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  How to trick yourself into thinking that you’re writing a report The most productive procrastination technique revealed at last!

  

  thinking that you're writing a report I would like to share with you an ... your problem-solving. In the past three months, I have written more ... results in a technical, concise, and effective manner. This year I've really

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 17, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  To whom much is given… ...you know the rest!

  

  Much is expected. I can't tell you how many times I have heard ... few weeks. I can tell you with a fair level of certainty that it is just as true in college admission circles as it is anywhere else that it

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 13, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  3 weeks in northern Italy Global Teaching Labs and MISTI-Italy

  

  I spent the last three weeks in Italy through GTL, and the two before that in Santa Fe. In Santa Fe I slept on a beautiful couch carved out of ... industrial town in the north, I taught debate to high schoolers ranging in age

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ATHack A day well spent helping others

  

  , I took part in my first hackathon- The Assistive Technologies ... team and I met at 8:30 AM in this cool lab space called Beaver Works. I ... ) and also amazing. I teared up a little when I got to see him in the

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Applying to College vs. Applying to Jobs yes you heard me, the application process NEVER ENDS

  

  disclaimer here to say that I'll mostly be talking about internships in the ... picky in terms of what companies i'm willing to work for, and also have ... , I have a fairly high success rate in terms of the amount of second

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 6, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Applying Sideways How to get in to MIT.

  

  in between over the course of a few days. I visited big high schools ... to a thousand-person MIT revival in an Atlanta auditorium. Whenever I ... , which is this: How do I get in to MIT? And here is what I tell them

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  Cormick article so I'm not dying to see it at this moment. 8:28pm: Rebecca sends in ... are people in Bexley too. Oh, I think it was about their “student ... Verde's – come in. 11:29pm: I discover that our slightly eccentric John '98 has a

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, by the Calories free food is everywhere

  

  , I was lucky – if I hadn’t happened to stay late in a classroom near 10-250, other students would have gotten there before I could. Last week, I had ... describing the content, I’ll tell you about my classes in terms of the free

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Let’s Go Fly A Kite Up to decision night!

  

  afford to relax. I read an interesting article in the New York Times a few ... a breath of perspective. Even if I had been rejected, my dog would ... myself that I do, in fact, have free will. For example, on a whim, I

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s not fair! ... and why that's OK.

  

  for all the children in the world, but I will give you my take on the ... candidates are considered. These are not hypothetical places. I have worked in ... for all. I grew up in Florida. The state is flat. There are no mountains

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  How to look over your application and advice about breathing. My older younger brother is your age. I am fully aware of how much you’re…

  

  I was back in the day, or my younger brother is right now, or like ... the question: If I didn’t know myself, what would I think of the person ... Oh man, it has been a while and a half since I’ve blogged. However

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice On The Essay The rules are simple: write your own.

  

  I recently opened my in-box to find an email from someone who "would ... enough, so without thinking too much about it, I wrote the following in ... After sending the email I got curious about the URL in the recipient's

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Perkus Nonacademia MIT will give you more than just an engineering degree.

  

  friends I meet more great friends and so on and so forth. In fact, this is ... brief background, I made some really close friends in Oregon. Now that ... I'm chugging into my 3rd year here at MIT blogging, studying, and

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  [joint post] a guide to mit gyms big brains, big gains 😤

  

  ’t necessarily a con–I feel like the gym’s vibes are very conducive to locking in ... of specialized machines to choose from, and I like working out in an ... when I work out in more secluded environments (like the Maseeh gym), it

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • September 4, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The MIT Major Arcana a collaborative art project

  

  person in Wanderer above the Sea of Fog. I: The Magician / 3: Materials ... : Michaela P. '24, major in Biology. I don't really have much of an artist ... : Tara S. '24, major in Computation and Cognition. I basically tried to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Admissions Excavation Chris gave me a box of stuff and this is what I found inside

  

  ? (Edit: I've recieved confirmation from a couple of alums in the comments ... I was in third grade when those students were running around MIT), and ... current bloggers asking if anyone was on campus this summer and would like

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Painting by number The anti-formula

  

  generated by pbnify.com[/caption] In a rant post many years ago, I referenced ... (which can also be read “what is the minimum that I need to do”) in order ... out to be woefully short on substance.  I want to revisit and elaborate

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 2, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  I: Exposition. To be able to tell this story in full, we must start in late January. I'm living in Next House after a busy on ... recruit volunteers. It's Thursday, March 5th. I'm in a meeting for

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  . When it comes to baseball I'm a converted sabremetrician. In the natural world, I believe in the scientific method, which is to say I believe in ... analytical theory for a moment and ground what I'm saying in some concrete

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  grasping. I soaked it all in and confirmed that MIT was for me. I was ... engineering major. Given my interest in the major I was curious to hear about ...  from juggling things that I would be unable to get out of bed for hours, unable to

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015