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  Merit When getting into MIT isn't convincing enough

  

  the fight is worth it. Sometimes it’s not. Sometimes all you can do is ... not invalid when the remark is personal and infuriating. So get angry ... small subset of the whole—have no qualms about telling us exactly what is

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • January 22, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Miss the South Musings on a secret Instagram account

  

  account is themed around the proteins in gluten, which make me irreparably ... in my reservedness is a rare and mythical thing. Most of the time I ... is a weird combination of personality traits.  Anyways, I started the

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2022
• 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:   ... room. Another nice touch is Tony Stark on the cover of MIT's alumni ... for the name John Underkoffler, and write down what he is credited as

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

  tyrannosaurus REX the prefrosh are coming, the prefrosh are coming!

  

  is MIT: why bother doing a thing if you're not gonna be super extra ... fantasy. REX is the beginning of the real deal, and the signal that your old ... yourself on occasion to contemplate the truly nutso fact that time is passing

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 20, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s More Than A Job Thoughts On The Eve Of RA Decisions

  

  , either you're accepted or you're not. There is no grey area... so they ... same way. I've written before about how the class is selected, but I ... ... And then the committee does its work, however brutal. It's not pretty

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Units of Measure A simple question with a lot of cool answers

  

  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 ... celebrity units. I'm not always the one asking the question, of course - I don

  • by Snively '11
  • January 7, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  Electrical Engineering, not a measure of height. The MIT Bubble is a pressure ... the couch is Reva ‘18, who fell asleep on her laptop keyboard while ... casualties strewn across the furniture. This week is my second-busiest of the

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advisor vs. Advisee a '07 and a '21 answer a series of questions

  

  is actually not the most sanitary and maybe also not that strange ... . What is and isn't common in the lives of a MIT senior and a MIT Alum and ... night?   Bryan: Eight -- this is not an exception. Everyone who

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Challenge You Pi day approaches.

  

  ) – was not the fear of being unable to succeed without MIT, but rather a ... is the only path to success, which is a topic for another post.) I ... hearing that MIT is what it is because of the people who go here, but it

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Gothic You are reading an admissions blog post. You are reading tumblr.

  

  , especially around this time of the semester. The rest of this blog post is by ... chalkboard is already covered in equations. The desks are covered in equations. The walls are covered in equations. Your notebook is covered in

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] You Have a 50/50 Chance a guest post from my mama

  

  ask ourselves). "The acceptance rate is only a 5% or 6%" I've always ... ? [annotation note="Hello! Cami here. This is not at all true. But I love my ... , I asked myself "What am I doing here? I'm not even watching the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  My Product Design Internship in Austin how to build things: both externally and internally

  

  around the city. The one I frequent the most is called Barton Springs. It ... beyond the dense trees crowding the river and parks. The spring is cold enough that I have to hype myself up to jump in. The initial plunge is an

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • July 26, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  To a lot of people, myself included, getting into MIT is the dream we ... my heart: positive, negative, positive. The thoughts did not cease, but ... protector that had not done its job very well. The paper was black along its

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  17 Things I’ve Learned in the Past Year growing, growing, grown

  

  give yourself a better life, what is the point if you’re not healthy and ... may not have been tears in my eyes by the end :’) This past month, I ... from a situation and not look back or apologize. This is number 2

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  usually no.) This is not the story you were expecting to hear, was it? I ... Universe, and the Energy Content of Gasoline. If you’d rather not spend hours of your time wading through the endless linkbait that is mitadmissions

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

  Questions of Travel a guest post by Spencer W. '15

  

  Scholarship is the most selective graduate fellowship available to American ... to: “Why?”. At first I thought, “Tsk, the answer to that is both ... room not unlike the desks in MIT dorms except staffed by men in three

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  In the Realm of Giants imposter syndrome with a senior year twist

  

  "] AAAAAAAAAAAHHHH[/caption] To some extent, this is stuff I’ve been doing for the ... , six years have passed. In the last angles, the ones I try not to look at ... ’ve aged; I’m not seventeen anymore. My hair is shorter than it ever was then

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  that MIT is hard. It’s not just the workload. There’s this feeling that ... having fun, and they were doing it guilt-free and not under the guise of ... : not the operation, not Tufts, not the pencils, not the apples, not Legos

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  Yultide (credit to the bloggers for the awesome name). Today is Yultide Day ... turns out publishing a series of consecutive posts is not easy, even with ... MIT and want everyone to feel empowered to do it too. MIT is not just a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Christianity at MIT An intro to Cru!

  

  ’m not doing it right, and then push it to the backburner. But now this just feels TOO IMPORTANT to NOT share with incoming freshmen that might ... community. Anyone who is interested in the topic or has questions can come

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 7, 2024