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  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

  Admissions that started it all: "When we admit a class of students to MIT, it's as if we're choosing a 1,100-person team to climb a very interesting ... part of a community that inspires me to create, challenges me to accept

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 6, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My dorm room’s 24-year history meet 16 former residents of my room

  

  blue jay, labeled "sea jay". This was given to me by a friend, making the ... posters. it’s also right next to the lounge, which is a plus. it’s an ... students. We have a position called historian whose job it is to do research

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 19, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Future Is Grim check it out

  

  what it's like to be a student here (he got his PhD in Mathematics here ... . I'd be tempted to say I'm a bit biased, as he was my 6.01 professor ... as a project was due to be turned in that day, as well as the lab work

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 28, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  them) so I guess I was trying to appease them. This all makes me a little ... it is really like to spend your days here. Linked below are a few ... to burn out as a student at MIT? Here's a Quora answer about being

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  pm and I have my whole afternoon free on Tuesdays, so I make a plan to ... could sleep for a much longer time. I roll over to cuddle with them and go ... what that word means to me) and we chat a little bit. 10.10 am: I get

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  suspicion that Lisa and I actually share a consciousness. Anyway, I wanted to write a blog post, but was struggling with writer's block (it's easier to ... because I liked to read the blogs. A few years later, I spent a summer in

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

  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  -campus in a new neighborhood. Moreover, it would be an opportunity to get to ... , meal times. Summer residents contributed to a rotating cook ... of the MIT community (but my fellow MIT students were also a delight to

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 31, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  differently, and I no longer hated it as much, because, to be frank— Imagine a ... my identity as criticism of my merits, and I ended making a lot of ... a big fish in a small pond. I'd been to national-level events; I knew

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  To a lot of people, myself included, getting into MIT is the dream we have worked for years to finally reach. This is just a little excerpt on ... heat. Below me my bed had decided to become a rock. I honestly have no

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  Great Gatsby, “the Great American Novel”, is a book most of us have to go through to graduate high school. It’s also a book that has left me with a ... common of a name and coming to MIT confirmed those suspicions; there are at

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  -Ford search algorithm is going to make me a better person, why should I waste my ... began to blur together into hexadecimal soup, I decided I needed a break ... ’t make it on the first Wednesday, but… -- ONE WEEK AGO -- A week later I

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  makes me want to stay. 8.02 could well be a good class. I don’t think I ... not originally intended as a blog; I just wanted to get my thoughts out ... happened to me after a test, ever. I talked with her on Thursday morning

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• 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

  

  who's a better writer, and I just took the opportunity to razz him about ... together, and when he was in high school they liked to make rockets, too ... Fair. The fair is held every year at MIT, and Adam's award (a trip to a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005
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  Robo-CJ writes haiku “didn’t you already make a blog post about this?”

  

  Poetry Day! It's not very much of a leap to think that I could be bisexual ... old blog posts, and then used gpt-2-simple to retrain it on a bunch of ... focusing on making haikus, but I have a lot going on and I can't keep up. i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Bleary-eyed Some thoughts and reflections on this year's admission cycle - particularly for those not admitted.

  

  side, this meant that in addition to the ~12 hours a day I already spend looking at a computer, I'd be spending even more trying to read tiny essays ... a page and seeing cold numbers on a screen to getting attached to you

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 16, 2011
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  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  full of ambition and looking to make a name for yourself in the world ... I initially wrote this to my little brother. I debated for a while ... hope someone might be able to connect or learn something from a few of my

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019
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  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  contracted, collapsing from a community to a few lonely souls haunting a space ... person to leave my wing of Next House. I rolled my possessions in a cart up ... coming up, but I did my best to keep them small, and focused on spending a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 31, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Ten days of live-action roleplaying no joke, there i was…

  

  would make for a cute ship, and we, as players, thought it'd be fun to do ... 't have the time or energy to write a huge post about this, but here's some ... middle of a semester can be hard, sometimes, due to scheduling and school

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself on choosing a college, and realizing one of many possible futures

  

  : I told him that, whichever choice he makes, he's going to end up a ... told me that he had a problem. On Pi Day, he had been admitted to MIT ... unexpectedly admitted to another program, which was also a dream, albeit a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brief Wondrous Lives A little too much thinking brought to you by four in the morning.

  

  "Spoonsassins", in which one is given a spoon and a victim and told to "kill ... -week, hour-and-a-half sessions into something I eagerly look forward to. We ... his parents, to highlight the isolation one feels in returning to a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009