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• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, damn lies, and statistics

  

  trying to finish high school a year early?" "How do you do it?" "Are you ... classes. It was a good entry, and this was going to be a comment on it, but ... Confidential when I was applying to colleges, and this is probably a good thing

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Livin’ La Vida PRoCa I take my clothes off and go dancing in the rain... with Clay Aiken.

  

  Clay inside a television, or what this has to do with TV Guide or why it ... minutes to sing the first chorus, highlighted by a thirty-second "why do we ... far the biggest fan of American Idol at MIT, I was still a little

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 30, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  Bad Ideas events I went to (another late IAP post) i can’t believe ellie beat me to the punch

  

  how many I ate, but got Spagetti-o’s once and decided to call it a day ... time to do stupid things at the canonical school of smart people with minimal consequences. And every year, we celebrate this fact with a whole

  • by Anika H. '26
  • March 8, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Rachel was at SF Pride with Facebook

  

  -- on the bus there, I ran into a flock of Google interns wearing this ... Whole Foods float. Much, much later, we got a closer look and realized it was actually a cupcake. Practically all of the interns managed to roll

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 1, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  why i chose mit the paths not traveled

  

  I first arrived at MIT as a tourist, a thirteen-year-old with glasses ... break of eighth grade, and my family was on a vacation visiting the East ... a trip had to include visits to prestigious college campuses. It

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 21, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Doing well??? Uh, sure... I guess

  

  ://giphy.com/gifs/IQ47VvDzlzx9S/links   Ah, I don't remember :( but I do have a blog ... question is: Ok, I guess... As a quick reminder my current schedule is: Real Analysis (18.100A) Physics II (8.02) Fundamentals of Programming

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • April 3, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  Winter Sports at MIT a sneak peek of: swim and dive, squash, and men's basketball

  

  this time was going to Fogo de Chao (a Brazilian Steakhouse) with the ... and do some work.” Men’s basketball student-athlete: “Here is a recent ... has your experience been as a student-athlete at MIT so far? Swimming

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 12, 2024
• Blog / Blog Projects

  slow burn you and the void

  

  air; you are at least 90% sure that nothing would happen. A google ... idk man it was a strange day. haven't written horror in a sec. also ... morning pale and grey. There are jobs that need doing in the basement by the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 6, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  FOMO: Fear of Mis-Optimizing ice cream teaches me a thing or two

  

  a brief respite finds me on the second floor of [annotation note ... ground; it falls with a feeble “clunk.” exhaling, i attempt to mentally outline the rest of my day, but a [annotation note="i've gotten the freshman

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 18, 2019
• Blog / MISTI

  go alone or you may never go at all

  

  much as you may think they do.[/annotation]In a strangely comforting way ... capable of doing. These solo experiences exist on a wide spectrum, from ... came with a trip where it'd just be me on my own two feet. I could do

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • January 6, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions Omnibus 2 I should probably stop stealing entry titles from Matt McGann.

  

  - but Ive got packing issues. The airlines are limiting us. How do I get a ... entry has a bit of an identity crisis, since it didn't really have a ... me a bit of time to finish answering all your questions (one all the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 3, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  9 things I wish I had known before freshman year lessons from an almost-sophomore (see: law of conservation of freshmen)

  

  Course 6-7 (Computer Science and Molecular Biology). After doing a cancer ... in a few centuries I might even be dead.  Dead. I was reminded of this ... , with a long flowing white beard), (2) mechanical engineering has replaced

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 15, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This one goes out to the parent Fire! (she's comin' down on her own, now)

  

  just a few of the press articles at http://news.google.com ... , Maine. What a coincidence that Matt's entry on thanking parents came on ... ADMISSION DECISIONS AT 10:37 PM TODAY! URAAAAAAAAAAAGH!!" In doing so, you may

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 15, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  sitting down no more sprinting

  

  that there is a correct way to do college (and life in general): a neat ... a clearer idea of what’s going on and what I’m doing, and how things ... I’ve been back on campus for about a month and a half now, and it

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • October 12, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2015! Happy New Year

  

  —I landed a summer internship with Google, got two A+’s in classes I had ... joke well in advance, and is currently staging a protest in form of a soreness that has persisted over the last two hours. My room is a mess of

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  it is the escape living a second life as an art student

  

  will describe to you in painful detail in a later post."]my three-month internship in Seattle,[/annotation] a group of intern friends and I decided that we were going to visit Vancouver for a weekend. We drove up, crossed

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 26, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fantastic Course Numbers and Where to Find Them A List of Ways MIT is like Hogwarts

  

  google ^^;) 5. The Headmaster is charming and has a twinkle in his eyes ... was feeling a more light-hearted, nonsensical post to take my mind of things, which has manifested itself in... A List of Ways MIT is Like

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 30, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Let’s see those cell phones up in the air” cause every little thing's gonna be alright

  

  Last Saturday, when I should be working on a model of a performance space for my architecture studio, I got a call from my friend saying that ... impromptu but educational field trip, because c'mon, a real. life. performance

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 25, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Story of Tim Tebow My friend Steve '11 wrote a blog for the not admitted.

  

  I thought it was really a good story, and maybe some of you would ... kick in. Get off the blogs and let out a few tears. Then watch some awesome YouTube videos Or eat a Vermonster with your friends. ("editor

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 16, 2010
• Blog / How to MIT

  Tips and Tricks to MIT What I have learned in my first semester at MIT

  

  Honestly, I think if you ask anyone at MIT, there is something of a ... a general statement that sort of goes under the idea that you are now ... disclaimer, I am still a freshman and I am not claiming to know everything

  • by Ben O. '19
  • December 5, 2015