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  i don’t want to say goodbye sorry sad blog incoming

  

  unfamiliar but exhilarating feeling, experiencing what like it's like to have a ... mom is actually trying to tell me. A wave of guilt washed over me for ... Chinese," somehow it was easier to say than "wo ai ni" — "I love you

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 24, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  . It is tiring to feel like a foreigner everywhere. So, my world is ... administration were very open to it, which is what I think is different other ... . ‘18, once pointed out to me how unjust it is that the media often seems

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  get SLAPped! it doesn't hurt

  

  to be notified about every single event on campus"]deleted it ... , not the original, otherwise i wouldn't even want to breathe on it -- but it's still SO COOL. i brought it to the entrance to fill out paperwork

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 21, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take a Load Off Quoting The Band's "The Weight" should make the wait bearable

  

  is visible from my awesome double.As much as I would've liked for it to ... . And it's still true of everyone who wants to get in to MIT. And I ... have to write about this anyway, because it's advice that I wish I had

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 1, 2010
• 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 ... personal. This isn’t to say one type is better. The difference is all about ... the world). I have access to it with my Participant Harvard ID. I

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

  An Open Letter to MIT Applicants Don’t Panic (and know where your towel is)

  

  ’t offer it. I’m lucky my family is financially stable enough for me to ... applying to MIT. It’s so easy to become overwhelmed by hearing about the ever ... extraordinary things about a small subset of people is that they have the power to

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  0.125 not a course 0 class, but a fraction complete

  

  , learning how to fail and bounce back from it. This is one of the big reasons ... how to cook! Or it might be more accurate to say I learned how to learn how to cook. It turns out that cooking, unlike baking (where I had far

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 4, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brief Wondrous Lives A little too much thinking brought to you by four in the morning.

  

  am not my disease' ad? How difficult is it to maintain an autonomous ... "Spoonsassins", in which one is given a spoon and a victim and told to "kill ... across it in red. I am lucky to still be alive, having brought my spoon

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Today I hit my TA with a door I didn't MEAN to.

  

  advertising how sweet it is that I get to pick my instructor). And it ... It wasn't like I meant to do it. I was late for recitation, and I ... 't make this stuff up. It is against all the rules of absurdity (which I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 7, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  . Just to give a sense of how crazy and loud it was, here is a video of the ... is this handy dandy blog and live stream…. Go watch it! To summarize ... . But it’s more than just famous. To MIT students, it’s a symbol that we

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking the L On "failure" at a place like MIT.

  

  suggestion. It's through a system called MITx, which is like a big interactive ... of it is that I failed. MIT Test #1: failed. Of all the possible ... ]. I tried to argue that I could handle it and the assessment was a fluke

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.

  

  Amherst or to see my girlfriend in Northampton. At the time, it seemed like ... never thought I'd become committed to it. But though I hadn't ridden ... commuting bike. It set me back a few hundred dollars, but I like to think of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions advice from someone who’s been there

  

  , which is why I'm going to reprint my first-ever College Confidential post ... they should retake to raise them by 30 points. I hope that it gives you ... officer. Nothing I say here is official policy. It's my interpretation of

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 17, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Are people on the East Coast friendly? An entry especially for those from the Midwest.

  

  , and it is plenty friendly. As for Boston though, it might help to share a few anecdotes to give you a picture of what the city is like. And ... an idea of what to expect. Boston is a city, and it can be a little

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 21, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Day in the Life Liveblog of my Thursday complete with (not so great) pictures

  

  discovering what it's like to work across time zones with a team that is mostly ... I decided to share a day of mine too! Quick disclaimer: I thought it ... 's super approachable, kind, and down-to-earth and it turns out we have a lot

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 15, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Move Fast And Break Things just make sure you have a net positive of unbreaks

  

  for its 'hackathons'. What exactly is a hackathon? "At Facebook, we ... last week, and it was a chance for each engineer to surface this idea and ... their usual work just because they feel like it. And then go to work the

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 25, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Search of Answers Seeking recommendations, rather than providing them...

  

  of people who make up the admission staff. It is the collective wisdom ... what institution is best suited to provide you with those experiences. I ... selective peer institutions, assuming that one is fortunate enough to have

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes I Won’t Be Able to Take also "What Is Pre-Registration?"

  

  't a wrong way to do it, just as long as you submit something. Incoming ... went from this:to this: ...which is quite the leap. (The pictures are ... catalog. You should do it. Now. Here is the link. I have spent a whole

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 23, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  everything i made this year (mostly)

  

  -life balance, creativity, and how different it is to work than to be a student ... for Beginners," it attempts to parody, pick apart, and find comfort in ... -painted chipboard and is meant to be taken apart, overlaid on top of itself, and

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 1, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  What I Did in High School in the actual sense of the phrase

  

  it is to collaborate with peers, to mutually believe in outlandish ... ’t understand. It took a bit of time for me to start working as hard as I did in ... a Thing I think it’s somewhat silly to contend that there are

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015