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  Grey and Other Colors

  

  pleasure of getting to know. Hope it provides some perspective from life on ... new areas of my post-grad life that I’m looking forward to help me get ... moving to a new place, falling in and out of love with SF, trying to stay

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 8, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Gothic You are reading an admissions blog post. You are reading tumblr.

  

  opinion piece in The Tech to complain. You get your Brass Rat. You joke ... . After an all-nighter on campus, you try to make your way home through the ... . The GetFit maps on the walls continue to appear every so often, but they

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paths there are so many

  

  statistics of how many deferred students get admitted, it was painful to think ... who was able to get through the door you wanted to, or through a ... in you to move forward, fueled by your determination and goals

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 19, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  And the Whistle Blows soccer post-season & my last competitive soccer game

  

  conference tournament champion.  To get our hands on that trophy, we had to ... I’m not working out to get stronger and faster on the soccer field ... like I just stepped on campus to begin preseason, and now I’m handing in

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 21, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Train Coming on navigating

  

  out on my own; I took a leap of faith and moved to New York. When I ... plane, let alone how to get around [annotation note="to be clear, my ... decided to move to the east coast for reasons I'll get into later."] the

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 15, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  . I had been given permission to call in from my office on campus. Two ... again and again and again, for the rest of your life, as you enter new chapters and take on new responsibilities. A distinguished professor in my

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  myself it's been 3 years since I failed to follow through on this ... macgyver were an idiot) hack with cardboard and batteries to get around a ... much and get off this train only to see those lines behind me and myself

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

  HOW TO FORGE A DRAGON SWORD and other skills picked up in 3.096

  

  and wanted to come up with new designs. The first one I made was ... designed my project around two parameters: I wanted to use new skills and ... most new to me in 3.096 were the power hammer, the hydraulic press, oxy

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 7, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This Bathroom Ceiling Some science, some fiction: traverse the space and time of our bathroom ceiling.

  

  Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds; to seak out new life and new civilizations; to boldly go where no man has gone ... William Anders on the Apollo 8 mission to the moon with Frank Borman and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  This story has to do with professor accessibility. And something awesome that I got in the mail.

  

  astronomy. Fast forward a few weeks, to the New House front desk, where I stood slack-jawed with my new book as it dawned on me where I had seen the ... ; I get responses to my e-mails within a day or two (or, often, within

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Brief History of Cars on Fire at MIT You didn't think I would miss an anniversary, did you?

  

  sacrificing your ride home, and especially if they don't fix the fan belt on ... If you're the kind of person who remembers to look up once in a while, it's not that uncommon to wander MIT's campus and find

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  responsibility when I mess up. I've found a community to lean on for support and made my shoulder available for others to cry on. My friends have pulled ... and shelves traced out the silhouettes of what used to live on them

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

  what work is bite-sized senior spring

  

  work that i do not expect to get paid for or graded on; it's work that i'm doing so i can get back to the place where i approach the days of my life ... requirements of this class is to notice something new every day. we are learning

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  like for me to go on medical leave for mental health reasons. I’ve been ... communicate what was going on to the outside world. It felt personal and ... my mouth to try to tell her what was going on, tears came instead

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / Advice

  Words of Advice for the Incoming Class you did it! now what?

  

  we are trying something new! if you'd like to consume this blog in ... incredible strides, made great sacrifices, and worked so, so hard to get here ... . I get it. I know it. I was there. I thought I'd make something to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thank you for reading A rigorous study of 26-year-olds (n=1) showed that getting older is positively correlated to the…

  

  yell, "JESS HAS A NEW BLOG ENTRY!!" and proceed to plop down on his bed ... reflection on what the blogs meant to us, or a life update since graduating ... that I just seem to keep getting older and older. Or maybe that I will

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• 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

  

  requires passion, and, luckily, you get to define passion on your own terms. ... According to my hit counter as well as by raw comment count, my entry on how I got here is the most popular thing I've ever written

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

  Advice From The Elderly My last blog entry, at least from this chapter.

  

  Grand Canyon. I made connections on my new floor that took me to Haiti ... lady next to you to help you zip up your sweater on the T and she ... to Science Magazine, who published a study on my expected lifespan in

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We Should Take This Final and Push It Somewhere Else you'll need a lot of mOXie

  

  control can make getting out of bed to complete your final really hard, or ... you get something like this to happen? Final exams and projects are ... , being bedridden for a month and your mom having to fly in to take care of

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 14, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Why I wasn’t sad to leave MIT On shedding.

  

  and then I’ll swing by to give an update on life from the other side. It ... not belong on the MIT admissions website” post. At least, that's what I ... House, New House, MIT Admissions, 24.900, MTG, Course 8, and so on. Some

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 31, 2014