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  To the Deferred I feel your pain.

  

  limbo of deferral. This entry is for the deferred. This entry is my story ... questions (What do you do for the pleasure of it? Which department or program ... of the world"...' and 'Describe the world you come from'), an optional

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dormspam-the-game (Part 3) parting remarks from no-longer-anonymous gamemasters

  

  much of the summer, I worked with Whitney Z. ‘21 designing, iterating ... and 100 (inclusive) that is 90% of the average. Participate here at ... liked it so much that he was willing to fund prizes for the rest of the

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hard MIT Class ...or is that redundant? And yes, hiiiiii.

  

  and people, puzzled by the existence of an outside world—a state that is ... the whites show, thinking, “A class is hard? An MIT class is hard? Who ... and we should be friends. The point is, MIT classes being hard, you don

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-Med @ MIT The title says it all.

  

  ended up at great schools. I guess my point is: don't let the idea of a B ... /engineering school and has the reputation of being incredibly difficult. This isn't the first time one of the bloggers has written about being pre-med at MIT, but

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  An Astrological Guide to the College App Process We all know astrology isn't real...or is it?

  predicted for your sign or not, the pieces of advice for every sign in this ... in the comments! Capricorn My capricorn friends are some of the most ... us because of the prestige of MIT and doesn't actually know what this

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Gee, my life’s a funny thing Remembering the bills I have to pay, or even yesterday.

  

  to the cemetery where Jim Morrison is buried because we had an hour to ... know it as "the cemetery where Jim Morrison is buried." Granted that Jim ... ashes sprinkled into the soup of someone I don't like. On our way back on

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 21, 2006
• 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 ... the way you came. Boston is miles away. This is much more than halfway ... coming out of it: Pisces. One of the branches coming off that is Felidae

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

  Thank you for reading A rigorous study of 26-year-olds (n=1) showed that getting older is positively correlated to the…

  

  We were asked to write an entry for the anniversary of the blogs, a ... that long ago that I was 17 and applying to college, the truth is that in the time since I was 17, that girl from Beasts of the Southern Wild was

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  certainly receive a hefty sum of homework, the main problem is time management ... had written more than I really did. Such is the typical progression of ... I recently saw a comic where a professor says "This is not the type

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  understand how much the onus is on me to look out for and take care of myself ... is a light at the end of the tunnel—and they are often true. images ... thought I would write this blog post about some of the ways my perspective

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

  demons on depression

  

  possessing me. The most basic level of empathy we can give to someone is to ... pulling down the mental lever of how much I liked myself, and in the worst ... name of the demon is the first step in driving it out. To have people

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 28, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the contours of a wild ride 2.009 😤

  

  being intense, silly, and a lot of fun. This blog is my story of ... -to-last round, and the first of four major milestones in the class. For this ... finished. I remember little of this now except a 12-hour rush in the ground

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bad Ideas Weekend 2019 good times

  

  .”[annotation note="The only true part of this quote is the first sentence. Winter here ... brains to the limit. Here is my experience at six of them! I. 2^n cookies ... of the winning teams' strategies. My team is planning on doing this

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 3, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting for Decision Day In which I give a pep talk of sorts (with a little help from my…

  

  nervous prefrosh. I hope you like it! If you're curious, here is the Ze ... 't stick exactly to all of the words, but you'll get the gist of it. Best of ... ’s no chance of getting in when secretly your heart/brain/stomach is

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  is even one of the most methodical, unemotional parts of the body. if ... , who leaned a little bit too much into the identity of loving math and ... indicative of many things: i was still very much adjusting to the college

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

  Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2) My take on the MIT short essays.

  

  revitalization of this system. It is no longer sufficient for us to stand on the ... in the merits of the first blog in regards to a long college admissions ... the product of intense cognition, I thought I'd share some of my views

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Night at the Office A bit longer than I expected.

  

  draft of the article of the night – on McCormick transfers – is finished ... to the UA. 11:22pm: It's that time of the night when someone is asked ... – responsible for, among other things, the physical layout of the paper. Prod is

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  This story has to do with professor accessibility. And something awesome that I got in the mail.

  

  name of the sender; it was vaguely familiar, but I couldn’t place it ... shelf.* This is a wonderful book - it captures the lifestyle perfectly. Me ... the name of the author. Let’s call him (again, for privacy) William

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  sense when you get stuck between the two. Neither college is, of course ... . And just look at the two campus maps. MIT is a school of numbers ... 57 miles of shelves and is one of the largest open-stack libraries in

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fit or happiness made easy

  

  part of it to maintaining something you are not. The idea of fit is ... ask myself is "am I in the right place?" How do we know when we get ... along with a big helping of the word "fit". At this point, it's a buzzword

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 15, 2011