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

  

  the couch at home and hoping I'd be able to load the website before ... .  We had a snow day and when I called my grandmother to tell her, she ... eat the ice cream to celebrate; if I did not, I would eat the ice cream

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parents, Please Read Prefrosh and students, read this too, and make sure to have a discussion with your…

  

  it. MIT forces you to take chemistry, biology, math, and physics ... to take them . . . but they force you to take MIT versions of these ... will tell you, it's very difficult to force yourself to study material

  • by Snively '11
  • December 24, 2008
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  Choosing Your Own Adventure and other things you can do when you live off campus

  

  of the year. No one can force me to get a dining plan. I don't have to ... Thinking of living off campus? Maybe not, maybe you just want to read ... 't apply to you just yet anyway, since all freshman are required to live on

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 8, 2019
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  Flux and Flow Thermodynamics as therapeutic analogy; or, the longest way I've ever said, "I'm still figuring things…

  

  difficult concepts and brutal tests. It represented the final hurdle to being med school ready, the last outstanding class I had to take if I ever wanted to be a doctor -- which, at the time, was no longer a settled matter

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Avatar and Desserts Exploring Food Art

  

  ://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGlMoNs4qlM&list=PL2D2F4E4B08214BC2&index=31&ab_channel=HowTo ... think I hadn't? I feel like after I knew what it was, I started to see it ... so… I don’t even know what to say. If you’re reading this, you

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • December 10, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HOW TO FORGE A DRAGON SWORD and other skills picked up in 3.096

  

  to the direction of the sword, which reduced the force of my blows ... : how to not burn yourself Reach toward hot things (or potentially hot ... heat. how to taper, rivet, chisel, and assorted other skills. tapering is

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 7, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take a Load Off Quoting The Band's "The Weight" should make the wait bearable

  

  's kind of a big deal. To illustrate that, I invite you to go to Google and ... . And it's still true of everyone who wants to get in to MIT. And I ... nicely when he said you don't have to build, say, a nuclear reactor to get

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Iron Man, MIT ‘87 (?) After 21 last month, another MIT movie.

  

  . According to the Wikipedia bio, this is Stark's background:   ... really like to give these kind of honors to fictional MIT grads, though. In 2003's The Recruit, Colin Farell's character was said to have

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Midsemester Night’s Dream Technically an All-Nighter's Dream, but hey, close enough

  

  gradients and force fields that are all starting to blur together, and over on ... I’ve decided to continue a long chain of poor decisions by starting to write this post at 5:38 AM. In front of me is an empty Pringles can

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 6, 2014
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  Love In the Time of Corona lots of evidence that the people are the best part of MIT

  

  this sense of nervousness and uncertainty in the air. I had woken up to ... , students were being asked to leave campus. No one had expected that. No one. If Harvard was closing down, MIT was probably going to do the same

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  . instead of stubbornly forcing myself to enjoy something i used to like, i ... , to his boat for a sailing trip. in the hours before we set sail, we ate brunch at a packed dumpling place, as he explained the basics of sailing to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 22, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  e) Other Some pretty important stuff, and then just some pretty stuff.

  

  certainly worked hard back then, but I was never forced to engage in the ... major, you haven't found it. c) College education adds to your confusion ... have to go through. e) Other (please specify)." It took me a while to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 5, 2008
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  A Day in the Life Liveblog of my Thursday complete with (not so great) pictures

  

  based in LA (so many Google Hangouts!) and to have my opinion valued even ... I decided to share a day of mine too! Quick disclaimer: I thought it would be interesting to document my Thursday because I usually end up

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 15, 2014
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  Why I wasn’t sad to leave MIT On shedding.

  

  and then I’ll swing by to give an update on life from the other side. It ... not belong on the MIT admissions website” post. At least, that's what I'm saying to comfort myself.☺ Since graduating, I’ve been thinking a lot

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Flying Close to the Sun a semester of fire

  

  come together to make MIT one epic battle against the elements. I considered using a fire idiom in the title of this post, but decided to go with “flying close to the sun:” although I might’ve been overambitious this

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2021
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  Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends

  

  't want to wait for the next cycle to begin before I told this collaborative ... 've come to understand the challenge of MIT through the lens of physical ... to continuously register the [annotation note="Cartesian dualism is a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Feeling Many Feelings :) and :( and everything in between about decisions

  

  I have a lot of feelings. It doesn’t take much to make me cry, whether I’m moved, frustrated, or sad. There’s one Google Search Story that ... dollar for every time my mother told me to lower my voice, I could probably

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • March 16, 2019
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  [Group Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Survivors three bloggers face the horrors of public transit

  

  first puzzle (thanks king!).  Naturally when we were forced to split, Andi, as the smartest and tallest, was forced to be alone, leaving me and ... and skills—ranging from puzzle-making to set design—to put on a spooky

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
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  Reaffirming our commitment to diversity in uncertain times

  

  attention to the class of 2028 and beyond, I want to take a moment —  alongside President Kornbluth — to reaffirm our commitment to diversity in a time of great uncertainty about the future of affirmative action, and to

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 7, 2023
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  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  reanimated by sinister forces. You sense it was all your fault and prepare to ... Tuesday, May 5, 2015, in expansion of MIT Gothic. It is up to you to decipher these, and to distinguish the truth from the fiction. Maybe you

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016