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  sibling dynamics at MIT yes lmao Nisha and I are related

  

  fences, and we live on opposite sides of campus, so our social circles ... A little while ago, I got my first(?) mention on MIT Confessions, and ... if you know either Nisha or me in real life—even tangentially

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 20, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  November 1st is my January 1st each november is a new direction

  

  motivate us and make us shake our fists yelling "I will get through this ... extensions for every assignment in that class and, apparently, taking one or ... These past three weeks have been really hard. And I'm sure that for

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Random Random Projects/Moving Out of Random Randomly zigzagging about until I find myself in the future, somehow no longer in Random.

  

  awesome responses I got. Jenny R. ‘15 Eli [D. ‘15] and I painted our door ... , still in the windless evening, and picked up our bags and left the room ... various rearrangements of the Institute furniture and our heavy, multiple

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 13, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  3 weeks in northern Italy Global Teaching Labs and MISTI-Italy

  

  ourselves? We wants to trace our paths and mark our origins to show why we are the way we are, and to convince ourselves and everyone that—a nutria or ... pig fat and sprinkled with parmesan, or spread with hot pepper jam and

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  has been stacked. I wake up and I go to an orientation event or take an ... music, and read a book or write a blog post. And the fear of missing out ... like Discover Material Science and Engineering or First-Year Arts Program

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m Still Standing after all this time at MIT

  

  went out of town for one reason or another. We sat together in our cozy ... over again in the living room and shut the windows tightly so our neighbors couldn’t hear us and mistake our four person party for a 1AM rager

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  This Is How I Read productivity hacks, but for reading applications

  

  -technology studies. As most of you know, our Early Action deadline is November 1, and ... 's important both physiologically and psychologically. After the gym — or ... I read to stay active without becoming too tired or sore. And the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  WHY? for people who don't like "no"

  

  one week and a year since the 2022s got in or didn't; two years and a ... mail! or Everybody loved her and she led a saintly perfect life and she ... comes and we get all these NOs and take them as indicators of failure or

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Life is Improv say yes

  

  yourself. It's scary, and risky, to accept another person's crazy idea, or to ... either have already or will soon go through the same pomp and circumstance ... and you all will (or have) receive at MIT. Part of that preparation is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  , or Pitch Perfect. Sometimes we’ll binge on romantic comedies, and other ... and some iced tea, to my right is a notebook full of vectors and gradients and force fields that are all starting to blur together, and over on

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  school had no resources or coaches and our team consisted of 8 members ... him, and he knew me. Not through any sort of historical meeting, or ... to replace our salty, straight, and swoll if we ever have hopes in

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Figuring out what I want to do with my life personal essay time :)

  

  and moons in our solar system or observe faraway exoplanets that orbit ... but adrift and blindly follows a well-trodden path into consulting, or ... materials and doubling in courses 8 and 3, or wanting to become a filmmaker

  • by Alex M. '21
  • March 5, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How To Make Mediocre Furniture well, maybe i'll let you be the quality judge

  

  ). As we all worked together to bring our furniture and belongings out of ... languages... or your furniture stuff..." And then something clicked. Because ... table in the corner of our kitchen which previous renters had left and

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 17, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  reflect on our collective similarities and differences, which I hadn ... emotions you're experiencing are so complicated, messy, and/or enormous that ... 20, and to you I just say: let us have our moment, dudes

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

  Painting by number The anti-formula

  

  out to be woefully short on substance.  I want to revisit and elaborate ... is numbers, or at least that is what people think. There are actually ... creatively, and perhaps most importantly, we love to do all of these things

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 2, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On identity f(x) = x

  

  definitely in the top ten or so. Good enough that I represented our school in math competitions. Our team would place fifth or seventh in the whole ... to have a tumblr blog back in 2015 or 2016, and I would always write

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  There are no imposters in the Class of 2018 Strength in networks

  

  best years of our lives and the foundations of the kinds of friendships ... celebrated and shared, or it could be a place where self-esteems come to die. Or both. Please make it the former, and do whatever you can to prevent

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Burton 1 Social Club This Thanksgiving, I'm thankful for my ridiculous, hilarious, amazing floor.

  

  different dorms as a prefrosh, or as a freshman, and trying out what works for ... explaining it.) Anyway, our first and biggest IFAF of the year was a weekend ... -Conner is first divided into Burton and Conner side, and then from there, into

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Blogural Inaugural I just wanted to use this title.

  

  any new language, and ... ok, fine, it doesn't apply to admissions blogs ... off that way regardless.) I'm Cam, your newest (and slowest, but I ... that it's my job to tell you about MIT, the things I do here (or don't do

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  An Open Letter to MIT Applicants Don’t Panic (and know where your towel is)

  

  -so-exciting lives of your friends offline or online, and that only amplifies when all ... since junior high, or came from a family of engineers and businesspeople ... telling me what I could or couldn’t do with my life, and that made me really

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014