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  Reflecting on 10 Years and Lessons Learned Happy Birthday, MIT Blogs!

  

  people you'll be friends with. Look for communities that you're excited to ... that the school can see why someone like you would be great to have on ... and cheaply – look for your chances to volunteer, study, or intern

  • by Kim D. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  to them that I was worth something. If it wasn't enough for them, at ... attribute to hide or compensate for. I was lucky enough to know a few openly ... , and that was delicious. It was refreshing to just be normal. On the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  (Bitter)sweet home meeting high school teachers again, and visiting my hometown for (probably) the last time

  

  that this is probably going to be the last time I’ll be in Alabama for a ... ’m ultimately glad that we’re moving on to other places. I visited my high school ... that people once tried to renovate but eventually gave up on to let them

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  to look like a chic tiny home. For further reading: Stephi Lee on ... from one to another, looking for free trials and showers. This usually ... . I took a bus to Rome, where I would stay for a few days, and then on

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Pictures from a Semester of Classes The Sequel Society Didn't Know It Needed

  

  something for one of the questions. So we decided to put his reply speed to ... ...and then commented on how late it was to be sending him an email. So after ... . As Aiden beautifully describes in his blog on studying for finals, this part

  • by Richard O. '28
  • December 29, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Today I hit my TA with a door I didn't MEAN to.

  

  popular that I once came ten minutes late for and had to sit on the floor ... It wasn't like I meant to do it. I was late for recitation, and I ... unknown to the universe I went for the front door, all while my TA just

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 7, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  . After receiving the Marshall Scholarship to attend postgrad in the UK for ... for me to go.’ While the answer sufficed through its cynicism, a kind of ... robes required to eat by candlelight), and on the right the Pepys Building

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

  the contours of a wild ride 2.009 😤

  

  about it, for obvious reasons. This idea made it to the second-to ... voted on which product we wanted to move forward with. Concert Lift was ... for a group photo and moved short people to the front. "We need Concert

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear My Old Friend, This is quite possibly weirdest way to introduce myself

  

  only to sit down for another round of coffee.  what would i tell myself ... will come as a relief to you. A realization of a goal you’ve had for half ... another for ages. You decided you wanted to go to MIT when you were seven

  • by ana~
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a freshman year 🦴🧠🩸🖐️🫀 my first year at mit, told through the body

  

  compared to the classes in my major that i would take later on. but i saw a ... asked for. i talked to the professor about whether or not i should drop to ... ), Next Sing, to name a few. [annotation note="i was also a desk worker for

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  Words of Advice for the Incoming Class you did it! now what?

  

  like for you. You might have gotten recently added to the Discord or ... themselves into a panic because they think they need to prepare for MIT, when ... 'd like to do some light studying or review for fun before MIT begins, then

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  i made furry art for Caltech i have art powers and choose to use them for chaos

  

  aiming for here. On the last day before Caltech left, as a parting gift ... a plaque out of red acrylic to go on the base. We were so close to ... over to stay with us, we decided to give them a warm welcome by trying to

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 6, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  tell you about my life after MIT.  But in order for me to properly tell ... kids. From September 2010 to May 2011 I barely scraped by on my tutoring ... idea what I wanted to do.  Focusing your job search on mechanical

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  trouble and for the past three and a half years, I missed opportunities to ... better on? LOSS OF POTENTIAL. DISAPPOINTMENT. BAGGAGE. For the past three ... .  It means that if I need four hours to read this lecture slowly on my

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Thong I Should Be Wearing [UPDATE] Sexy sexy undies.

  

  , would register up to four votes per second for MIT. I smell another poll ... people created a mailing list devoted to reverse engineering the code on ... group set to running the scripts on some of their favorite other schools

  • by Snively '11
  • November 1, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing I don’t have time for hosed into my core

  

  swallowed by my sofa, I actually left my room (from off campus) to study on ... didn’t try to study 2 hours before the exam on 2 hours of sleep. I ... 'm going to admit it to thousands of anonymous readers on the admissions

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 25, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later what happened after pi day 2011

  

  written to you long ago on Pi Day 2011, when I had received an admission ... said no to anyone who asked for help, even though it would mean taking ... college when I actually felt like saying no to people who would ask for help

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Do I have a story for you… *SPOILER* I do

  

  myself it's been 3 years since I failed to follow through on this ... ....very soon..." One of many lessons I've learned is that waiting for things to ... .009 classrooms in the fall to help teach the class that set me on this path. I

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  smoke and spice my comfort meal

  

  other. It’s neat having things in life that you can always count on to ... and decided to make pakaprow for the MANY people that ate our daily ... , but I had never had to accommodate for so many different food

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • May 9, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HNY from NYC for IAP, 2016 time passes so quickly, help

  

  factorization on a math competition but haven’t bothered to factor it yet, hehe ... little to do, and I ended up desperately catching up on fiction, doing ... to get ahead on coursework--but the flesh is so, so weak. My family

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 3, 2016