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  CPW Advice 2k19 come party wildly and/or play wii and/or perceive wonders and/or...

  

  as I tell all my friends back home who don't know MIT lingo, Admitted ... so you're honestly kinda meh. And that's all okay! I definitely can't ... was a way to decide where I wanted to go for undergrad. I hadn't com

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 8, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  I Wrote an MIT Application Essay on Getting a B in Calculus College Search 2KChel, how I found MIT, and how I turned the B around

  

  MIT. They were surprisingly hard to locate. They hadn’t survived the ... , for one thing. For another, I didn’t actually put “MIT” in the subjects ... wouldn’t be able to get in, just because you are never fully prepared to

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 12, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Like a G6 except for the wings, the engines, the flight controls…

  

  active in.  (I learned to fly pre-MIT and probably won't have much time to ... taking advantage of opportunities I didn't have at home ^_^)  In any case ... give those to you?" "Only if you don't crash." "NOOOO I WANT MY

  • by Piper '13
  • September 27, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Availability Heuristic with applications to pledging

  

  I didn't include a lot of biographical detail in my biography ... to pledge. Rushing isn't an easy job, and popular culture doesn't make it any easier. Many MIT freshmen, myself included, come to

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 11, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Reflections and Decisions Take advantage of every opportunity you can

  

  many, many times that college is where you will find yourself, but I don’t ... , don’t fret yet. Make sure to finish your other applications, find where ... again in a couple of months. If you didn’t get the answer you are looking

  • by Becca H. '12
  • December 20, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hello? Pick up your phones!!

  

  continue on Thursday, so if you didn't get a call yesterday, don't worry; we haven't forgotten you! A lot of you asked great questions yesterday; here ... better question might be what doesn't happen? Sleep doesn't happen, food

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 16, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Few Words

  

  couldn't find her; she'd disappeared to go eat lunch at a nearby McDonald's. I don't think I've ever disliked fast food more. After fidgeting for ... what my life would be like if I hadn't gotten into MIT and hadn't chosen

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 14, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hits from the ‘90s ♪ Why can't we be friends? ♫

  

  's right, I have a Twitter account, but I DON'T USE IT, SO STOP FOLLOWING ME ... have 30 followers. I'm not that interesting, honestly, and I don't use ... matter is, if I haven't met you, I'm not your friend. I don't want you

  • by Snively '11
  • July 2, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Strike! Strike! Strike! I. H. T. F. P.

  

  because I don't really count the liveblog yesterday as an entry so much as a ... Thursday this year, completely avoiding CPW. My next math test isn't until late April, Toy Design doesn't have tests, and UROP is just fun. Overall

  • by Snively '11
  • March 29, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making Time For Art [by Ashley Nash '11] If you don't have much or any experience with art, MIT…

  

  matter? I don't know, but I didn't bother to try and find out, and at MIT, the answer doesn't matter very much anyway. I got a 39 on my first math test here because I was taught, one question, one answer, and MIT doesn't

  • by ARTalk
  • March 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Stories of Senioritis How to Procrastinate

  

  " has come to a close. And of course, it wouldn't be blogworthy unless ... wasn't even really a final exam because it only tested us on the new ... so many times before you just can't read it anymore. And that is when

  • by Bryan
  • May 31, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pluto replies ThinkGeek.com rocks my effing socks.

  

  to be doing a 2.003 pset, and it really isn't a lot of fun. Adelaide ... the ball at a certain point in its trajectory. This really isn't hard ... get on psets. Don't think I'm crazy, I mean the first problem we solved

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Battle of The Bands takes over Bryan’s Blog Hostile takeover of Bryan's blog for the night.

  

  So me and my 133t h4x0r roommate Yuan decided to take over Bryan's blog for the day... Shaye: Are you sure this is legal? Yuan: Don't worry about it. Shaye: Really? Wouldn't Bryan be mad at us? Yuan

  • by Bryan
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  how to spend a summer Spending a summer in Boston a la Bryan

  

  was because I spent my summer with my friends. I don't really know how ... thing I suggest is getting a T-Pass. During the semester, I don't plan on buying one, but this summer it made for a great resource. With my T-Pass, I

  • by Bryan
  • August 27, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  As The Saying About Assumptions Goes… Assume = Ass + U + Me.

  

  said primary source, I can tell you that no, MIT doesn't have the highest suicide rate. No, MIT students don't work all the time. No, MIT doesn't offer only math and science. No, MIT isn't male-dominated ('09 is 47

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Your credit history is too short and other adult things

  

  ridiculous. The going advice is that you shouldn't go over 30% of your credit ... an apartment there. Yet I didn't think about needing a credit score up ... theory of adulting is that it's thinking about things that aren't problems

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  “the worst they can say is no” the costs of trying

  

  -risk. The potential outcomes weren't you took no action so you are not dating ... and hadn't even gotten any benefit out of it. And middle school students ... bizarre. The worst thing that can happen is much worse than a simple no. Don't

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 10, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Alone some thoughts on spending winter break in mit

  

  I spent winter break in MIT. I thought I wouldn’t be alone. After all ... some of my friends who were international students wouldn’t go home ... empty. The Stud was closed. The Infinite didn’t have that endless activity

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mistakes & the inspiration we need to move on

  

  ourselves. We don't look at each other competitively- I've honestly never felt ... Mechanical Engineering. But I didn't know if I wanted to do more than that ... material was as unappetizing to me as chopped liver. I didn't like learning

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 19, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  To the Class of 2016 General life advice

  

  'm finally free to come back to the blogs (: It's not that I haven't been ... a napkin... I just haven't had a good chunk of time to sit down and ... due the next week. Don't fall into the pithole though! Your health

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • September 12, 2012