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• Blog / About Decisions

  This One is for the Families… ...but applicants can read it as well...

  

  easy since there are many decisions still to be made. Before things get really complicated I thought it might be worthwhile to offer some of my ... Admitted: To get this answer will be difficult and perhaps a bit frustrating

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 12, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hitting Rewind on 2013 a summary of posts I never ended up writing from IAP till now

  

  consulting externship ended up being the perfect way for me to satisfy that ... overwhelming than I thought it was going to be - a confusing whirlwind of psets ... finals week rolled around, I was desperate to be done. I stumbled through 1

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 18, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Monteverdi to Mozart: 1600-1800 An organ, three harpsichords, and lots of learning

  

  "The less learned cannot fail to be pleased, though without knowing ... COMPOSED THIS PIECE OF 1600-1800 MUSIC ?!?! I wouldn't be able to answer unless I actually knew the song. I certainly wouldn't be able to say "ah

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 11, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  and i am afraid of falling a long winded chess metaphor

  

  am just like everyone else. "You also like to be in control a lot of ... start to be full of doubt or like you're losing something. Am I correct ... resign." "It'll be good for you. You'll learn to deal with failure." It

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 21, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Boston, through the lens of my children Visiting Boston at 37 years of age was ...

  

  catfished by a hotel online only to discover you may not survive the night) before heading over to Level99. Level99 was created/founded/birthed by the ... . Highly recommend, and I'm super excited for them to be opening a location

  • by Snively '11
  • October 19, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Olympians How many MIT graduates have been in the Olympics? No, not the Science Olympiad...

  

  likely to be in the Science Olympiad or the International Math Olympiad ... traveled to Europe from the US by steamship Times in running events were ... Since everyone seems to have Olympic fever these days (Michael Phelps

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Matt Damon’s Commencement Speech to the Class of 2016 Turn towards the problems you see

  

  he said was that he didn't deserve to be speaking up there. "Let ... need to be just as innovative in public policy, just as innovative in our ... like I'm being harsh, but I wasn't the only one thinking those questions

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 6, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Do you have jobs? Can I have one?

  

  spring, it will be time for me to leave MIT and venture out into the real world. So, I've begun to search for the perfect job to excite, challenge ... they're also incredibly selective. I'm beginning to be a little more

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  highlights of a hellish semester it's OVER. IT'S FINALLY OVER GOSDAIUOSDSOIJD

  

  was a lot of fun...I miss being able to dance with my team in person ... okay, so, sophomore fall was brutal. it went from manageable to tedious to outright AWFUL and i'm still recovering from struggling through a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 28, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  chugging along a week in my life

  

  load of laundry expecting to be done with it by 4 pm today, but ... be connected. i run to a quick mid-semester check-in with my advisor ... pull all-nighters with my current stamina), but i have been trying to be

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 22, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Where’s My Stuff? Updates from the MyMIT Application Tracking System.

  

  is ready to be evaluated by the admissions officers. Then, finally ... -- Way West 15). Mail Services sorts the mail and brings it by the ... to this, electronic test score records are sent to us by the testing

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 10, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Calculus in Context 18.01 feels like an art history class

  

  discovered to a supreme being in some way. Freethinkers did not believe in the ... think the true definition of drinking from a firehose is to be learning ... being chose the best possible conditions for the world to exist as we know

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 14, 2018
• Blog / Events

  SpaceVision 2010 Space is cool.

  

  would be able to wait for ten minutes. I have never moved so quickly in my ... be on time for my 8:10am flight. I asked the hotel to give me a wake ... assured me that I was still going to be "very early" for my flight. As it

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 13, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2019 everything from autobiographies to magic the gathering blog posts

  

  permission to just feel. And a green one is going to be looking for ways to let ... ’s hard to explain what Homestuck is quickly, but some of its themes are ... orders [...] DAVE: but compared to that guy i apparently turned out to be

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 30, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Top Ten Reasons I’m Thankful for Thanksgiving Breaaaaaaaaakkkkkkk!!!!!!

  

  is unfortunately what we happen to be learning about in my 5 ... all to me - so now, I understand it in a kind-of-not-really sort of way ... . I'll have time to watch TV. This is a big deal, guys. Be excited for

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 24, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  To Those with Dreams Deferred in which Selam of Pi Day Past rants about how things are arbitrary

  

  participant at a hospital, which, to make a long story short, was like being on ... humans sometimes like to define ourselves in ways we don’t actually have to be defined, the way we defined the year with the Gregorian calendar

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 17, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  On Genshin Impact and a better introduction to me

  

  keep searching for his sister and talk to Liyue’s god, who goes by ... games on… but at least I never claimed to be a gamer hehe"] other ... someone. Still, love can be reckless and intangible. It is hard to say that

  • by ana~
  • October 7, 2021
• Blog / Blog Projects

  hello, after six years

  

  good way to remember that you are more than what you are able to do. by ... we have with each other. we live in a world with lots of ways to talk ... a more focused way, with the help of good teachers. i am waiting to

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 17, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  My MIT Essay Revisions college essay things

  

  ’s biggest challenges to being a good friend. Describe one way in which you ... very, very long way. I actually would be interested in trying to rewrite ... August. I started by writing down everything I wanted MIT to know about me

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 22, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The final stretch ...of 2017

  

  ; It's felt quite anti-climatic to be done, a feeling that seems to ... wonderful to be back in one of my favorite cities, celebrate the end of the ... out on not having to take any once again. Last semester, I took all

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 21, 2017