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• Blog / About Decisions

  it’s only a matter of time a post for the deferred

  

  offer my congratulations, and a warm welcome to the MIT community. For the rejected, I offer my condolences, and the best of luck as you apply to other ... have been written before by bloggers of yore, and I encourage you to read

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 20, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  fake it ’til you make it what is a healthy way to be happy?

  

  I’ve been hesitant to write a blog -- especially one that pertains to ... but god, this semester is not what we all wanted it to be. So all the blogs I started stayed half-baked. Trying to romanticize bleary

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 7, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Taking a Step Back Using Avatar: the Last Airbender to talk about my feelings

  

  ’s beloved sky bison, which he could have used as bait to capture Aang ... years. The act of showing mercy to the avatar challenges the very core of Zuko’s identity, to the point that he becomes extremely physically ill

  • by Powers '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  senior appreciation post in which i rant about my idol

  

  Today I want to talk about mentorship and role models, and ... give the usual spiel about how disillusioning it is to detach yourself from everything you have ever known and loved and to settle into a new

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 15, 2020
• Blog / Public Statements

  A letter from President Reif regarding George Floyd and Minneapolis

  

  day, for MIT, for the country, or for the world. In addition to the ... . Earlier today, President Reif sent the following email to all faculty, staff, and students of MIT: To the members of the MIT community, At MIT

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 29, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Regular-ing Or: Over-justifying how much I eat out

  

  one of the guys working there comes up to me and says. “Caroline, right ... some people, but it means a lot to me. Back home, I was a "regular" at a ... to get this one waitress when we went out for breakfast, and I

  • by Powers '23
  • January 26, 2020
• Blog / Personal Projects

  summer side projects a nonzero amount of them are final fantasy related

  

  super tired at the end of the day and usually just went to bed, but i still had one or two hours every day to occupy my brain with something before it gave up for the day. my original plan had been to work on my

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 12, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  mit: it’s complicated confliCTING FEELINGS

  

  that's been going on. that's why i'm going to take this time to blog my ~feelings~ and understand really my position. if i had to label my ... myself to hate mit. "the flight's are too far from cali." "cambridge is

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 6, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Somewhere in between Trying to find out where I belong at MIT

  

  , my degree will say 2020, and for the most parts my day to day ... with. So I am allowed to go to senior ball, senior week, and any other ... matter before I apply to graduate school. I am taking five classes for the

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 13, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Leadership @ MIT (from a froshy perspective)

  

  . Maybe your experiences were similar to mine; probably a lot of them were ... burned out and ready to move on, and although I still talk to the younger ... actual day-to-day workings. Sound familiar? There's nothing necessarily

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 3, 2019
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: It’s Coming Home (by it, I mean me) guest post by Rukia. H '21

  

  guest post series* Theory: If we were to use the World Cup as an analogy ... managed to progress beyond the group stage and into the knockout round ... knows that if you sit me in front of a TV and give me a game to watch, I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 18, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Quantifying Angst the most course 6 thing we've ever done

  

  Three weeks ago in 6.009 (Fundamentals of Programming), we had to ... array (a mapping from keys to values).” One of the functions that we had to implement takes in any text file and spits out a list of tuples of

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 5, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Accidentally Double Majored How I managed to accidentally get a second major at MIT (hopefully)

  

  classes to graduate, an average of one a semester. I waved around that ... ago to the advisor for the writing department, and she got back to me ... at MIT. Hopefully. Too good to be true? That's what I thought. There

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Introducing Amino: Desktop Bioengineering for Everyone an MIT alumna makes a counter-top sized biolab that enables anyone to grow living cells…

  

  biohacker from Montreal. Before she came to MIT, she built wearable costumes ... the ability to transfer a trait from one creature to another ... algae cells that convert carbon dioxide to fuel, biocementation bacteria

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 13, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Escaping MIT Maybe if I just get far enough away, my finals will cease to exist!

  

  ’M ON NETFLIX It’s finals week. On Monday I have two exams back-to ... , it came to an abrupt end, and I’ve been left staring dejected at my ... ’t yet, but I’ll keep trying. Thursday morning I spontaneously decided to

  • by Joel G. '18
  • May 16, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  Miscellany In which I talk about my life and Fancy sportsball DNA folk songs

  

  feel like: So I just made a vlog to get back in the rhythm of filming ... waiting to be skyrocketed into fame as an arm model); my picture is second ... happening (everyone just decided to have their events right before

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  This Post Has a Happy Ending dealing with obstacles @ MIT

  

  , “impossibly busy with less time or resources to complete everything than available (as in trying to drink from a firehose). (context: MIT)” I drank ... overtook me. I could not do math. I failed to comprehend chemistry. I wrote

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 30, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Applicant wishing you all the best and greatest

  

  Dear Applicant to the Class of 2019, The long awaited season of ... had fun, and sufficient challenges as well. Now you’re ready to move on to a stage not predetermined by government regulations. College is

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 6, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2013 FAQs

  

  to have you applying to MIT through QuestBridge. Here are some FAQs ... your testing by October, do not worry; you do not have to remove MIT from ... nd, we will simply email you instructions with how to roll over into

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 21, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Updates 2013 things that are happening

  

  *Correction as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic ... , and several thousand people are in the process of applying to MIT. The latter of these changes is always accompanied by questions, so I wanted to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 17, 2013