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  bye (for now)

  

  cultural life of suicide: observing care and death at mit" and the file is ... is the way of things. and i feel joy, and sentimental, and nostalgia ... 's tires rotated, and somewhere in the back of my mind there is a small voice

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 12, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Women’s Soccer Talking to the 2009 NEWMAC Champs after they returned from the NCAA National Championship Tournament

  

  intramural pistol team and came to appreciate the huge variety of sporting ... that I didn't even know what the rules were for a lot of the sports I was ... tournament for the first time in program history. They were knocked out of the

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 25, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  right wall of the kitchen, is our fuse box:   Do you know about fuses? I ... Oatmeal cooked on the stove is so good. I wouldn’t know this, but a ... working. Here is our kitchen, which is probably not the kitchen you

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 19, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT, part deux The case study of someone else you wouldn't expect to have gotten in

  

  on how I got here is the most popular thing I've ever written ... in the case of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II -- wait, are you all too ... beginning of this summer -- and he's been told by one of the professors in the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes I Won’t Be Able to Take also "What Is Pre-Registration?"

  

  months before the first day of classes. Pre-registration is not as ... .72 Vision in Art and Neuroscience. The last one is sort of the reason why I ... classes as you want, as long as the number of units is greater than or equal

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 23, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  Enjoy Life Farewells and New Beginnings

  

  Today is my first day of school as a PhD student at MIT. Today is ... of my favorite poems, all about looking toward the future and starting ... the rest of the talking. https://youtu.be/vdCQoajVQds Hope your road

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 5, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thoughts for the New Year A semester's worth of thoughts, tbh

  

  solid ground. Such is the nature of this school, and this is one of many ... the sidequests I planned at the beginning of the year. Sidequest 1 ... , though, I generally know the number of the building that I happen to be

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends

  

  's almost October, the Z is closed to non-campus staff through the rest of the ... tale from last April.  Longtime readers of the blogs may know that I've come to understand the challenge of MIT through the lens of physical

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ATHack A day well spent helping others

  

  One of the amazing things about going to a techy school like MIT is ... Hackathon (or ATHack for short). The goal of ATHack was to pair teams of MIT ... . However, our team of Mechanical Engineers and I had the opportunity to

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Challenge You Pi day approaches.

  

  hearing that MIT is what it is because of the people who go here, but it ... reason for wanting to come – and the primary reason of everyone I have ... ) – was not the fear of being unable to succeed without MIT, but rather a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  sea glass turbulent waves in these parts

  

  the time of publishing this blog since i like to let my writing marinate ... jobs/commitments. In contrast, the main job of PhD students and research ... stop than with the harsh reviews. I hate the feeling of giving up, of

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 5, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  halloween down the infinite

  

  application is probably one of the spookiest things you will do in your life and ... note="we're supposed to take 4 PE classes by the end of sophomore year. i ... get to classes and things happen along the corridor! which is why i

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 1, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bring your stuffed toys to class reflections on liminality

  

  Roll carts around campus. Marvel at the wonder that is the wheel ... the pros and cons of each option carefully. Ask everyone about it ... . Go on walks alone. Go on walks in the middle of the night. Go on walks

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 11, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  So Chance Me Maybe? Hey! I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my SAT...

  

  I just said is a horrible lie. Here’s the truth: I have never taken ... online community of peers sharing the same stresses and anxieties. College Confidential had the answers to all of my questions - about how I should approach

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Merit When getting into MIT isn't convincing enough

  

  small subset of the whole—have no qualms about telling us exactly what is ... stronger sense of who you are and what you want to do. This is the thing ... "self image", and notice that only ~31% of students think they're in the

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • January 22, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Back in Time I change my clock back three hours and read headlines on the magazine of the…

  

  the class of 2011 has been admitted and half of my freshman year is done ... The last time I was on an airplane, I was in an aisle seat getting my chair kicked by the screaming kid beside me (a stereotype for bad flights

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  called “Minute Math”. Some of the strongest memories of my childhood is ... reigning champion of the visual speed game SET, constantly ‘challenging’ people, knowing that I would win. But as I moved up in the hierarchy of

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  actual conversations i have definitely had with freshmen during orientation

  

  and none of us shower ever ME: beware ME: resistance is futile ... : so where are you temped FROSH: one of the frats ME: oh cool FROSH ... i know what course 6 is ME: of course you do * * * ME: in french

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 30, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Best Advice I Ever Got Take it or leave it.

  

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 30, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  why i didn’t post over the summer (oops) late comic about my summer

  

        

  • by Anika H. '26
  • November 25, 2023