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  Save Point sleep wake hope

  

  labels you try and put on it, you will only come two-thirds of the way to ... that it tends to defy labels, anyway. What am I saying, here? What is ... journey I am. Applying to MIT is its own kind of journey. And I think the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  remained mysterious, as I have had no exposure to this field. It was only ... professor encouraged me, I figured, why not apply to MIT? Honestly, it never ... had to outline my academic ambitions. This completely changed after MIT

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 13, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself on choosing a college, and realizing one of many possible futures

  

  possible persons he wanted to be.   Wikimedia image(s) of Janus, the ... didn't like it. I eventually transferred to yet another school. But I don ... knew from my friends and my research that it was going to be. This was an

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  MIT. People told me that it was going to be hard, that there would be ... admission. People called this "committing" to MIT, and I remember finding it ... grew louder and louder. I found it harder and harder to concentrate on my

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Happy 21st Birthday to the Random Hall Milk the Milk is now old enough to drink, but *please*, don't drink the Milk

  

  from the supermarket to a dormitory at MIT. It has lived there ever since ... ’t possibly hurt, he made his way to Shaw’s, a grocery store, braving and ... admission to MIT in the Class of 2019, despite its impressive achievements

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  now—it's easy to forget that this kind of thing isn't really normal in ... . It is the second-oldest dormitory after Senior House, which opened in ... made to build more undergraduate housing (that is, East Campus), it was

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to Freshman Days composed in the wee hours of morning

  

  I came to MIT a wide-eyed froshling. The sun shone brighter through ... began. I learned to conserve clothing. Laundry Day became a special surprise and a victory over the demons of laze. It came when all my socks

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 29, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  If the Obama were a unit of measure . . . . . . what would it measure?

  

  to watch. It doesn't go into scramble mode very often, the only other times I've seen it are immediately prior to CPW and before the Dalai Lama ... . Friday morning I woke up at 7:00 after having gone to bed at 4:30 (PSETs

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Favorite Classes at MIT! survey says...

  

  over competitive to a fault, it's also entirely possible to meet really ... interaction between two parties.. Life isn't zero sum; it's always possible to ... firsthand how it's not really possible to address every facet of a problem

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

  MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )

  

  After Graduation, I now have a lot of time to "reflect upon my MIT ... various aspects that I've come to gain a better understanding of after my ... Circuit, it's basically a loop for you to get the feel of your cart/bike and

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to use these blogs Scattered thoughts on the information age, plus some bonus snark.

  

  possible, so that you can waste hours clicking arond to random interesting ... passed it on to us. That was awesome. I spent a week wandering around ... only got a 760 on the SAT I math and I don't have time to retake it and I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Avatar and Desserts Exploring Food Art

  

  think I hadn't? I feel like after I knew what it was, I started to see it ... didn’t know what it was going to look like then, but I knew I wanted to ... father’s love at all costs to turning away from it is so drastic but also

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

  50 Reflections

  

  celebration. The invitation is a complete honor. It's great to be back in my old ... the blogs, and I just turned 40. It's hard to believe an entire decade ... world and about what I wanted to contribute to it. Much of the time I am

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  AOs write the “What do you do for fun?” essay Ever wondered what admissions officers do when they're not reading applications?

  

  learn so much about all of you, so I thought it was our turn to share a ... . It’s a rare and wonderful thing to get to read about the joys of others ... go hand in hand for me, and it’s what I go to most often for fun. Ariel

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me

  

  aspirations. I am very happy I worked after undergrad, as it gave me time to ... again Is it better to go to MIT for undergrad or grad school? Important ... life. Some people go to grad school just because they can, or because it’s

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer…” wherein Neil Armstrong's legacy kicks off a year of Unified Engineering, and I reflect on…

  

  , knew "soon after they were born" that they wanted to be aerospace ... by an inbred desire to "succeed," in the vaguest possible sense of the ... engineer--it teaches you how to understand, work with, develop, and

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 9, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the Deferred I feel your pain.

  

  choreographed a dance of my own, and how it felt to grow up in New Zealand. My dad ... page and this paragraph: When we admit a class of students to MIT, it ... , at MIT, telling you that it's okay to feel a little dejected about

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The joys of web development or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the web

  

  participants. My actual job was to work on the app used to collect data. It ... filling out a form every day, there's probably some way to solve it with ... didn't like. It's a similar motivation to when I made just1 a few months

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 9, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Muti Water Project ...is finished!!!

  

  it was cool to learn about this, I was a little dismayed: I did not ... months after it was constructed. You can see a little bit more clearly ... development--a road makes it easier to transport materials, which in turn makes

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paths there are so many

  

  heartbreaking it felt. We obsessed over MIT unhealthily to the point where going ... statistics of how many deferred students get admitted, it was painful to think ... just the start of receiving these types of decisions; after it come

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 19, 2018