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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why My 5.13 Problem Set Took All Day Moral of the story: Don't procrastinate, or I'll never talk to you again.

  

  to wear velcro." I have never, ever been one to get anything done ... myself that if I get it done now I won't have to worry about it later, and ... write notes to myself - "IF YOU DON'T READ THIS CHAPTER RIGHT NOW, I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HERE LIES P/NR September 2018-December 2018

  

  being an over-achiever, and MIT becomes the first place you can’t get ... , but where I come from, the closest you get to snow is shredded ice in ... ; where you don’t necessarily end up with the same argument you began with

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 16, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  of flavors, you get to customize it, and experimenting with new flavors ... money in application fees, counselors get mad at you for making them work so much =p, and you have to narrow your list down after you get the

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

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

  

  relevant comes up, you get sort of discouraged, but you keep going ... ; (If you want to make me happy you can watch this video and exaggeratedly ... similar reason. If you come from a high school where a lot of students are

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How To Make Mediocre Furniture well, maybe i'll let you be the quality judge

  

  ."]Putzen,[/annotation]this is what you get. I carefully brought all the wood to our new apartment ... different programs every semester where MIT students (or anyone!) can register ... free stuff culture. Offices or people who are getting rid of things will

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 17, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mostly Harmless Rifle. As in, the phys ed class. As in, I fired one.

  

  what's right in front of us. There are doh! shots on the range, where you ... the agar. You wrap a piece of cloth around a cylindrical block and mash it into an inhabited petri plate, and then you mash it again into an

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 22, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  actual conversations i have definitely had with freshmen during orientation

  

  FROSH: where do you live? ME: east campus! i love it a lot, actually ... ME: no it's fred FROSH: but ME: fred * * * FROSH: so where do you ... 're definitely not a cult * * * ME: so where are you from FROSH: minnesota

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 30, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  So Chance Me Maybe? Hey! I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my SAT...

  

  that I was getting rejected. That’s the truth. Last September, I was ... needed to get serious about applications very, very soon, so I hopped on ... colleges I had a chance at getting into. It’s too bad all of those answers

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  sense when you get stuck between the two. Neither college is, of course ... minutes. You get 1,000+ class options per semester, plus grad school classes ... full class). You get graded according to MIT policies and receive credit

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  (Bitter)sweet home meeting high school teachers again, and visiting my hometown for (probably) the last time

  

  superintendent. As much as there were "I can get through this, I've been through ... much I can say before it gets drowned out in a pile of words. These are ... are you majoring in?  But there were other topics that we wouldn’t have

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Save Point sleep wake hope

  

  human. Even on this blog, where I can say exactly and precisely I want, I ... applying to MIT, all of you who will be getting that life-changing decision ... their own advantages and limitations. I can't just make things up when I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.08: Intro to EECS via Interconnected Embedded Systems aka: the class that convinced me i belong at mit

  

  webapp that customizes the alarm clock, where you can set the alarm clock ... easily with, "Don't worry! I can always help and I'm sure you're not bad at ... perform a proper HTTP GET request, where we would push the button a tracked

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 21, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m not an imposter… I’m going to be featured on the MIT News homepage

  

  student do you need to be to get one? Those types of articles feel like a ... ’ll get to it. Here’s one tricky thing about being at MIT: you never know ... ’d the test go?” instead of “what’d you get?” and you never have to give a

  • by ana~
  • October 29, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  syllables so your goal is to get as many haikus as far as you can count Can ... more for all of you admitted students. yeah i know, i can edit: oops i ... ’s cool when someone unintentionally writes a haiku. But as you can imagine

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a sad sad toaster made of glass. Do you like your toast with tears? Because I'm sad.

  

  quite 1,000 googol pages. All I can offer you by way of reconciliation is ... hugging your laptop, which is still on, so it doesn't get stolen; also, you ... DID YOU KNOW? The state of Arizona does not celebrate daylight

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  tell me where the final clue lay. Can you figure it out with the ... like this. Person: Where are you from? Me: Nigeria, you? Person ... thinking of majoring in? Person: Sorry, can you repeat that? Me: What

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

  How to look over your application and advice about breathing. My older younger brother is your age. I am fully aware of how much you’re…

  

  , this is not important, and you guys can probably stand to wait another ... . You need to actually do the essays first before you can edit them. Just ... trying to get across, then you need to fix something. If you don’t like the

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Applying Sideways How to get in to MIT.

  

  them something they can do that will get them in. Maybe they need to be ... in and of itself will get you in to MIT. For example: A few years ago ... . See: If you get into MIT, it will be because you followed these steps

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, by the Calories free food is everywhere

  

  .02 (Calculus), and MAS.110 (Media Design). You can Google each of my classes and ... level to get very high. If you like free food, you’ll love it here. If ... of food you can pay for. That’s for another blog, though.

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

  There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.

  

  , and what about that VH1 “Where Are They Now?” special that you’ve all ... . The TV show in fact is older than many of you applying to MIT right now ... is where the heart is and happily chose to switch from mechanical

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014