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• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  applications. And to connect our lives to the life of you, the reader. The ... have received on Sunday. We all say that it will get better, that you will continue to grow and become yourself, that this is not the end of a

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 16, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Application dreaming

  

  . You get the point) The best candidates to MIT bring much more to the ... as part of the application to be reviewed? Will it be interpreted as ... technology, about the possibilities for research to improve society, make the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Save Point sleep wake hope

  

  me a while to get my thoughts down on paper (or motherboard, as the ... understand what makes them who they are, and why. Getting to know their ... applying to MIT, all of you who will be getting that life-changing decision

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2008
• 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.

  

  list asking people to send me their projects. Here are some of the ... this year! It's Cthulhu, rising from Rl'yeh to crush the unsuspecting ... had to make an automatic panorama from some images that we took (we

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 13, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  In the Realm of Giants imposter syndrome with a senior year twist

  

  and graduate students to try to get some sense of the whole process and ... to get a positive response. Each time, I have to bite my tongue to stop ... plagues all seniors at the end of their undergraduate career: getting my act

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bye (for now)

  

  'm running errands in california, like going to the bank and getting my mom ... ) and swiss army man (also excellent, also emotional) and went to a house party. i took my last final exam (6.006, intro to algorithms). i packed up

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 12, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Move Fast And Break Things just make sure you have a net positive of unbreaks

  

  like idiots at Beast's persistent attempts to break the codebase by ... last week, and it was a chance for each engineer to surface this idea and ... overtime in which developers stay up all night to work on projects outside of

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Early History of International Students at MIT studying the people MIT made, and the people who made MIT

  

  after its first classes were held in a storage warehouse. By 1895, 39 from ... tenure at MIT with a vision to build a more diverse and inclusive Institute ... they can insure the future peace of the world.” To achieve this ideal

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / Advice

  finding place

  

  within my technical interests. When I got to MIT, looking back I think I ... astounded by all these people with whom I had a lot of shared technical ... . Here are some pics, looking back (omitting a lot because I don't want to

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • April 7, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  parallel universe for those feeling dejected

  

  shame over a failure that feels misunderstood by others, and an emergence ... , diffuse, waiting to be molded into reality.

  • by Kai V. '25
  • December 19, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  here comes a thought on decisions

  

  was so gorgeous it didn't matter that it probably makes little sense to ... relate to a different thing from college admissions. but there are points ... to be charming things that you said are suddenly swarming it's easy to

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 13, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Different Voice some words about MIT, by someone who's not me

  

  to work for multinational companies by their sophomore summer. kids ... we’re a strange bunch. the news articles ascribe to us an almost mythical legitimacy–we’re those kids. the ones that grow up to be new

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 24, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Halloween is the best day of the year. Yes, I recognize that it is now closer to Thanksgiving than to Halloween. Sorry.

  

  -to-in-ages-because-you've-both-been-super-busy give you a call, or send ... two of you set up a time to Skype. Mushiness also comes in cake form ... this: This hat has been worn by many generations of French House

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Gangnam Style Yes...........this exists.

  

  called "Gangnam Style" was released over the summer by K-pop rapper PSY ... came into my room who had never seen it, and I had to educate her. For the rest of this post to make sense, you should probably catch up

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 27, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Grown Up Well, not quite.

  

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 26, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Views of Campus, the Charles River, and the First Snow with a snowman and a snow dalek

  

  My dorm, the 117-year-old Random Hall, is identical to the older ... Beaux-Arts style, characterized by large windows, large staircases, and ... to the lonely 3 am campus, soaking up the light reflecting off the snow

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 20, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Masquerading as a Liberal Arts Student The life of an MIT student abroad

  

  to the realization that I had undertaken more than just an ... arts ‘immersion’ program. As someone used to equations, numbers and ... science and anthropology. I have learned new ways to look at the world and

  • by Becca H. '12
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Best Advice I Ever Got Take it or leave it.

  

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 30, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Adulthood Boom!

  

  Sorry if this is just a rehash of my Grown Up post from last year. January seems to be the month to be sentimental and reflect upon the impending doom delightful adventure of aging.

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 14, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Folding While you wait for decisions...

  

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 13, 2018