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  I Was Deferred And it was not the end of the world

  

  'm sitting on a train that took me from Washington D.C. where I had just met ... with my new best friends and a bunch of current and future nobel ... computer, opening up the MyMIT page that I hadn't visited in a few months. I

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 17, 2014
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  The future isn’t the answer reflecting on anxiety

  

  depression note: This is a personal account on my experience with anxiety and is not a substitute for professional advice. --- Every day we wake up ... post more lighthearted content, but this is a topic that means a lot to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2022
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  Avatar and Desserts Exploring Food Art

  

  . Like a lot. Please watch it before reading this. Past this point, I ... this happened and what the food means with a lot bit of fangirling. Enjoy ... didn't notice or if there was a rise of Avatar related stuff around May

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • December 10, 2020
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  The Thong I Should Be Wearing [UPDATE] Sexy sexy undies.

  

  'd leave it up to a vote to decide where she went. He put up an online poll ... of the funniest things ever. I lol'd and lol'd, and then Melis wrote a ... forward a couple of years. Here's what happened this time. An e-mail got

  • by Snively '11
  • November 1, 2008
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  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  'll reproduce the post here: I'm a senior in high school this year, and will be graduating come June. I have had all A's throughout high school except for last ... out of an A, but deep down I know I deserved that B. Not only that, but

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear My Old Friend, This is quite possibly weirdest way to introduce myself

  

  reading your blog. Write her or him a letter.” I wrote elsewhere in the ... properly later, but here’s a roundabout way of getting there. Dear Seven ... . I’m sure you have a lot of questions, but I can’t remember what they

  • by ana~
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Chose MIT On deciding where to go, now that you're in

  

  As a recent college admit, you’re about to make a lot of big decisions and a lot of big changes. You can follow whatever career path you ... that what you choose is a lot less important than that you are confident

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 29, 2012
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  An actual day in the life It's not the most exciting day... but it's a day!

  

  (This seemed like a really good idea for an entry when I was on my ... prospectives to a day in the life of an MIT student, I have rather uncreatively ... :30-9:10 -- Check CC, everybody's blogs, Google News, and a bunch of Live

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Feeling Many Feelings :) and :( and everything in between about decisions

  

  I have a lot of feelings. It doesn’t take much to make me cry ... mid-conversation that I’ve been animatedly [annotation note="If I had a ... retire early."]yelling[/annotation] the entire time. A colleague recently

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • March 16, 2019
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  The leftmost station on your dial WMBR = awesome campus radio

  

  answer review questions for a paper before my 1 PM 9.12 lecture. Because I ... sixteen when I discovered a very large, very live spider challenging me to a ... basement of an entry in Senior House, eventually moving to a studio in the

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 13, 2008
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  An Entry About Snow ...Even though we don't have any

  

  used as a metaphor for life, and that it's highly unoriginal to come up ... quite as much as I love DUSP. But still, it's a lot). So when I found out that a snowboarding PE course existed over IAP, I jumped at the chance to

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 11, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later what happened after pi day 2011

  

  I've gotten a number of email responses to my blog post about the different paths our lives can take. One of them was from a student whom we denied five years ago. He and I had emailed a bit when he was denied, but I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016
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  My blogger bio over time what does it take to get to know someone?

  

  Joshua, or that I have two first names, because a lot of Filipinos have two ... the MIT tunnels with beautiful murals that animate when you point a ... two first names, because a lot of Filipinos have two first names. We

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 26, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  , but once upon a time humans did battle with dragons. Right now I’m battling a 5.60 (thermodynamics) p-set. The deceptively fluffy roadslush ... sick right when I got back to Boston after IAP, so up until a few days

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 14, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  To whom much is given… ...you know the rest!

  

  few weeks. I can tell you with a fair level of certainty that it is just ... , but that each and every applicant has been given a lifetime's worth of ... analysis is a big part of trying to process the outcome of a journey that a

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 13, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Search of Answers Seeking recommendations, rather than providing them...

  

  point out that I am just a single member of an otherwise exceptional group ... I need to know typically comes together in a nice, tidy package. For ... you are looking for a quick synopsis. Rankings can provide a comparative

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 13, 2011
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  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  it's really hosing" or even "I'm doing a UROP in Course 7" don't mean ... some extent, to my parents, it's like I'm talking a foreign language - speaking in MITese. But what else would you expect from a school where

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  things that are golden a zine

  

  Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 25, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to find your way around MIT mit building numbers are logical, but weirdly

  

  I’m surprised that no one’s written a blog post about this before ... like. It’s mostly a long strip: There’s west campus on the west, which ... campus is a group of buildings, not to be confused with the building that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 11, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Pretender a message to both you and me.

  

  drove up to MIT for the first time. I had signed up for the Shadow a Student program, where I would follow around a student for a day to get a ... application a month earlier and Decisions Day for me was on December 15th. But I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 12, 2014