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  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  hope you know that I fully support you. I don't believe all of you can ... pennies and published them in my post My Two Cents. I got a lot of responses ... kind of change entire community can bring together. This is what I wanted

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes I Won’t Be Able to Take also "What Is Pre-Registration?"

  

  classes I wanted to take in the fall. Then, as has happened the last few times I have submitted my pre-reg without an ounce of doubt in my mind, I ... .72 Vision in Art and Neuroscience. The last one is sort of the reason why I

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 23, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hilbert’s Third Problem (A Story of Threes) Holy mathematics, Batman! Math at MIT, and why we need calculus to define volume.

  

  -depth explorations of the topics of our final presentations. In 18.304, I got to ... the very start I wrote with the dual purpose of turning in and posting ... upon the method of exhaustion, i.e., in modern phraseology, upon the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “You know what would be cool?” some pizza would be a start...

  

  between. It's in these aloof conversations that I really appreciate one of ... That phrase is probably the most uttered string of words I hear. It ... some secret form of Math that no one else knows about. Heck you can even

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  reject modern web design return to 2006

  

  can’t come out tonight i gotta sit alone in front of a muted tv opening and closing the same 4 social media apps until 3am i’m that kid you ... list of games “You know, I just might be depressed.” “could a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2021
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  “Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” and other ways to improve your test scores

  

  really loudly in my room. I can be introspective to the point of self ... MIT are faced with some of the most brutal exams in the country. But I ... I unleash a blood curdling scream in the general direction of anyone

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  February to April. For Spring HSSP, I was in charge of dealing with class ... track of. And I was just glad that we had other people in the ESP team ... the couch, in that sort of state after you've cried for a while but can

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  señoritis navigating work/life balance - and spring break photos

  

  i participated in my last admissions telethon early last week! it was ... into MIT. but i think the trick is to define what the "life" part of ... non-actor-non-dancer-non-runner like me i just find a bit of solace

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 28, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

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

  school because of its name. Aquarius A trait that I've admired in all of ... Thanksgiving, I hung out with two of my best friends who have been in my life ... Anyone in the admissions office knows that I have an unhealthy

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 20, 2018
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  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  , that I would need to pare down my focus or I'd drown in the torrent of ... pass. I see a life flash before my eyes, one of four years spent in MIT ... more interested in. And the feeling of jumping ship is often like: if I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  pretty well, and we can be pretty accurate in our understanding of when and ... , one complaint in the comments on those entries was about a lack of data ... 'm a huge fan of statistics. I read 538 and Football Outsiders every day

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear My Old Friend, This is quite possibly weirdest way to introduce myself

  

  . I’m sure you have a lot of questions, but I can’t remember what they ... .  Loneliness is a type of grief, maybe. I can’t help but imagine you as little ... you haven’t learned it yet.  There are a lot of things I can’t convince

  • by ana~
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  journalists appreciate. I have the luxury of being able to be a purist in this ... As I find myself again, railing against something published in the ... to deny just how much of a curmudgeon I have become. I’m pretty sure

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011
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  non-stop / walang hinto what a mess

  

  spring semesters. the only time i can think of that’s comparable was during ... news dangling in front of me, tempting me to pay attention, taunting. i ... group chats. it was in four discord channels. two of the slacks i’m in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 8, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the Deferred I feel your pain.

  

  Monday, simply because I knew I wouldn't be able to focus in any of my ... was one of those kids. I made it here. You can too. ... others of you are stuck in that frustrating and seemingly interminable

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tyrannosaurus REX the prefrosh are coming, the prefrosh are coming!

  

  !"]sophomore[/annotation]and as I drive to MIT for Year 2 (I'm writing this in the car :D), I can ... .) In that vein, I think that one REX-specific piece of advice is that it ... Office of the First Year, where you can learn (among other things) about

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 20, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  here comes a thought on decisions

  

  find negative emotions during this time in your life. i remember decisions day when i applied early action. i could barely concentrate in class ... almost all of us, is a once-in-a-lifetime experience. it's not often that

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 13, 2019
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  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 2 The median of an introductory trilogy

  

  late, so I quickly checked in two of my luggage bags, hugged my uncle and ... thinking of majoring in? Person: Sorry, can you repeat that? Me: What ... through boxes of cereal and bunches of fruit until I found something that

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 16, 2013
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  smoke and spice my comfort meal

  

  " align="aligncenter" width="400"] a snippet of when I had it in Thailand ... mortar and pestle MW: i chewed on in my roce and i had the oils of this ... as well relish in it.  To quote the above almond can that I snacked

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • May 9, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bad Ideas Weekend 2019 good times

  

  and down in excitement. I had a bunch of them and they were really good ... worst of the bad ideas I took part in. It was so bad that I wrote an ... number won a prize. If I recall correctly, one of the people in the photo

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 3, 2019