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• Blog / Admissions

  No Chance Why "chance" sites like AdmissionSplash are Bad Things.

  

  to create a helpful tool.* However, this tool is unhelpful. In fact ... instrument, or, in its proverbial form, "if all you have is a hammer ... Mashable is running a story today called New Facebook App Tells

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Events

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

  

  senior year in Course 7 (which is awesome! Everyone should study biology!!) with a minor in Applied International Studies and concentration in Spanish. I was a beekeeper/researcher for a summer in high school

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

  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  ’t have a word in any language for the color blue, because blue is actually ... What if you lived in a world that was entirely grayscale? Without any ... paraphrased/inspired by one of my favorite Radiolab episodes, Colors, in which a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Feeling Many Feelings :) and :( and everything in between about decisions

  

  though my heart is being pulled in too many directions at once. My Pi Day ... courage. In sharing your stories, you’ve taken a risk; you’ve opened your ... of shame in having “failed”: Shame is really easily understood as the

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • March 16, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paths there are so many

  

  tingles briefly like a paper cut. Since we think our thought process is ... see in this moment, the door that didn’t open is just *one* door. It may ... definitely NOT. It is rather one, among so many other valid options. It's a

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 19, 2018
• Blog / Community Projects

  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  pianola in the Center Room. A pianola is a self-playing piano! Unfortunately ... . [21] What is this, a crossover episode? In early February 2020, tEp had ... is a controversial opinion (especially among male students in gender

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 31, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  boba, etched the space in muted gold light. A woman in a crisp suit ... could hear of the room. "Um, school is good," I said. After a few more ... mortgage, two-point-one kids, and a nice house in a nice neighborhood, and we

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  semester. Usually I know better than to take six classes in a semester. But ... dorm or my brothers in my fraternity is that they haven’t seen me “in ... through the semester. After a lecture on RSA encryption theory in 6.042, we

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Mark Zuckerberg Visits MIT NBD.

  

  might regret later on, it's - and this is a direct quote - "Making the ... experience as I realized that the world's youngest billionaire is a kid. He's a ... because although he is a very smart kid, he didn't really know how to play

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Applying to College vs. Applying to Jobs yes you heard me, the application process NEVER ENDS

  

  internships during the school year is quite nearly a full-time job. And just ... [annotation note="a massive and extremely stressful affair in which ~400 ... walk around and talk to reps from the companies in a desperate attempt to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 6, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  Words of Advice for the Incoming Class you did it! now what?

  

  school -- why not take a break and relax knowing that MIT is in your pocket ... than done, relax. Give yourself a pat on the back. MIT is one of the most ... means easy. The hard part is over (for now). A lot of adMITs will throw

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Pictures from a Semester of Classes The Sequel Society Didn't Know It Needed

  

  So about a week and a half ago I handed in my last final in Johnson ... . Professors and PSets Thing? Yea that never ended. But all it takes is a few ... This section is pretty much a catchall for all the miscellaneous things I

  • by Richard O. '28
  • December 29, 2024
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  I’m back! (And what I carry on it) "You can tell a lot about a person by what they carry" - Atlas

  

  changed a LOT in the few years I’ve been gone. Registration is now online ... on the couch or laying in bed. Or in cases where a laptop is just too ... support worker. But a microphone is a suprisingly handy thing to have – it

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 11, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  staff? Is there such a thing as too personal? I can't recall precisely ... essay is like, I share mine with you. You'll learn more about me in the process, which is really what the essay is supposed to do in the first place

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

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  desperately want. But the person that I am in this universe is a function of ... will continue to grow and become yourself, that this is not the end of a ... [annotation note='a process that is still ongoing, and won’t be over until april

  • by Phi A. '21
  • March 16, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  Wednesday, I got a cortisone shot in my knee from an orthopedist who is also ... , just like I did in high school. That bus will bring me, and a few dozen ... ground is not. When you run the Boston Marathon, you are assigned to a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Coping With Anxiety What is anxiety? What is panic? Definitions? Confusion? FINALS?! Cats.

  

  control of your breathing. 2. Feeling Safe Make sure you are in a safe space. If you are not in a safe space, try to find one. Whether it is your ... feelings all the time. Here are a few! 1. Breathing This is the number one

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 6, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  prefrosh temped on the same floor he was living in. Malingap is the feeling ... about our high schools. Malingap is someone offering to grill me a burger. Malingap is someone giving me an impromptu tour of East Campus in the middle

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Community Projects

  Happy 21st Birthday to the Random Hall Milk the Milk is now old enough to drink, but *please*, don't drink the Milk

  

  that lived in a hermetically sealed jar in Random Hall and is ... , despite its cream-filled protests, was chucked into a refrigerator, in which ... year, around January 1st, we received a paper application in the mail

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every now and then, my mind = blown. Thanks, Science!

  

  that in real life) Guys. Science is really, really cool. It's amazing ... this magical science place. But before I do, a big disclaimer is that I ... at the idea of doodling a science-question post. I still plan on

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 11, 2012