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  Paths there are so many

  

  statistics of how many deferred students get admitted, it was painful to think ... often, and it does wonders. It takes us out of the toxic "what if I did ... MIT (it does take guts), you surely have big dreams! And since all big

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 19, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Diversity or Merit? false questions, false answers

  

  question: What does MIT value more: diversity, or merit? In its uglier ... There's something I've been mulling over in my head for a long time. It's an issue at the intersection of other excellent posts that folks

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

  Policies, Principles, and Protests thinking about responsible citizenship in a time of student protests

  

  , and consistent with, their own principles, and not prioritize how it ... right to revoke or defer your offer of admission if your conduct does not ... admissions decision, because we would not view it as inappropriate or lacking

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • February 22, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bye (for now)

  

  how does it feel? and i said i couldn't explain it, i felt like i had ... , how i'm glad it's done, but, god, how i wish i had more time. when i was ... people and wonder if it would be the last time i saw them, if not ever

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 12, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Advice From The Elderly My last blog entry, at least from this chapter.

  

  those who are now where I was not so long ago. It takes one person to ... all born, and it's after 1991. Please follow unnamed ... Things right now, if you haven't already. It is required reading for

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bumps, slumps, trips, and … Breaking out of a slump, now with more Cleveland!

  

  beneath it all, and how it was spreading throughout my life. A vacation, a ... something about it. The second revelation was also a long time coming, but it ... - but it does mean taking out of your life the things that aren't working

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  majority of my free time (as it does), and during the year, the time that I ... realize how well the movie is done - it’s very faithful to the book, which ... Immersive Media Production), but it was lotteried and it’s difficult to get

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  101 Things To Do Before You Graduate! 102. Read this blog entry.

  

  of Grace '11, since I have long since lost my own copy due to the chaos ... so I can see what the heck was on it - I was quite surprised actually ... own sleeping schedule....let's just leave it at that :) I never did

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HOW TO FORGE A DRAGON SWORD and other skills picked up in 3.096

  

  , laying it on an anvil) and molding the exterior with chisels. This is how ... didn't make this one long enough to have proper leverage, so it only ... : how to not burn yourself Reach toward hot things (or potentially hot

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 7, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  What I Did in High School in the actual sense of the phrase

  

  it a go. You do the animating, your friend does the script-writing and ... comment about how much you liked it because I honestly spent like 10 hours ... the game with whomever was sitting next to them and before long it

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  How Wrestling With Snapping Turtles Can Get You Into MIT A student profile of an aspiring limnologist.

  

  into MIT. The major reasoning behind my decision to go here was that it ... -Madison. What inspired you to get into limnology? It's like the (awesomer ... would go ice fishing for northern pikes and then dissect them. How has

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mostly Harmless Rifle. As in, the phys ed class. As in, I fired one.

  

  editor. He had to trim it a bit, but it's still an improvement.” “And what does it say now?” asked Arthur. “Mostly harmless,” admitted Ford with a ... basic rules of firearms safety, the "anatomy" of the rifle, how it

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 22, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  them, and how much fun it was. No one bothered explaining to me, that ... , wouldn’t it take about an hour of effort to prepare for an hour-long class ... discussion. It was interesting to see how ESP conducted its discussions, since

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  fairness was the priority, what would it look like and how would you define ... admissions staff thinks that you can hack it, you're in. How can they do that ... either case, it generally doesn't matter if it's true, because the

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

  Home Under the Dome sorority recruitment, tips, and my experience

  

  , and while it does take effort, trust me, it’s worth it. The PRCs will ... Now that it’s August, the fall semester is right around the corner – which also means sorority recruitment will be here before we know it

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • August 14, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Ten days of live-action roleplaying no joke, there i was…

  

  , which is exactly what it sounds: a ten-day long larp. These happen in IAP ... . Wearing the robes while square dancing was great, because it does the spinny ... "] dancing 100[/caption] The Guild owes much to its alumni. We have a long

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Sometimes, I am invisible and other female experiences

  

  ’t worry about it.” But how could I not worry about it when I got yelled at ... remarked on my bright red hair. It’s noticeable. Not in Davis Square though ... “dearie” and how can they know I’m a “miss”? … I take an advanced math

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 18, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  ? Would you even see it? How would you react to it? Maybe, even if you had ... vividly full of color. It precipitates pigment. It does not surprise me ... . ‘18, once pointed out to me how unjust it is that the media often seems

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  now—it's easy to forget that this kind of thing isn't really normal in ... Memorial Housing for long.) You'll find that my dorm's been making head ... dorm: it turns out that quite a few of my fellow bloggers do live

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thoughts for the New Year A semester's worth of thoughts, tbh

  

  what I want to do with my life, how will I go about achieving it? Will I ... for a long time. Realistically, it’s my freshman year in college, and I ... I was reading through my old blog posts and realized that it’s been a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2017