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  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  shallow. I would look at the time on my phone, then on my laptop, then on my ... over my shoulder at the computer screen. The sun was having a joyous time ... papers, each new paper being marked with a worn yellow post-it note at the

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What I wish I’d known, and what I’m glad I knew Before coming to MIT.

  

  At the CPW Women's Leadership Lunch, one of the prefrosh at my table ... semesters left, and there are at least fifteen or twenty classes that I would ... regular at the Brain and Cognitive Science colloquium; running up to the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Burton 1 Social Club This Thanksgiving, I'm thankful for my ridiculous, hilarious, amazing floor.

  

  even in all the dorms at MIT. Yeah, I said it. BURTON 1 FREAKIN' ROCKS ... living groups but also of universities), so it's really fantastic that at ... don't have an 14.01 pset, you'll wake up to at least ten emails between

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Advice

  finding place

  

  experiences finding place at MIT. I reflected back on the patterns and ... ="attachment_99789" align="alignnone" width="768"] hike with friend[/caption]   At the ... exceptions. You can't rely on serendipitously bumping into people at university

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • April 7, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advisor vs. Advisee a '07 and a '21 answer a series of questions

  

  at MIT. Why was he responding to this email thread? And why was he on ... blogger himself during his time at MIT!!! How cool is that? You all should ... grad student!) at MIT. So naturally, we had to do a blog post together

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself on choosing a college, and realizing one of many possible futures

  

  to enroll at MIT or to go somewhere / do something else instead ... 'the culture' more at MIT or at X? Would they rather be closer to or ... weaknesses. He knew he could do well at either. The problem, for Sam, was not

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ATHack A day well spent helping others

  

  contribute at this hackathon since we were expected to physically build ... together before the hackathon (which was allowed at this competition) to ... team and I met at 8:30 AM in this cool lab space called Beaver Works. I

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

  Move Fast And Break Things just make sure you have a net positive of unbreaks

  

  for its 'hackathons'. What exactly is a hackathon? "At Facebook, we ... blend their real identities with their Unix ones. (Looking at you, Yuzhi ... trampled in the mass of hundreds of engineers and interns champing at

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 25, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  How Wrestling With Snapping Turtles Can Get You Into MIT A student profile of an aspiring limnologist.

  

  *, she works part-time at the New England Aquarium. In lieu of an interview ... a few of the animals that Nora has housed during her stay at MIT: Yep ... being at MIT helped you in this regard? MIT has been really good for

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the Deferred I feel your pain.

  

  at MIT appeals to you and why?), two essay prompts to choose from ('Tell us about an experience which, at the time, really felt like "the end ... must have checked the clock at least fifty times in every class. It wasn

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / Advice

  Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me

  

  in society as an ethically-minded (at least I hope) science advocate ... one of the most difficult things I’ve experienced, and at least giving myself a chance at grad school was bizarrely a part of my grieving process

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On identity f(x) = x

  

  good at math. My personality consisted of being good at math and enjoying ... , I was still pretty good at math. Not the best in my year, but ... region, and that would make me happy. I was good at math, and I got noticed

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Riri Williams Pi Day Video Behind the scenes of an extraordinary three minutes!

  

  year old black woman from Chicago studying at MIT. She was to take over ... Man comics A lot of people at MIT were of course ecstatic, and in ... made an excellent blog post about it at the time. (I, personally, was

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  to enroll at MIT, I read obsessively about student life at MIT ... to burn out as a student at MIT? Here's a Quora answer about being ... becoming less and less invested in classes during her time at MIT. I'm not

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  You Are Here a list of things i can't make myself do, and a few i can

  

  It’s a Wednesday afternoon, and I sit in my dining room and stare at ... , and my eyes both dart to and from material and see nothing at all. It ... on cue.  My mind buzzes at the thought of literally anything besides

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 19, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  living at Next House for 3.5 years, I still hadn’t done Next Haunt. My ... would make me change my mind. I’m also not that good at solving puzzles ... playing in the background was also a part of the puzzle. At first, I tried

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  My Product Design Internship in Austin how to build things: both externally and internally

  

  many awards for being a stud at her sport that I’ve lost count, a sister ... all overheated in the UV that is surely at least 13, then jump in all over again.  One thing is always certain after spending an afternoon at

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • July 26, 2024
• 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

  

  everything at the wall and see what sticks” strategy, including small towns and ... backgrounds at MIT. And it was okay that I needed longer to adjust to Boston ... deserving to be at MIT. People talked about working at leading cancer research

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 17, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Miss the South Musings on a secret Instagram account

  

  evenly between my childhood companions and my closest friends at MIT. The ... significant amount of forethought and editing. At least that’s what I tell ... thoughts at the end of each day. It’s gotten to the point where I walk across

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m Still Standing after all this time at MIT

  

  to table to floor and back, singing our hearts out and feeling joy. At that time, I was preparing to return to MIT, wrapping up my work at ... ready to be at MIT again, especially an MIT that had changed so much while

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 31, 2021