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  An Open Letter to MIT Applicants Don’t Panic (and know where your towel is)

  

  of a sudden you imagine competing with these people for a spot in a ... application pieces and statistics for each one, I immediately felt underprepared ... vs. Yale nor application acceptance rates for any school. (Again, I

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  name for MIT's famous class ring, whose design is unique to each class ... and a prized skill. (2) Term for alumni who remain socially active at MIT. Dorm Rush (n.) - See REX. Engineers (n.) - The proper nickname for

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Queer at MIT, but not on the blogs the map is not the territory, but it's getting closer

  

  consequences for being out in their home country or state. This is not to say ... household was hard. For a while it was fine (up to around middle school ... feeling guilty for. And soon, shame turned to suppression and denial. Middle

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018
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  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Semester 1 fantastic dishes and how to cook them

  

  in character for jacky don’t worry"][/annotation] I admit that my ... , Taiwanese.[/annotation] When I arrived at MIT in August for international ... "][/annotation] open for the summer. The food there was, in my opinion, unsatisfactory

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 8, 2020
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  A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.

  

  teacher asked me to keep a journal as my assignment for missing school for ... things, but finally, I decided to cut them away, for the sake of telling ... from as far away as 2-4 hours walking for the market. Still more people

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
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  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  ! Suffice to say it wasn’t glamorous. They scheduled new hires for 6am - 2pm ... , just long enough for someone of my stature (footnote: read: short) to lie ... to look like a chic tiny home. For further reading: Stephi Lee on

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The MIT Major Arcana a collaborative art project

  

  correspondences, and got the idea that I should commission art for this! It was my ... principles: I wanted to compensate artists for their time. I had no idea ... for each card. That means coordinating between 22 people, which wouldn

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2023
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  smoke and spice my comfort meal

  

  ’s been my Instagram username for the past 2 years. For the entirety of my ... ’s the only dish that every adult in my immediate family has cooked for me ... , along with the people around me, loved sharing this dish together for the

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 9, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  sea glass turbulent waves in these parts

  

  a bit before throwing it out there for the internet to judge."]Last week[/annotation] I got back [annotation note="how the process for the ... "]reviews[/annotation] for my paper, and man they were [annotation note="alexa play 'brutal' by

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 5, 2022
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  The future isn’t the answer reflecting on anxiety

  

  is not a substitute for professional advice. --- Every day we wake up ... me to talk about and has affected me for a while. My mental health ... hellish year for me got buried under the structure and responsibilities of

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  Agust D song 어땠을까 here; I’m not usually one for lyrics, but these ones are ... post. These letters were originally written for my blogger application for the prompt “Picture the one person in the world you really wish were

  • by ana~
  • September 24, 2021
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  On identity f(x) = x

  

  impoverished. It bothers me because, for the longest time, I defined myself using ... math books for fun. I remember owning this one book about mathematical ... for being good at math, and it felt good to be good at math. High

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  here comes a thought on decisions

  

  [annotation note="i debated with myself for such a long time on whether or not i ... [/annotation] came into my head, and i thought the words were really fitting for the ... would be, i felt sick to my stomach. a college's admission decision, for

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 13, 2019
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  A Comprehensive Guide to Crying on Campus It’s right about that time of year.

  

  ’t just have been you who did bad, right? You want to sleep, preferably for ... and nobody will judge you for it. So if you ever find yourself in need of a cry but don’t know a good place for it, I’ve got you covered

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 16, 2017
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  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  , because you would never use that ability; there would not even be words for ... in Plato’s cave for a bit). Yet, in matters of race, I think there are ... . I have been aware of race for as long as I can remember

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016
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  Underwater Dreams (from a distance) A reflection on immigration, student activism, and civic engagement at MIT.

  

  . Everything’s gonna be different for him, because he has papers. I’m glad he ... , and he’s here. DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) granted ... before. DACA has been expanded and the age cutoff for applying has been

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2014
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  A Different Voice some words about MIT, by someone who's not me

  

  to work for multinational companies by their sophomore summer. kids ... us for more. reality check–at the moment, i’m 10 hours away from a 2.004 exam that i am so, so not prepared for that i really shouldn’t be writing

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 24, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  officers showed in you when they selected you for admission, it is not really ... it this far if you didn't have someone in your corner. For some it is a parent, sibling or other relative. For others it is a friend, teacher

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 13, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Halloween is the best day of the year. Yes, I recognize that it is now closer to Thanksgiving than to Halloween. Sorry.

  

  Halloween is awesome, for a bajillion reasons. Reason 1 of 1 ... birthday. I'm lame, I know. The firehose stops for no aging ritual, though ... oscillators that it seemed only right to become one. For a driving force, we

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing is Magic And 15 minutes is all you need

  

  special arts program for his junior year. It’s because writing is hard ... wants to do that? When I do an info session for prospective students, I ... some advice for those of you worried about writing, or worried about

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 13, 2011