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  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  To a lot of people, myself included, getting into MIT is the dream we ... had long stopped feeling hunger, but the void in my stomach seemed to ... to see this binder be filled, or to see what was to come in the minute

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On Teaching and Learning Minimum requirement: read the last few sentences of this post. They're important.

  

  . The sophomore I taught to square numbers is one of a hundred kids in ... the most. Each of us is paired up with a Teach For America teacher; my ... . - I’m not here specifically to be a teacher; I’m here to help out in the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
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  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  management is probably the most accurate word for it. But then I started to ... to study has not been the smoothest or most straightforward road. It ... in the undergraduate curriculum, as well as giving opportunities to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice you’ve heard before and a story you haven’t you can just skip to the pictures if you want to, I wont be offended.

  

  mandatory-attendance HASS class. The advantages? I got to sleep in later. I ... only the parts of the material necessary to hand in a completed ... review sessions held immediately preceding to fill in the gaps between the

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to choose your major putting people in boxes, feat. credit for reddit, social science, and lots of yarn.

  

  people tended to use about their majors and the people in their majors ... So you don't know what to major in. You have no idea what to do with ... is so cool but also you have to pick something. Or else. *ominous music

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 6, 2015
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  Why I wasn’t sad to leave MIT On shedding.

  

  hours in the day. To my surprise, I felt lighter and more free to pursue ... can only shed so much while you remain in the same place. When you ... to know there. I didn’t have a “group of friends” in college the same

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 31, 2014
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  The future isn’t the answer reflecting on anxiety

  

  prioritize in that moment is to look after myself. It's so much easier saying ... careers, internships, and being a functional human being in the world is ... , and really the best I can do is to just take things one by one and not

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Reading aka inhaling all the books i can before school starts

  

  emanates from the firing of neurons in our brains, and the latter is an idea ... consciousness is composed of elementary particles - both the characters in His ... implying here that the Church is an enemy to human progress and tries to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
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  I’m Still Standing after all this time at MIT

  

  singing defiantly in the group session before cutting to clips from the ... in the roughly 3 minute music video. I tallied the dancers and tried to ... would’ve been our Senior Week. In the fall, I’ll be over at Harvard to

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  ; I'm just rambling. What follows is one of the most insightful and ... that is true, the problem you're dealing with is so much bigger than that ... your SAT scores (fun fact: the variable that correlates most strongly to

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012
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  A Comprehensive Guide to Crying on Campus It’s right about that time of year.

  

  condition in which the sole symptom is verbal/mental repetition of the phrase ... picture): The most recommended place to cry on campus was the Cheney Room ... around 24 hours to catch up with all the sleep you’ve missed this week

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 16, 2017
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  Robo-CJ writes haiku “didn’t you already make a blog post about this?”

  

  the haiku log combinatorics the haikubot is a workaround to post in the ... that the gay heart is now active in my chest the gay heart is a tool to ... sadness in the world ok my fourth crush is in the works so i need to get

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend

  

  number of days in which to do so. Maybe the best plan is to identify ... off the TINIEST sliver at a time, in order to drag out the eating ... being interested in science + wanting to help people and change the world

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  How Wrestling With Snapping Turtles Can Get You Into MIT A student profile of an aspiring limnologist.

  

  have gotten to do some of the coolest stuff: go swimming in some of the ... -related incident. I used to take my pet rats to class in the hood of my sweatshirt ... , writing search algorithms to help fictional cows find salt licks in

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011
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  tyrannosaurus REX the prefrosh are coming, the prefrosh are coming!

  

  !"]sophomore[/annotation]and as I drive to MIT for Year 2 (I'm writing this in the car :D), I can ... spent probably the first three weeks in a constant state of far too much ... yourself on occasion to contemplate the truly nutso fact that time is passing

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 20, 2019
• Blog / Events

  ROFLCON! ROFLMAO!

  

  wall in order to get slow internet, all I have to do is turn on my ... Red vs. Blue Oh. My. God. The internet is coming! To Boston! Like, like ... like ROFLCON is amazing. I walked up to the registration desk, edging

  • by Snively '11
  • May 2, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Feeling Many Feelings :) and :( and everything in between about decisions

  

  lines in Harry Potter, I relate to this moment in Order of the Phoenix the ... of shame in having “failed”: Shame is really easily understood as the ... seen, really seen. There is no shame in allowing yourself to be seen, in

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • March 16, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab How to lose a phone in 90 seconds

  

  that our lab does is really related to anything the Echo can do, and they ... , from random tech purchases to the ping-pong table in the lab commons to the 8K (7680×4320!!!) display in the corner to the quality of the food

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  [annotation note="and most things in life"][/annotation], down to the point ... compared to the classes in my major that i would take later on. but i saw a ... because i was still stuck in the mindset of always defaulting to the

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

  Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later what happened after pi day 2011

  

  the years. You might want to know how I fared in past five years (wow ... I've gotten a number of email responses to my blog post about the ... hadn't heard from him since Pi Day 2011; he revived the old thread to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016