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  December Questions Omnibus 2 The deadline is coming!

  

  in?" This is a bug in our online application, all is good, don't worry ... reached by now. Will my application be adversely affected if the scores dont ... happens. Amulya: Don't worry about your interview any more; we will follow

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  October Questions Omnibus 2 Wow, lots of questions to be answered...

  

  wrote, "Hi Matt, I am a permanent resident but my parents don't live or ... call whether or not to send in the essay. But I can say don't be ... story, content (anything under sun!) as mine. Don���t you think it is very

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Day in the Life of a MIT Mechanical Engineering UROP Student I built an underwater robot :p

  

  don’t have a car. [Having a car on campus is pretty impractical unless ... with the COM, so they don't really have this problem.  Thinking back, I ... Ave.  I ran into my friend, Isa J. ‘27, at Chipotle. I don’t remember

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • July 14, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  “what if I get rejected” for everyone nervous about admissions decisions

  

  is not something anyone is comparable to! Don't make yourself feel that ... another day."]It was awful.[/annotation] I normally don't have interview ... people don't really talk about past their disappointment of getting

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • November 13, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  I Miss College Application Season The Good, The Bad, and the Casey Jones

  

  writing and editing this, I realized that I don’t really miss applying, I ... Floor, and listening to Breathless on DVD and Zelda and Don’t Shoot Me ... , but DON”T STEAL MY STUFF!! I miss playing Charlie Brown every morning

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / MISTI

  COPENHELL a giant metal fest in Denmark 🤘🏽

  

  deny them, they don’t actually assault you. I don’t know what it was ... ; “You don’t fucking touch people without permission,” I told a thirty year ... ’s shoulders"]experience.[/annotation] I was feeling a sort of fury that I don’t

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 28, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  old east campus working through feelings caused by news

  

  . someone lived in this room five decades ago, and i don’t know anything about ... that helps explain a lot of why i love east campus. i don't want to ... , another year in ec! i don't have to move next year! wait, what? another

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 7, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  perception but who *are* you?

  

  study. Why don’t they instead look at …” Whenever people ask me big ... along the lines of “Oh, economists don’t really study that, we study…” or ... because I don’t know if I should. Maybe I’ll talk to some of my professors

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 18, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Lived, I Learned, I Got Burnt not necessarily in that order

  

  week to prepare and say our goodbyes, think about all the times you don’t ... don’t know if it will necessarily ever stop. Or maybe you just learn to ... : medical school. I don’t let myself talk about my med school journey very

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 26, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  girls just wanna have fun when u gonna live ur life right?

  

  everywhere else just to leave it open as an option. I don't think I've ever ... done. I don't think I want tech to be my primary focus for my job, but ... secondary aspect to the job. (I don't quite know this, it's just a hunch. I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 24, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Blog Graveyard skeletons in my google docs

  

  —little, dedicated spaces for my sentences and paragraphs that don’t make the final cut ... darlings, but with a little bit of [annotation note="they don’t call them ... , with bullet points, ideas yelled back at me in ALL CAPS so I don’t forget

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 12, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  how to restore an old whiteboard, mit style four years of whiteboard wear and care

  

  : whiteboard (duh) paper towels washcloths that you don’t mind getting ... , like my whiteboard). Don’t use any form of [annotation note='in the ... up. Or, just buy a new eraser. Don't throw your dirty washcloths

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 17, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Academic Things I’ve Learned no life lessons, promise

  

  don’t understand how we figured it out in the first place. If Newton or ... because it sounds like I'm saying I understand this, which I don't. It's a ... was head of Hitler's atomic bomb team and I don't believe a word of his

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  you can run but you can't hide

  

  to again are suddenly re-entering my life, and I don't know if it's a ... told me it's not real. I don't think it is either, but my brain seems to ... : Where do I go from here? And frankly, I don't know. Talking to my ex made

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 24, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dear prefrosh, a letter to you

  

  me? how hard is MIT *really*? i dont know if i'm smart enough to go ... responses in one document so someone can read it. MIT is stressful and I don't know if I should go because of this. I don't know if I'm smart enough for

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 25, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  I’m a food blogger now enjoy reading through 700 words of personal digression to get to the recipes

  

  full meal in my life, if you don't count boiling a hot dog, pouring ... eat fruit if we don't cut it up first?"[annotation note="This is a true ... ass)."][/annotation] My line at the time was, I don't mind a walk to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 26, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  The Story of Tonight (more like 730 nights ago)

  

  last lyric. And then it’s over. You don’t know what to do with yourself ... than I can keep up with. It feels like I don't have enough time to get ... my life where I really don't know who I am. I don't know what my

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 1, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Little Rectangles Thoughts from Junior spring

  

  : Cool. Now we all know integrals. So what? I don’t want to be super ... about trying to hide my Little Rectangle. What if they find out you don’t ... honest, I don’t know. Theoretically you should be able to judge your

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • May 14, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  You Prep, I Prep, We All Prep How to prepare--or at least, how I did.

  

  national assessments. The first SAT test I took was in 7th grade--I don’t ... . That was crazy. Still don’t know how I did it. I highly recommend these ... link you to something. While you definitely don’t need to take a prep

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 13, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  #tbt: MIT Cribs Digging up some old freshman-year blog posts

  

  am endlessly amused by what these say. (My favorite is, by far, “Don’t ... I don’t feel completely mentally inadequate. My Seattle Seahawks ... plenty of times) and I don't do so well on the meeting-new-people front

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 5, 2015