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  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  was chatting with this guy at one of my med school interviews - HIM ... study all day, or simply neurotic overachievers. At the risk of violating ... here's my honest assessment of being a premed at MIT. I. I didn't come to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The first person I met when I arrived at MIT for ... kill before picking up Kendall '07 at the train station. It struck me as ... fallen into disrepair, and yet probably ninety percent of its visitors just

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  Cambridge campus’ construction. At the turn of the century, a still ... Class,” due to the existence of at least half-a-dozen millionaires among ... temperature-control device, but as a multi-faceted tool at the disposal of the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fit or happiness made easy

  

  along with a big helping of the word "fit". At this point, it's a buzzword ... room and see if we could find pieces of ourselves reflected back at us ... natural, where you can focus your efforts on achieving instead of diverting

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 15, 2011
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  Burton 1 Social Club This Thanksgiving, I'm thankful for my ridiculous, hilarious, amazing floor.

  

  living groups but also of universities), so it's really fantastic that at ... at the end of the day. We're so cool that we were not only one of the ... at a corner of the table, not distrubed by the lack of attention

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  arrived at our location—one of my high school’s other national branches ... of the pool, marveling at its surface, thinking that it was almost ... at the end of the day, the ability to lay back in water, simply

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  stud that i could go to at any time, even odd hours of the night, and ... expo, or attending freshman formal at the top of the prudential. along ... into crochet, because one of my roommates at the time, sharon z ’27, had

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

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

  

  look of sadness when it came. I figured, MIT is for those other kids at ... Note: all stories below are unedited accounts of current and former ... screamed loud enough that the person on the other side of the living room

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Unofficial Guide to Unstandard MITglish, 1st Edition The joy of jargon.

  

  speakers of MITglish enunciate consonants at the end of words with exaggerated clarity and make a point of crisp, rapid pronunciation in everyday ... , localized dialect like a wandering hitchhiker on the sideroads of esoteric

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Few of my Favorite Things (Counting Blessings) Maybe the most sentimental blog post I’ve written.

  

  made our bay in lab two semesters ago (at right). The smell of Cambridge ... summer. The morning after I got here, I woke up to a pile of stuffed animals on top of me where I had fallen asleep on the couch and, on a post

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 6, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mostly Harmless Rifle. As in, the phys ed class. As in, I fired one.

  

  with my glasses on. This time I aimed at the bottom of the bull’s eye, at ... at hand, not the pressure of the tasks coming up. I try to do my best ... . Look at the long game. A lot of times we get all focused and wound up on

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 22, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Really Just Cannot Write Anymore of My Thesis I wish I can bang out essays like blog entries.

  

  examination at MIT, and I didn't feel a sense of relief. Just moments after the ... " questions that used to be at the end of your math textbook in every section ... impress your guests at cocktail parties with the precise names of all the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  different age. As a result, he would, at the end of either program, emerge a ... should leave my apartment and buy a gallon of milk at the store across the ... apartment) is a choice too, excluding an infinity of possibilities at the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing is Magic And 15 minutes is all you need

  

  magic. Take a look at what one member of the MIT faculty, Nick Montfort ... ’t updated it lately. It’s not because I’m tired of writing- I’m not. And it certainly isn’t because of a lack of material. I have more material than ever

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Riri Williams Pi Day Video Behind the scenes of an extraordinary three minutes!

  

  Man comics A lot of people at MIT were of course ecstatic, and in ... . Ayomide is a junior at MIT (Class of 2018) who studies Chemical Engineering ... of real places at MIT. From there, as the resident Mechanical Engineer

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-Med @ MIT The title says it all.

  

  first time one of the bloggers has written about being pre-med at MIT, but ... that a B at MIT wasn't the be-all-end-all of their med school ambitions ... ended up at great schools. I guess my point is: don't let the idea of a B

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Pictures from a Semester of Classes The Sequel Society Didn't Know It Needed

  

  Athletic Center which marked the end of a very long first semester at MIT. So ... : BU Expedition So at some point in the middle of the semester one of my ... wholesome (He's also the same professor from that slide at the beginning of

  • by Richard O. '28
  • December 29, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  The Room(s) Where It Happens You've hit submit. What Comes Next?

  

  world. Many of us read at home 5-6 days of the week throughout November ... with the same people. Moving at a [annotation note='For those of you who ... of committee and various checks and balances. At the end of the process

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • January 9, 2019
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  A Comprehensive Guide to My Favorite Places on Campus can't leave without making one more post of this format

  

  up being useful - or at the very least informative - to most of the ... it is. A map of all the places that I loved at MIT, color coded and ... and peaceful at night. There would be lots of bunnies. I'd be surrounded

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2021
• 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