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  A Mischievous Anniversary Tonight Four score and ten years ago...

  

  Watch '93 at 11:30 was the message. '93 was the new ... about, telling the inhabitants 'to watch '93 at 11:30.'" That evening: At half past eleven several autos drove up to the new

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • June 1, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Was Deferred And it was not the end of the world

  

  took a few days/weeks to settle in. I got some congratulations at school ... last at MIT. Gosh kids can be mean. Unfriended them on facebook, got a ... kind of felt like being rejected at times. But I also felt immense joy

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 17, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Women’s Soccer Talking to the 2009 NEWMAC Champs after they returned from the NCAA National Championship Tournament

  

  When I came to MIT I joined the marching band. We played at all sorts ... opportunities available at MIT for students at many levels of mastery. But given ... at MIT. Liz is a senior, majoring in Mechanical Engineering (course 2

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 25, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT, part deux The case study of someone else you wouldn't expect to have gotten in

  

  his freshman year, and has been working at Draper Labs since the ... that mean I'm twice as good at writing as you are?" Adam: "Well, you're definitely not twice as good at math!") During his summers, Adam didn't have

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  i don’t want to say goodbye sorry sad blog incoming

  

  volume of the angstiest metal we could find, heartbroken at the thought of ... pushed back a year, letting me enjoy two and a half years at East Campus ... , tidbits of which I've documented on the blogs. Living at East Campus has

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 24, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  was refreshing, and I’d been staring at my computer for the last… well ... heading back. After sitting down at my desk, the ALU didn’t seem quite so ... like the only thing in my life at the moment. The world was bigger than

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  So you might be looking at the CPW schedule and thinking...   ... parts of CPW is the massive amounts of delicious free food, but eating at ... are late at night. You have the rest of high school to sleep. K: Truth

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 18, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Diversity or Merit? false questions, false answers

  

  . It's an issue at the intersection of other excellent posts that folks ... question is not hidden within it at all, but barely-veiled, an unstated ... at MIT. Now obviously "preparation" is in some sense a range. You can

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

  Navigating The Tunnels…Of Freshman Academics You didn't actually expect me to write about hacking on the internet, did you?

  

  first semester: one CI-H/HW at least half of the science GIRs ... darkest hell weeks at MIT. In lieu of resummarizing the endless cycle of ... stay in hell Sam looking back at undergrad Keri on getting the most out

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  No Chance Why "chance" sites like AdmissionSplash are Bad Things.

  

  , not even me, can give you an accurate chance at MIT! What I said then ... forum, not even me, can give you a meaningful chance at MIT. Why ... prepared to do the work at MIT, you will not be admitted, because we don

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  Thursday nights, I usually use hints obtained from my TA at Thursday ... . (Note that most people at MIT like to do psets in groups -- it's faster ... bloggers care to complain/rave? 3. I should have stated this at the outset

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 30, 2005
• 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 ... maybe (it happened to me) all three at the same time. A lot of the basic ... 'll look at those schedules and laugh your butts off. They will change. I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 20, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  Enjoy Life Farewells and New Beginnings

  

  Today is my first day of school as a PhD student at MIT. Today is ... never would have ended up at MIT and probably wouldn’t have ended up as a ... month ago at his nursing home in Missouri. There’s a lot that I could say

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 5, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Beacon Hill in the Fall More door.

  

  Financial District, to the right at the Boston end of the bridge. Beacon Hill ... cobblestones, and happy laughter flutters down to us at street level from ... at night is like dreaming. Pretty houses, pretty fences—it is our

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 17, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bursting the MIT Bubble 1.0 things to do in Downtown Boston

  

  -watching! There is plenty to look at besides passing humans as well, like the old ... a coffee at the Thinking Cup, an adorable coffee shop for the tired ... complete the satisfactory outing, we had at least a dozen different bubble

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

  senioritis not to be confused with señoritis

  

  for mirchi, an bollywood/fusion dance group who performed at south asian ...   stuffed my face at boston restaurant week... two nights in a row ... celebrate less than 100 days left at MIT!   a few days ago i

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 10, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  This Is How I Read productivity hacks, but for reading applications

  

  meet in Early Action committee and I don't think: 9:00AM: arrive at work ... , embodied, manifest in some material form) I think is just as interesting, at ... reading until we have read all the applications, period. We read at night

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  “He touched the brim of his hard hat and glanced back at the dome ... thesis defense was at 9:30am over Zoom, with a committee of six professors ... to “leave the room” so the committee members could deliberate. At 11

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  you and other runners leaving at your time will sort of swirl, in a ... , three days later, shot Sean Collier outside the Stata Center at the ... subjects, I would shrug and figure I just wasn't ‘naturally' good at e

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  wish is to go unfulfilled. You have another midterm tomorrow morning at 9 AM, a pset due at noon, and a lab due at 5 PM. You haven’t started ... I do, it will probably be in one of the lounges on my floor at East

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 16, 2017