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  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  have received on Sunday. We all say that it will get better, that you ... “no”, wishing that something had gone differently, sad that you’re on ... way you wanted. My first graduate school application came back on my

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 16, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Reading aka inhaling all the books i can before school starts

  

  writing phase in middle and high school. I eventually moved on to RPG video ... absorbed into a world on paper. College has effectively eaten up the ... another HASS class to take and landed on CMS.840, which I initially didn

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dragons A blog post for deferred students (and everybody else waiting on decisions).

  

  to drive with my dad on a two-lane highway, stick shift, farms on ... before states. Dreaming about nationals. Crying on the bus home when we didn’t make it. Holding hands on the way to class. Falling in and out of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 14, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  got a 1900 on. I figured I was just being lazy, and could have gotten a ... resonant replies not just on Reddit (over 2,000 upvotes) but rivals almost any entry ever posted on these blogs.  I know I'm retired but Inri137's

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parents, Please Read Prefrosh and students, read this too, and make sure to have a discussion with your…

  

  and drifted towards MIT. We touched on admissions (How's Matt? Matt ... pressure on their children to succeed and to get A's. While it's wonderful to ... lecture notes, and work on the problem set. I got more work done and learned

  • by Snively '11
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  “You are capable of more than you know.” Reflections from six MIT transfer students

  

  -traditional” route (for example, opting to put their education on pause to compete in ... cohort[/annotation]to reflect on their experience. I’m sharing the ... involved on campus, taking on roles in my dorm and in clubs, and found a

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 13, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)

  

  reflecting on these things during my last few weeks at MIT, but I wasn ... shouted at each other some more, banged our fists on the table, disturbed ... shut up (using choice words that I cannot put on the blogs) and I stayed

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  ’s a very silly game Part 3: The why game Free candy On grasping ... whatever they want. This year, Splash happened on [annotation note="so why is ... no clue, but it sounds really cool, based on the description. this

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hilbert’s Third Problem (A Story of Threes) Holy mathematics, Batman! Math at MIT, and why we need calculus to define volume.

  

  a Wonder Woman power pose. On the way from the bathroom to the ... , the thing I am ultimately studying, is young enough that depending on ... . This is the topic that we will focus on: can the Bolyai-Gerwien theorem

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  halloween down the infinite

  

  still on time in pacific standard time. but also i girlbossed a little too ... with 30+ photos at 11:30pm is a good way to get a blog out on time is STUPID and BAD AT TIME MANAGEMENT, and no one comment on when this blog was

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 1, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  reject modern web design return to 2006

  

  crying” on the symptom list and the nurse got really confused and told me

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes, by the Group Chats and their potential replacement, Interstellar!

  

  their friends are taking, work on psets together in virtual Zoom lounges ... inspired by "Stellar," which is MIT's platform for learning management. On ... ="Taken as the average class size listed on firehose.guide"]size of the class

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A (Belated) Letter to July In which I start blogging again with an angsty video

  

  NOW I AM FACING THE GUILT HEAD ON. TAKE THAT, GUILT.) However, I'm a ... brain and in my hands and on my paper and on my computer screen. That ... to help nudge me along on adventures and help find warm food for my

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ATHack A day well spent helping others

  

  work on developing a solution to the same challenge. This past weekend ... impressive model of what we wanted to build. On the day of the event... My ... our materials, we moved on to figuring out the general dimensions we

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every now and then, my mind = blown. Thanks, Science!

  

  Hello beautiful people. I know that one of my previous entries hinted at the idea of doodling a science-question post. I still plan on getting around to that. But in the midst of my magnet research, I stumbled

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 11, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-Med @ MIT The title says it all.

  

  me feel like this: (p.s. you should all go waste some time on this ... held on to the idea that they wanted to make a difference. They inspired ... pre-med students here offer a unique perspective on medicine: that of a

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] We’re Not in ~Kansas~ Missouri Anymore Going From a Small Town to Boston, by Claire S. '25

  

  missing out on the friend groups forming because it was taking me longer to ... absolutely no desire to be a lawyer, but the people on the team really are the ... things I felt like I missed out on back home was research, but there are so

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 17, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  WHY? for people who don't like "no"

  

  waiting on me to come home.   I have mostly avoided going into detail on here about getting admitted, because I think it's not that great of ... Johns Hopkins rejection, and he was mad on my behalf. He's never applied

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Merit When getting into MIT isn't convincing enough

  

  don’t like that they admit students based on factors other than merit ... before, not on this level. It’s not uncommon feel like you were admitted by ... : even when I was hard on myself, and when I didn’t know why I’d been

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • January 22, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This Bathroom Ceiling Some science, some fiction: traverse the space and time of our bathroom ceiling.

  

  This summer while Random Hall is closed I am living on Beast, 2E, the ... start with my favorite episode, the Hugo-winning “The City on the Edge of ... William Anders on the Apollo 8 mission to the moon with Frank Borman and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014