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  Not Admitted A forum for students who were not admitted.

  

  This year was the most competitive ever for MIT admissions. Admitting ... incredible students. For those of you who fall into this category, this is an open forum for you to talk.

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Mnemonic Contest Winner Congratulations, Shawn!

  

  Start spreading the news! The new mnemonic for the planets is: My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nothing. Congrats to Shawn for ... bryanblogs [at] mit dot edu. Tomorrow: How I work for a genius.

  • by Bryan
  • September 23, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  hold me (but not too close) on writing the full-length play

  

  fell asleep, though, dreams took over. On occasion, I would wake up from ... world that the random firing of my neurons had created for me, but, for ... , for the most part, the words I said were helpful—that I was capable of

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 7, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Appreciating America in Tokyo (or Things I Never Finished, Part Two) On Japan and America. And being an American in Japan. Happy Memorial Day!

  

  (I wrote this entry after spending three months working in Tokyo for ... that sets you up with internships abroad and funds your entire trip - but ... patriotic?)(Oh, alright. Duh. President's Day.) (For those of you who don

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 30, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Introducing: La Maison Française (French House) No, you don't have to speak French to live here.

  

  stretches for your hamstrings and calves, and then climb to the top of the ... four-course home-made dinner made for me, and one evening, I learn to ... for three hours per week. Non-MIT-related hobbies include "birding

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 29, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Happy Birthday to m—-suck. I turn 20 and cry tears of blood

  

  tasty avocado. *My roommate found a box of 50 avocados for $3 TOTAL in an ... . I always feel guilty putting up an entry with no pictures, so randomly ... one of those days, only with a break for blogging. So here's how

  • by Snively '11
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Q&A I asked current freshmen about the things they wish they knew for their CPW!

  

  event you want to attend or star each event for every day on your phone so ... 't enough for your parents, you can tell them that MIT has a 24/7 student ... East Campus and ask for me, Array. I'm a Medlink here in East Campus, and

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 9, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  how dorm structure shapes social life in more ways than i can count, actually

  

  dorm for all four years of undergrad. At this school, students can have ... undergraduate residential experience so varied. Some dorms are "cook for yourself ... dorm, Burton Conner (BC), which was under renovations for the past two

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 11, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  you can care about things revisiting stoicism

  

  wishing for specific outcomes from these things inevitably leads to ... wandering, and i am grateful to stoicism for providing that   iii. one ... mistake the latter for the former if you’re not reading carefully, but they

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • July 18, 2022
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2015 Graduates from MIT mind, and hand, and heart

  

  apologized for admitting him. i said that he could have gone anywhere else and ... true for all of you: "MIT is a hard place, made all the harder for the ... don't sleep with my grad rat on. one reason is so that, when i get up

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 7, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More thoughts on classes However, I did not find Matt's stuff (see blog post below this one).

  

  ) takes the proverbial cake for hopscotching around my criteria for likable ... history who learned the Li√©nard–Wiechert formulation of potentials for a ... set for that particular week was far more bipolar than dipolar: one

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 11, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  assassins – a liveblog day 7: five remain

  

  up an important invariant in the game, which is that there is a single ... usually goes on for a while. this is my first time playing in the hall tradition: i was a wingrep for 2E last fall, so i ran the game, but didn

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 16, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  dealing with loss it ain't easy

  

  I visited Japan on exchange for the first time. he lived right next to ... lifetime supply of MIT merch for everyone. since my host sister had visited ... family had been completely normal. I felt immense guilt for not checking in

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 5, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Eating Disorder Awareness Week – The Secret I Kept by julia p. '24

  

  up for that last time. I was devastated that I had to drop classes, but ... . Before I start I want to thank Cami Meija for hosting my guest post! This ... For as long as I can remember, the world has been a scary, anxiety

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 23, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions

  

  personalities of the students. thanks for any help anyone can give. estelphoenix ... step. For many students, CPW is the first time they experienced campus ... expected. I have a lot of options for college (harvard, brown, stanford

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 28, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  letter to my 2023 self from: 2024 janet

  

  was worth me being stuck immobile for 2 weeks, but i digress ... landed with just your backpack and your luggage was all caught up in ... and fast-paced-ness and wild stories we’ll tell for years to come. What

  • by Janet G. '27
  • January 2, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  at least i’m not as sad as i used to be i don’t keep friends, i keep acquainted

  

  all the corners of the world. and i saw many of them, for what will ... around mit for an meng, so they’ll be around another year. some are staying in the area. some of them will be visiting every iap for mystery hunt

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 14, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Womanhood

  

  woke up the next day and laid in bed for 15 minutes, feeling sparkly. I ... , but my general impression is that growing up is just the process of ... by male fantasies? Up on a pedestal or down on your knees, it's all a

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 28, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 3 (Finals) You may begin at the sound of my voice. You have an hour to answer…

  

  conversation. It was also possible to have walked up to them, grabbed their arms ... and “Person” jumps up in excitement, chiming, “Alright, let me introduce ... President Reif's convocation. MIT had an awesome birthday gift for me: The

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 26, 2013
• Blog / Advice

  I did not graduate on time

  

  conclusion, where, for the first time, there wasn't one. Was it a transformative experience? Yes. Did I grow up? Yes. But it was too quick. I wasn ... stayed because whatever options I had for leave felt worse.  And despite

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 13, 2022