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  “Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” and other ways to improve your test scores

  

  incorporate innate or nature-driven difference. Is testosterone key? Are women ... , and if so, is this difference breadboarded by biology or by social ... rotation, for example, found inconsistent or absent effects across cultures

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Defying That Sinking Feeling On learning to swim and envisioning success

  

  from back when I was five or so has me at some pool somewhere - I don ... your epic tales of slaving away through the night, aided only by a can or so of Monster or Red Bull. But geez, why would you? You just crash

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ATHack A day well spent helping others

  

  usually a one day event (some run for a full 24 hours, some less) where ... Hackathon (or ATHack for short). The goal of ATHack was to pair teams of MIT ... impressive model of what we wanted to build. On the day of the event... My

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Essay: Yogurt Edition! You like froyo? I like froyo! ^___^V

  

  course of three days or so (you shouldn't proofread the essay all in one ... either yields blissful joy, or, sometimes, yucky disappointment. When I ... . enough rambling. =p 1. Froyo is meant for experimenting. So it is the same

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  up in one week — whether to go to graduate school, or whether to accept ... future: whether college, major, career, or anything else. First, though, I ... , or a smaller department that lets you get to know faculty more

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • April 20, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  What I Did in High School in the actual sense of the phrase

  

  seconds to summarize it, I suggest 1:33 or 0:40 when I wave to a ten ... . Maybe I’ll write about my application some other day so we can like ... (and teenage angst) from my high school days, which I think is maybe

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Reading aka inhaling all the books i can before school starts

  

  things other than science, technology, or engineering”, and I would like ... /minor/major, so I wound up not getting in. I spent a few days scrambling around for ... these theories. They might both be right, or they both could be totally

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Advice

  Words of Advice for the Incoming Class you did it! now what?

  

  like for you. You might have gotten recently added to the Discord or ... means easy. The hard part is over (for now). A lot of adMITs will throw ... 'd like to do some light studying or review for fun before MIT begins, then

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to use these blogs Scattered thoughts on the information age, plus some bonus snark.

  

  accurately be titled, "How to get the most out of reading the MITblogs," or ... them up a bit, and here they are: 1. Just read it. Every once inawhile I ... when the grade in question is as low or lower than mine. Listen to me

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  few days ago a fuse broke and all the outlets in our kitchen stopped ... am, about a day after we discovered that the fuse was blown and, I ... , especially if you were just not accepted by MIT for undergraduate admissions or

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 19, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The future isn’t the answer reflecting on anxiety

  

  is not a substitute for professional advice. --- Every day we wake up ... important exam or a first date. It's this persistent worry that something is going to go wrong, no matter how unlikely or disproportionate to the

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2022
• 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 ... Wednesdays ago nothing happened. The next day I went out for ramen with some friends. The next day a friend came over and we spent the afternoon just

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 3, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  followup question about where or what I would like to eat, brightly rattling ... ability to make future decisions, either as well or, as in my case last ... something of an occupational hazard, like being bleary-eyed, or having a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  This story has to do with professor accessibility. And something awesome that I got in the mail.

  

  ; I get responses to my e-mails within a day or two (or, often, within ... a night or two, and fell in love with it. I returned it the next week ... . I saw him the next day, at the weekly Physics Colloquium, and made a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what work is bite-sized senior spring

  

  work that i do not expect to get paid for or graded on; it's work that i'm doing so i can get back to the place where i approach the days of my life ... requirements of this class is to notice something new every day. we are learning

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  flops every single day, even in the OR. (See, this story does have a happy ... I continue to regularly eat peanut butter straight from the jar, or ... older brothers or sisters, with whom I am competing for a space in an

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

  The Pretender a message to both you and me.

  

  Student program, where I would follow around a student for a day to get a ... application a month earlier and Decisions Day for me was on December 15th. But I ... continue giving my best every second of my life. And each day for the next

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  decide whether or not they’d like to live in a fraternity. It’s also a wonderful excuse to go paintballing, F1 racing, eat the obligatory steak and ... heavily as she could have. Several people she’d met during Interphase or CPW

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A (Belated) Letter to July In which I start blogging again with an angsty video

  

  of day-to-day kindness and stimulating conversations (or any ... video.  It's been a crazy 101 days since I last posted in this corner of ... here or there, some of it was scripted and some of it was just saying

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  reflection on what the blogs meant to us, or a life update since graduating ... 't tell what's more frightening: the fact that I am SO INCREDIBLY OLD, or that I just seem to keep getting older and older. Or maybe that I will

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 8, 2014