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  Note To Self Please don't forget this.

  

  freshman you, preserving five of those lessons in a blog post that the world ... simply hit the limit of my intelligence? Was this as good as it could get ... know how to do, instead of focusing on the ones you know you can’t do

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some More Pi Day Facts and Advice You thought all that was over, didn't you?

  

  around my dormitory on pi day and filmed the residents of Simmons Hall spouting some bits of wisdom and occasional pi facts. I put together this ... you will all enjoy it! It is a bit belated, but all the footage was

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 23, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  the end result of this is that i now have far too many haikus Also i ... Alright, story time. Since the beginning of spring semester, I’ve been so ... ’ve helped run lots of events: the Filipino Students Association was supposed

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thank you for reading A rigorous study of 26-year-olds (n=1) showed that getting older is positively correlated to the…

  

  We were asked to write an entry for the anniversary of the blogs, a ... the time since I was 17, that girl from Beasts of the Southern Wild was ... the car after this parenthetical ends?) One of the things that I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Future Is Grim check it out

  

  buzzing with some exciting new information. Prof. Grimson, head of the ... ordinary changing of the guard though, as Eric Grimson is no ordinary faculty ... deprived butt that week. Those of you who choose to come here in the future

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 28, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  called “Minute Math”. Some of the strongest memories of my childhood is ... reigning champion of the visual speed game SET, constantly ‘challenging’ people, knowing that I would win. But as I moved up in the hierarchy of

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
• 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 ... . It makes me think of the guy who fell in love with trains as a kid and ... gave him a job before he could even drive. It makes me think of the girl

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 16, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MacGyvering Bacon-tine’s Day decathlon brought to you by a paperback, a sledgehammer, and a scooter

  

  tendency to sit fascinated for hours by the refraction of light through pens ... granted by the structure of a shoestring's weave, internal discussions on ... other than that of the dried wood pulp from which it had once been

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  nervous because I share a lot of qualities with the author's young self ... big deal). Basically: academic failure is not the end of the world, even ... graduate from college, I can say now that failing out of MIT was one of the

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  señoritis navigating work/life balance - and spring break photos

  

  little bit of time every day to have to yourself—the unsatisfying answer is that it depends on the person. many of my friends never experienced a ... into MIT. but i think the trick is to define what the "life" part of

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 28, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  that the Maryland Institute of Technology? Sameer had moved to London ... . Lulu was one of my TAs - I almost swooned when I made the connection that ... ; it had the advantage of feeling like a friend I'd grown up with. If the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If man is five Then most people are six, and if most people are six then pre-meds are seven.

  

  just to be in the same room for a minute and catch a glimpse of his well ... '07 spoke at the Class of 2010 choice of major fair on Monday. I wanted to go myself to reveal the wonders of Chemical Engineering to excited

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the Bloggers’ Personalities! A post about personality tests, part 2!

  

  particular, the scientific invalidity of the Myers-Briggs test. Well, I also ... for all those personality tests! None of this, the tests themselves nor ... bloggers) for yourself! Tests Included The structure of my survey was more or

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 12, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Women’s Soccer Talking to the 2009 NEWMAC Champs after they returned from the NCAA National Championship Tournament

  

  intramural pistol team and came to appreciate the huge variety of sporting ... that I didn't even know what the rules were for a lot of the sports I was ... tournament for the first time in program history. They were knocked out of the

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 25, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what am i doing great question.

  

  complaining about a group of people that ruined the party they were coming from ... reminds me of something David Foster Wallace wrote, which I can’t for the life of me remember the title of the book or text, but he says

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parents, Please Read Prefrosh and students, read this too, and make sure to have a discussion with your…

  

  they get here, and I like sharing with everybody the types of things I do here. My dad follows the blogs very closely as well and the two of us ... I normally won't is explore the bowels of College Confidential (if I

  • by Snively '11
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On Teaching and Learning Minimum requirement: read the last few sentences of this post. They're important.

  

  When you last heard from me, I had just arrived at The Middle Of ... the most. Each of us is paired up with a Teach For America teacher; my ... shy away from participating for the rest of the semester. Fail to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

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

  predicted for your sign or not, the pieces of advice for every sign in this ... in the comments! Capricorn My capricorn friends are some of the most ... us because of the prestige of MIT and doesn't actually know what this

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

  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  ; I'm just rambling. What follows is one of the most insightful and ... to heart, it's some of the best advice concerning MIT you'll find ... perspective. I've seen MIT admissions from the perspective of the applicant, a

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting for Decision Day In which I give a pep talk of sorts (with a little help from my…

  

  't stick exactly to all of the words, but you'll get the gist of it. Best of ... this feeling. And it can be kind of terrifying. Even applying in the ... into the goblet of fire and hope that you’re chosen to be a part of the

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • December 7, 2014