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  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  , they really did—wheeled in old-school arcade games, paid for limitless ... could be exchanged for a backpack; a thousand dollars’ worth meant Air ... , something reddish that involved guava—when a recruiter sidled up. Her greeting

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Save Point sleep wake hope

  

  on this post alone for the past six days. Most of it, I've been writing ... a necklace, trying sentences and paragraphs on for size, then ... reasons I'm leaning towards taking more writing classes for my HASS

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hard MIT Class ...or is that redundant? And yes, hiiiiii.

  

  underwater for all of eternity, and shot back up, breathing like I’d just run a ... -wielding tourists. You bump into one of their shoulders; they regard you for a moment, then return to their conspiratorial whispering. Before you think up a

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  morning milking and was setting up some electric fence for the cows when ... broke up every week or so for the next several months. M.P. ‘19 I was ... quit for a few hours after decisions came out, and had to wait about 90

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Figuring out what I want to do with my life personal essay time :)

  

  some skills I picked up working for Company X. More broadly, I’ve really ... really excited about this, as it’s been a dream of mine for at least ... ten years, but I’ve finally decided who I want to be when I grow up and

  • by Alex M. '21
  • March 5, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The MIT Major Arcana a collaborative art project

  

  're interested in printing these, hit me up and we can talk about it. For me, this ... , asked friends for feedback, wrote an email, and set up a spreadsheet. I ... correspondences, and got the idea that I should commission art for this! It was my

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  , advocating for policies to prevent such a shooting from happening again. They ... walkouts scheduled for March and April. In response, some high schools have ... rescinded if they are disciplined for joining the protests, while other

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • February 22, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  How to use these blogs Scattered thoughts on the information age, plus some bonus snark.

  

  So I was looking through some old notes that I was working on for ... them up a bit, and here they are: 1. Just read it. Every once inawhile I ... . Read the blogs, that's what they're for. We try to make them interesting

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Featured Blogs

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

  

  , especially. I don't actually have a plan for this, haha, so I will just draft ... for two degrees, took five classes for five semesters, four for two, and six for one. I think I am somewhat different from the "standard" MIT

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  graduating come June. I have had all A's throughout high school except for last year when I got my first B. If it weren't for that B, I would have been ... . The problem you're coming up against is one I've seen so many of my

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  [joint post] a guide to mit gyms big brains, big gains 😤

  

  residents can tap into 24/7. Since the [annotation note='the primary gym for ... lifted in (almost) all of them and chronicled/tier-listed them below for ... desk for them, I’ve seen that space can be limited. So, dorm gyms come

  • by Gloria Z. '26 MEng '27
  • September 4, 2024
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  VEDA In which I try to vlog every day in April

  

  just giving snapshots into MIT life. For the first couple days (or at ... (again), Meet the Bloggers  You Can't Just Ask for Prefrosh || VEDA #18 ... editing, cups Catching Up || VEDA #21 – voiceover recording, s0 much w0rk

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 24, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a freshman year 🦴🧠🩸🖐️🫀 my first year at mit, told through the body

  

  of my work ended up being rote, and i could have advocated for myself ... make things a lot harder for others, who then have to pick up the slack ... my advisor placement at first, since i had only applied for advising

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  of a sudden you imagine competing with these people for a spot in a ... score number. Let me tell you how I ended up here. As a senior in high school, I knew college applications were coming up and that everyone in my

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  club. The club was responsible for purchasing and lining up smiley face ... —a time for high school seniors to visit campus to see if MIT is really the ... that is good about life as a student. For the visiting senior, there is

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  have worked for years to finally reach. This is just a little excerpt on ... mind had exceeded capacity, and there wasn’t enough oxygen for each ... ; however, it was all for naught the moment my efforts would matter most. I

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Essay: Yogurt Edition! You like froyo? I like froyo! ^___^V

  

  money in application fees, counselors get mad at you for making them work ... essay for the differing prompts that each college required (there were some exceptions - I submitted my MIT essay for Columbia; I still applied

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Bumps, slumps, trips, and … Breaking out of a slump, now with more Cleveland!

  

  you don't blog for a long time, you lose your ability to rhyme. Not that rhyming's necessary, but it was always a crutch for me. I digress. Let ... Square. My lifestyle has changed in ways subtle and profound. For example

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  make good research, and I still don’t know if I’m up for that. Beyond ... could be a little bit warmer. I’ve been sitting outside the Stud for about ... choose to get up and move to a different bench 20 feet away, one that is in

  • by Phi A. '21
  • April 20, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  10 reasons why MIT is beautiful if I do say so myself.

  

  Sometimes MIT gets a bum rap for not having a pretty campus.  I disagree. Sure, we may not have brick buildings and ivy-covered walls.  But ... ) Because sometimes you look up and nothing makes sense: (7) Because

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 22, 2014