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• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  the college admissions process. I spend a lot of time on College ... because we haven't made the app available yet. However, from my own time ... probably the least important part of an application to MIT. Not that numbers

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An actual day in the life It's not the most exciting day... but it's a day!

  

  best part of waking up is 92 mg. of caffeine in your bloodstream! (I ... ), so there's always plenty of time to have your points heard. 2:26 -- I ... understand your MIT life. 2:30-6:00 -- Lab time! Today I am miniprepping

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  ] but part of me is just thinking again of the pattern of how you can be ... that I was damn [annotation note="how many times have I said this about ... ’s, who would study hard for half the time I did and get better grades. I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Dissecting emotion what is feeling

  

  One. Time is not real, because the other day I woke up at ten in the morning and slept at midnight and yet I felt like I didn't do anything. Time ... without writing. Time is not real, because I can close my eyes and listen to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 3, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )

  

  After Graduation, I now have a lot of time to "reflect upon my MIT ... will be a time when you test the water and get a feel of how your major ... better. For many, MIT will be the first time in your life when you really

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  25 Stories of Getting Accepted to MIT told by students and alums

  

  field, but not enough speed to load my decision before the server timed ... . When I saw those magical words, I immediately read them three times to ... as not to alert my parents who were home at that time “for no reason

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  An Open Letter to MIT Applicants Don’t Panic (and know where your towel is)

  

  student chose to become part of MIT’s class of 2018. While I have nothing ... construct structurally-sound furniture pieces in my free time after school. I ... back in time and speak to Gandhi about social change, and instead wrote

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Masquerading as a Liberal Arts Student The life of an MIT student abroad

  

  Every time I check my email (incredibly, only once every few days) I am reminded that I am not at MIT. I am away from the buzz that defines ... counted traffic today!), for the most part our studies are focused on three

  • by Becca H. '12
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I put on my robe and graduation hat It's sortof hard to believe it's time for this already.

  

  back on the good times we had at MIT. Photo Credit: Ricardo Ramirez Part way through the ceremony, some people broke out half a dozen beach

  • by Kim D. '09
  • June 7, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The leftmost station on your dial WMBR = awesome campus radio

  

  clearly have no idea how to properly manage my time anymore, I decided to ... -ultra-delayed blog post about the best part of MIT: WMBR 88.1 FM, the campus radio

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  fourth post in a four-part series, so here’s some context. I went to the ... turned out to be partly true, partly false. I think a better explanation of ... long time. Both of them even think they haven’t met each other in real

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

  A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.

  

  when I was seven, and at the time that I would one day be determined to ... scenes, people, and places--nothing that encompassed the whole time period ... post. This time, I have a story. The story is not about me (well, not

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  certainly receive a hefty sum of homework, the main problem is time management. That is, no matter how much time is given for an assignment, it will ... must say, is endemic on campus. This semester, for the first time in my

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010
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  Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python

  

  , to describe my time at Ward Melville. To analyze the data, I wrote some ... spent more time editing my agenda during the week and less time on ... 50 revisions" means. I know I spent some time using the agenda for its

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018
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  “Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” and other ways to improve your test scores

  

  family, works part time, and is insightful, helpful, and agreeable. They ... might assume that he’s going to have an easier time than a woman of ... first part of the study, supposedly to measure their personal spatial

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  smoke and spice my comfort meal

  

  freshman year, it was literally the only dish I cooked. I made it 7 times, which comes out to around once a month. In times when things were tough, I ... the time lag of spice hit people. They would insist that they were fine

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 9, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  --mostly because I never “look the part” for anything, anywhere, in any culture. I have been stared at, asked countless times the “what are you” questions ... --which really are well-intentioned most of the time--can honestly be very tiring

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  101 Things To Do Before You Graduate! 102. Read this blog entry.

  

  there too many times to count :) I even did research there! =p 31. Take a ... really decent - spend some time there before you graduate! Sadly, your MIT ... , and you're missing out on a key part of the MIT experience if you never

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 15, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This Bathroom Ceiling Some science, some fiction: traverse the space and time of our bathroom ceiling.

  

  the whale is one of my favorite characters. Here is its short part in ... little time to come to terms with its identity as a whale before it then ... meant to fly, the curling star-mists waver and part . . . See

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  lost my perception of time, those moments when I was stressed and tired ... contribute my part today and the days to come and I hope you guys are with me ... Apr. 19. “Playing the bagpipes helps me get over bad times,” John

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2013