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• Blog / About Decisions

  Dear Prospective 2020s Passing on advice that good people have given me

  

  pressures to comMIT. It may not feel like it if you get deferred or rejected ... you have. If you get accepted to MIT, while it will probably give you a ... – I use them often to reroute my train of thought away from worry or

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 16, 2015
• Blog / Community Projects

  Phew! BUSY BUSY BUSY BUSY!

  

  pretty much devoured our time, not to mention we were also trying to get to ... , and since then have managed to actually organize and get this event to ... sense to anybody at MIT right now, but potentially not to people at home

  • by Snively '11
  • September 10, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Not in my own words. 90% of this entry = not written by me.

  

  student — let's call her Jennifer — said she wanted to get a master's degree ... your chance to help them get to know you! Your statement of purpose ... purpose to get into Stanford: I want to teach English at the university

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 1, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  A speech, of sorts

  

  to get involved in student government, because the only student ... the time. What eventually motivated me to get involved with the UA was ... Steve Kelch '08 as my running mate. There were three tickets. We lost to

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • May 19, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions….. Don't Panic!

  

  will be ecstatic to get their decision; many more will be disappointed ... thought, "I get it, I know why people wouldn't want to come here." It's not ... 's perhaps most important for some future nerds here at MIT (not to be confused

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 13, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Supposedly Fun Thing That I’ll Probably Do Again On July 4th, I reenacted The Old Man and the Sea, minus the old man…

  

  succumbed to a four-hour soak in liquid described by writer Bernard DeVoto as ... legs to be amputated by radioactive flesh-eating eels in the Charles ... into a maple tree, John cautiously decided to safetify its successor by

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 7, 2009
• Blog / Advice

  SHE CAMPUS ON MY PREVIEW TIL I WEEKEND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! my freshman cpw post turned east campus love letter

  

  ’d asked to help us get the event started had had different ideas. We ended ... getting caught up in something else, so I’m glad I got to see what it was ... foot land awkwardly on the ground and fell. My friends helped me get to a

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 6, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  Lies in MIT, lies about MIT these are the lies that i tell myself at night

  

  lying, then, to call these lies? Five. In What getting an education from ... where to apply, or where to go to college. I'm lying, but by these ... you want it to be. That most people don't actually take six classes a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 27, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  i saw twenty one pilots at td garden in boston live music is very much alive and here to stay

  

  overwhelmed by work and school and the thought of having to get good grades for ... cathartic, body-encapsulating experiences, and I was ready to be consumed by ... getting jostled around, but you couldn't bring yourself to care because you

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 28, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  prophecies reversing causality

  

  , only the ones who subscribe to these predictions seem to be affected by ... his parents and therefore kills his father and marries his mother by ... children, causing his son zeus to hate him and eventually overthrow him

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 2, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  A Protocol for MIT Admissions Essays Chemical SOP: Pen, paper: irritant if digested; Brains: gateway to thinking

  

  short by a writer I admire to warm up my voice. If you can’t think of ... an impact on the reader. If you want to diffuse power you can do it by ... Writing" by Gopen and Swan, which we read recently in 7.02 (Introduction to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 26, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  loveallurfriends <3

  

  Now Playing: Talk to Me - Cavetown   I stared at the river for ... ; I had a CV PSET that I had not yet started, and I ought to have been ... , crossed the street, descended into the foliage by the Charles, and sat on a

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • March 6, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Home on the range Dorm choice timeline and advice.

  

  to get party hats, but I couldn't find any at the store, alas. Dorm choice I get the feeling that a lot of people find MIT's dorm choice ... don't want to not get lotteried into dorm X and set yourself up for

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 15, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  for change in (expected + unexpected): print(change.get_thoughts())

  

  via the endless stream of short-form videos spoonfed to me by various ... % worth the effort to try to get to know your roommate(s). But my freshman ... those hang outs, I could feel the loneliness getting to me. A lot. The

  • by Allison E. '27
  • June 19, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  summer scraps life updates

  

  crosswalk conversations ("...host a wine party..." "No way!") waft up to where ... . Everyone--couples, mostly--fresh and glossy and prepared to go out, or just to the liquor store across the street. I'm in Greenwich Village. I

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • July 30, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Stayin’ Classy Workworkworkworkworkwork *deep breath* workworkworkwork.

  

  work compared to freshman year; sadly, this heavier workload is coupled ... -consuming, makes sense to me. I come up with little stories in my head about ammonia ... really good about it. Until one of my Erlenmeyer flasks decided to jump out

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 21, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  in the pursuit of knowledge want to see a MacArthur Genius dancing to gangnam style?

  

  to find out (the answer to that last question, by the way, is no ... . --------------------------------------------- One of the questions I get asked most often by high schoolers is whether ... .  But primary sources are so hard to find, right?  Right? Michael

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 19, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s my age again? Spring semester so far

  

  over Killian Court, to read The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster, an ... , was. By the end of the story I had inched halfway around the table to ... , suspiciously asking the class to introduce itself and not talking about protein

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 3, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Curbing Hunger at MIT food for thought

  

  not be following a recipe by the book while a chef scrambles to finish ... their living group. In the Haus, food gets brought to our lovely front ... , but you get to be around a lot of fancier people All these options take

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 6, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  That rings a bell Made of brass?

  

  resolved to continue wearing the Brass Rat daily – at least until I get ... , only for it to ultimately reappear under the couch.) I don’t know how ... since leaving MIT. And it's a constant reminder to me (and others) of my

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • January 21, 2025