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  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
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dragons A blog post for deferred students (and everybody else waiting on decisions).

  

  didn’t make it. Holding hands on the way to class. Falling in and out of ... changed and split apart. College applications are tiny in comparison to the ... to MIT. I sent them a letter telling them about what I had done in the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 14, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty people later ✈✈✈ (pronounced whoosh) ✈✈✈ (pronounced nyeowww)

  

  solvers in Boston were excited to start solving, so most of the people who ... 't have fifty people; the number's closer to 65. But this is a series, and I ... /mysteryhunt. The community used to be based on large-scale in-person events such as

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
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  Pictures from a Semester of Classes The Sequel Society Didn't Know It Needed

  

  This section is pretty much a catchall for all the miscellaneous things I ... . And no, that wasn't a typo in the heading. On most of the main buildings ... [/caption]   In total, I had four finals to prepare for after the last day of

  • by Richard O. '28
  • December 29, 2024
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  Do I have a story for you… *SPOILER* I do

  

  in the sand about what would break me, where I'd decide enough is too ... .009 classrooms in the fall to help teach the class that set me on this path. I ... 's senior class is the group that came in right as I left. How I am now that

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 10, 2014
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  Home Under the Dome sorority recruitment, tips, and my experience

  

  , someone else in the house is, too. It’s also way more fun to do work around ... and learn more about the process! Intro to Panhel What is Panhel? MIT ... participated in Fully Structured Recruitment (FSR), which is the main recruiting

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • August 14, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  --look not much different from a green apple to those who live in the grayscale ... that, on a much less international level, here in the United States, many ... is difficult to understand the red apple that others keep talking about

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016
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  Underwater Dreams (from a distance) A reflection on immigration, student activism, and civic engagement at MIT.

  

  to escape to is where I live and where I’m experiencing the unbelonging ... to impact this country, but is going to impact the world. I’m learning ... live, and how to live ethically, and how to live in a way that is very

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2014
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  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  of the library to look at the Boston skyline in the distance. The roof ... around me reflect my own anxiety. IHTFP is studying my butt off to hit the ... consolation is that the salt in my tears will squelch any unsuspecting plants

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ten reflections on mit

  

  ground this Valentine’s Day (though of course, love is in the air). These ... -dramatic “senior” solo to end my time in the group. It’s sometimes hard to notice ... I want to do in the future” was only on my mind because of my parents

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 15, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We Should Take This Final and Push It Somewhere Else you'll need a lot of mOXie

  

  to mention, I had tuned out so much of the material during lectures in ... you in your dorm room. Or, your dorm is in the process of being closed ... options in situations like this: first, to drag yourself to the final anyway

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 14, 2020
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  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  , and on Tuesday the professor emailed me to “check in,” which has never ... . Then I soliloquized alone in my pod lounge, ate lunch on the way to lab ... myself in one paragraph? Wow. The title of this blog is really not

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
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  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  's your chance. (There are five parts in the series; Your Last First Day is ... , that I would need to pare down my focus or I'd drown in the torrent of ... evolution, in much the same way a person goes through the Kubler-Ross model of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
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  3 weeks in northern Italy Global Teaching Labs and MISTI-Italy

  

  industrial town in the north, I taught debate to high schoolers ranging in age ... , and on weekends I went places, but for the most part I stuck to the ... , and did. *** Now I am back in Cambridge. It is the morning of the

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 2, 2016
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  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  (which is pretty much the purpose of the event: to "build community"). Today, my plan is to just grab the food and put it in the fridge to eat ... just so much nicer. 5.40 pm: Everyone I'm talking to lives in the East

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  “You are capable of more than you know.” Reflections from six MIT transfer students

  

  the Olympic Games and earn medals, or to serve the nation in the U ... were you, and what were you up to? Gaurab: I lived most of my life in ... engineering exam. I thought I would go to a school in India for the longest time

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 13, 2024
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  10 Things I Learned 1st Semester Yeap.

  

  email that the professor processes in 5 seconds… So what I tried to do is ... Say hello to the holidays and winter break!!! Now, sitting at home in ... : campusfood.com is probably the root of Freshman-15 and much college

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 24, 2009
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  “Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” and other ways to improve your test scores

  

  There is empirical evidence to support the idea that males have a ... -geared tests have significantly shrunk in the past few decades, which is ... participate in a series of tests “to measure the ability to put oneself in

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Being “qualified” for MIT Let me show you how it's done.

  

  :10, Davie was back in German class, and I, feeling much better, went to the ... something international students have done in the past to make them qualified ... was in the mood to do. I don't need to tell you that everything seems

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hilbert’s Third Problem (A Story of Threes) Holy mathematics, Batman! Math at MIT, and why we need calculus to define volume.

  

  decomposition is equal to the number of pearls we place on that edge in the other ... -depth explorations of the topics of our final presentations. In 18.304, I got to ... much more closely in this blog post. The first two presentations went

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2015