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

  

  the smartest person in the room is, or the zoom chat or whatever, I tell ... grown, or so I damn well hope.  # I went to a Q&A for the 2025s, and ... . I have always chosen the hard one. [or at least, as soon as I choose

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every now and then, my mind = blown. Thanks, Science!

  

  offending hardcore geneticists out there, or if I breezed over some of the

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 11, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s not fair! ... and why that's OK.

  

  same school, unless there is a recruited athlete, legacy or some other ... values and priorities. Maybe we share too much, or are trying too hard to ... biggest players? Or the fastest? For a band why would it matter if you had

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  How Wrestling With Snapping Turtles Can Get You Into MIT A student profile of an aspiring limnologist.

  

  , animal cruelty, or a restraining order. Any Chuck Norris Fact with his ... anatomy of different whale subspecies, or the social behavior of catfish. If ... time swimming in Brazilian rivers or researching in Fiji. It doesn't get

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  There Is No Formula A formula would take the human component out of our process, which is perhaps the…

  

  . Reading through this thread doesn’t make me think of SAT scores or grades ... . Having bad grades or scores will certainly hurt you, but I’m sorry to say ... reflection on you. At all. Accepted, deferred, or otherwise – you are all

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 16, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  's "REX", or Residence Exploration, put on by students, where you can play D ... , fellow frosh or upperclassmen, may try to tell you that all the Orientation ... on the flight home, perhaps, or missing your first-period class that

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 20, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Brief History of Cars on Fire at MIT You didn't think I would miss an anniversary, did you?

  

  of one or more of the people in this photo: Why those people ... -Campus-Senior-House water war involved kerosene and ten abandoned automobiles: CPW (or

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  I just didn't care or I was too busy or too unmotivated or (more often ... studied or because the classes were easy. You got a B probably because you ... how to study on your own in the absence of a teacher or curriculum

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, by the Calories free food is everywhere

  

  , each of my classes has three or four midterms distributed throughout just ... find the description (or even the entire course) online. So, instead of ... or conductivity meter. b. Right before the 3.091 midterms, the TAs

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Do I have a story for you… *SPOILER* I do

  

  ?). But then when you pop up and think back to just a few months or weeks ... 're not clumsy or stupid anymore. My clumsy stupid step in 2012 was ... year or these four. Wonderful and terrible, what's behind me prepares me

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  topic or an additional faux activity that frequently does more harm than ... their experience is a tally of hours, or they have to travel half way ... the point. If they can’t talk or write about their experiences with some

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  inviting. Wall Street, maybe, or a consulting firm, something synonymous with ... or computer science. And we would rebel, sure; we would dance on ... which he dissuades students from pursuing careers in consulting or finance

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “So what are you majoring in?” *sweats nervously*

  

  reading biology or neuroscience research. More generally, people who know ... little bit more so: And the 15 or 20 that followed took me all sorts of ... social or political science. And the personal appeal of mathematics - well

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Academic Conference and also things I have learned about publishing research in the past few months

  

  from the results, and whether or not you proved your hypotheses ... , or things that you didn't quite get to Conclusion and Future Work ... research tracks (which are specifically targeted at undergrads), or tracks

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Merit When getting into MIT isn't convincing enough

  

  are excited to tell me about how they relate to MIT. Believe it or not ... to talk or donate but are polite about it, and others—a very, very ... out of jealousy or just out of sheer wrongheadedness. The encounter I

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • January 22, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paths there are so many

  

  who was able to get through the door you wanted to, or through a

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 19, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Group Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Survivors three bloggers face the horrors of public transit

  

  people do Next Haunt in groups of five or six). Jebby and Aiden were ... would go on Ellen or Jimmy Fallon and do a horror escape room and just

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Week 1 Autumn tastes like warm apple pie covered in bacon.

  

  Registration week was a heinous tangle of scheduling; seven (7 ... pieces of slack time between 7 AM and 9 PM. After Thursday, my self ... classes. As Facebook would say, here's the status update: -Waves and

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 13, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Do You Like “Like”? What to do about social sharing.

  

  Facebook presence, or is it A-OK? In any case, I would recommend that ... Almost a year ago I wrote Going Social about adding the "Share" button to blogs so that they could be easily shared via Facebook. As I said

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 9, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Day in the Life A photographic biography of a Friday

  

  While cruising down Facebook Blvd. the other night, The Virtual ... the unquestionable truths of Facebook status update. This was ... flooded into my soul: ernestly did I remind Katelyn of our valuable Facebook

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 6, 2008