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  neighborhoods we move into and come to love. What do pregnant mice, cheerleaders, and four-foot light-up tinsel giraffes have in common?

  

  again -- I needed an excuse to get back in the gym. I spend the bulk of ... For anybody too young to have seen my name at the top of the recent ... and brain and cognitive sciences, which means that I'm going to have my

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 27, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  home because I was crying so much, and when I got to my house my parents ... . Went to bed super late so I didn't have to wait once I woke up. Woke up ... . Apparently, my face was a sight to see. So yes I'm screaming and in much

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

  club, the place would recruit a remarkable amount of energy to help pull ... counterfactual world me without help wouldn't have and I don't need to have ... isn't the piece of paper, but the lifelong ties to the people who I grew

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 6, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Christianity at MIT An intro to Cru!

  

  really didn’t want to. I learned so much during these times (Matthew 8 ... I’ve been trying to write a blog about Christianity and Cru at MIT ... ’m not doing it right, and then push it to the backburner. But now this

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  them to my dad and asked “Does this sound like me?” In my essays, I ... spelling and grammar stuff. I could totally write a much less sappy ‘how to ... student chose to become part of MIT’s class of 2018. While I have nothing

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  moment, let the impact of the decision hit you, and do whatever you need to ... accepted/rejected, because there is so much more to you, your abilities, and ... to survive." Mackenzie '17 - "What school you go to does not define

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Advice From The Elderly My last blog entry, at least from this chapter.

  

  for pretty much everything, I had no idea how to rebuild, but eventually ... Tuesday night, when I needed a friend the most. She introduced me to the boy ... requirement to graduate, but, you know, it is much easier to sit at home and eat

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  enough introvert energy to spend a whole day in my room just reading ... So drastic and inevitable, the leap from high school to college seems like the perfect opportunity to change yourself and become the person you

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Stove-Cook Your Oatmeal and Never Look Back To not-admitted applicants and anyone who knows anything about fuses.

  

  ’d imagine belongs to two MIT grads and a master’s student:   Here, on the ... bottom left fuse does not have a tab, it has a spring. It turns out the ... boil over from a few rooms away. Burning milk smells amazing. You turn

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 19, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Semester 1 fantastic dishes and how to cook them

  

  [annotation note="I won’t specify which, and I hope that you will never need to ... need to take two ci-hs to graduate."][/annotation] I wrote an ... does not require resting. Cut across the grain into thick slices to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 8, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where the Free Things Are A List of Free Opportunities and Tools for Students

  

  it comes to college applications than trying to do too much of stuff ... week before an exam you need to cram study for).   Channel Name ... course designed to help you learn everything you need to know for it

  • by Richard O. '28
  • January 30, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Underwater Dreams (from a distance) A reflection on immigration, student activism, and civic engagement at MIT.

  

  doesn’t have to struggle like we did—once you’ve been through that, you ... through.” And DACA does not offer protection to everyone. He echoed Sofia ... ’re basically told to be really scared and to try to make as much money as

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  the latter. Don't feel the need to impress each other. You're already ... building a class and a community. You don't need to apologize for what you ... . Posts include "It's an honor and a privilege to be in here with you all

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

  Grey and Other Colors

  

  activities that I enjoyed. Why did that have to change here? I needed to get ... like planning a trip would take so much time and energy. I didn’t start ... blog to share some of my thoughts. I've gotten lots of love and feedback

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 8, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Entry About Snow ...Even though we don't have any

  

  snowboard and don't even need to take lessons and in the ice skating PE class ... yourself (not that I ever really need any more excuses to laugh at myself ... used as a metaphor for life, and that it's highly unoriginal to come up

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 11, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Praise Of Holistic Admissions not an admissions machine

  

  so far as much as we care about what you're going to do at MIT. As Booker T. Washington wrote: "Success is to be measured not so much by the ... intellectual, ideological, and social cross-pollination. You need diversity

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  on doesn’t matter that much. The choices you make for what to study ... anywhere, so often you don’t even need to be anywhere at any given time. My ... expectations, and connected me with the resources I would ultimately need to meet

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  VEDA In which I try to vlog every day in April

  

  , I've kept to the daily video filming/editing/posting without too much ... sleep. UPDATE 4/16/15 Second time I've needed to bump this post to make sure it stays on the front page -- thankfully I've only needed to do

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 24, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Things Wot I Did Whilst Studying at MIT A tale told in pictures (and someone else's words).

  

  are done, my grades are in, I've nothing to do but work 40 hours a week ... reading the post two days after I got to campus and swearing to live by it ... classes that have nothing to do with your major(s), purely for the fun of it

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 27, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  40 minutes just in case it starts to burn down. [carousel image1 ... over to stay with us, we decided to give them a warm welcome by trying to unsettle them as much as possible. While Urban Walcott urbanized with two

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 6, 2023