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  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  MIT is like, the good and the bad. Give comfort and advice about your ... reality is that we as bloggers cannot connect with the decision that you may ... will continue to grow and become yourself, that this is not the end of a

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 16, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The end of a chapter

  

  :( Studying in Cambridge is a great experience. On the top of my favorite ... Biochemistry. By the way, Pathology is a really fascinating Tripos too! Now ... sceneries of this little town. I mean, Cambridge is voted as one of the ten

  • by Linh V. '13
  • July 8, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Save Point sleep wake hope

  

  dedicate to my writing than I really would have liked, which is one of the ... , which is basically the cause of those past two paragraphs of digression ... of it is the simple fact that it appeared during finals week, when

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Reading aka inhaling all the books i can before school starts

  

  say, I enjoyed the film marginally better. The book is a bit dry, and IMO, the action is better represented through film. Double Indemnity ... . Persepolis is an autobiographical graphic novel that tells a story of the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s More Than A Job Thoughts On The Eve Of RA Decisions

  

  same way. I've written before about how the class is selected, but I ... , either you're accepted or you're not. There is no grey area... so they shouldn't try to sugarcoat the harsh reality. I'm thankful to whomever

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Was Deferred And it was not the end of the world

  

  . But not everyone who is deferred gets offered a spot in the class, and ... , no matter what the outcome is. You might be upset, but it isn't the end of the world. Even if you don't get into MIT, there is some place

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab How to lose a phone in 90 seconds

  

  that our lab does is really related to anything the Echo can do, and they ... out sailing. He is so insanely generous that, on the last day of summer ... flying a drone is looking at footage taken from the drone afterwards, and

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Upside Down Gnomes From Wisconsin Always look up.

  

  using the other bathroom closest to my room, which is an entirely normal ... (responsibilities, loneliness) from what undergrad was. The good news is that I ... , unexpected happinesses. The biggest happiness of all is that for every person

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 26, 2014
• Blog / Advice

  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  . "you have to adjust based on how the wind is blowing," said john. "and so ... question. "can you?" i asked. "the short answer," john replied, "is that ... you when we get on the boat," said john. "since this is your first time

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 22, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  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 ... nagging, awful feeling that the clever trick is going to be forever beyond

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some More Pi Day Facts and Advice You thought all that was over, didn't you?

  

  you will all enjoy it! It is a bit belated, but all the footage was ... around my dormitory on pi day and filmed the residents of Simmons Hall ... , no matter where you are going. This is a video for pre-frosh in general

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 23, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  How to look over your application and advice about breathing. My older younger brother is your age. I am fully aware of how much you’re…

  

  I was back in the day, or my younger brother is right now, or like ... that perfectly depict who you are. The thing is, after all this, you ... through it. Remember that your application is your only voice to the

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Cozy Hobbit Times, Cozy Hobbit Food

  

  (the Julian calendar is 13 days behind the Gregorian calendar), which means it is customary to make wishes and toasts. I toast the adventures you’ve had; on the other hand my wish for you is that through storms and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 things I love about MIT and hopefully you'll learn to love them too.

  

  order.) 1. The students This one is a no-brainer. Thanks to the ... definitely say that this is not the case. When professors are teaching an ... it all...except the attention is not always negative (especially when

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Flux and Flow Thermodynamics as therapeutic analogy; or, the longest way I've ever said, "I'm still figuring things…

  

  thermodynamics: everything is in flux, and the forces of progression and regression ... moment, promising prospects, but still little that is concrete. In the post ... and dive in. And while there is more pressure the deeper you go, you

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Reflections

  

  celebration. The invitation is a complete honor. It's great to be back in my old ... really, really flattered, the entry I wish everyone would read is More Than ... . They gave me the green light, and the rest is history. It didn't take a

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dear frosh: here are the things we want you to know a firehose of advice from upperclassmen: tips and tricks for freshman year

  

  sense at the moment. A lot of items contradict each other. Here is the ... where the work environment is toxic. Upperclassmen know things but we ... an activity/club/whatever you love is the best feeling ever because you

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  e) Other Some pretty important stuff, and then just some pretty stuff.

  

  life. This is one of the reasons it's such a difficult choice, but I ... love" is never the only consideration, as much as your teachers and ... only one who can really "specify" answer choice e) is the person making

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Love In the Time of Corona lots of evidence that the people are the best part of MIT

  

  began what is easily the most demanding of days I have lived through. What ... of the people. And this very long never-ending day is a testimony to ... the impact COVID-19 is having on communities is unimaginable, but I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Burton-Conner’s Renovation: A Saga on friendships that transcend shitty infrastructure

  

  talked about extensively on the blogs. Burton-Conner is known for being ... opt to cook for themselves and the drop off in who uses meal plans is so ... , New Vassar, the swing dorm, is a meal plan dorm. Also, BC was a Tier 2

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 6, 2020