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  anatomy of a freshman year 🦴🧠🩸🖐️🫀 my first year at mit, told through the body

  

  even noticing the exact moment, it happened. i didn’t have to look too ... out, but it’s obvious to see the boundary straddling my skull, a ... through my post-high-school life, that thin line started to fall, as if it

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The rise and fall of CPW all the cpw history, plus proof the weather machine is fake

  

  don't get it."]"Bring more women to MIT".[/annotation] The author muses ... in the world once you get to know us." Well, it's true. Or at least ... better picture of what the weekend was like, so I'm going to quote it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what work is bite-sized senior spring

  

  the work of not working this is going to be a challenging semester ... work that i do not expect to get paid for or graded on; it's work that i'm doing so i can get back to the place where i approach the days of my life

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  poured into my classes, I still failed to grasp the concept. It was as ... done. It's just a crawl to the end of the school year before you can do ... tend to do a lot more thinking. The weather is colder, usually snowy (it

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  to us if CPW is canceled or if it is just the CPW events with too many ... placed on the committee, and from there it is off to the races. Planning ... committee. We hope that they won't have to use it, and that they can return to

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  you if this has worked."]you might find it easier to do so when it ... , even in the smallest ways. It is also one thing to say these things, and ... campus, eager to experience MIT and everything it has to offer. Many of

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me

  

  to keep the fire burning when it’s 3 am and you’re pipetting instead of ... actually merge the two in a thesis if I wanted to. My grandpa passed away a ... loved my jobs. There are, of course, tradeoffs to the way I did things. It’s

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  air to its full potential, I rush to catch the outbound T train. Two ... . If the amusing rivalry of Harvard and MIT was ever unclear, it makes ... the world). I have access to it with my Participant Harvard ID. I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  good along the way.  However, much of the time, students fail to connect ... New York Times about the college admissions process, it is hard for me ... journalists appreciate. I have the luxury of being able to be a purist in this

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  So Chance Me Maybe? Hey! I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my SAT...

  

  the internet and dived into research. It didn’t take long to come ... told myself that it was “practice” for the “real” applications to “real ... Confidential had the answers to all of my questions - about how I should approach

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
• 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…

  

  blows up to the point that if you skip class, nobody will notice except ... +. If you go to your professor's office hours, which they'll post on the ... possible to get good grades at MIT if someone enrolls at the institute from a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  . My binder. It sat on the floor, calling out for me. It had a hard white ... individualistic, slightly different from the page that sat next to it. Some had ... ’t breathe, my fingers froze as the time seemed to stare me down as if to say

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Let’s Go Fly A Kite Up to decision night!

  

  ’s face it - you aren’t going to. So, to distract from the impending ... the Harry Potter films to confuse your friends and relatives! If they ... spontaneously, even if it is only to keep people on their toes and to prove to

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.

  

  that I did in my head to write the above statement, so I wrote it down ... ’m building new tools to study the interaction between tuberculosis and its host ... it ever did when I was applying. I wouldn’t have had to worry about if

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bursting the MIT Bubble 1.0 things to do in Downtown Boston

  

  regrettably failed to take advantage of its historical and culinary wonders, but ... fascination for bodies of water (Charles River <3), and returning to the ... . At that time, it’s most fun to walk over to the North End, Boston

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why My 5.13 Problem Set Took All Day Moral of the story: Don't procrastinate, or I'll never talk to you again.

  

  myself that if I get it done now I won't have to worry about it later, and ... 'LL NEVER SPEAK TO YOU AGAIN." It hasn't worked so far - Thursday was the day ... called "The Thing That Happened to Moji". Taking place entirely in the hall

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye

  

  It’s been 3.5 years since I came to the United States from Nigeria ... cycle was irregular. At some point, it became easier to ignore the signs ... room quickly and made it to the kitchen on my floor. It was empty. I ran

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Long Road to Happiness Stuff no one likes to talk about...

  

  the difficulty of adjusting to MIT called How to Fail. Since then, I ... sophomore fall, and not really had the courage to do it or the time to think ... . Sometimes it was just nice to talk to someone--about anything.   The

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 22, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  . You return to the first floor and walk to the other tower. You’re still ... are two more to take its place. Each one has more problems than the last ... help take down a hack. It’s back the next morning. It wasn’t ready to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” and other ways to improve your test scores

  

  -gatherer predecessors? I think it’s important to acknowledge the very rightful discomfort ... nurture,” it does add a tremendous structural asset to the growing mountain ... the school day to do whatever we wanted, but come high school it was

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015