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  today is my birthday & i still don’t know who to become

  

  2021 is two-thirds over. To celebrate the newly abandoned month, I play ... , blinking into the mid-afternoon sunshine, trying to recall how I got here ... other days, except my boyfriend flew up from Georgia to see me. Later, I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 6, 2021
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at the Media Lab

  

  It's never easy to turn people down from MIT. But sometimes, around decision day, I unexpectedly hear from students to whom we did not offer undergraduate admission in the past, who went on to pursue their ambitions

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 24, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  quiz: what halloween candy are you? based on your college applicant personality

  

  just for fun! What colleges are you applying to? I have like ... I do at a nearby lab, or the volunteer trip I took to Africa. or ... the number of people who have died from laughing too hard I decided to

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 22, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Here’s a Plan let's burn off the pi(e)

  

  and the admissions office comes to fruition. Breathing is hard right ... overthinking. You end up having to sleep due to fatigue and most likely will wake up with a clear mind and higher spirits, ready to face the day. I

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • March 9, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  5 / The final countdown A month of stress and relief

  

  TO SET THE MOOD: Cologne by Haux       The last ... exams looming the following week, I did have something to look forward to: I was to spend Christmas at home for the first time since I left for

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  The Fringe that Stole Christmas hair @ MIT, and several hair-raising puns

  

  stories from anyone willing to share them. Cheers to everyone who collaborated to make this post a reality- hair’s to you! (ha, ha) [intro ... , often compared to a baby duck. Here I am on my first day of school some

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 25, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Splash 2018 Learn about anything and everything!

  

  teaching high schoolers about any topic they want. To give you a sense of the range, when I did Splash 2017 (as a senior and before I got accepted to ... to 18! There is really one more reason I wanted to talk about Splash

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 4, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Killing Time…Not Really guest post by Sheila B.'21

  

  searched the job postings and email lists for something to tide me over the ... also frantically looked for stuff to do) that said, "Keep Calm and if All Else Fails, UROP." Good news--I did find things to do. I applied for a

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 15, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fig. 4: Study with me! A semi-productive Sunday afternoon vlog (feat. an hour trying to find a printer)

  

  'm already returning back to the US end of next week. This week is also the ... , offering students the luxury of having the entire summer to revise and giving the school enough flexibility to schedule everyone's exams so that none

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  I can’t feel my face Snowmageddon 2018

  

  tldr; If you like snow and want to come to MIT, read this post. If you don’t like snow and want to come to MIT, don’t read this post. If ... cold. Why-is-the-air-trying-to-kill-me cold. Something known (rather

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • January 5, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  everything i know about friendship, i learned from the wellesley-mit toons twenty two notes to myself

  

  schedule regular times to see my friends, weekly or biweekly. put it ... formally, every rehearsal) take my friends off campus (the bus to wellesley is an easy way to do this but there are other places too!) invite my

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 14, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT 2017: Friends ❤, Food, and Flying Deloreans (Guest Post) Or maybe not quite that last one

  

  had the chance to learn some web dev with my friends, meet industry ... (delicious) food, exchange ideas, and work together to build exciting tech ... matchmaking via fingerprint. (To learn about what it’s like to organize Hack

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 11, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus Pros and Cons, as Told by Residents "because EC is home 400ever"

  

  ’s perhaps my favorite aspect of the Institute—the chance to grow in a tight ... direct communication helps those of you who weren’t able to visit during ... survey sent to all the dorm mailing lists asking the residents who feels at

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 20, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Skullhouse Road Trip Seattle, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Austin, New Orleans, North Carolina, Delaware, New Jersey, and New…

  

  mission that we chose to accept is to visit the hometown of every senior brother going on the trip. This means we have two weeks to travel to Seattle ... , New Jersey, and New Hampshire. We're travelling by plane to Seattle and

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biological Engineering at MIT My thoughts, feelings, and opinions (and slight ranting) about biology both at MIT and in…

  

  MIT is, at the very least, interesting when it comes to biology. You ... a mix of anxious premeds and kids trying to convince their parents that going to grad school can be just as rewarding as going to med school

  • by Ben O. '19
  • November 20, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Three Weeks a short summary of this crazy place

  

  neighborhood. In regards to the latter, it is the exact opposite here at MIT. From my FPOP (Freshman Pre-Orientation Program) to Orientation to the first week of classes, I don't think I've ever taken a day off to relax

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 12, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  These are the drones you’re looking for Aerospace engineers: what do they do in their free time?

  

  Hi, I’m Mollie! I used to go here. I was one of the OG bloggers ... went to another school in Cambridge and got my Ph.D. in Cell and ... moving to the west coast in about six weeks to start as an adjunct lecturer

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 12, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Trip Report: ISEF 2016

  

  students will often proceed to ISEF-affiliated regional fairs, and then state ... to attend ISEF as finalists and present their work to expert judges to ... ) May 13, 2016 (Note: before I came to MIT, I did not know ISEF existed

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 13, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time Flies And I lose track of it

  

  candy) happened yesterday afternoon, people flocked to Save TFP’s Spooky ... costumes, merriment, and, apparently, smashing things. You have to relieve ... random leaves ended up in this picture. It’s really cool to see the wind

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 26, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Four Weeks of Freedom What I'm doing for my last 4 weeks in the US!

  

  a flight to the U.K and embark on the second half of my college ... contained this bit of dialogue Friend: Hey Nat, when do you head over to ... long time. What are you going to do? Me: Hmm, I don't know, chill and

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • September 2, 2013