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  The Marks of a Student or, let's catch up

  

  , meaning I had left myself with just enough PNR slots for the rest of my GIRs ... grades with one PNR slot. I, however, took an easier way out and am taking ... /NR. And I feel bad about it. For those of you who are friends with me or

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 4, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  counted traffic today!), for the most part our studies are focused on three ... , this semester has given me a much greater appreciation for what it means ... the world works. Nothing can be done without consideration for politics

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

  Perkus Nonacademia MIT will give you more than just an engineering degree.

  

  , and penchant for offering room and board to wayward nerds. My own love ... recently though, Dave was asking about possible storage solutions for his son ... best thing to do about it. Talking it over with Dave and a friend of mine

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the Deferred I feel your pain.

  

  this entry. I've been biding my time, waiting for this day and the plethora of emotions that come with it. Right now, some of you are nearly giddy with elation, having just learned of your acceptance. Some of you

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

  An Unofficial Guide to Unstandard MITglish, 1st Edition The joy of jargon.

  

  speakers of MITglish enunciate consonants at the end of words with ... and rapidly refuted her claims with a dazzling barrage of nicely ... 've pulled all-nighters arguing with fellow consonant-pronouncers about

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

  what am i doing great question.

  

  by the way passive mechanisms allow us to move about. For example, this ... reminds me of something David Foster Wallace wrote, which I can’t for the ... word was “nosy”), living for witnessing others’ moments. I hope I will

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  have worked together with mutual respect for one another. When I first ... , because you would never use that ability; there would not even be words for ... scientist discusses a theory on why tetrachromats (people with four color

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself on choosing a college, and realizing one of many possible futures

  

  Not long ago, I met with an admitted MIT student, whom I will call ... , Facebooked, Slacked, or spoken on the phone with many members of the Class of 2020 who are all struggling with the same basic decision as Sam: whether

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mind and hand

  

  eagerly joined with them. Unfortunately, there wasn't enough funding for the ... is Latin for "Mind and hand". Now, in most cases, a school motto isn ... answer. Most MIT students come in with a strong bias towards either

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Making Connections we live in a society (affectionate)

  

  with the student and prepared to leave for 806, I could hear her saying ... .031,[/annotation]the class I'm currently working for as a Lab Assistant. This was ... my head that I've been thinking about, each separately, for a few weeks

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Challenge You Pi day approaches.

  

  reason for wanting to come – and the primary reason of everyone I have ... hope that MIT would provide me with an extraordinary experience en route ... is the only path to success, which is a topic for another post.) I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The Great Wifi Outage of 2007 Burton-Conner's wifi went out two days ago; Evan will tell you more by the end…

  

  them with our queries;),though I think that wont be possible for someone ... the epic e-mail failure of po14 last spring. Look for Evan's blog about ... lie), dance practice, MedLinking almost everyone on my hall for some

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Applicant wishing you all the best and greatest

  

  direction, five slots were enough to highlight it. I even put “playing with my ... seen stranger. Reconnect with old friends. Approach teachers for small ... hard for eleven years, and even more so for the past three. I hope you

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 6, 2014
• 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…

  

  they turned out alright for me): 1) Finish (or start…) your essays ... like common sense, but considering I wrote my entire main essay for ... of your essays to do this for you, but it doesn’t hurt to do it

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  To whom much is given… ...you know the rest!

  

  few weeks. I can tell you with a fair level of certainty that it is just ... officers showed in you when they selected you for admission, it is not really ... it this far if you didn't have someone in your corner. For some it is a

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 13, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Beacon Hill in the Fall More door.

  

  hours just before midnight. Beacon Hill is very quiet for a neighborhood ... facing the street. I am sharing it with you because 1. There is a store on

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 17, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paths there are so many

  

  to MIT was the only future we saw for ourselves. Looking at the ... especially unpleasant for us. Those were the first time that some external ... , because the initial news still stings for us. But we will say that, after

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 19, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST fun And now...the much anticipated (but never duplicated!) photo-filled account of the coolest robotics competition ever!

  

  this year's competition, "Aim High.") Bonus points are awarded for robots ... regional with the team. It was so awesome that I even stuck around for an ... the ramp for some bonus points. Go team! Team 97 in action. FIRST isn

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 29, 2006
• 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

  

  young for TMNT?), I decided to profile my endlessly put-upon boyfriend ... math, he actually got a 600 on verbal. But lucky for all of us, the MIT Admissions Office is staffed with wise, kind people who only consider scores

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There is no such thing as a typical day on energy levels and productivity

  

  Some days, I feel good. Some days, I feel like I can work for hours. On those days, I get a lot done. I find myself able to work for like ... Messenger. I work for an hour, and then I’m lying on bed scrolling through my

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 25, 2020