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  Merit When getting into MIT isn't convincing enough

  

  didn’t erode my confidence, but it’s still there, nagging at the back of ... of good experiences as a Tech Caller, good calls with good people who ... small subset of the whole—have no qualms about telling us exactly what is

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • January 22, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dormspam-the-game (Part 3) parting remarks from no-longer-anonymous gamemasters

  

  actually one of the first people I met at CPW. He struck me as somewhat ... actually obsessed with purple which puts us at very opposite ends of the same ... a snake that ate something.” At the start of my sophomore spring, I

  • by Paolo A. '21 G
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!

  

  intimidating. Like they're all just plain better at math than me. I kind of feel ... of a family friend. In February I got a temporary job at the census. I ... Affairs at the School of Public and Environmental Affairs in Bloomington

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Gothic You are reading an admissions blog post. You are reading tumblr.

  

  : MIT Gothic. I think it paints a very concrete picture of life at MIT ... continuous slow breeze at your back, and it smells of cinnamon and ozone. You ... Happy Sunday! I am doing end of semester things and also reading

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  the steps of the traditional planning process—looking at past events ... somewhere at the back of my mind, taking up space. All of our new planning has ... none of the ones we had looked at. The announcement has a lot of big

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Let me introduce myself. Alternatively titled: Whomst'd've?

  

  ?"). At the end of each lecture, I felt mentally drained from the anxiety ... better. It felt like a clusterf*ck of students just hammering away at ... choices for me and, at the end of the day, that's what it truly comes down

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 5, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I know you’re bad at something And here's what you should do about it. Hint: NOT "do something else"

  

  , and the system was different. At the beginning of every piece, Mr. L ... volunteer at the beginning of the piece, and heard the applause at the end of ... I find it scary or intimidating. At the beginning of freshman year, I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Underwater Dreams (from a distance) A reflection on immigration, student activism, and civic engagement at MIT.

  

  part of it, at least. No one’s journey to MIT is typical. His wasn ... part of being alive at this time is that our youth have taken up with so ... A month and a half ago, a 450-seat lecture hall at MIT filled with

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brief Wondrous Lives A little too much thinking brought to you by four in the morning.

  

  at places that supposedly offer a diverse and challenging working ... I've been doing a lot of thinking about lives lately, in multiple senses of the word. For one, my floor is playing Assassins, or

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  was a remarkably warm day today, with highs of 20 degrees. It was the ... feelings to process. But the weird part about all of this is that I feel very little, oddly enough. Sure, there’s that vague feeling of missing people

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  An Open Letter to MIT Applicants Don’t Panic (and know where your towel is)

  

  Confidential at some point and thought the idea of a bunch of competitive people ... student chose to become part of MIT’s class of 2018. While I have nothing ... highlight some of the awesome things that MIT students are working on, I can

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • October 2, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  system, but doesn't offer any examples of the problems. At the end of the ... at the connotation of "creativity" from a new angle (in a sense, be ... writing about creative ideas, creative ways of looking at things, creative

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer…” wherein Neil Armstrong's legacy kicks off a year of Unified Engineering, and I reflect on…

  

  range estimation and entering the second quarter of my time at MIT. I ... media studies (CMS) department sits at the forefront of the field as one ... protector, nerdy engineer -- born under the second law of thermodynamics

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 9, 2014
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  How to date at an American college Things we never talk about

  

  of warnings can be found at this link, and here are some of MIT VPR ... , is very healthy--at least in college. Actually the extreme end of ... own goals. Good luck! At the end of the day, things will happen, and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 21, 2018
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  Distraction News Your internet connection is unstable

  

  she is no longer the puppy of the house and hisses (like a cat) at Dog 4 ... ="51785" /] ...a picture of my friends guest-hosting my final in-person show at WMBR ... need help but the kind of help they can offer is not exactly the help I

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 31, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Brief History of Cars on Fire at MIT You didn't think I would miss an anniversary, did you?

  

  If you're the kind of person who remembers to look up once in a ... of one or more of the people in this photo: Why those people ... the side of Goodale (the northeast corner of East Campus):  

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 5, 2016
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  Things Wot I Did Whilst Studying at MIT A tale told in pictures (and someone else's words).

  

  . 41. Make a complete ass of yourself at least once, preferably more. It ... I've been looking at Ben's "50 Things" post recently, since classes ... while I was here.   32. Take a lot of pictures. One of my major

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 27, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Essay: Yogurt Edition! You like froyo? I like froyo! ^___^V

  

  da Vinci write, in golden font at the base of the painting, "Look at ... the meaning of courage"), and lame witty comments at all cost, although ... lecture, shopping at the supermarket...etc.). Note that this kind of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 11, 2008
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  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  there is a D9 presence at MIT and show the many benefits of joining one ... had at some point considered joining one of the MIT ... fulfilling to serve his organization at this level. He gained a lot of skills

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  tamer: we sat down in front of our computers, stared at a spreadsheet, and ... , at the sort of point-of-no-return of the program, without a single ... talked about our mutual surprise at the large, large number of students who

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020