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  Some people call me the space cowgirl

  

  top-notch student who had all the qualifications to succeed at MIT. So ... actually grab the folders to look at the scores, since that wasn't the part

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2004
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  Fig. 6: Eigenverantwortung The time of my life. What responsibilities?

  

  orientation session at ETH, the word Eigenverantwortung popped up during one of ... Eigenverantwortung Adultness panned out. I had received the offer to study abroad at ... :  Accept the offer to study at ETH  Pick classes from the

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • August 28, 2018
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  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 ... says ‘IHTFP.’ You find yourself whispering ‘IHTFP’ at random moments. You ... . You copy it down. You tell the freshmen at the sailing pavilion that

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015
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  Parents, Please Read Prefrosh and students, read this too, and make sure to have a discussion with your…

  

  's nothing quite like being at home, even if it is just for two weeks, and even ... admissions. The two of us were sitting down at Rockin' Rogers enjoying ... becomes serious. I spend a lot of time at MIT very stressed, this semester

  • by Snively '11
  • December 24, 2008
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  everything i made this year (mostly)

  

  and mental space. In an effort to record at least some of what happened ... , sometimes at the cost of letting old skills atrophy. The second part of this ... right after we “finished” it at the end of January, but then the rush of

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 1, 2025
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  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  Cambridge campus’ construction. At the turn of the century, a still-young-but-growing MIT looked at its student life and found it lacking. Here, the greatest ... longer seem as foreign as it did at the time. The gym was completed shortly

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Essay: Yogurt Edition! You like froyo? I like froyo! ^___^V

  

  money in application fees, counselors get mad at you for making them work ... his own to reach his own conclusions. Just look at the Mona Lisa - did da Vinci write, in golden font at the base of the painting, "Look at

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 11, 2008
• 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.

  

  -sets; sometimes there are not. At the end of the semester we write in ... took at the same time) formulate a proof. This was a huge amount of ... of power at the intersection of fields. It is valuable to be able to be

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the exclusion of everything else on making decisions, and how i chose mit

  

  the Silver Line buses, looking at the buildings outside, hearing the ... died a year later, a final disenchantment in a long, gradual descent. At ... shedding the old enchantment for the new. Four. We arrive at the Stud and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020
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  halloween down the infinite

  

  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 ... collect candy at all the different offices. [carousel image1="105171" image

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 1, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  i made furry art for Caltech i have art powers and choose to use them for chaos

  

  Tetazoo has historically been friends with Blacker, a dorm at Caltech ... because Tetazoo is full of procrastinators, we only started at around 8:00pm ... rendering of the lineart. I sent it to Winnie, who was already at Metropolis

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 6, 2023
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  reject modern web design return to 2006

  

  depressed person do THIS?” she says at am as she folds her laundry that came

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  The Room(s) Where It Happens You've hit submit. What Comes Next?

  

  world. Many of us read at home 5-6 days of the week throughout November ... pull in extra furniture to ensure everyone has a seat at the table. Some ... with the same people. Moving at a [annotation note='For those of you who

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • January 9, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Life is like a Game Elaborate metaphors from an amateur comic artist

  

  It's been a pretty rough week, so I took a break and drew out my struggles. For some reason (mostly the fact that I'm a media dork at heart), a video game metaphor was easiest to conceptualize in comic form, so enjoy

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 7, 2013
• 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
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  Blogural Inaugural I just wanted to use this title.

  

  telling you about a steel fork? Well, at Lame-vard University, studying for ... to) Gee, my classes are boring   At MIT, fortunately, that's not ... sense) At MIT, all freshmen have the option to apply for a "freshman

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  My College Essay Early Action / November 2005. ~500 words await.

  

  sky. And so my college application season began. My interview was at the Cosi at 13th Street and 6th Avenue with a young recent graduate named Steve. I always get really nervous at interviews. I remember nothing

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 11, 2008
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  Choosing Your Own Adventure and other things you can do when you live off campus

  

  't have to live, breathe, work, cry, eat, and sleep at MIT, which allows me ... note="and i do some of those other things at mit"]do work when I'm home ... , broader community. Being at MIT, you never really feel like anything but an

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  MIT at that point, so I felt sufficiently validated and did not see the ... 'm in my third year here at MIT, and I've grown up a lot. One of ... me if I'm ranked 2nd in my class at the number 3 school in the country

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019
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  0.125 not a course 0 class, but a fraction complete

  

  . Oh, boy did I learn about the importance of sleep. For me at least ... listening to videos. At 7 pm everyone wants dinner, so if I'm looking for ... – so it's best to attempt more unimportant work, or at least things I can

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 4, 2019