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• Blog / About Decisions

  November 1st is my January 1st each november is a new direction

  

  were afraid of the potential rejection, and I think that's really heartbreaking. Takes a lot of courage to put yourself out there for a school with ... . Was it really possible that I could go to MIT? Of course not, I was just

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 3, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  16 for the 16’s 16 Guidelines to Making the Most of your CPW

  

  ;       about the ridiculous number of awesome events ... ; Without further ado:   16 Guidelines to Making the Most of your CPW   N = Nat, K = Kirsten 1. Don't buy ANY food! N: One of the best

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 18, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choice and the MIT lifestyle ...because "MIT" and "student life" aren't mutually exclusive.

  

  capable of doing a problem set in 45 minutes. Whoa there! I'm not that ... lot of my activities into a few days of the week, so I can enjoy my lazy ... AM, then I'm free for the rest of the day. Now, the last question

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Miss the South Musings on a secret Instagram account

  

  This blog is about my hometown, which I filmed a little bit of last ... understand the irony of that statement, since I am paid to share my life with thousands of people on a highly visible platform, but I think blogging is

  • by Ella T. '25
  • October 1, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing I don’t have time for hosed into my core

  

  I just took what was hopefully my last midterm of my undergraduate ... up the points of the things I even wrote anything down for, they just (maybe)barely totaled 56/120. This is 6.046, Design and Analysis of

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 25, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Challenge You Pi day approaches.

  

  reason for wanting to come – and the primary reason of everyone I have ... ) – was not the fear of being unable to succeed without MIT, but rather a ... to unique resources and unique opportunities. A close friend of mine

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT women Rockin' the two X chromosomes at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

  

  people are really interested in the experience of female students at MIT. I ... people are interested in this question, I find it decidedly odd... sort of ... shortage of breathable O2, I've never experienced discrimination as a female

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 20, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to Crying on Campus It’s right about that time of year.

  

  You trudge out of Walker after your third midterm this week ... working on any of them, and it’s already around 9:45 PM. If you’re like me ... condition in which the sole symptom is verbal/mental repetition of the phrase

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 16, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice On The Essay The rules are simple: write your own.

  

  to measure the impact of the admissions essay on today's college applicant." The email included a bunch of questions. Seemed harmless ... committee on a human level, i.e. beyond all of the test scores, grades, etc

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  i made furry art for Caltech i have art powers and choose to use them for chaos

  

  strips of colored LEDs lining the hallway, a bunch of the hall frosh built a beautiful shrine with linkedin pictures of all of our visitors faces pinned to a corkboard after only two hours of professional stalking. I

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 6, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  Enjoy Life Farewells and New Beginnings

  

  Today is my first day of school as a PhD student at MIT. Today is ... of my favorite poems, all about looking toward the future and starting new journeys. But as I get ready to start a new journey of my own, I

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 5, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT: The Sunsical The sunshine of May 12th

  

    a musical by Erick '17 sung to the tune of "Summertime" by ... ;   ♫Feels something like summertime Classe are over in a matter of time ... little something more than this at the bottom of my Verde's cup♪   ♫I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MacGyvering Bacon-tine’s Day decathlon brought to you by a paperback, a sledgehammer, and a scooter

  

  tendency to sit fascinated for hours by the refraction of light through pens ... granted by the structure of a shoestring's weave, internal discussions on ... awkward writing. When these kinds of people pool together, though, it's like

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Are people on the East Coast friendly? An entry especially for those from the Midwest.

  

  When I applied to MIT, I didn't consider whether the people of Boston would be as friendly as the people of Wisconsin. I probably wouldn't have ... work to do) at MIT that I haven't spent a whole lot of time in Boston

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 21, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Entry About Snow ...Even though we don't have any

  

  with supposedly clever sayings about boxes of chocolates, games of cards, onions or riding bicycles (have fun looking these up). Of course, that ... throw myself from high places with just a piece of plastic attached to my

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 11, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Building 4 Odyssey Looks like my James Joyce karma isn't that horrible after all.

  

  the class 21L.702 Studies in Fiction: "James Joyce and the Legacy of Modernism." Joyce's Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man were both difficult but possible to understand. I really enjoyed both of them

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 7, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  “I’ve Got 99 Problems… Admissions Is Not One” Really 52, but who's counting? I know that you love numbers, stats and checklists, so…

  

  it's time for me to lighten the mood around here. So to all of you uber-serious folk... back away slowly and no one will get hurt. As most of you know ... Prize in Biology and attributing all of your success to your admission to

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend

  

  communicators about their specialty, but am equally admiring of writers like David ... The Flight of the Iguana and First Light, respectively; reading those ... my dream job. You learn and write about any area of science that

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  are much smarter than I. Also, I'm kind of an asshole about how smart I ... out of an A, but deep down I know I deserved that B. Not only that, but ... has become painfully clear that I stand next to no chance of getting in

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  now and then, I’d stare out the window -- of my car, of a plane, of a ... where you think of yourself in a movie. Or, y’know, a blog. I know a lot of students are gapping this year, and others are considering taking

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020