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  The Pretender a message to both you and me.

  

  listened to a small playlist of songs I had thrown together for the ride. As ... continue giving my best every second of my life. And each day for the next ... deal. What would the rest of your life look like if you chose to never

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Typical Day on the Road Having grown up in NYC, I love coming back.

  

  . It was a lot of fun. Having grown up in NYC, I love coming back. The ... inside a subway or a taxi. Some of the other admission staff have written ... the chance to meet a lot of students and answer their questions about

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 17, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  Is among the most overused phrases of petulant children, and virtually anyone trying to make sense of the college admissions process. In ... subject of the college admissions process. The reason the situation is

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  /label/digitize everything but that’s less interesting). So, here are some of the coolest ... ? (Edit: I've recieved confirmation from a couple of alums in the comments ... old iterations of the MIT Admissions website (back to pieces from 2000

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  of assignment you can do the night before," to which a student ... certainly receive a hefty sum of homework, the main problem is time management ... any day of the week. This left me more time to work on graduate

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  's very easy to get caught up in the daily metronome of life, especially ... done. It's just a crawl to the end of the school year before you can do ... anymore. But I think one of the benefits of this time of year is that I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Reading aka inhaling all the books i can before school starts

  

  of you who were will know what I’m talking about. The universes within ... games as my preferred form of media, but I still enjoy the thrill of being ... majority of my free time (as it does), and during the year, the time that I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  i made furry art for Caltech i have art powers and choose to use them for chaos

  

  strips of colored LEDs lining the hallway, a bunch of the hall frosh built ... rendering of the lineart. I sent it to Winnie, who was already at Metropolis ... put in the 12x 24 piece of acrylic, and I watched the laser cutter for

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 6, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Academic Conference and also things I have learned about publishing research in the past few months

  

  blog post, I thought I'd document the process of my first research submission, and talk about some of the things I've learned about publishing ... emulate the creative expression of a robot, directly making their actions

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  This week, I am fulfilling my dream of taking over the Admissions page with a series of six consecutive posts. I am calling the takeover ... the greatness of SHASS in other posts. Last semester, the awesome

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to Crying on Campus It’s right about that time of year.

  

  condition in which the sole symptom is verbal/mental repetition of the phrase ... on campus. Most of the answers included fairly standard locations ... concentration of crying spots on the right of the map). We need all of you to help

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 16, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Into the Smoke In more ways than one.

  

  approaching the end of an eleven-month stint in the UK, this time working at an ... to go to Norway, depicted in one of the photos above; in the photo, I ... option in my field), but the breadth of internship opportunities so far has

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  focus on the aspects of MITese that are (in my opinion) universal across ... glimpse into the wonderful if sometimes confusing world of MITese! The ... ; appropriately named after the Greek goddess of wisdom. beaver (n.) - MIT's mascot

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  amazing strategy I’ve had the pleasure of discovering via 20.109 this ... procrastination, but work of the utmost and immediate importance. It may seem ... the related literature. ALL of it. Read it in depth and pay attention to

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 17, 2015
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  A Midsemester Night’s Dream Technically an All-Nighter's Dream, but hey, close enough

  

  casualties strewn across the furniture. This week is my second-busiest of the ... decided to marathon the Lord of the Rings films (extended edition, of course ... , two whole days before the official premier. A group of my friends even

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HERE LIES P/NR September 2018-December 2018

  

  the heady ecstasy of MIT materializing out of an abstract dream into a dome-shaped reality in the smoldering heat of the summer. September ... than ever before, in the form of taking five classes in my first semester

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 16, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  16 for the 16’s 16 Guidelines to Making the Most of your CPW

  

  ;       about the ridiculous number of awesome events ... ; Without further ado:   16 Guidelines to Making the Most of your CPW   N = Nat, K = Kirsten 1. Don't buy ANY food! N: One of the best

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 18, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” and other ways to improve your test scores

  

  to explain this, researchers have hypothesized about the impact of ... mental rotation exercises. “Mental rotation” here refers to the act of ... the romance of egalitarianism aside, though, to talk about empiricism

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Today I hit my TA with a door I didn't MEAN to.

  

  't make this stuff up. It is against all the rules of absurdity (which I ... tuned me even more to the subtleties of what makes a good TA, though I would by no means put myself on the same standards of my brilliant

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 7, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Burton-Conner’s Renovation: A Saga on friendships that transcend shitty infrastructure

  

  of our living group. The entire time, I could only marvel at how ... inevitably be split up at the end of the year. It also was incredibly ... like some of the things we wanted weren't realizable. Here are some of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 6, 2020