from those presented in the article, probably as a result of the role models that I have

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Playing Doctor… Are people REALLY impressed by big words? You be the judge.

  

  Almost forgot... In all the laziness surrounding my vacation, I ... Thursday for all of IAP in a classroom. As long as I pass all of the tests ... semester. If I take the national registry exam, I will also be certified in

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Beard, The Name, The Response, and EC Why does it say E.Jones on my door when I am B.Jones, and why is…

  

  'd gone to MIT I totally would have lived in EC. I'm not saying it's the ... explanations... The Beard. As you've probably noticed in the picture above, I ... first name is Edward. When I got to MIT, Edmund and I thought it would be

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 28, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  motivation musings as i look back on the year

  

  the way that MIT changed my brain. And I would turn that test in blank ... fixed. For three straight weekends in June, I went on hikes. My road ... , I’ve been exploring some of the nature in the Boston area. I went down

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 7, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Warning: Contains Biology This entry may be unsuitable for children, liberal arts majors, and mathematicians.

  

  As you hopefully already know, I am a sophomore in Course 20 here at ... (mechanical engineering with a particular focus; I would have chosen biomedicine ... thought I would give you a brief insight into some of the questions that

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 14, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [joint post] give us your words you have words. we want your words.

  

  invariably in some new form, as the class requires. Every Sunday, I bring a ... . By competitively, I mean, we were trying to see who would finish first(I ... our poetry. Fatima: For the past semester, Alan and I have been reading

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 20, 2022