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  So How Does It Feel? Now all you have to do is wait.

  

  asking others for advice. It got to the point where I nearly had my writing ... pushed submit. A week before the EA deadline. It felt good. But then, I ... cause me to be instantly rejected from MIT, I calmed down slightly, went

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 2, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT Perfect SAT scores and #1 class ranks are so last millennium.

  

  , precisely, one goes about getting into MIT. My first response is generally to ... wrote awesome, popular books, it sounded like a good place to be. But ... this is going. Yes, I applied to MIT just to see if I could get in, and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The interview life Recruiting for MIT on the west coast, plus answering questions.

  

  knowledge) and major in it. I know it's nice to think that "you can do anything you want at MIT", but is it really feasible? I would tend to say ... , cause I haven't answered any recently: 1. Phil asked, Is it really

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Small Victories The view from a month into MIT

  

  , In Time ), and I have to decide how to spend it. MIT is a culture shock for this reason. I'm the kind of person who is used to saying yes to ... go to. It's now evident how much MIT throws at its students. I'd be

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 8, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Overture to the Commencement of a Very Rigid Journey Sam's Mom dubs me Sami-stop-spleening-me!, because I am always spleening her.

  

  , otherwise it'd be pretty much impossible to adapt to film. Stylistically, it ... Very shortly, Sam's Mom and I will be on the road to Cambridge. So, I ... . While we're travelling, you can check this out: Everything is Illuminated

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 27, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Why didn’t MIT have a logo until 2003? tracing the history of MIT's logo and graphic identity

  

  adapted Universe typeface. It is simple and straightforward enough to work ... for this is that it's traditional in Steer Roast to burn toilet paper as ... narrative. So it'll be much messier, but hopefully provide some insight as to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 22, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s up? here's whats up

  

  The next few weeks are going to be something different. To start, it is 3:30 am Friday night and I am moving back to EC tomorrow starting 11 ... the sun is coming up. Tomorrow after moving my things back to EC, I

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • August 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finals Week, from my perspective My finals.

  

  was hard. We're talking miserable hard. It was a test of will, to be ... until late November, my very last test of the semester. It's one thing to say that MIT is hard and that bad test scores will happen, but having to

  • by Snively '11
  • December 20, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Leaf in Face I got hit in the face the other day. By a leaf.

  

  've been going to a magnet school (I think that's what it is) half of every ... 't just a leaf.) It was something out there trying to tell me that I need to ... Junior in Michigan who is considering applying to MIT next fall. Recently

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  keeping interest a list of things i think are cool

  

  felt like I was...cooking? It was really neat to have to go back into ... honest I don't even know what this is but it looks and seems cool. So ... various interests of mine, if I'll find a career that is somehow able to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 4, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Stomach Overrides All Priorities culinary procrastination

  

  If there's one thing I am utterly terrible at, it is prioritizing. My ... somewhere first for it to run on!" But since I didn't want to run a server off ... for a thesis. This is the reason, if you were unlucky enough to see my

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 22, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Katharine Hepburn’s Brownies How Kate saved my kitchen cred.

  

  to use the word hate, but I’m going to be a rebel and use it anyway ... cream-you’ve got give me more to work with. Are we eating it plain, or ... the mood to experiment? It’s kind of a big deal, picking a favorite, and

  • by Alina G. '11
  • July 26, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fun Times @ MIT (Pt. 1) Life's gotta be fun.

  

  perfect 100% of the time. (3) It's easy to feel sad and miserable about ... 's possible to be inundated with work yet happy at the same time. (5) It's my ... different. In terms of classes, this upcoming semester is going to be my most

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 4, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Bad Ideas ...and the universities that encourage them.

  

  things. For me, there is nothing to be said for locking yourself in a room ... much of Bad Ideas, unfortunately. But I did make it a point to go to one event. Friends, this is the Green Building, home to EAPS

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 30, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Meet TOFU Warning: post may contain dangerously high amounts of "daaaaaaaawwwwww"

  

  , but it is no different. But before I once again immerse myself in the awesomeness that is all of you, I wanted to share this different awesome thing ... how Ryan describes TOFU: TOFU is a project to explore new ways of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  The sky is falling! Either a huge cottonball just exploded or it's snowing.

  

  And so it begins. The first snow of the term has arrived. Kresge in the snow! Later that cold October evening, the snow turned into rain.

  • by Bryan
  • October 29, 2005
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2023!

  

  It is summer in Cambridge, which means that: every morning I wake up and check AirNow to see if more smoke is floating down through the ... potted Cattley Guava is fruiting (in USDA zone 6!) it is time for those

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Lip Sync ‘08 Because I want . . . you . . . back

  

  Sorry for not having posted recently. It's gotten to the point where ... time that feels like it's being wasted. As such, I decided to take most ... toy that is even close to being kinda done? Oh boy.) but there's just

  • by Snively '11
  • April 27, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  glassblowing & me a series of memories

  

  is going online and we have a week to leave. It feels like ... first responsibility, if I want it, is to protect the glass ball that I am ... responsibility is to try to add new colors, pick up what might be good, help it

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 18, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist post Some Q & A about the waitlist.

  

  ? It is impossible to know. We will have no idea how many people we will ... tricky. It is hard to know who will choose to come and who will go ... "yield"), we admitted 1533 students. However, it isn't possible to exactly

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2007