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  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  . I sat on my bed silently. My fingers were numb and my breaths were shallow. I would look at the time on my phone, then on my laptop, then on my ... thought to speak. I checked my phone. 2 minutes left. Not yet. I was

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An actual day in the life It's not the most exciting day... but it's a day!

  

  (This seemed like a really good idea for an entry when I was on my bike coming home from cheerleading. If you disagree... don't tell me. I ... prospectives to a day in the life of an MIT student, I have rather uncreatively

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  .   Hey little bro. I wrote this in hopes that you can learn from some ... where the issues lay. However, I can see from time to time that you are ... I initially wrote this to my little brother. I debated for a while

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

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

  

  around in an oversized fish tank: ‘I can’t wait to get out here.’ When the ... mushy, previously frozen spinach. I can’t say if I’ll ever return to MIT ... drive to Cambridge if admitted.   I still have the first email I

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

  I put on my robe and graduation hat It's sortof hard to believe it's time for this already.

  

  for graduation. Classes were over, and the most stressful thing I had to deal with was cleaning my room. It was pretty relaxing. I didn't even have to rush around Boston saying goodbye to people and places that I

  • by Kim D. '09
  • June 7, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-Med @ MIT The title says it all.

  

  can. The pre-med students that I met during my CPW were all down ... The most frequent question I received during CPW was: "You're pre-med? Wait, so why did you pick MIT?" It makes sense that I received this

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2012
• 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.

  

  At the end of the semester I emailed Random Hall’s social mailing ... awesome responses I got. Jenny R. ‘15 Eli [D. ‘15] and I painted our door ... warp and stitch them together). The class is super cool! I made a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 13, 2015
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  Parametric Cooking how i make fifty plus recipes with just three!

  

  Rhino, the software I'm most familiar with, you can use the Box command ... on high heat. I use 1 bouillon cube per cup of water, but you can use ... any part of it! I'm also a big fan because of how many vegetables I can

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 30, 2019
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  CPW Problem: What Can People Wear? CJ pragmatically writes concerning poor weather

  

  (Condensed pre-word: CJ pens without constrained phenomenon within comments. Perhaps written clearer? Proceed warily.) Campus Preview Weekend, commonly pronounced/written “CPW”, progresses. Welcome, current prefrosh, welcome! CPW’s putative weather contraption prevents…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 5, 2022
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  Guest Entry: Stephanie Lin Presenting MIT's most recent Rhodes Scholar!

  

  mostly I go by stephlin, steph or “yoooo.” I’m currently finishing up my ... Spanish. I was a beekeeper/researcher for a summer in high school ... (as you will soon see…). I’m incredibly excited to be going to Oxford

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 12, 2012
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  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  complaining and hunting down unhealthy free food. I can deal with it." And then ... displacement I can’t quite explain—like whatever was cycling around me in MIT has ... The week after my semester at MIT ended, I was accompanied by this

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 17, 2014
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  señoritis navigating work/life balance - and spring break photos

  

  i participated in my last admissions telethon early last week! it was great to send out warm fuzzy greetings, but i received one question multiple times and i promised i would write up a longer answer. the question

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 28, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing is Magic And 15 minutes is all you need

  

  I have a personal blog that I write about my teenagers and I haven’t updated it lately. It’s not because I’m tired of writing- I’m not. And it certainly isn’t because of a lack of material. I have more material than ever

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Bleary-eyed Some thoughts and reflections on this year's admission cycle - particularly for those not admitted.

  

  you received. I can't (and don't) expect any of this to change how you ... Ben Jones' famous "It's More Than A Job" post from March 2006. I've read ... heartfelt. A few weeks ago, I had an epiphany of sorts. I finally experienced

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 16, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The leftmost station on your dial WMBR = awesome campus radio

  

  (I started this post wayyyyy back in January. Ask any blogger who's seen the unpublished posts; I just keep changing the date and planning to post it. I fail at life, I know.) I woke up on Wednesday morning at 11

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 13, 2008
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  An MIT Underwear Exposé (and Sorting Hat) The coolest data you never wanted to have.

  

  grouped with seniors in the MIT people directory. Similarly, I can’t know ... content of the mailing list (I’ve never been on it), but because of the ... Destiny kitchens, my room, Cory’s room, and Random Hall desk, I downloaded

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2016
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  SHASS Hack feminist hacktivism

  

  "] SHASS.[/annotation] I, for one, think this hack was extremely well done and the end result is beautiful. I will let it speak for itself, with a ... , well, I think this message from the hackers says it best: We recognize

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 4, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Reflections on 50 Things thinking back on The Blogfather's wisdom in my senior year

  

  still tell my friends about that conversation. I can still use it in ... . I can’t stress this point enough. All-nighters can work (see #6). But, beware of the ageing process—most seniors I know can no longer pull

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018
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  Cozy Hobbit Times, Cozy Hobbit Food

  

  that I can’t always control the things that matter to me. This year I ... best as I can remember, it was three cups water to one cup barley for the ... again in the evening. I like oatmeal. You can add walnuts and bananas and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions advice from someone who’s been there

  

  't. ******************************************************************************************************************************************* As you can see by my post count, I'm new here. One of the things I ... applicants. I can't speak for other schools, but if you are making a pure ... I've been working on my grad school apps lately, when I'm not busy

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 17, 2006