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  Thank you for reading A rigorous study of 26-year-olds (n=1) showed that getting older is positively correlated to the…

  

  it. I have seven words for you: please stop it with the neck beards ... We were asked to write an entry for the anniversary of the blogs, a ... from MIT. First things first: I have now actually been out of college for

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Praise Of Holistic Admissions not an admissions machine

  

  - broadly defined - for college to matter.   I hope that this quote is ... didn't mean that it's a place to idly chat with people (although it is ... mean? Why do we have it? And what does it do for our class? When we say

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj

  

  the fun way and most of your friends do it with you. —TK '23 walking ... a drinking fountain. It was actually functional, with water coming out ... back with another genius quip: It is because of this excellent, high

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Entry About Snow ...Even though we don't have any

  

  at it. *In fact, while Snively opted to play with snow indoors because ... used as a metaphor for life, and that it's highly unoriginal to come up with supposedly clever sayings about boxes of chocolates, games of cards

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 11, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  My Product Design Internship in Austin how to build things: both externally and internally

  

  took me no less than a week to fall in love with. Austin is on top of an ... ."]drizzled in olive oil[/annotation]. I’ve been playing with a WPSL team this ... Boy oh boy, what a summer it’s been so far. For the first time in my

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • July 26, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Bleary-eyed Some thoughts and reflections on this year's admission cycle - particularly for those not admitted.

  

  out with friends). When mixing and producing albums for my a cappella ... straight, with another 7 days of committee ahead (no - no breaks for weekends ... , and even more at MIT as an undergrad (many for studying/academic reasons

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 16, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later what happened after pi day 2011

  

  with my estranged girlfriend when she was leaving for home. It didn't go ... unedited (except for where I removed personally identifiable information at ... they had their own agenda for that year. I devoted my gap year mostly in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  Last Wednesday, February 14th, 2018, seventeen people, including ... , advocating for policies to prevent such a shooting from happening again. They ... demonstrations at the Florida Capitol and the White House, as well as meetings with

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • February 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Blogural Inaugural I just wanted to use this title.

  

  sweat for several hours. Sounds fun, right? *(Keep reading, it'll make ... building 4. There, I work for two and a half hours with my two awesome ... Hello, world! (Sorry, I had to. It's the classic "first program" for

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing I don’t have time for hosed into my core

  

  for that and also a persuasive presentation for 15.276 on voting in 2018 ... up the points of the things I even wrote anything down for, they just ... strong negative memories of. But it's a requirement for the new 6–14 major

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 25, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Great Glass Pumpkin Patch and a bonus video of a cat chasing a spider.

  

  . Bonus! While digging through old photos for this blog post, I found completely unrelated footage from one morning last October of me playing with ... year to share with you. The pumpkin patch is handblown gradually over

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 5, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tyrannosaurus REX the prefrosh are coming, the prefrosh are coming!

  

  up to the event. Our group chat was exploding with people asking for ... find someone to have fun with. Like orientation events vs. REX events ... Yellowstone and New Hampshire, have fun :D"][/annotation] And on Saturday

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 20, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  corners on campus for three hours in a room with one piece of paper and a ... together with your fellow sophomores on your dorm hall ... enough seats next to each other for all of us. And when we finally sat down

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Advice From The Elderly My last blog entry, at least from this chapter.

  

  older brothers or sisters, with whom I am competing for a space in an ... with bated breath for an entry that never came. And by tens of tens of ... . It's like a cheat code for free travel, if your life was a video game

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Never Mind The Score Insights from the National Poetry Slam - for both MIT students and hopefuls

  

  from an airplane descending in free-fall, go connect with new friends. Do ... stage and compete to be the year's top poets. MIT was even lucky to host ... remember while at MIT. For those of you who are incoming freshmen, I invite

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  This Is How I Read productivity hacks, but for reading applications

  

  one, but it's a bit different for me right now, because we've started to ... would make for a particularly interesting blog. So instead, I figured I ... 've written countless posts on reading in the abstract: what we look for in your

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  page with a series of six consecutive posts. I am calling the takeover Yultide (credit to the bloggers for the awesome name). Today is Yultide Day ... School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (SHASS) for a while, but

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to decide which classes to take amazing classes and how to pick them

  

  place. You get people to work with on homework for free. You have people ... . This is mostly aimed towards first-years choosing classes for their first ... checks: what's your earliest class? Do you have time for lunch? How many

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Flying Close to the Sun a semester of fire

  

  "]brimstone[/annotation].  For the past year and a half, I’ve been working on my current UROP with ... on repeat for choreographing is probably why I’m in the top 0.005% of ... considered using a fire idiom in the title of this post, but decided to go with

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  't plan anything to do, so after playing Crystalis for two hours, I decided ... for you. Actually this entry did end up being kind of long, but it's not ... . Or see a movie for $3 at LSC. Or bring up singularities in everyday

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007