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  Psetting en route to North Carolina Sectionals vs. Midterms

  

  Indian Trail, North Carolina, the qualifier for the US Championships in ... . Can't really take it while I'm skating in North Carolina? Here's a ... . Here's me at one of the club's rinks, with the ice all to myself--one of

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 13, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Being “qualified” for MIT Let me show you how it's done.

  

  On Thursday, I sat in front of a camera for an hour (along with ... international students. Near the end, someone asked: "Can you give an example of ... of job applications. "Explain how you are qualified for this position

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  An Astrological Guide to the College App Process We all know astrology isn't real...or is it?

  well-balanced sign of the zodiac. They're great at thinking through ... obsession with astrology. Scientifically speaking, there are tons of reasons ... would cringe seeing this post), but I find it fun to read an analysis of

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Computers and their Programs Anecdotes and advice about owning a laptop at MIT

  

  '14 has been useful at all of his internships. An alternative is emacs ... students with all variety of these and more. I've had all three. My first ... of my MacBook Pro scraping against a doorframe when I miscalculate the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Challenge You Pi day approaches.

  

  individual creates his own experience at the Institvte: he takes advantages of ... reason for wanting to come – and the primary reason of everyone I have ... ) – was not the fear of being unable to succeed without MIT, but rather a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Guest Entry: Stephanie Lin Presenting MIT's most recent Rhodes Scholar!

  

  physician but also wanted to study the humanities side of medicine before jumping from Biology at MIT to Physiology in medical school (I eventually ... different style of learning from the US, so I thought this would be a great

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 12, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Some people call me the space cowgirl

  

  lot of a student who used to work in our office, who we'll call "Pink ... scores?"). But there was no mistake in admitting her. She rocked one of MIT ... that SAT scores can't account for all kinds of intelligence. The student

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  My College Essay Early Action / November 2005. ~500 words await.

  

  sky. And so my college application season began. My interview was at the Cosi at 13th Street and 6th Avenue with a young recent graduate named Steve. I always get really nervous at interviews. I remember nothing

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 11, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paths there are so many

  

  to MIT was the only future we saw for ourselves. Looking at the statistics of how many deferred students get admitted, it was painful to think ... 't feel pleasant. Not at all. But negative *college* decisions were

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

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

  

  climbing trees and bake dozens of cookies at 3am. 27) Changing majors is not ... instead of a confused freshman. It will feel incredibly strange at first ... I've been doing a lot of reflecting lately, maybe because: - I feel

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Making Connections we live in a society (affectionate)

  

  ="EC has two buildings; one is to the west of the other"]west parallel[/annotation]of ... ) rainy today, instead of going outside to get from one parallel to the ... the names and emails of EC's Medlinks (students who are trained to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  to measure the impact of the admissions essay on today's college applicant." The email included a bunch of questions. Seemed harmless ... committee on a human level, i.e. beyond all of the test scores, grades, etc

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

  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  , that at the end of the day I didn't win one, so I was not as smart as my ... whether to share it with the rest of you guys, but I thought that this letter may be of benefit to some current student, or some future student. I

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  There Is No Formula A formula would take the human component out of our process, which is perhaps the…

  

  the human component out of it, which is perhaps the most important part. Reading through this thread doesn’t make me think of SAT scores or grades. It makes me think of the guy who fell in love with trains as a kid and

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 16, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why My 5.13 Problem Set Took All Day Moral of the story: Don't procrastinate, or I'll never talk to you again.

  

  walking later," to my second-grade phase of "Why learn to tie my shoes now ... before it's due. I'm well aware that this is one of my greatest flaws, and ... soooo much effort." At MIT, though, I've tried to remedy this countless

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  summer? At once, it's all of these, and none of these. We could talk about ... Museum. Or I can give you a tour of the office I'm interning at, which ... Joshua, or that I have two first names, because a lot of Filipinos have two

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 26, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Robo-CJ writes haiku “didn’t you already make a blog post about this?”

  

  Poetry Day! It's not very much of a leap to think that I could be bisexual the end result of this is that i now have far too many haikus Also i ... old blog posts, and then used gpt-2-simple to retrain it on a bunch of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Flying Close to the Sun a semester of fire

  

  writing yet at that point, but I ended up throwing together a slideshow of ... down” “Pants on fire” There are so many figures of speech involving ... considered using a fire idiom in the title of this post, but decided to go with

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to use these blogs Scattered thoughts on the information age, plus some bonus snark.

  

  'm doomed to work at mcdonald's for the rest of my life what should I do ... came across a collection of things that I had written which can most accurately be titled, "How to get the most out of reading the MITblogs," or

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  (Bitter)sweet home meeting high school teachers again, and visiting my hometown for (probably) the last time

  

  with my friend Tom to meet some of our former teachers. It’s been a while since we’ve talked. Our group chat of nerd friends eventually fell quiet ... last saw each other at graduation. But a lot had still changed. As we

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 12, 2023