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

  

  integrity on its face. The purpose of this blog post is to communicate that ... right to revoke or defer your offer of admission if your conduct does not ... to undertake whatever course of action in life is most meaningful to

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • February 22, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  fonts on supplemental materials, is going to make your application more or ... lots of decisions quickly and well is going to decrease. There's no way ... 's our job to make lots of decisions quickly and well; it is our job, in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Cozy Hobbit Times, Cozy Hobbit Food

  

  teaspoon each (or to taste). Boil for an hour or until the leaves are of ... In 2015 I got to experience a longtime dream of mine, finally finding ... garbage disposal or a shower that gets hot right away, but it’s on the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  17 Things I’ve Learned in the Past Year growing, growing, grown

  

  understand how much the onus is on me to look out for and take care of myself ... better (often after you seek some sort of help, which is an act of bravery ... textbooks. Sigh. 7. It is important to take care of your body and physical

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Decade in Online Posting looking back: from the forums to the blogs

  

  better #RecoveryIs smiling at dogs on the street again not to sound corny ... effect of allowing us to reflect on the past—to soak it all in, to remember ... ."]twitter[/annotation] this is just gonna be my go-to place when my followers on tumblr get

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Let’s Go Fly A Kite Up to decision night!

  

  happen. Better news: everything is going to be OK. Best news: you can ... ? Now is your chance! Better yet, alternate movies (or even scenes) with ... -n-slide. This was taken on one of our better days: What’s that in the corner

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Coping With Anxiety What is anxiety? What is panic? Definitions? Confusion? FINALS?! Cats.

  

  to someone else. I hope spending some money on some of these things, or ... to split a $3 book of stickers or temporary tattoos with some friends ... Triggers Take notice of the things that make you feel panicked or anxious. Is

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Life is Improv say yes

  

  you're a member of the class of 2011 or 2015, your life is about to ... . To negate in improv is to break the flow of absurdity and belief that ... the core principle is correct. When you get to college - or, for the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  question of which futures I would like to leave on the table. Before we get ... account of something else"; i.e. that which is most complete and most choiceworthy is that which is chosen for its own sake. This may seem kind of

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  No Chance Why "chance" sites like AdmissionSplash are Bad Things.

  

  selecting schools to send an application to easier. On Tuesday, the company is ... students how likely it is that they will be admitted to each school on their ... ask for complete strangers on the Internet to assess their likelihood of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to Freshman Days composed in the wee hours of morning

  

  UROP or a job. Those are tricky to balance. Which UROP will accept the ... personally better than one in front of whom I spilled vanilla ice cream on a ... the heart. I got by on 3-5 hours of sleep then. Soon, the lessons

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 29, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to Crying on Campus It’s right about that time of year.

  

  condition in which the sole symptom is verbal/mental repetition of the phrase ... probably just want to cry, which is fine. Crying is healthy from time to time ... concentration of crying spots on the right of the map). We need all of you to help

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 16, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  acceptances (which is comparable to the average 3.5 acceptances by MIT ... around CPW, which I consider to be overly optimistic to the point of ... the extent to which they are correct. Premed @ MIT is special because

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Sunrise, Sunset An MIT-Israel student shares his day

  

  ’s a nice change of pace from the school year, which is practically non ... interactions could lead to the development of better treatments for ischemic ... drop out of my time either. The summer is a great opportunity to rest and

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Applying Sideways How to get in to MIT.

  

  speak to students or their families, be it on travel or during a campus ... , which is this: How do I get in to MIT? And here is what I tell them ... knowledge with dogged precision. Because it is better to be educated and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT grads, 10 years later What is the MIT Class of 2000 doing, 10 years after graduating?

  

  ) Lawyer; former staff to House of Representatives Committee on Science ... -- my MIT class. It was fun to see so many of my classmates and hear about ... ), which I compiled and sent out to the class. Realizing what a resource I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 9, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Praise Of Holistic Admissions not an admissions machine

  

  within it. This leads me to another point I'd like to discuss, which is ... understand that it is the interaction of these myriad factors which constitutes ... . All of this is to say that, if scores were all we cared about, our

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  work or results. The definition of the MIT experience, however, is not ... of yourself". I look back on those days and feel tempted to laugh at ... representation of what MIT is like. “Think about it: if you come here to do

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Queer at MIT, but not on the blogs the map is not the territory, but it's getting closer

  

  consequences for being out in their home country or state. This is not to say ... is not an individual or collective failure of the blogs or the bloggers ... observes, being "out" is not the only way to be LGTBQ+, and the costs of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Deferred Early

  

  initially deferred; you can read some of their experiences here, here, here, here, here, here, and most recently here. Some of you may feel happy to be deferred. Some of you may feel sad. Some of you may have complicated

  • by Decisions
  • December 16, 2023