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  The Pretender a message to both you and me.

  

      Early morning on December 5th, 2012, my family and I ... feel for MIT life. And I fell in love with it. I wanted to go to MIT more ... application a month earlier and Decisions Day for me was on December 15th. But I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  --the research and academics are, of course, first-rate, but I wanted to know what ... stories that have stuck and relevant snippets of my own life. ([1 ... her parents rather than herself, hiding all signs of struggle, and

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Random Hall ‘13s Life plans, advice, and stories from last year’s Random Hall graduates.

  

  the MIT News Office here. It is about risk, innovation, and life plans ... back a year. This blog post is about and largely by last year’s Random ... was persistent into the summer and the following fall. It was bizarre a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 20, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!

  

  MIT students do on Friday nights, The Stuff of MIT Legend, and Life, the Universe, and the Energy Content of Gasoline. If you’d rather not spend hours ... team, volunteered on the campus ambulance, and blogged not nearly often

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to Make Money at MIT for all of us who don't know how to make a startup :(

  

  high school once I turned 16. And while a lot of students at other ... I used to. The good news is you don't have to be an OnlyFans model ... posts about jobs I could find are both from 2008, and general inflation

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 4, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  , switching from news to podcasts and back again. The schools were closing ... So one day I up and took a gap year. I may have mentioned this. Every now and then, I’d stare out the window -- of my car, of a plane, of a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  25 Stories of Getting Accepted to MIT told by students and alums

  

  Note: all stories below are unedited accounts of current and former ... .  We had a snow day and when I called my grandmother to tell her, she ... morning milking and was setting up some electric fence for the cows when

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Advice

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

  

  —here are the things that did Do research and/or work to discover why you want to Do The Thing and to convince others you can Do The Thing (MIT ... caveats: There’s more to life than grad school. And college. And school

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself on choosing a college, and realizing one of many possible futures

  

  see as unanswered and/or conflicts they see as unsettled. Will they like ... analytically and solve with solid evidence and clear thinking. Sometimes, this ... Sam. He knew both programs very well. He understood their strengths and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Boomeranging The day before classes start is Registration Day. It’s also the day we welcome readmitted…

  

  September 2nd The round tables are blue, yellow, and green this year ... are four of us. We’re a good group, a healthy mix of ages, genders, and life experiences, and we’re here to talk tips and tricks, to tell the

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Dissecting emotion what is feeling

  

  morning and slept at midnight and yet I felt like I didn't do anything. Time ... without writing. Time is not real, because I can close my eyes and listen to a song for four minutes and it'd feel like twelve. Time is not real

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 3, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )

  

  for two degrees, took five classes for five semesters, four for two, and ... Circuit, it's basically a loop for you to get the feel of your cart/bike and ... /No Record is your friend, and you will be able to cruise through the semester

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Decade in Online Posting looking back: from the forums to the blogs

  

  the page to load. I screamed when I saw the news, and called my parents ... everything we pushed aside and really feel it again. On and off, I’ve tried ... result—I’d get into the habit of it for a few days, and then I’d stop, more

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who

  

  participant, the perspective of a hunt runner, and the perspective of a ... , a department under MIT’s School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences.']my CMS hat[/annotation] on and think about the Mystery Hunt from a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 29, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  Tomorrow, I will roll out of bed, eat some oatmeal, and put on a pair of sweatpants I'll wear exactly once. I'll board a yellow schoolbus and try to snag the one solo seat, all the way in the back and to the left

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Policies, Principles, and Protests thinking about responsible citizenship in a time of student protests

  

  from Stoneman Douglas have spoken out loudly, often, and in public ... have formed an organization, Never Again MSD, and led peaceful demonstrations at the Florida Capitol and the White House, as well as meetings with

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • February 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Flux and Flow Thermodynamics as therapeutic analogy; or, the longest way I've ever said, "I'm still figuring things…

  

  took the class twice and dropped it twice. It wasn't just because it had difficult concepts and brutal tests. It represented the final hurdle to being ... , even with so much time, money, and energy invested in that outcome. Yet

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mind and hand

  

  is Latin for "Mind and hand". Now, in most cases, a school motto isn ... , as a science major, I felt overshadowed by MIT's engineers. And I ... either and are primarily interested in business, or architecture, or

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Avatar and Desserts Exploring Food Art

  

  ’m making the assumption that you’ve seen the show and will not go over plot ... this happened and what the food means with a lot bit of fangirling. Enjoy:) ~~~ Table of Contents The Beginnings The Planning Phase What I Made and

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • December 10, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Computers and their Programs Anecdotes and advice about owning a laptop at MIT

  

  laptops that MIT recommends: Macs, Dells, and Thinkpads. I’ve seen MIT students with all variety of these and more. I've had all three. My first computer was an IBM Thinkpad T27 and my second computer was an IBM ThinkPad R

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 15, 2012