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  There is still no magic formula ...but there are a few key ingredients

  

  and/or college counselor) I have always tried to provide the type of ... application portals open, and deadlines fast approaching, I am reminded of the bulk of conversations that I have had about essays, right around this

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 13, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I Met John Waters This beautiful mobile home you see before you is the current hideout of the notorious…

  

  lot of people just don't go to college at all and yet they thrive ... On Monday night, instead of studying for finals, I went to church ... for Weird Culture, so of course I had to go. blurry and far away

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 22, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2017-18 Application Essay Questions

  

  fewer) At MIT, we bring people together to better the lives of others ... to begin thinking and planning ahead of time, which I respect and value ... you lead a busy life, full of activities, many of which are required of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 31, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s the PI-nal countdown! Don't roll your eyes at me.

  

  If you ask anyone at MIT what they were like days before decisions ... pride that we have (p-sets took most of it away). But rest assured that ... my suspicion with 100% certainty. I read Paul's entry, was very much at

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 12, 2011
• Blog / Community Projects

  Ducks vs. Army Men! Remember the good old days when you used to play in the sandbox?

  

  At the beginning of the year, Rick '09 and I had a marathon carpentry session. We built a loft for James '11, and a table for each of us. Okay, so ... the side hallway of the 23 suite. I'm looking at it right now. Maybe we

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A ‘Chances’ Thread That Is Actually Worth Reading That's perhaps the best title I've ever come up with.

  

  married, some factor accounting for the likelihood of getting married at all ... Our beloved Mollie shares a birthday with another friend of mine, and ... express that something is rare or unlikely to happen. But I work at MIT, you

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 8, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Grind Time It = late. Coffee = love. You = intrigued.

  

  Tuesday morning, and Sam '07 also had quite a bit of work to do, but since ... cup of coffee from Au Bon Pain in Kendall Square and drank it during the beginning of class. I am not a coffee person. I rarely drink coffee. I do not

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Art? It's late, but not too late.

  

  detect some of this excitement in my entry. In seventh grade I learned from Mrs. Gekas that ART IS EVERYTHING! Here are three pieces of modern art ... yourself, does this dilute the challenge of the test? Well, no, because they

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 22, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  What’s Up With The Mail?!? Honestly, I'm not entirely sure. But I'll tell you everything I know.

  

  . I know that many of you haven't heard yet, and that it's enormously ... say that (1) the Post Office is dealing with insane amounts of mail due ... clarify: We mailed all decisions (admitted, deferred, rejected) at the exact

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Party pics

  

  - we work hard at MIT. We work very hard. We also have fun outside our ... previous entry that a little over a week ago on 5th East we had one of our ... premise of Reawakening is that our hall has its own dark god, Krotus. Krotus

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 2, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Share the joy

  

  update you on at this point. We work towards solidifying our early action ... 've been told that sarcasm isn't funny this time of the year. I'm sorry about that.] I hope you'll find those really cool juniors (members of the high

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 8, 2004
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Growing Up bringing it back to 2007

  

  'll see that this is a place of heartbreaking defeats -- but at the same ... , write all the notes, finish your work at the end of the day and go home ... blog, right? Okay. Now we've got that out of the way, allow me to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 20, 2016
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Waterfall Camping in Shenandoah National Park Snakes and fireflies.

  

  hurtled around a corner and there, a couple of meters ahead, a snake at ... a fit of desperation to do ANYTHING other than look at another ... Shenandoah National Park houses 200,000 acres of forests, rocky

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 11, 2013
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Semester I Played With Chocolate and Ants for a Technical Class Inflatable Chocolate Balloons + Ants as Architects

  

  There is a class here at MIT called How to Design (Almost) Anything ... for context) For the first half of this class, we had to take a ... figure out how I would constrain the balloon. I tried thin strips of duct

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / Advice

  November 1st is coming up! What not to do as it approaches (and after it passes)

  

  survive socially and academically at a school of geniuses? When I was ... MIT! For many of you applying EA, the deadline is fast approaching! I ... week away (*cough* *cough*). And I waited! Then, the week of the deadline

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 26, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Alum FAQs I'm baaaaaaaaack

  

  extraordinary of an appearance, seeing as I might’ve abused my powers as a blogger took advantage of another MIT-related communications outlet to tell you ... ’ve graduated, guys… Elizabeth, Course 20 class of 2013, lived in Simmons Hall

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / Events

  DME SoccerBot Championships 2006 (Or, How Does Justin Timberlake Live With Himself?) All we are saying is give Pluto a chance.

  

  .   The whole thing took place at the Museum of Science, where we ...   It was an epic battle, a tournament to the death. Tens of ... rounds). If they lost this match, they would be out of the tournament and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 30, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why I do what I do A few reasons I'm still on this planet.

  

  cheerleader, was pulling some of her belongings out of the closet at the time ... sort of insufferable if I had continued the same activities at which I ... Biology if I could handle it. At the beginning of sophomore year, I realized

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Temp assignments and cautionary tales

  

  percentage of students had picked another dorm at the end of Rush (or "REX", as ... summer, you get to rank the dorms in order of preference, based on ... got one of their top three choices). When you arrive on campus, a period

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  I failed the Swim Test! And now you can too!!

  

  1940s after a high volume of drowning-related deaths at war. It’s been ... yoga for the majority of their credits."]quarter[/annotation], and at the ... continue for the foreseeable future.  The idea of the test is that if you

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 26, 2023