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  On Escaping An introspective vlog about MIT and getting ready to leave

  

  monologue was incredibly long and circuitous. Cutting it down to 7 minutes was ... finally figured out what I wanted to say. I think that's how this semester ... that it takes me a couple tries to even get in the right mindset to make

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 2, 2015
• Blog / Advice

  You don’t have to be a founder move slow and fix things

  

  lifetime?" How many years before it'd have to be rewritten again? The consensus was, in the best-case, five years. The "upper limit" for how long it ... 't get close to guessing how long the website would last. Consider another

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 29, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reaffirming our commitment to diversity in uncertain times

  

  Court does not announce when it will release its decisions in particular ... how we do it in our specific professional context.']admitted students to ... this is widely understood at MIT — people here know how hard it is, and

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 7, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Note To Self Please don't forget this.

  

  how it felt for these to be hammered home. 5. If you don't succeed, the ... : "How was your first year at MIT?" After a billion failed attempts (most unsuccessful one: "It was great!"), I finally converged on this: I laugh, then

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

  As We Approach Decision Day On getting in and on not getting in

  

  it does work out, it will take years of love and dedication and ... prove that I could, even if it meant sacrificing my physical and mental ... decision date I finally got deferred. I remember very clearly what it felt

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 8, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  comparing more sunny days to how well you fit with the people? It’s not even ... entirely, but it does get harder to go to grad school. If I decide to go to ... thinking about how to make education as a whole as impactful as it was for me

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • April 20, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  how we recycle the same topics over and over again. Every day it's a conversation about how Raymond and I are doing, how it's our last semester, what ... drastic extent. It seemed as though no matter how much time or effort I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  This story has to do with professor accessibility. And something awesome that I got in the mail.

  

  reluctance I returned it. Friend: ...does Professor Dumbledore know William ... a package slip in my mailbox earlier this week; I passed it to the ... name of the sender; it was vaguely familiar, but I couldn’t place it

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Underwater Dreams (from a distance) A reflection on immigration, student activism, and civic engagement at MIT.

  

  undocumented movement because I think what it does is it opens up a deeper ... that. How did we let it get to that point? It’s not just the corporations ... .com. “Today, it’s complicated.” The film screening was followed by a discussion

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Finals Blog but not the final blog unless something terrible happens to me in the next 48…

  

  Wii with your hard-earned cash and then taking the Wii and eating it ... -derive it on an exam, no matter how many theorems you give me. Once I had ... delivered to me a message from a high school friend, querying how much I liked

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 19, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The rise and fall of CPW all the cpw history, plus proof the weather machine is fake

  

  admitted students. It's unclear how much the discussion I mentioned above ... guess it's nice to see how student protest directed to the administration ... they put up a hack each year to announce it. I'm not sure how the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )

  

  't get over how badly I did on this test. It's hilarious because I actually ... , MIT is hard. It will be harder than anything you've seen. But you'll be ... Circuit, it's basically a loop for you to get the feel of your cart/bike and

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Semester 1 fantastic dishes and how to cook them

  

  high level of fat. I have nothing against fat: as long as it is properly ... how long I’ve been cooking for. The answer is usually shorter than what ... cj: it turns out that people in my hall like making guest posts so

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

  25 Stories of Getting Accepted to MIT told by students and alums

  

  were like "it's 6:28." It took me way too long to figure out why that was ... they were going on and on about how cool it would be if I got in, and ... the heck of it. We had no experience and no clue what we were doing, but

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  with how hard, how crazily hard it is, to break into the global ... , pushing forward, and in the absence of motion, it was simply falling. This ... in any case, I was far too busy to contemplate what it meant. I met up

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 17, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  To whom much is given… ...you know the rest!

  

  Much is expected. I can't tell you how many times I have heard ... few weeks. I can tell you with a fair level of certainty that it is just as true in college admission circles as it is anywhere else that it

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 13, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  Screaming It’s been a while. Welcome back. Let’s get this over with ... Tuesday, May 5, 2015, in expansion of MIT Gothic. It is up to you to ... which one it is. The example scenarios in the problems grow increasingly

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Entry About Snow ...Even though we don't have any

  

  how many fingers they're holding up, but it's too late now - he probably ... used as a metaphor for life, and that it's highly unoriginal to come up ... acronyms. I even love it more than Paul loves hacks (though I don't love it

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 11, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Stove-Cook Your Oatmeal and Never Look Back To not-admitted applicants and anyone who knows anything about fuses.

  

  bottom left fuse does not have a tab, it has a spring. It turns out the stove is on a different fuse, and for that we are very lucky. Here’s how you cook oatmeal on the stove. You boil a cup of milk. You can hear it

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 19, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  A Half-Century Retrospective Revisiting the MIT Application from the 1972–1973 admissions cycle

  

  Preface In the process of moving our office from its inaugural location on the Infinite Corridor to its new home in the MIT Welcome Center ... -ever admissions officer, Dr. James Libby Tryon.'] for as long as there had been an

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022