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  [Guest Post] We’re Not in ~Kansas~ Missouri Anymore Going From a Small Town to Boston, by Claire S. '25

  

  Missouri. She's one of MIT's small-town and rural student ambassadors – part of the larger Small Town and Rural Student (STARS) Network, which aims ... circumstances were out of my control, and I made the best with what I had. I

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 17, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  different social network sites, and been syndicated to CNN among a bunch of ... the college admissions process. I spend a lot of time on College ... ask for complete strangers on the Internet to assess their likelihood of

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

  Queer at MIT, but not on the blogs the map is not the territory, but it's getting closer

  

  part of that process, I polled the bloggers on blogging features and ... then on several blogger lists of current and former bloggers. Through ... conservative, and on a scale of reactions, 0 being the horrific “I’m disowning

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Random Random Projects/Moving Out of Random Randomly zigzagging about until I find myself in the future, somehow no longer in Random.

  

  smell of the boxes I lived out of for weeks and the Junior Mint factory on ... of pretty paper art. In fact, I did a UROP on designing this stuff over ... 'm creating a shattered glass looking thing on all of my walls (1 down, 3 to go

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 13, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  We’ve been there, too. It feels like the calm before the storm. Please don't forget to breathe.

  

  isolation, and I then resumed my walk home among the throngs of window ... . And breathe. Slow inhale on a count of four, hold for a count of four ... " was code for "depressingly early sunset." After a lot of writing and

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends

  

  going to take one out of reach, and in any case that wouldn't fix my ... challenges of balancing growth and recovery, and the isomorphic relationship ... being able to channel all of my aggression and anger out of my body and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  Tomorrow, I will roll out of bed, eat some oatmeal, and put on a pair ... felt was sort of spent, and exhausted, and fragile, and hurt. We went on ... Harvard and MIT to the Museum of Science and back again on the Boston side

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  25 Stories of Getting Accepted to MIT told by students and alums

  

  a lot of fun. In the car on the way home I pulled out my phone to ... Note: all stories below are unedited accounts of current and former ... screamed loud enough that the person on the other side of the living room

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Happy 21st Birthday to the Random Hall Milk the Milk is now old enough to drink, but *please*, don't drink the Milk

  

  21 years ago today a very special carton of milk was brought home ... of the Milk that he posted on these blogs two years ago: Nineteen years ... Macaroni and Cheese for dinner. Deciding that a little carton of milk couldn

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  . When I got home, I broke. I turned into a spiky blob of yelling and ... .” When I got home that night, Cory and I sat down on his bed and talked ... shelf out, and handed it to him. I picked his sweatpants up from on top of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  all of my emotions and plugged up the hole with dirty old rags. On the ... go on leave, but for a lot of people, medical leave is mandatory, and ... of depression and extremely brief mentions of suicide and self

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Was Sitting Where You’re Sitting Quick! Click here. :D

  

  Burton-Conner: potted plants on windowsills and a Dalek at the end of the ... fire over embers on the grill. I don’t know any of these people. A song ... was, and I finally resolve to get up. Behind me on the fort a string of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What I wish I’d known, and what I’m glad I knew Before coming to MIT.

  

  feel low on self-confidence. I'm glad that I learned by the end of Year 1 ... have ASE'd out of 18.02 (I definitely could have) and used my 8.01 credit ... having a home on campus would be important. But it took me over a semester

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  really, and not for long. I stand on the threshold of my room, all of my ... filled with memories too large to contain any of us. It is the end of my ... of my junior year, and I am twenty. There are so many stories I want

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 31, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A (Belated) Letter to July In which I start blogging again with an angsty video

  

  of day-to-day kindness and stimulating conversations (or any ... here or there, some of it was scripted and some of it was just saying ... brain and in my hands and on my paper and on my computer screen. That

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Save Point sleep wake hope

  

  than it should have, and it's taken on new shades of meaning over the ... labels you try and put on it, you will only come two-thirds of the way to ... on this post alone for the past six days. Most of it, I've been writing

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The end of a chapter

  

  farewell to all my friends. I then flew back to Boston on 20th June and ... my year abroad and now, I can’t take some of the classes I really want ... :( Studying in Cambridge is a great experience. On the top of my favorite

  • by Linh V. '13
  • July 8, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  smoke and spice my comfort meal

  

  mortar and pestle MW: i chewed on in my roce and i had the oils of this ... have never done one and have only heard of them)"]ayahuasca ceremony,[/annotation] at least from the experiences of others that I've read up on: one

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 9, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Some Advice Sometimes I wish I could tell freshman-me that everything's going to be okay

  

  'm introspective to a fault and end up writing overly pedantic spiels. On my 6-hour ... 's insecurities. Know your value and focus on being your best self. 8) Figure out ... failure. People generally have a lot of pride and are unwilling to admit

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the exclusion of everything else on making decisions, and how i chose mit

  

  of course they came through. I take the T to Kendall, and sitting on ... strongly believe any of these; I was simply my own devil’s advocate. And when ... new itinerary leaving on Saturday morning, and I had to spend Friday

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020