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• Blog / About Decisions

  Dear High School Senior I know you're stalking us

  

  decisions. Here is a list of things I came up with. (PS sorry it's all ... pick up that terribly heavy pile of dirty clothes in your room and lug it ... . I’d go to bed around 1 am every day and wake up at 6:30 am. THIS IS

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • November 17, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Fears and Hopes how to move forward

  

  the way forward. In the afternoon we might open up to discussion, feel ... other about hopes, about politics, about the American people. I picked up a marker and began to think about what to write, but ended up putting

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • November 9, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  On Essay Writing A guide to essay writing for the express purpose of obtaining admittance to an institute…

  

  Hello there. Normally, I’d spend a few minutes trying to come up ... this, I swear. I just googled 34,000+ and this is what came up.   ... consider maybe becoming a doctor (if you really want a leg up on the

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • July 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Local Boston Startups at Mass Innovation Nights Over 700 to be (sort of) exact

  

  ride up the elevator makes me think about how I'm "rising" through the ... the room was for networking, while the startups had tables lining up the ... to do build up a startup of my own. Thanks to Bobbie Carlton for

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 10, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Matt Damon’s Commencement Speech to the Class of 2016 Turn towards the problems you see

  

  . Matt Damon was too. Yes, when he got up on stage, one of the first things he said was that he didn't deserve to be speaking up there. "Let ... extreme poverty up close. On a trip to Zambia, he became amazed at how clean

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 6, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Short Thoughts Girlhood, editing, iPhone notes.

  

  's wrong. I keep thinking I've recovered only to wake up with a sore throat ... a headache and wake up still with a headache. It's the first time in ... Three Classes ended yesterday, and I cleaned up the notes on my i

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 13, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Updated MIT Groceries Guide (guest post) A requiem for Stata.

  

  bins to stock up on grains and nuts. Around Boston Haymarket Location: 96 ... discount. Come at closing time, and stock up as vendors clear their stalls ... farmer picks the selection and quantities, so you may end up with, say, 10

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 4, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s Pi Day, Pi Day the infinite is alive with the buzz of drones, and the 2020s bake pies

  

  It's Pi Day. I woke up at 5:38AM (a nod to Nate Silver) and walked to ... that some helpful hackers had the delivery drones already warmed up for ... the waitlist at the last one, enrolled, didn't like it, and ended up

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Boring Friday Night (guest post by Nina L. ‘19) Familiar inbetweens. Taking breaks. Things that aren't (all) sleep and studying.

  

  semester is starting to heat up and being off P/NR is mildly terrifying. I ... thing. We were going to take it back to campus, but we ended up eating it ... campus. Central Square was lit up and alive. We stopped at Starbucks and I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Cambridge, Boston, and MIT in the Snow Santa and Poseidon in a winter wonderland.

  

  Here’s what I woke up to on Friday morning: massive snowflakes ... , from the ground up to the trees and around again. The next morning it was ... took them with us to meet up with Ami G. ‘14 MEng ‘16 (like me! but she

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 10, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Accidentally Double Majored How I managed to accidentally get a second major at MIT (hopefully)

  

  to be when I grew up. So I guess some thinking about the future. But ... write-ups effectively. I want to be a master of communication, and I feel ... heavier course loads as necessary. It took giving up some clubs and extra

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  What is weather? ...and what is rain?

  

  degrees and sunny. That basically sums up my prior experience with ... dropped 30 degrees. T--h--i--r--t--y d--e--g--r--e--e--s. Up until this ... clothes This past Wednesday it started heating back up again. I tucked away

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 9, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Let’s All Work Together Easier Said Than Done

  

  's success in avoiding a major recall. We had 70 minutes to come up with a ... What’s Up” and laid back in his chair with his feet on the table. With ... brought up? And all this has to happen in parallel with talking to the

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • March 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why Do We Fall? so that we can learn to pick ourselves up

  

  all of Monday night from 8pm to 2am studying. I woke up promptly at 7 ... down everything I knew, tried different things, and came up with what I ... about the idea of being the head engineer and running up to my boss after

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 26, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Home Sweet College Surviving first semester.

  

  out and growing up and being on your own. Academically, first semester ... there for me. But the idea of growing up and changing and moving out inherently means giving up a little of that, and being ready to support

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 29, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  The Lessons I’ve Learned and it only took three full semesters and a summer

  

  ever taking extra time to do the problem again on my own. I ended up no ... -reading the textbook chapters. Up to that point my grades were flawless, and I ... . Nonetheless, I kept up my near-perfect homework, lab, and attendance grades

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Toilet @ MIT The Ben Schreck Shits 2015 Calendar.

  

  home in LA, we were talking about how we wanted to one-up it. The next ... decided to clean up the toilet, which was also a photoshoot on its own, with ... up pretty much all my time. What classes are you taking this semester

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 16, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2014 FAQ

  

  into our Early Action process. We will accept up to November test scores for Early Action, and up to January test scores for Regular Action. Q ... Bridge application shown up on my MyMIT tracking page? A: Colleges only just received

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 21, 2014
• Blog / Community Projects

  Set Theory and other Shenanigans *Literal* Set theory

  

  .” I’m still not sure whether he made that up or not. Math majors are like that. From here, we could have given up. We could have chuckled ... ) up a general interface for dealing with sets: I chose to define a card

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT = Home the excitement of a freshman

  

  , and I envision swarms of anxious seniors staying up at night over one ... his community. There is a also girl from Hong Kong whose face lights up ... first time I stayed up talking until 4 am even though I had an early start

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 14, 2014