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  Navigating The Tunnels…Of Freshman Academics You didn't actually expect me to write about hacking on the internet, did you?

  

  MIT has a lot of resources that could have made my freshman year a ... system, for a while, but after querying the 2015s, I discovered, to my ... my best to actually bring you useful information applicable to the

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Putting Diversity into Context The diverse ways that colleges and universities define diversity

  

  great interest. In my role as the Director of Minority Recruitment, I ... having to identify my race on all kinds of forms, including standardized ... admission. From my perspective, checking the box, or boxes to indicate one

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  How to look over your application and advice about breathing. My older younger brother is your age. I am fully aware of how much you’re…

  

  week before I update you on the last 5 months of my life. Right now, this ... I was back in the day, or my younger brother is right now, or like ... like common sense, but considering I wrote my entire main essay for

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Putting food on the table daily with Daily Table affordable, nutritious, and delicious groceries near MIT

  

  mile of my house, and/but all of them were [annotation note ... getting all my groceries here might bankrupt me, given the kind and quantity ... —  according to both their research and my personal experience —  25%-35% less

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 things I love about MIT and hopefully you'll learn to love them too.

  

  Admissions people, my classmates are a ridiculously talented bunch with the ... Boston, read one of my previous entries here The view from my sophomore year room in Next House (my Baker rooms have better views but I don

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions advice from someone who’s been there

  

  I've been working on my grad school apps lately, when I'm not busy ... , which is why I'm going to reprint my first-ever College Confidential post ... officer. Nothing I say here is official policy. It's my interpretation of

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 17, 2006
• Blog / Advice

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

  

  of the Time". Philippine science fairs, back in my day, always had ... capitalists and founders" and "a low-code authentication solution". To which my ... custom keyboard shortcuts; I've talked about my thought process before too

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 29, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2) My take on the MIT short essays.

  

  account on my.mit.edu so I can actually catch a glimpse at what the new ... the product of intense cognition, I thought I'd share some of my views ... "essays," but short answers, so they can be easily answered. My advice is

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a sad sad toaster made of glass. Do you like your toast with tears? Because I'm sad.

  

  my room, lock the door, and play NES on my laptop. But last week I was ... Friday I turned in my last problem set ever at MIT. So the other day I was ... my model. I will indeed be taking zero units at MIT next term, since I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to use these blogs Scattered thoughts on the information age, plus some bonus snark.

  

  . My point is, we love getting good questions and entry ideas- a lot of ... . Cut it out with the “what are my chances?” stuff. I have a very serious ... 're just going to say we don't know anyway. 6. Do not insult my SAT score. I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  on my list of worries, which have suddenly expanded dramatically to include packing all of my stuff and getting home safely, but it does sit somewhere at the back of my mind, taking up space. All of our new planning has

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice On The Essay The rules are simple: write your own.

  

  I recently opened my in-box to find an email from someone who " ... guess my response wasn't very helpful to them. But hopefully it will ... connect with you on that level, here is my voice, here is who I am

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bad Ideas Weekend 2019 good times

  

  brains to the limit. Here is my experience at six of them! I. 2^n cookies ... table. It was the kind of cookie mountain that would have made my [annotation note="tbh, my current self too"]5 year old self[/annotation] jump up

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 3, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Beacon Hill in the Fall More door.

  

  us. One of my favorite places in the world is the gold hill under the ... , tiny doors, and secret gardens we aren’t allowed into. It is my and Cory

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 17, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to trick yourself into thinking that you’re writing a report The most productive procrastination technique revealed at last!

  

  yourself when you do. This post burgeoned from my experience with 20.109, or ... read it along with all my classmates’ posts on our class blog here. This ... course, solidifying my decision that double majoring in Biology and

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 17, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things Charles Has Made fare thee well, rocket powered roller skates

  

  man who built a 20 foot flamethrowing exoskeleton in my linkdump post a ... ;   During my first CPW, at the MIT Professor Talent Show, Charles

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Some people call me the space cowgirl

  

  admissions [I] have seen in [my] time, both as a student and as an admissions ... nonstandard criteria - not gpa, etc.?" To borrow a line from my Dean, Marilee

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  finish and post it. I also gave up scripting this one, so my initial

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 2, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Life is like a Game Elaborate metaphors from an amateur comic artist

  

  It's been a pretty rough week, so I took a break and drew out my struggles. For some reason (mostly the fact that I'm a media dork at heart), a video game metaphor was easiest to conceptualize in comic form, so enjoy

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 7, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT, part deux The case study of someone else you wouldn't expect to have gotten in

  

  According to my hit counter as well as by raw comment count, my entry ... young for TMNT?), I decided to profile my endlessly put-upon boyfriend ... . (Adam: "Tell them I got 21st [at Junior Olympics] my first year, and ask

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005