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  25 Stories of Getting Accepted to MIT told by students and alums

  

  students' MIT acceptance moments, prompted by a pre-Pi Day email thread.  We had a snow day and when I called my grandmother to tell her, she ... a large quantity of ice cream the night before. If I got in, I would

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
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  The rise and fall of CPW all the cpw history, plus proof the weather machine is fake

  

  held virtually this year, and there's a large CPW Discord server where ... , sent a message asking about historical CPW weather patterns. Petey tagged ... together—a story that starts in the 1980s and ends today. There'll be actual

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  , before my phone rang and jerked me out of my stupor. A friend was in the ... off several local options. I paused for a beat, then a few more. "Uhh..." A solid minute of silence, broken only by more interjections of my own

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 21, 2018
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  Units of Measure A simple question with a lot of cool answers

  

  units of my floormates but I remember a few. A Tang measured orthogonality to conversation. A Graybill is a unit of harem. The Itani is a unit of negative tact.  A Snively is equal to 1 byte wasted on the internet. Friends

  • by Snively '11
  • January 7, 2017
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  SHASS Hack feminist hacktivism

  

  2 and just before Hayden Library for those familiar), a hack was put ... and the end result is beautiful. I will let it speak for itself, with a ... , Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, and Peter Diamond among a few others. And

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 4, 2023
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  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 ... the endless noise of constant motion that comes with living in a house ... friendly conversation amongst each other, I preemptively take out a headphone

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 19, 2020
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  sibling dynamics at MIT yes lmao Nisha and I are related

  

  A little while ago, I got my first(?) mention on MIT Confessions, and ... it:   I thought OP probably was a reader of the blogs, because ... —you’d probably realize that we’re related. More than a few people have approached

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, by the Calories free food is everywhere

  

  A few weeks ago, I attended a meeting for one of MIT’s many clubs. It was a lively meeting, full of introductions, discussions, and sandwiches. When the meeting ended, all but a few students left, taking the lively

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting for Decision Day In which I give a pep talk of sorts (with a little help from my…

  

  I tried to create this video as something I'd want to hear as a ... Frank video about dealing with rejection. He has a very soothing voice and always-inspirational things to say. Here are a couple of my blog posts that

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2014
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  Mark Zuckerberg Visits MIT NBD.

  

  Engineering) have a discussion with our chancellor Eric Grimson, I packed up my ... 't know, and no one else seemed to know, either. He had a random press ... recruit people to work for Facebook. I guess that'd be cool if I wasn't a n

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 14, 2011
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  I know you’re bad at something And here's what you should do about it. Hint: NOT "do something else"

  

  delightful to you. Freedom! A chance to be expressive and creative in front of lots of other people! For me, this sounds like: My Worst Nightmare! A ... before the start of the solo, he would give me a smile and a nod. I would

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2011
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  I put on my robe and graduation hat It's sortof hard to believe it's time for this already.

  

  (through the MEng/VI-A programs). Since I am going to around for another year, I saw the graduation ceremony as more of a check-point than a finish line. I also think that attending MIT has had a side-effect of

  • by Kim D. '09
  • June 7, 2009
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  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  This next week and a half promises to be electrifying. We’re on the brink of an epic hurricane, a Presidential election, and either the most ... about me, about MIT, and about why I haven’t talked to you in a month

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
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  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  in late January. I'm living in Next House after a busy on-campus[annotation note="Independent Activities Period, a part of the school year in January ... !"]CPW[/annotation]committee. As a frosh,[annotation note="this was not strictly true, but I did want

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
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  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  video (or 1.25 hours if you watch it all on 2x speed). I'd say it's a ... things have thankfully changed a lot, but a lot of things seem like they could have been taken just a few months ago. Check it out: Table of

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We Should Take This Final and Push It Somewhere Else you'll need a lot of mOXie

  

  semester, I have already taken a final exam. In the midst of sitting down for ... the end of a semester, condensed into a single week. So, how exactly do ... even physically impossible. Think: getting a really bad case of mono

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 14, 2020
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  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  contracted, collapsing from a community to a few lonely souls haunting a space ... these two statements. I will never be a junior again. I will never be a ... spill from my fingertips: dropping a class for the first time, changing my

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 31, 2022
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  0.125 not a course 0 class, but a fraction complete

  

  the upcoming new year, a time when I'm even more reflective than usual ... ="Which I got!! More on this later, I'm sure :)"]applied for a UROP ... eighth day, my self-reflection woke up. Since then, I've been thinking a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 4, 2019
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  Grey and Other Colors

  

  from fellow alums who have felt similar things. It's a reminder that MIT truely is a special place- alive at all hours with people tinkering and ... graduation). --------- A couple weeks ago, my friend pointed out that I had

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  . Sometimes on mahogany walls. It’s not diverse, but still a bit impressive. And just look at the two campus maps. MIT is a school of numbers ... discussion section, led by TFs (Teaching Fellows). A Departmental Writing

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015