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  I Challenge You Pi day approaches.

  

  admitted, and those who are not - to concentrate on what you wanted out of an ... join, fields you wanted to explore, dreams you wanted to realize ... . You are guaranteed to meet hurdles and obstacles on the way to getting

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Things Wot I Did Whilst Studying at MIT A tale told in pictures (and someone else's words).

  

  reading the post two days after I got to campus and swearing to live by it ... . The MIT name on your resume won't mean much if that's the only thing on ... only time in your lives when your only real responsibility is to learn

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 27, 2010
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  “Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” and other ways to improve your test scores

  

  -analysis found that on average, men outperform women in a cluster of tests related ... -bound females who perform well on SAT math also perform correspondingly well in ... otherwise equal intelligence, his conclusion based not on sexism but on

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
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  An Unofficial Guide to Unstandard MITglish, 1st Edition The joy of jargon.

  

  , localized dialect like a wandering hitchhiker on the sideroads of esoteric ... Question #12 on your 18.03 problem set, which happens to use a lot of ... software on your language processors. So, for the gentle edification of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what work is bite-sized senior spring

  

  , like many of you, i was waiting on college admissions decisions. today i ... work that i do not expect to get paid for or graded on; it's work that i ... when even i feel like i'm on a roll and energetic and productive

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Application dreaming

  

  perspective on the reading, go on over and visit Ben. Shahab commented with ... those signs on the side of a bank that tells you the time and temperature ... also has the flagship store of Cereality, profiled today in a New York

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The joys of web development or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the web

  

  worked on last semester: Firehose, which I now help maintain. Firehose ... answer is this blog post. Here's six projects I worked on some time during ... different, and that's okay. My goal is to encourage you to reflect on your own

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 9, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Gee, my life’s a funny thing Remembering the bills I have to pay, or even yesterday.

  

  MIT helped me take care of that, too. Finding an on-campus job can be a ... ashes sprinkled into the soup of someone I don't like. On our way back on ... where my college ranks on any of these lists, I'm pretty lucky. In the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  Oatmeal cooked on the stove is so good. I wouldn’t know this, but a ... ’d imagine belongs to two MIT grads and a master’s student:   Here, on the ... stove is on a different fuse, and for that we are very lucky. Here’s how

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

  To the Deferred I feel your pain.

  

  MIT Application went live. As many of you know, last year's application ... 't just a "polite rejection." I started to hope again. ~*~ Today, I'm here

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Reflections

  

  Hello old friends. The blogs are turning ten years old today, and ... most traffic of any entry ever written on the MIT blogs. While I am ... feel a bit old. Social media as we know it today didn't exist when we

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  neighborhoods we move into and come to love. What do pregnant mice, cheerleaders, and four-foot light-up tinsel giraffes have in common?

  

  , and I live with my charming rocket scientist husband Adam '07 and our ... 'm here to update you on the breathtaking life of a biology PhD student ... . Functionally, this means that I'm basically done taking classes, and I'm living

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 27, 2008
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  señoritis navigating work/life balance - and spring break photos

  

  that it depends on the person. many of my friends never experienced a ... work/life balance means. again, this depends on the person—some of my ... learned about work/life balance at MIT with the help of many wonderful

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 28, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  , the "fine print" on our acceptance letter includes the following clause ... integrity on its face. The purpose of this blog post is to communicate that ... that students should not make decisions based on what they think will get

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • February 22, 2018
• 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

  

  on how I got here is the most popular thing I've ever written ... today, and I was planning to write about tests. But Laura beat me to it ... , build them, and fly them (guess who the cameraperson was on that video? Oh

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005
• 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 ... attack each line item on the list like Ray Lewis cleaning a wideout's clock on a slant route over the middle. Terrifying? Yes. Required to be

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 1, 2010
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  On Escaping An introspective vlog about MIT and getting ready to leave

  

  is going, though. I'm working on so many different types of projects ... timelapse video of the sunset, thoughts on being in a creative slump, an

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Things (That MIT Made) LISTS

  

  on Hamsika's blog about the Boston Globe special feature on MIT and ... Globe's list of the top 50 "ideas, inventions and innovators that helped ... encryption The first air-conditioned building The "memex" - which helped

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HNY from NYC for IAP, 2016 time passes so quickly, help

  

  factorization on a math competition but haven’t bothered to factor it yet, hehe ... live in deep suburbia, the sort of place whose main assets are relative ... little to do, and I ended up desperately catching up on fiction, doing

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Back in Time I change my clock back three hours and read headlines on the magazine of the…

  

  The last time I was on an airplane, I was in an aisle seat getting my ... last time I was on an airplane, I was going the other direction - San Francisco to Boston - and the last time I was on an airplane, I'd envisioned

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 22, 2006