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  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  Admissions Blogger :) East Campus was occupied by the US Army for a brief ... most other places. In fact, I'm wearing the 2014 Rush shirt for my dorm, East Campus. (The dorm goes by EC for short, or East Campus Alumni

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2) My take on the MIT short essays.

  

  revitalization of this system. It is no longer sufficient for us to stand on the ... You Do For Pleasure ("pleasure" - 100 words), Department at MIT ... admission officers ("adcoms") are not looking for "standard" answers, and you

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?

  

  Nadya is a rising senior at Harvard primarily known for founding the non-profit PERIOD when she was 16. PERIOD has over 800 campus chapters in the US and ... ’s article titled "A Call for Accountability: Anti Blackness in The Menstrual

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  kicks off "welcome week" for the Class of 2023. At some schools, maybe ... !"]sophomore[/annotation]and as I drive to MIT for Year 2 (I'm writing this in the car :D), I can ... advice for REX mirrors my CPW advice from earlier this year (and frankly

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

  50 Things Advice for the class of 2010.

  

  for you; beginning with the launch of our new site in early September, I ... strangers; stay in touch either in person (come visit us!) or online (please ... college experience, and I prepare for my 10-year college reunion, I thought

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HNY from NYC for IAP, 2016 time passes so quickly, help

  

  Happy 2016! (By the way: 2016 = 2^5*3^2*7, in case you need the factorization on a math competition but haven’t bothered to factor it yet, hehe.) After finals, my brother and I flew home and stayed there for about two

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  ....very soon..." One of many lessons I've learned is that waiting for things to ... for what's ahead and I think the blogs are no different. There are 10

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The rise and fall of CPW all the cpw history, plus proof the weather machine is fake

  

  previous number of 165 attendees for Women's Weekend in 1984. This gives us a ... into one room for a week. Ten of us times sixty hours. We'd take each ... weekend CPW's origins are rooted in a program for prospective women and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” and other ways to improve your test scores

  

  scrambled egg for breakfast could give us. (Though still not as effective as ... higher capacity for spatial reasoning than females. A large-scale 1995 meta ... testosterone and differences in brain wiring in capacity for spatial thought. It

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )

  

  , especially. I don't actually have a plan for this, haha, so I will just draft ... for two degrees, took five classes for five semesters, four for two, and six for one. I think I am somewhat different from the "standard" MIT

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  WHY? for people who don't like "no"

  

  It's been one week since decisions were released for the 2023s, and ... metaphor for it. Instead enjoy this large photo of my very small dog, who is ... waitlist for Columbia! She ended up going to MIT! I told my dad about the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  , Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays. On Wednesdays, I may drop in for office ... frustrating, for I still haven’t found the optimal waiting spot on the platform to minimize exit time upon arrival. Always room for experimentation

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

  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  of a nerd. I spent a good amount of time feeling sorry for myself in ... to them that I was worth something. If it wasn't enough for them, at ... you're different." The truth is that, for the most part, this strategy

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  can get A's at MIT without too much work, but for the rest of us, we ... in Boston.'" I never thought about it, but if you must press me for a ... . II. For some reason, people HATE admitting that they are premed at MIT

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HERE LIES P/NR September 2018-December 2018

  

  economics class in addition to everything else, and it was too much for me to handle because I had a really weak background in calculus. For other ... communication skills for prefrosh. I didn’t do too well and had to take a CI

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

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  analytical theory for a moment and ground what I'm saying in some concrete ... 't. What we prefer are things which may coincide with higher SAT scores. For ... medalist, who also happened to get an 800! The same goes for people who are

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Today I hit my TA with a door I didn't MEAN to.

  

  It wasn't like I meant to do it. I was late for recitation, and I usually go in the back door when I'm late but today, TODAY for reasons still unknown to the universe I went for the front door, all while my TA just

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 7, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Muti Water Project ...is finished!!!

  

  If some of you have been reading the blogs for a while, then you may ... lasting water source for a town, Muti, in my father's home province, Kafa ... to water will be safer for these children. People regularly die digging

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!

  

  tell you about my life after MIT.  But in order for me to properly tell ... back to this, I promise. To give us a running start, let's look back at ... graduate can't get a job for two years after graduation?  I felt like a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On Teaching and Learning Minimum requirement: read the last few sentences of this post. They're important.

  

  the most. Each of us is paired up with a Teach For America teacher; my ... neither, in all honesty, do I. To recap, I’m here for MIT’s Four Weeks For ... ’ve been out here for two and a half weeks now. I’ve seen seniors in Algebra

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011