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  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  applications. And to connect our lives to the life of you, the reader. The ... will continue to grow and become yourself, that this is not the end of a ... the waitlist and have a few more months of waiting to go, or feel like a

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 16, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paths there are so many

  

  heartbreaking it felt. We obsessed over MIT unhealthily to the point where going to MIT was the only future we saw for ourselves. Looking at the statistics of how many deferred students get admitted, it was painful to think

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 19, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Advice From The Elderly My last blog entry, at least from this chapter.

  

  To the class of 2016 - My name is Jess, and I graduated in 2010 ... casting agents for the next season of Game of Thrones and just happen to be ... . And then three of my very best friends in the world decided to leave MIT

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2012
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  (Bitter)sweet home meeting high school teachers again, and visiting my hometown for (probably) the last time

  

  walked down the halls, there was a good chunk of name tags next to the ... -quarantine fatigue, to the massive number of teachers who left between 2020 and 2022 ... many of the teachers' stories. It was a happy visit, but I got back to

  • by Jenny B. '25
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Guest Entry: Christina Bognet Supplemental materials to help you through the next few days.

  

  exhausted. The days leading up to decisions were sickeningly brutal and ... ," moments. It was difficult to decide whether optimism or pessimism was the ... rational in convincing myself that things would turn out okay, at the end of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 8, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My Product Design Internship in Austin how to build things: both externally and internally

  

  Austin, Texas? The land of cowboy boots, sweltering heat, and a city that took me no less than a week to fall in love with. Austin is on top of an ... enough that I have to hype myself up to jump in. The initial plunge is an

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • July 26, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Gee, my life’s a funny thing Remembering the bills I have to pay, or even yesterday.

  

  of pictures of the Stata Center to show how innovative we are. Now, as ... I owe a lot of that to the fact that I went to MIT. As I've said in ... to the cemetery where Jim Morrison is buried because we had an hour to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  get SLAPped! it doesn't hurt

  

  campus. my tenure as a physical resident of ec had just ended due to the ... . [...] I supposed that queer people of the past must have found other ways to ... . [...] In addition to the term’s traditional associations of being masculine

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

  Some people call me the space cowgirl

  

  of the case that was important for me to remember. Also, Jordan (from ... horchata (yummy Mexican drink). I wanted to tell you a little about the last ... lot of a student who used to work in our office, who we'll call "Pink

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2004
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  , and the depths of hell open to swallow you whole, rejecting you from all ... end: according to the author, an entire eighty percent of well ... to ride in a chariot, it was priceless to see the reactions of passers

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bursting the MIT Bubble 1.0 things to do in Downtown Boston

  

  when the post-finals laze took over, I devoted most of my time to local ... . This post is Part 1.0 of my favorite ways to burst the MIT bubble ... giant dishes, enough to share among the merry group of four. And to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Into the Smoke In more ways than one.

  

  to go to Norway, depicted in one of the photos above; in the photo, I ... being abroad is the milieu of people you meet and get to know. Most of my ... ever been before. Coming to terms with the fact that this would be my

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Bleary-eyed Some thoughts and reflections on this year's admission cycle - particularly for those not admitted.

  

  Probably one of the most linked-to/referred-to posts on this site is ... , suitcases) full of paper folders back and forth from the office to read them ... to, because we know the reality that less than 1 out of every 10 will

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 16, 2011
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  An actual day in the life It's not the most exciting day... but it's a day!

  

  'll be sad.) Since the stated purpose of the blogs is to introduce prospectives to a day in the life of an MIT student, I have rather uncreatively ... biosynthesis, effects, and metabolism of melatonin. 10:56-11:03 -- Run to the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  We’ve been there, too. It feels like the calm before the storm. Please don't forget to breathe.

  

  , my teeth would chatter, and this dread of just wanting the panic to end ... rectilnear grid is thanks to the Commissioners' Plan of 1811. One quirk of the ... streetcorner, adding a bunch of songs to an iPod playlist called "On the Go 5

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • December 12, 2014
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  Why I wasn’t sad to leave MIT On shedding.

  

  to know there. I didn’t have a “group of friends” in college the same ... times to several people separately, but at the end of the day it just ... and then I’ll swing by to give an update on life from the other side. It

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Upside Down Gnomes From Wisconsin Always look up.

  

  browsery in the second floor of Hayden library because I wasn't ready to ... behind in in 6.854 in the first week of the semester and never caught up ... start of the semester was a long string of all-nighters. I came close, I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 26, 2014
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  Thank you for reading A rigorous study of 26-year-olds (n=1) showed that getting older is positively correlated to the…

  

  We were asked to write an entry for the anniversary of the blogs, a ... of different ways over the past eight years and I feel so lucky to have ... every day and will continue to do so for the rest of my life. But it has

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 8, 2014
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  An Admissions Excavation Chris gave me a box of stuff and this is what I found inside

  

  old iterations of the MIT Admissions website (back to pieces from 2000 ... Flashback to about a month ago, when Chris sent an email to all the ... , I trekked over to the admissions office to pick up this: And my

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Miss the South Musings on a secret Instagram account

  

  understand the irony of that statement, since I am paid to share my life with ... thoughts at the end of each day. It’s gotten to the point where I walk across ... facing the ocean, know that you’ll never be able to look into the eyes of

  • by Ella T. '25
  • October 1, 2022