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  Bursting the MIT Bubble 1.0 things to do in Downtown Boston

  

  hair, looking up and around and having the greatest time. We have gone to ... Italian deserts. On warm days, the North End restaurants also open up their ... up for the night, usually around midnight, students can still venture

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 2 The median of an introductory trilogy

  

  the Alchemist Statue, curled up on the floor, staring moodily at the ... its history reaching up from invisible depths to welcome me with open ... though trying to keep up with the energy of students. A thousand events

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  scores: This pretty much sums it up: SAT Math 750-800 15% 700-740 10% 650 ... other traits and end up, as a side effect, with a disproportionate number ... : The admit rate for students from Wisconsin went up 2%, MIT must really want

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  for quite some time, so people know when to show up in the office, no ... time. 9:35pm: Ethan comes up to not-so-subtly cough about the slow ... don't even know how this came up, but somewhere it was noted that there

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

  Save Point sleep wake hope

  

  their own advantages and limitations. I can't just make things up when I ... past ten days or so, as I finished up my finals and packed up my bags to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to Make Money at MIT for all of us who don't know how to make a startup :(

  

  , schedules are either all pick-up (you sign up for as many shifts you want each ... websites of start-ups/small businesses that maybe don't have the same web ... easy way to find out if they need any paid help for set-up

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 4, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who

  

  context when it comes up. What is CMS? I don't have a snappy answer. Like ... 2023 story goals because of the wrap-up slides."]2021 and 2023 ... narrative. In both the 2021 Hunt Wrap-Up and the 2023 Hunt Wrap-Up, there's a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 29, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  sea glass turbulent waves in these parts

  

  stop than with the harsh reviews. I hate the feeling of giving up, of

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 5, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  what, you end up as a future-you that is yourself. While all of that may ... and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the ... I’ll end up. The advice to deal with this usually goes something like

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 16, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Robo-CJ writes haiku “didn’t you already make a blog post about this?”

  

  focusing on making haikus, but I have a lot going on and I can't keep up. i ... haiku log It’s pretty cool how Robo-CJ picked up roughly the correct ... . i am scared for what i will see when i wake up tomorrow morning don

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  making this up."]crick in your neck[/annotation] from looking at an ... periods of focused reading broken up by intervals of noncognitive activities ... up on a backlog of work over the next few days, but I don't think that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 21, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Axes of Confusion ????

  

  have to try your best, and even if you end up with a suboptimal grade, be ... the struggle. Don't get wrapped up in the letter. The next class we ... frees up *significant* time. potential course road for 21E degree

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 21, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  this is by dressing up! My living community, 3E in Next House, decided to ... half full! We ran down, up and across the isles to find a row that had ... uproar seemed to increase by 10 decibels. They came up, two at a time, to

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Happy 21st Birthday to the Random Hall Milk the Milk is now old enough to drink, but *please*, don't drink the Milk

  

  of disciplined persistence he’d built up over the months had come

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  An Open Letter to MIT Applicants Don’t Panic (and know where your towel is)

  

  score number. Let me tell you how I ended up here. As a senior in high school, I knew college applications were coming up and that everyone in my ... their names before. MIT ended up on my list because I read about the hacks

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer…” wherein Neil Armstrong's legacy kicks off a year of Unified Engineering, and I reflect on…

  

  looks up at the airplane, the candidate passes and gets the job. Having ... 't have the privilege to grow up with. There's a notion of "passion" that ... application essay prompts, that seems to imply that everyone grows up with

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 9, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Admissions Excavation Chris gave me a box of stuff and this is what I found inside

  

  , I trekked over to the admissions office to pick up this: And my

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  I figured out I had to move. It took me a while, but I got up the ... who, on my last night in Boston, stayed up until 3 AM with me, who ... lady next to you to help you zip up your sweater on the T and she

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Views of Campus, the Charles River, and the First Snow with a snowman and a snow dalek

  

  to the lonely 3 am campus, soaking up the light reflecting off the snow

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 20, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fit or happiness made easy

  

  as facets we would like to have from sisters we could look up to and

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 15, 2011