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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  an admissions blogger I only have 23 minutes left, so time to get ... New Mexico at a six-week astrophysics program for High School students ... , waiting for the blogger application to appear. I knew that one of the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  to tell you about this semester. Eventually, one-by-one, they will ... becoming the person that I want to be? Is the pain on the way to getting ... days of my junior year studying for and taking exams. By the time I had

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 31, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  parallel universe for those feeling dejected

  

  myself. It's not a new sensation. But after all these years, I still don ... shame over a failure that feels misunderstood by others, and an emergence ... , except for the wet sheen of dejection, weighing upon you alone. But - look

  • by Kai V. '25
  • December 19, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Home Under the Dome sorority recruitment, tips, and my experience

  

  and get to know the new class. I vividly remember the first time I ... . Note that a “party” is where you get to meet and chat with a new sorority ... someone who is looking to join and be a new member of a sorority. I

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • August 14, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [joint post] we visited every station on the MBTA and the Logan Airport Rental Car Center

  

  onto the Mattapan High-Speed Trolley, which gets credit for going to ... , because I used to easily get motion sickness from them. For the rest of our ... station, and to get to MIT from the airport (for free!). We are not visiting

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  'm hoping to get some answers this fall by taking a business class, 15 ... . I've been thinking a lot about the many steps I took to get here, as ... mutate more and more as the months go by. The journey to figure out what

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  how to change policies at mit [joint post with Rona W.] our CUP of tea

  

  departmental advisor, and to register for more units than the first-year credit ... enrolls next year (and for years to come). How did these changes come about ... selected for CUP, we applied for the positions and were interviewed by

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 28, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  is also a good time to explore who you really are. For several weeks ... . It’s so easy to get FOMO - fear of missing out - nowadays because our ... position for rich, new experiences that could somehow shape your identity

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  were some mistakes that needed to be made, by myself, in order for those ... LOVE to take but won't have room for. Entire departments I won't ever ... I knew that my dorm was supposed to be my home-away-from-home for four

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mind and hand

  

  't really know how to apply knowledge. At the engineering extreme, you get the ... lock, and take measurements for a new key. I can tie knots. I can design ... to get a bladesmithing club together. They wanted to use a blacksmith

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a freshman year 🦴🧠🩸🖐️🫀 my first year at mit, told through the body

  

  inside and outside the club, including when i went to new hampshire for a ... a tree. in my freshman year, i aimed to get my [annotation note ... asked for. i talked to the professor about whether or not i should drop to

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  minutes for him to identify a medication I’ve been on that sometimes causes ... ’ve had. It stretched to four hours and left me nonfunctional for the next ... of the term. It was doubled by the work I had to make up from the

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

  Snively’s Cross Stitch Corner I really enjoy cross stitching

  

  ! And that gets us to today! I’m just finishing up the cross stitch for ... size and infrastructure required. When I needed to get out and actually ... stitching. What's better than getting paid for a hobby you're doing in your

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  ask for complete strangers on the Internet to assess their likelihood of ... , that it is ripe for mockery (or can itself be used to degrade the self ... determinist by any means. But there is still something to the law of the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  over to stay with us, we decided to give them a warm welcome by trying to ... and ready to vectorize it. By the time I slid open the door and was ... to hall, but Winnie was right. It took an hour to get everyone packed

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 6, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  . You don’t know how to get back down. You finish a problem set. There ... opinion piece in The Tech to complain. You get your Brass Rat. You joke ... delete it a new one gets sent out. When asked about how much sleep you

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty people later ✈✈✈ (pronounced whoosh) ✈✈✈ (pronounced nyeowww)

  

  tasks we had to do for New York City included making the Monopoly board ... interaction for finishing, we needed to finish the Hunt by then. That was ... while having only half the answers for the round in an attempt to get

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
• 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 ... drop by the blogs from time to time and say hi). As you begin your ... your major(s), purely for the fun of it. It's important to think about

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  commit to MIT.  Since Kenneth grew up surrounded by Black Greek culture ... . However, during [annotation note=" Rush is 'a chance for new freshmen guys to get a chance to meet as many fraternity members as possible and

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  , which you take to earn credit for an MIT subject without taking the class ... exhaustion you get when you spend a whole day bouncing from class to class ... , or I revise for an ASE, or I’m walking over to the other side of campus

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019