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  Paths there are so many

  

  We were deferred when we applied early to MIT, and remember how ... often, and it does wonders. It takes us out of the toxic "what if I did..." thinking, and really makes it easier to accept the reality, and look beyond

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 19, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Train Coming on navigating

  

  to navigate the world on his own before. It scared him too: And then ... freshman spring was the first time I ever came to campus, and the adults who drove my friends and I to MIT were so nervous. They wanted a detailed

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 15, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  What I Did in High School in the actual sense of the phrase

  

  type who does physics and is MIT ’17. He was never eligible to join NHS ... one way to be a living human person in high school and end up at MIT ... hard learning things I wanted to and leave Algebra II studying for the

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj

  

  -gravity environment. MIT expects and forces you to work and *be* at so much of a higher ... in the foot and complaining loudly to everybody how much it hurts but ... on How to Get Around MIT. And now that I’ve cited How to Get Around MIT

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Things Wot I Did Whilst Studying at MIT A tale told in pictures (and someone else's words).

  

  are done, my grades are in, I've nothing to do but work 40 hours a week before my eligibility for student employment runs out, and I vaguely recall reading the post two days after I got to campus and swearing to live by it

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 27, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Dissecting emotion what is feeling

  

  it, and only digging up enough energy to do a tenth of the first one ... things to do in Boston, and I don't really have much to do this summer ... without writing. Time is not real, because I can close my eyes and listen to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 3, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  this sense of nervousness and uncertainty in the air. I had woken up to ... sitting to my left, GRAs and some close friends scattered around. And so ... absolute good reason, but still everything was coming to an end. And there

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear My Old Friend, This is quite possibly weirdest way to introduce myself

  

  , but you’ll grow to. And you’re going to be very satisfied that Mrs. J is ... the kitchen. And there’s nothing you can do to stop time from passing ... much it used to bother you when people would say that you’re young, but

  • by ana~
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On identity f(x) = x

  

  One What does it take to get to know someone? I hate the feeling that ... walking on the beach and talking to one of the upperclassmen. I listened to him tell his life story to me and talk about what he wants to do after

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty people later ✈✈✈ (pronounced whoosh) ✈✈✈ (pronounced nyeowww)

  

  To..., ❤️ & ☮️, and Does Any Kid Still Do This Anymore? I passed ... again decided to stay for the night—I was having too much fun here, and I ... two hundred puzzles; the number's closer to 170. And our team doesn

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  how to change policies at mit [joint post with Rona W.] our CUP of tea

  

  ’s policy-making process, creating projects to address student needs, and ... departmental advisor, and to register for more units than the first-year credit ... enrolls next year (and for years to come). How did these changes come about

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 28, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  find cheap plane tickets and the ways I tried to not get [annotation note ... youtube."]#vanlife[/annotation] videos, and I wanted to be out of Tucson but ... driving around a quiet neighborhood, taking random twists and turns to make

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the bridges I’ve crossed in Cambridge, ranked my civil engineering hat is off

  

  shown up yet. To kill time, I walked across the dam once again and ... "]length[/annotation] and [annotation note="who is it used by, and where does it take you ... these many bridges, and decided that the best way to show that is through

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  was running out of groceries, and I didn’t want to buy much more ... ready to be sad. It’s like, you know when you’re going up stairs, and you ... but air? And then you kinda have to wobble for a bit before you lower

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life Tokens the currency of joy

  

  ), buying a house, and eventually retiring. The goal is to collect as much ... family have dispersed, and our bodies are too worn out to do much. If/when I turn 80, how much money would I give up to have the memories and

  • by Allison E. '27
  • July 6, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  The Great Wifi Outage of 2007 Burton-Conner's wifi went out two days ago; Evan will tell you more by the end…

  

  with the application process guys - don't forget to breathe once and a ... caught the fever and engaged in a vicious and terrible battle to the death ... shifts on the ambulance, and long hot showers trying to scrub off that

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hacking A performance art that lets students remind the teachers who's smarter.

  

  to MIT for the hacks?” *Yes, I'm on a train again, and will probably ... just want to see the end result. That, and I'd prefer to not be arrested while at MIT If and when you are accepted to MIT there may be a day when

  • by Snively '11
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  undergraduate population to share their ideas and passions more quickly and ... engineering angle to them, and so the dorms were built with the residents ... to and influence on campus life allowed a critical mass of students to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

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

  my sign and see what parts I do or do not relate to. Plus, I ... hopes that you find something to relate to (and perhaps help you ... post apply to all applicants, so have fun reading and don't come for me

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 20, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  ’d imagine belongs to two MIT grads and a master’s student:   Here, on the ... created in 1945, and intentionally made available in a 600-pound, 3,000-watt ... few days ago a fuse broke and all the outlets in our kitchen stopped

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 19, 2016