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  I’m not an imposter… I’m going to be featured on the MIT News homepage

  

  applied to do Interphase EDGE, which is a 2-year enrichment program. The whole thing has a couple of parts: a class component the summer before ... assigned advisor at the OME, and a week-long retreat to reconnect with the

  • by ana~
  • October 29, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  seems to me like a much-needed upgrade from Facebook Messenger group chats ... , share resources, ask questions (and post memes) in a forum, and keep track of their assignments. I'll be taking a gap year this year, so I

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s Not Me, It’s You How to kiss goodbye to a school that rejected you

  

  Fun fact: when George Washington was a young Virginian, his driving ... attempts, he was denied a commission in the service: not, Washington fancied ... army is a lot like getting rejected from your favorite college. That

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 29, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Why I wasn’t sad to leave MIT On shedding.

  

  This isn’t really a “last blog post,” since I’m sure that every now ... ’s more of an “I now live a post-MIT life and therefore my weekly updates do ... 'm saying to comfort myself.☺ Since graduating, I’ve been thinking a lot

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT wedding Paper airplanes instead of rice and a reception at a science museum... what's not to…

  

  'm now a second-year PhD student in developmental neurobiology at Harvard ... 's government, and was the captain of the cheerleading squad. When I was a sophomore, my friend Carl '07 introduced me to a cute curly-haired aerospace

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 1, 2007
• 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

  

  , Adam '07, and his admissions story. (Well, that and I took a thermo test ... , it was me). He's had a UROP in the Aerospace Controls Laboratory since ... those knock-your-socks-off prospectives. Although Adam was by no means a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bursting the MIT Bubble 1.0 things to do in Downtown Boston

  

  Boston is a marvelous city! During the school year, I have ... exploration. Armed with an all-powerful MBTA Pass (with unlimited trips for a ... the park in a glorious architectural mix are an AMC movie theatre, a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  sea glass turbulent waves in these parts

  

  Sooo I wrote about pouring my heart out into a research conference ... a bit before throwing it out there for the internet to judge ... give you written feedback and a preliminary decision based on the current

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 5, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Gothic You are reading an admissions blog post. You are reading tumblr.

  

  : MIT Gothic. I think it paints a very concrete picture of life at MIT ... MIT tumblr users of varying anonymity. I hope it gives you a sense of our dramatic lives and a break from your own. (You are reading

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice On The Essay The rules are simple: write your own.

  

  applicant." The email included a bunch of questions. Seemed harmless ... response: Hi, Essays are a wonderful way to connect with the selection committee on a human level, i.e. beyond all of the test scores, grades, etc

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  i don’t want to say goodbye sorry sad blog incoming

  

  East Campus renovation announcement email hit our inboxes. I was a ... everyone else"]pods[/annotation] were a thing. My podmates and I cried in ... pushed back a year, letting me enjoy two and a half years at East Campus

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 24, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  's drinking water from a bottle of what was once "Cloudy Apple"* juice. *Yeah ... 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

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

  the blogs at twenty some reflections, plus an index of posts

  

  week, we (belatedly) celebrated by asking a bunch of former bloggers to ... like a whale lunge feeding']missed them,[/annotation] here’s an index of their entries from most to least crufty: It’s been a long road… by

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Group Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Survivors three bloggers face the horrors of public transit

  

  Jebby Every fall since 2014, Next Haunt puts together a horror ... and skills—ranging from puzzle-making to set design—to put on a spooky ... of doing a Next Haunt run in the past, the shrieks from the basement

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  I've been doing a lot of thinking about lives lately, in multiple ... "Spoonsassins", in which one is given a spoon and a victim and told to "kill ... photos of a Malaysian baby with the words "I'M WATCHING YOU" scrawled

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There is no such thing as a typical day on energy levels and productivity

  

  . On those days, I get a lot done. I find myself able to work for like, four or five hours in a row. And everything feels interesting, and good ... , trying to write a blog post. And on these days, I get constantly distracted

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 25, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] a space for women at mit by Nandini Choudhury (WXGS Assistant Director)

  

  In 1870, [annotation note='This was a “special case”, one ... , hence why the next big change didn‘t occur until more than a decade later ... Dexter McCormick—a MIT biology graduate—funded the construction of Mc

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • August 12, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] You Have a 50/50 Chance a guest post from my mama

  

  . "What if I don't get in?" "Am I good enough?" (That is a question we all ask ourselves). "The acceptance rate is only a 5% or 6%" I've always tried to be a supportive parent, so I answered her concerns with "It

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Brief History of Cars on Fire at MIT You didn't think I would miss an anniversary, did you?

  

  If you're the kind of person who remembers to look up once in a ... , on this date in 1936, a similar thought likely went through the minds ... ; Yes, that is a Ford Model T, hanging from the roof. The car, which

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to My Favorite Places on Campus can't leave without making one more post of this format

  

  it is. A map of all the places that I loved at MIT, color coded and ... Lightsaber Club used to meet in here and sometimes I'd stop for a few minutes ... be living in such a beautiful place, and I tried to appreciate it while

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2021