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  So Chance Me Maybe? Hey! I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my SAT...

  

  online community of peers sharing the same stresses and anxieties. College ... convinced I failed my interview, I once almost cofounded half of a club, my ... ’t very anxious about applying because I knew beyond a shadow of a doubt

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ten reflections on mit

  

  fun of the architecture a lot here, but sometimes, MIT really does look ... ground this Valentine’s Day (though of course, love is in the air). These ... all of the things that are different.  Back in 2013, I was a science

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 15, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  online, and I assure any aspiring scholars of MITese that you will find ... words and abbreviations and numbers are part and parcel of our culture ... showcase this phenomenon of "speaking in MITese," because I personally feel

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advisor vs. Advisee a '07 and a '21 answer a series of questions

  

  . Recently, I’ve had one of my friends be my accountability buddy and that ... chain: Bryan Bryson. My advisor in biological engineering and one of the ... totally go check out his blog posts, they are filled with all kinds of

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dear frosh: here are the things we want you to know a firehose of advice from upperclassmen: tips and tricks for freshman year

  

  . I added some of my own advice. Then I organized everything into the following categories. Some of it is excellent advice. Some of it will not make sense at the moment. A lot of items contradict each other. Here is the

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  non-stop / walang hinto what a mess

  

  program entirely online, through a mix of discord and zoom. surprisingly, it ... spring semesters. the only time i can think of that’s comparable was during iap, or maybe near the beginning of spring. but even then, that feeling

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

  To the exclusion of everything else on making decisions, and how i chose mit

  

  admitted students weekend of another school in the Northeast, which we ... . Three. The process of growing up is that of continual disenchantment, of ... of course they came through. I take the T to Kendall, and sitting on

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  150 years of MIT course catalogs the mit history you want to know

  

  catalog online. It consists of an overview of MIT, some notes on campus life ... 1865. They're all available online, and they're an incredible source of ... mentioned for free online, if you want to have an idea of the state of physics

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Was Sitting Where You’re Sitting Quick! Click here. :D

  

  sentence. Go check out the final version, online or on pages 16 through 18 of ...   Friday, August 28. Two MIT students sit at the top of the partly-built rollercoaster, one tapping hand on knee to the beat of Galantis (“visualize it

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Reflections

  

  large part, enabled the blogs to become the epicenter of the online ... among the best -- and, at the same time, the hardest -- years of my life ... which I am not grateful for the privilege of having been a part of that

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  You Are Here a list of things i can't make myself do, and a few i can

  

  most of my classes to keep me accountable in at least trying to pay ... the endless noise of constant motion that comes with living in a house of seven people. I read over the problems again, eyes moving to and

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 19, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself on choosing a college, and realizing one of many possible futures

  

  , Facebooked, Slacked, or spoken on the phone with many members of the Class of ... . Typically, these students ascribe this ambiguity to a set of questions they ... works; sometimes, it's as simple as helping them clarify a matter of fact

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend

  

  procrastinating on picking classes for the semester, I went online, made a list of ... communicators about their specialty, but am equally admiring of writers like David ... The Flight of the Iguana and First Light, respectively; reading those

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  For most of high school, the US was just a vague blip on the radar of ... of studying in the US would be like, but we spoke in the offhanded ... ” or “running for president”. I had read one of the MIT blogs once

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
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  Robo-CJ writes haiku “didn’t you already make a blog post about this?”

  

  normal CPW, of course, the events are all online. But now the events aren ... Poetry Day! It's not very much of a leap to think that I could be bisexual the end result of this is that i now have far too many haikus Also i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We Should Take This Final and Push It Somewhere Else you'll need a lot of mOXie

  

  Even though we’re only two weeks into the start of the Spring semester, I have already taken a final exam. In the midst of sitting down for first-days of classes and reading through new syllabi, I also frantically

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 14, 2020
• 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 ... Corridor. A copy of the MIT Bulletin from 1930 makes reference to the ... the site of the MIT Admissions visitor center. As the admissions office

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022
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  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  now and then, I’d stare out the window -- of my car, of a plane, of a ... where you think of yourself in a movie. Or, y’know, a blog. I know a lot of students are gapping this year, and others are considering taking

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
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  My dorm room’s 24-year history meet 16 former residents of my room

  

  to account for the width of the radiator in my planning, so I needed to ... I live in East Campus, on the third floor of the west parallel, which ... "] This is an old photo.[/caption] I once wrote of this room saying: this

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 19, 2022
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  The rise and fall of CPW all the cpw history, plus proof the weather machine is fake

  

  I've been busy recently because of CPW. Like last year, CPW is being ... people sent lots of messages. Trinidad, one of the admissions directors ... not be tolerated[/caption] Unfortunately, I was weak of will. It

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2021