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• 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 ... any fancy research internships or go to any summer camps; he worked for

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hard MIT Class ...or is that redundant? And yes, hiiiiii.

  

  -wielding tourists. You bump into one of their shoulders; they regard you for a moment ... one class I dreaded taking, one class I registered for, then dropped, then registered for again, then considered dropping. I just couldn’t do

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015
• Blog / Advice

  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  , to his boat for a sailing trip. in the hours before we set sail, we ate ... along the length of the boat, and two for the sails. he took the pen he ... direction is important. you'll need to develop a sense for it." "isn't there

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 22, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HERE LIES P/NR September 2018-December 2018

  

  economics class in addition to everything else, and it was too much for me to handle because I had a really weak background in calculus. For other ... communication skills for prefrosh. I didn’t do too well and had to take a CI

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 16, 2018
• 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 / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  analytical theory for a moment and ground what I'm saying in some concrete ... 't. What we prefer are things which may coincide with higher SAT scores. For ... medalist, who also happened to get an 800! The same goes for people who are

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

  Today I hit my TA with a door I didn't MEAN to.

  

  It wasn't like I meant to do it. I was late for recitation, and I usually go in the back door when I'm late but today, TODAY for reasons still unknown to the universe I went for the front door, all while my TA just

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 7, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  In the Realm of Giants imposter syndrome with a senior year twist

  

  together. Whether you’ve decided to try to find a job, or apply for graduate ... in charge that you’re not just great, but also necessary. For some, of ... school for architecture or engineering, or maybe even writing, or a job at

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Shiny Circuits Shiny, in some subcultures at MIT, means REALLY AWESOME

  

  , observing in a local high school classroom, interviewing for cool jobs ... cramming as much into their heads as possible for midterms. At this time of ... like Tungsten is, it's spread out as a gas. For electric current to flow

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  e) Other Some pretty important stuff, and then just some pretty stuff.

  

  luxury I'm very grateful for, because while your college major doesn ... it's a little tricky to know what to do with it. Especially since for ... schedule, I yearned for academic diversity once again and readjusted my

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ten reflections on mit

  

  ’ve changed. Then, I need to account for my own “MIT-tinted googles”: for the ... leaving home for the first time, growing older, or just generally maturing ... ’ll never know the counterfactuals. There’s no alternate-universe-self for me

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 15, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Distraction News Your internet connection is unstable

  

  eats any and all food, including the special food my mom buys for Dog 3 ... secretly snuffles around on the floor for food the same way Dog 4 does, and ... flurry for Humans 4 and 5 in the house unless we have taken antihistamines

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 31, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Reflecting on 10 Years and Lessons Learned Happy Birthday, MIT Blogs!

  

   Random Hall's 40th Birthday Hack.) Birthdays are special times. Times for cakes ... people you'll be friends with. Look for communities that you're excited to ... where you can vent, cry, or just take a break. For me, Home was BMF Floor

  • by Kim D. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  frizzy hair (quite overdue for a wash day by now), giving up on it, rushing ... been before (1-390) which is surprising, as for the last two years all my ... wasn’t something I’d be planning for in the short term. And yet, my last

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Night at the Office A bit longer than I expected.

  

  As a news editor for The Tech, every couple weeks, I have the ... for quite some time, so people know when to show up in the office, no ... our chairman for telling us about the ice cream when we're not permitted

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  halloween down the infinite

  

  finally lift my own luggage when moving out) so i signed up for a weight ... posted for privacy reasons someone who dressed up as a microwave chip ... the day someone dressed up as a corona beer who was too far away for

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 1, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  , like missing the forest for the trees, like looking at the sky and seeing ... measurement. How many frosh stopped by your booth? How many frosh signed up for ... -year students, the Midway is a spectacle for the senses. In my first Midway I put

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

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

  

  note="I’ve never turned my rambling not-intended-for-blog into blog ... that system but I didn’t. I liked physics C for itself but I also liked that I could afford to fuck up in math, I could relax for a whole year of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Challenge You Pi day approaches.

  

  reason for wanting to come – and the primary reason of everyone I have ... is the only path to success, which is a topic for another post.) I've been immersed in this place for six months. You’re probably sick of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 9, 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…

  

  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