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  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
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] You Have a 50/50 Chance a guest post from my mama

  

  all of the spotlight for this blogpost."]Maybe, but true.[/annotation] All the years of Camille studying, taking tests, volunteering, and ... up at 0400 in the morning on the streets of LA or San Diego for a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT What?!? The Long and Illustrious History of the MITMB, as far as Kim knows.

  

  of both the marching band and the modern football team. Looking through ... /kimfad/Public/rightsize/MarchingBand/newspaperarticle.pdf">fascinating piece of history</a> from 1978, we see on page 12 that "the band ... ;p>One of the band members out there was Doug Pape '81, also the trumpet

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 10, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Chose MIT On deciding where to go, now that you're in

  

  senior year of high school at the Penn State Schreyer Honors College as an early enrollment student, and had the option of staying. I should have ... already doing research in the field I want to dedicate the rest of my life

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 29, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  international students. Near the end, someone asked: "Can you give an example of ... institute of numbers-loving folk recognize that numbers don't tell the whole ... of the physics department, which was precisely the opposite of what I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  iDoor Opening your boyfriend's dorm room door? There's an app for that.

  

  the door, especially while I was napping. 4) An earlier version of the secret knock consisted of banging the top of the door really hard. Another ... technical explanation of his door (the "iDoor") on his blog, as well as

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  1 Week of Meals for $8: How-To’s and Tricks Tackling Food Insecurity

  

  harder. This semester the four of us were on CASE’s (Class Awareness ... and knowledge of the social class system. Some of their programs have ... -term food insecurity Been a voice for the 10% of students that have lacked

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • May 2, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Life is like a Game Elaborate metaphors from an amateur comic artist

  

  struggles. For some reason (mostly the fact that I'm a media dork at heart), a ... all the references... including a couple cheesy direct nods to MIT amongst the autobiographical brainbarf in which the monsters are classes and

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • October 7, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  accurately be titled, "How to get the most out of reading the MITblogs," or ... ago about all of the machine shops on campus? That was done by request- a prospective student asked one of the admissions counselors, who

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

  sibling dynamics at MIT yes lmao Nisha and I are related

  

  exploded with laughter in the middle of my physics lecture as soon as i saw it:   I thought OP probably was a reader of the blogs, because ... ’ve been going to the same school for most of our lives, so I wanted to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 20, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  was a fantastic twist of fate. How much would have changed if the ... where I am now. :D) Living in the graffiti-adorned projects of the Lower ... minutes of fruitless discussion, I left the College Office, unsuccessful. I

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  study spots at MIT not exactly places to cry, but they'll do

  

  I could be exploring a new and fascinating part of the institute I ... embarked on a quest to document the best study spots at MIT. most of these ... .2%) I also asked them to choose the most important characteristics of a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  As we hurtle towards Pi Day… A post of posts.

  

  've already had a lot of "bleary eyed" moments in the last few weeks (my eyes are actually pretty sore as I type this), which reminded me of the post ... respond to much of anything in the next 42 hours or so as we wrap everything

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 12, 2013