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  MIT Gothic You are reading an admissions blog post. You are reading tumblr.

  

  offering a new dining plan, in which you are paid money in exchange for ... . SIPB sells the juice to ESP in exchange for fresh souls, which they keep ... campus for orientation. All the other frosh take it in stride, because this

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The Room(s) Where It Happens You've hit submit. What Comes Next?

  

  process for me. In addition, as a slightly extroverted person, reading applications all day, everyday in physical isolation for weeks on end can be ... in need of a second opinion. When I’m really desperate for human

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • January 9, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend

  

  hours giving me a crash course in the linear algebra one needs to know for ... for the Economist in London 6) realized that medicine wasn't for him ... I've been reading popular science for a long time. It's why I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice On The Essay The rules are simple: write your own.

  

  I recently opened my in-box to find an email from someone who " ... enough, so without thinking too much about it, I wrote the following in ... - so we read them very carefully. Quite simply, we are looking for the

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.

  

  school, too far for many of the people in Muti to walk to for water. One ... volunteering for their communities the same way young people in the US volunteer ... have volunteer work like this in the United States). So, we looked for

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  demons on depression

  

  a pastor in a room for an hour. Although I don't believe that demons ... family, and that guilt followed me around for months. Now I'm in MIT ... Content warning: depression, emotional abuse, suicide. In the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 28, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

  ) Instructor who, after I received a lowest-in-class grade for a presentation ... Election Tho T '20 who studied with me in the Stud for four days straight ...   In two days, I will be officially graduating this place. I

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 6, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  leaving the gates, the thought of being out in the world for several hours ... that we had only two goals for the rest of the semester—to have fun in ... -wielding tourists. You bump into one of their shoulders; they regard you for a moment

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

  [joint post] a guide to mit gyms big brains, big gains 😤

  

  lifted in (almost) all of them and chronicled/tier-listed them below for ... convenient for those living in [annotation note='now referring to the dorm ... date. the new gym will be live in a year. sorry for the lack of good

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • September 4, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Home Under the Dome sorority recruitment, tips, and my experience

  

  , and seeing girls all around school in my sorority. It was comforting for ... partners in crime for the week. I was on the orange PRC team, and it was ... .[/caption] Some Tips for Recruitment Keep an open mind! In high school, I would

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • August 14, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tenets or, my only piece of advice for incoming first-years

  

  fitting in, about studying for classes, and about joining clubs. For those ... buildings on campus, and the classes which they will take in the coming four ... [/annotation] ready to give you their tips and tricks for surviving classes and getting

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Into the Smoke In more ways than one.

  

  Aviv's Ben-Gurion International Airport. It was just past six in the ... reality for three whole months, I thought to myself: What on Earth am I doing here? That was two years ago. In retrospect, that was just how I

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A (Belated) Letter to July In which I start blogging again with an angsty video

  

  less romantic than it sounds. For the first time in my life, I'm hundreds ... video.  It's been a crazy 101 days since I last posted in this corner of ... through their lovely writing. Anastassia's post, in particular, helped give

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things Charles Has Made fare thee well, rocket powered roller skates

  

  just made these really cool things. In the same vein I posted Carlos, the man who built a 20 foot flamethrowing exoskeleton in my linkdump post a ... limits here. For example Massachusetts has some pretty lame rules about

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On identity f(x) = x

  

  problems for hours, then told them to someone, then watched them solve it in ... I know so many people in MIT only on the surface-level. Sure, I can ... ’s in, but before that conversation, I viewed him as just that—someone who

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

  Super Blood Moon Eclipse bonnie tyler would be proud

  

  , too.” These are the words that echo in my head when I remember last ... it’s called in scary scientific terms), is a rare case in which a ... , really). In layman’s terms, it’s just a really huge moon that gets eclipsed

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  This story has to do with professor accessibility. And something awesome that I got in the mail.

  

  professor in the physics department lent to me. For privacy, let’s call him ... a package slip in my mailbox earlier this week; I passed it to the desk worker, who put a big squishy brown envelope in my hands. I read the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m not an imposter… I’m going to be featured on the MIT News homepage

  

  during high school. Competition here is more difficult for me to spot—in ... ” student in high school.  With that in mind, I registered for four classes ... anxiety and procrastination are for me. We talked, in the workshop, about

  • by ana~
  • October 29, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Feeling Many Feelings :) and :( and everything in between about decisions

  

  , in order for connection to happen, we have to allow ourselves to be ... dollar for every time my mother told me to lower my voice, I could probably ... told me to chill and “be cool” in selection committee – I told her that

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • March 16, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [joint post] we visited every station on the MBTA and the Logan Airport Rental Car Center

  

  : We sent Kevin our plan, and he had some advice for us. Start earlier in ... note="CJ: I’m gonna write things in 24-hour time for this post. Alan is ... in small chunks. I wrote up a small, convenient website for easy access

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020