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

  

  by stupid luck. Simply being at MIT, of course, increased the ... process of gradual burnout. I got A's because I worked towards the ... admissions processes ahead of me. Now it's internship applications, and then

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  anxious about the application process. JUST KIDDING! Absolutely everything ... convinced I failed my interview, I once almost cofounded half of a club, my ... ’t very anxious about applying because I knew beyond a shadow of a doubt

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
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  Burton-Conner’s Renovation: A Saga on friendships that transcend shitty infrastructure

  

  renewal process. Being a member of Transition Team was pretty emotionally ... My favorite thing about MIT, by far, is its vibrant dorm culture. I love that each dorm has a unique vibe and set of traditions and that

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 6, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  the reality of MIT after all. Trust that the admission process rejected ... winter and the slew of second semester tests starting to take its toll. It ... losses of Matthew Nehring and Christina Tournant. And for you, dear

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Train Coming on navigating

  

  Song: Crazy Train by Ozzy Osbourne train coming. Before MIT, I had ... exception of one or two family trips to Las Vegas. So, when I went to the east ... Curious Incidence of a Dog in the Nighttime (one of my favorite books and

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 15, 2023
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  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  yourself when I was deciding. Part of its thesis is that we are changed by ... I went to was staffed by an older version of me, who'd list all the ... Content warning: mention of suicide, discussion of death. Quotes are

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Things Advice for the class of 2010.

  

  afraid of (or excited by) the co-ed bathrooms. The thrill is over in about ... in college. My excuse was the cost of film and processing. Digital ... Dear Class of 2010, This will be my last entry written specifically

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  150 years of MIT course catalogs the mit history you want to know

  

  "Chemistry of the Metals". They are as described by their title: literally the ... numbers. The alumni directory of this catalog refers to the courses by their ... beginning of the catalog once, and then again later on, sorted by department

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
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  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  the decision might have on my personal life. By the summer of 2017 ... lot of my friends also came out to me. By the time I graduated high ... in the process of discovery. Because of this, I ended up at a musical

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022
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  Underwater Dreams (from a distance) A reflection on immigration, student activism, and civic engagement at MIT.

  

  panelists words together loosely, interrupted by my own. Below are some of the ... transformational kind of process to transform our society, transform our fear into ... shame, all of that fear, all of that stigma, is created by a society and

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2014
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  Parametric Cooking how i make fifty plus recipes with just three!

  

  In the world of design, there's this idea of parametric design: designing based on a set of parameters and functions, rather than by just modeling. Now, I know that sounds confusing, but think of a cube. What is the best

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 30, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  10 Things I Learned 1st Semester Yeap.

  

  epiphanies that I keep thinking of… Or that I keep recounting whenever someone ... my life. I got my first taste of Indian cuisine this semester, however ... because of the spiciness than anything else. While i had to keep chugging

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 24, 2009
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  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  smooth, rapid, pace of comprehension I know at my peak I can process, but ... doing. --- By all the metrics I’ve fallen short of in the past, this ... In 1st grade, there were these 1-sided sheets of simple math problems

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thank you for reading A rigorous study of 26-year-olds (n=1) showed that getting older is positively correlated to the…

  

  huge as the night sky. As part of my grieving process I took a two ... We were asked to write an entry for the anniversary of the blogs, a ... from MIT. First things first: I have now actually been out of college for

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 8, 2014
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  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  crushed by my first semester of college. I need to ask you, has anyone ever ... are much smarter than I. Also, I'm kind of an asshole about how smart I ... out of an A, but deep down I know I deserved that B. Not only that, but

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012
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  A Decade in Online Posting looking back: from the forums to the blogs

  

  engrossed by my daily life than the idea of writing it down for future me to ... winter jackets indoors and spent a week huddled by the warmth of the ... during Campus Preview Weekend, mesmerized by the type of students I saw. It

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020
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  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  feelings to process. But the weird part about all of this is that I feel very ... spotless. Moving out, of course, is just the move-in process in reverse. I ... the week went on, more precautions were taken. By Wednesday, instead of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
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  Parents, Please Read Prefrosh and students, read this too, and make sure to have a discussion with your…

  

  admissions process, I like helping admitted students learn about MIT before they get here, and I like sharing with everybody the types of things I do here. My dad follows the blogs very closely as well and the two of us

  • by Snively '11
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the Deferred I feel your pain.

  

  plethora of emotions that come with it. Right now, some of you are nearly giddy with elation, having just learned of your acceptance. Some of you ... others of you are stuck in that frustrating and seemingly interminable

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 16, 2009
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  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  . This one was also taught by some of my friends. Three of them, in fact ... , energizing class that gave me a little more energy to power through the rest of ... PM, Splash had a teacher appreciation dinner. By then, most of the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019