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  The Adventures of Flat Tim And his admissions officer friend!

  

  for the past 10+ years, I have had no need for a car and have instead happily relied on public transportation to get around. Recruiting for MIT ... Transportation Authority (MBTA) can take me, so 9 months into the job, I had to

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • June 6, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Sunrise, Sunset An MIT-Israel student shares his day

  

  starting a weekly film club, and of course, there’s so much Facebook to keep ... Israel: http://benbellinisrael.wordpress.com/ I was trying to think of a ... I’m not going to be in a Jewish wedding anytime soon, so far all I can

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  like for you to live your everyday life, and how much your teachers and ... Probably one of the most linked-to/referred-to posts on this site is ... and re-read it so many times, and it rings true to me every single time

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 16, 2011
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  An actual day in the life It's not the most exciting day... but it's a day!

  

  project and what I need to do over the next week or so. 6:35 -- I arrive ... 'll be sad.) Since the stated purpose of the blogs is to introduce 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

  Perkus Nonacademia MIT will give you more than just an engineering degree.

  

  bugs and reconfiguring later, I managed to make it much easier to use for ... -worry-inducing gadgets, I realize just how much MIT has permeated every part of my life ... brain has been rewired and my physiological response to stress and sleep

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later what happened after pi day 2011

  

  year and moved to Bangalore. I wonder how much these things would have ... I've gotten a number of email responses to my blog post about the ... hadn't heard from him since Pi Day 2011; he revived the old thread to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Am I Smart Enough for MIT? On second thought...don't answer that.

  

  , things have been crazy busy. (Perhaps at some point, I'll eventually get to ... some balance to the conversation. I remembered a guest post I wrote a ... was actually in response to an admitted student who was deciding whether

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  actual conversations i have definitely had with freshmen during orientation

  

  : you should come to auditions ME: no experience required ME: we ... MINNESOTA: what high school did you go to FRIEND FROM MINNESOTA: do you know ... : need help? GROUP OF FROSH: ... ME: ... GROUP OF FROSH: ... ME

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 30, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HNY from NYC for IAP, 2016 time passes so quickly, help

  

  Happy 2016! (By the way: 2016 = 2^5*3^2*7, in case you need the factorization on a math competition but haven’t bothered to factor it yet, hehe ... safety, clean air, and good public schools. It felt unusual to have so

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 3, 2016
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  sibling dynamics at MIT yes lmao Nisha and I are related

  

  I finally applied to MIT, I told myself not to expect too much since I ... Be Named came to the realization that Nisha and I are, indeed, sisters ... ="aligncenter" width="454"] PROOF![/caption] To be fair, we’re completely different. I

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 20, 2020
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  Choice and the MIT lifestyle ...because "MIT" and "student life" aren't mutually exclusive.

  

  choice that I would be devoting much of my time to school and labwork, and ... happen to be amazing). Monday and Wednesday nights are usually dedicated 5 ... recitation to revise problems or figure out problems I couldn't do on my own

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Iron Man, MIT ‘87 (?) After 21 last month, another MIT movie.

  

  . According to the Wikipedia bio, this is Stark's background:   ... really like to give these kind of honors to fictional MIT grads, though. In 2003's The Recruit, Colin Farell's character was said to have

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2008
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  An Admissions Excavation Chris gave me a box of stuff and this is what I found inside

  

  Flashback to about a month ago, when Chris sent an email to all the ... to help out with a side project. A couple back-and-forth emails later, I trekked over to the admissions office to pick up this: And my

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 17, 2014
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  Subtle Black MIT Traits A few things I have experienced as a black person at MIT

  

  . For those of you that don’t know S.A.T is a page for Asian people to come together and talk about their shared experiences, so I decided to do the same for black people at MIT   It seemed to be something

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  We’ve been there, too. It feels like the calm before the storm. Please don't forget to breathe.

  

  rewriting and fretting around my application to MIT, I managed to have it submitted in time for the EA deadline. Somehow, I managed to distract myself ... something, then try to force myself not to think about it, then fail, then

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Productive, yes. Appropriately productive, no. You would think that my activities the weekend before finals might include studying.

  

  (we're going to the Bahamas this summer, and I needed a new bathing suit ... transfer the payment to the credit card. And if you can't trust yourself to keep a handle on your spending, you should stick to a debit card until

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 21, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  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 ... pinned to a corkboard after only two hours of professional stalking. I

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 6, 2023
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  Random Random Projects/Moving Out of Random Randomly zigzagging about until I find myself in the future, somehow no longer in Random.

  

  list asking people to send me their projects. Here are some of the ... this year! It's Cthulhu, rising from Rl'yeh to crush the unsuspecting ... had to make an automatic panorama from some images that we took (we

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 13, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fit or happiness made easy

  

  you, it's much easier to be happy. In terms of colleges, I had no idea ... Nearly nine months after getting into MIT, one question I continue to ... part of it to maintaining something you are not. The idea of fit is

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 15, 2011
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  Into the Smoke In more ways than one.

  

  getting into New York is so much harder; my Spanish flatmate is trying to ... ever been before. Coming to terms with the fact that this would be my reality for three whole months, I thought to myself: What on Earth am I

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 2, 2010