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  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 / 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
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  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
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  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 / Extracurriculars

  Why was I up so early this weekend? Reaffirming my faith in humanity and destroying my confidence with computers

  

  *any* IP address, so long as it wasn’t 192.168.10.100. That’s right. I ... for the first time last weekend, and it was a great success. Offering a ... —and it’s the perfect excuse for a reunion with friends from summer camp

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 20, 2011
• 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
• Blog / About Decisions

  here comes a thought on decisions

  

  take a moment and ask yourself if this is how we fall apart? but it ... [annotation note="i debated with myself for such a long time on whether or not i ... was so gorgeous it didn't matter that it probably makes little sense to

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 13, 2019
• 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 / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  occurence that it's not until I'm away from campus that it really sinks in how ... That phrase is probably the most uttered string of words I hear. It ... between. It's in these aloof conversations that I really appreciate one of

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 8, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  November 1st is my January 1st each november is a new direction

  

  you, it has been too. The MIT application can be very daunting and, if ... early actioners, whether you get in or not, you did it. You applied, pat ... . Was it really possible that I could go to MIT? Of course not, I was just

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 3, 2015
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  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  you don’t realize how refreshing it is to leave until you actually do ... long, and it can be especially difficult for people who live further out ... organization has a rich and unique history, culture, and traditions, and its

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  through to graduate high school. It’s also a book that has left me with a great dilemma: be yourself or create yourself - just which one is it? I ... ” does not succeed in that one goal. For me, MIT was a golden opportunity

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012