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• Blog / About Decisions

  So Chance Me Maybe? Hey! I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my SAT...

  

  needed to get serious about applications very, very soon, so I hopped on ... getting admitted, then to actually dream of getting admitted. Like a cheesy ... certainly couldn't allow myself to get my hopes up, or my poor psyche would be

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Mischievous Anniversary Tonight Four score and ten years ago...

  

  sign was spirited away, and according to latest reports. had not been ... built just to the west. In February of 1931, the buildings would be ... hoses, whereupon the serenaders deemed it more advisable to move to drier

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • June 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!

  

  idea how to get more specific.  My previous experience was all over the ... to understand what the value of my MIT education was- we'll get to that ... .  Slowly but surely I'll get to the marathon distance.    

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An actual day in the lab Hectic is my middle name.

  

  ShuttleTrack and decide that I would get to work faster if I wait for the ... -- once I tried to get my media out before the autoclave was done exhausting ... vacation since finals ended due to moving and setting up the apartment)... my

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  not originally intended as a blog; I just wanted to get my thoughts out ... ’t be boring.  I’m overwhelmed and realizing the stress is getting to me ... to try, where I could get A’s learning most if not all of the content

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who

  

  content is so popular to get mainstream film adaptations. These three arcs ... 's the only time a year I get to see many of my friends in-person, and I ... to deal with logistics, like getting space and event registration

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 29, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  themselves. As I was getting my food to leave the man in front of me reached ... get in than people like us.” In order to fit in I would laugh and try to ... I initially wrote this to my little brother. I debated for a while

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  “You are capable of more than you know.” Reflections from six MIT transfer students

  

  , trying to get a clear picture of what I wanted career-wise. I was involved ... , and MIT would be hard to get into (duh). But at some point, I decided to ... the Broad suggested that I apply to MIT for transfer to get more

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 13, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  suburb outside of Madison, WI, and I was actually the first person to get ... -Madison. What inspired you to get into limnology? It's like the (awesomer ... willing to get mauled in pursuit of our interests, she by vicious animals

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  non-stop / walang hinto what a mess

  

  ’s monday, i thought, and maybe i should try to get work done today. that day ... limit, but not reaching it, not getting past it. now, it truly does feel ... happened. it’s as if the entire month has just been in my head. to be fair

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 8, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a freshman year 🦴🧠🩸🖐️🫀 my first year at mit, told through the body

  

  a tree. in my freshman year, i aimed to get my [annotation note ... , attending office hours, and getting outside help, i somehow managed to scrape ... that i wanted to get into but never really put a lot of time into. here

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Favorite Classes at MIT! survey says...

  

  physics calculations. Lots of teamwork and designing. Also get to go on ... experience with product design and the different methods/ways to go about it ... . Not only did I get hands-on experiences as a first year, I got to

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  Sometimes I went to recruiting events just to remember why I avoided recruiting events. The latest one, held in early May of this year, was at Abide ... handed me a stack of poker chips. “Use these to place bets.” She gestured

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This Bathroom Ceiling Some science, some fiction: traverse the space and time of our bathroom ceiling.

  

  second floor of the East Parallel of East Campus. Today I want to tell you about the bathroom closest to my room. The 2E Bemis bathroom has two ... broken out to reveal the night sky. The ceiling has three ceiling lights

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  What I Did in High School in the actual sense of the phrase

  

  was to get service hours to qualify for National Honor Society come our ... freshman to junior year. It felt good to me to get good grades because good ... getting the stupid gas cloud to spin properly and we only got 2nd place and

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Figuring out what I want to do with my life personal essay time :)

  

  intersection by getting way into the first assignment for 16.83, which is to ... like to work on -- getting an orbiter to Venus is an interesting ... After I graduate in June, I’m planning to attend grad school and

  • by Alex M. '21
  • March 5, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dormspam-the-game (Part 3) parting remarks from no-longer-anonymous gamemasters

  

  multiplier gets even higher, which only increases the incentive to defect. EG ... balance between people trying to deceive each other and people trying to get ... , for I was one of the gamemasters and have more content to share :D For

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  connections, networks of people, and more. I get to keep using tools and methods ... half an hour, eating my lunch, and the wind is getting to me. I could choose to get up and move to a different bench 20 feet away, one that is in

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • April 20, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The MIT Major Arcana a collaborative art project

  

  thought getting people to make art would be cool, so I wrote a spec doc ... and Environmental Engineering to 24: Linguistics and Philosophy. There ... because [annotation note='Catchphrase from Unsong, sometimes shortened to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Reflections

  

  changed my life. Every so often I google them to see what they're up to. I have yet to be disappointed. Some of them didn't get admitted to MIT ... , but not all. I loved being able to look up from my desk and get student

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014