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  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  sitting in the library, studying for a Geography exam when someone ran up to ... had qualified to the AIME. I was pretty excited, and after a while, in a ... imagining that I could study in the US. I decided to face my local exams and

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
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  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  rocket, How to be very smart (like us), and Gayness Is Defiance. In the ... -long classes, to lots of students, in MIT's campus. The differences are when ... then, it's expanded to include middle schoolers, and be held in the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  November 1st is my January 1st each november is a new direction

  

  to rest, 6.002 lab was due Friday. I spent Thursday in the lab, having ... , simpler dream. To just do the absolute best I can do in whatever I end up ... someone who's not even the valedictorian or has never been in a science fair

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 3, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  a lot of fun. In the car on the way home I pulled out my phone to ... , and most of the other schools I applied to were art schools anyway. My ... downstairs to tell everyone. They were all gathered in the living room

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
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  What I wish I’d known, and what I’m glad I knew Before coming to MIT.

  

  that the deadline for MISTI-France, to give an example, is BEFORE THE END ... on track to great things in the astronomy world. I think that coming to ... lessons to sink in. ...except putting off the swim test. Seriously. Take

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 17, 2013
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  sibling dynamics at MIT yes lmao Nisha and I are related

  

  ’ve been going to the same school for most of our lives, so I wanted to ... exploded with laughter in the middle of my physics lecture as soon as i saw ... Be Named came to the realization that Nisha and I are, indeed, sisters

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 20, 2020
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  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  this is magic. These are things that all the adults in my life had to sit ... 's very easy to get caught up in the daily metronome of life, especially ... tend to do a lot more thinking. The weather is colder, usually snowy (it

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An actual day in the lab Hectic is my middle name.

  

  the answer is no -- even if you wanted to move in, everybody in the dorm ... exactly what needs to be done. I stick my cell culture media in the ... everybody in the lab is at the annual Picower Institute retreat on Cape Cod

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 7, 2006
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  VEDA In which I try to vlog every day in April

  

  VEDA (Vlog Every Day in April) is a thing in some parts of the You ... , I've kept to the daily video filming/editing/posting without too much ... completely lost in the Internet void. Hopefully nobody minds too much. It was

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 24, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Painting by number The anti-formula

  

  (which can also be read “what is the minimum that I need to do”) in order ... , generally the best that it can aspire to be is a convincing counterfeit, which ... seek ways to unlock the secret formula to secure admission. For starters

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 2, 2024
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  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  prefrosh temped on the same floor he was living in. Malingap is the feeling ... . Malingap is someone giving me an impromptu tour of East Campus in the middle ... different. This is waking up at eleven in the morning, and already feeling

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019
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  Views of Campus, the Charles River, and the First Snow with a snowman and a snow dalek

  

  My dorm, the 117-year-old Random Hall, is identical to the older ... student. In this image Boston is on the right and MIT is on the other side ... entrance to Killian Court is visible to the left of the Green Building. The

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 20, 2012
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  If the Obama were a unit of measure . . . . . . what would it measure?

  

  expected that to be the most of my Obama-Visit-Experience. Word on the street ... , undergraduates, and graduate students had to share 200 tickets. In the end, 50 of ... get in line. The ticket told me to get in line at 10:30AM. I got there

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2009
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  All the Bloggers’ Personalities! A post about personality tests, part 2!

  

  enneagram results, which I found hard to graph meaningfully. The zodiac is ... 't really matter if the personality is a match. I want to own a real live pig ... SIGN but I don't really relate to most of the personality traits” “I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 12, 2018
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  Perkus Nonacademia MIT will give you more than just an engineering degree.

  

  .But to me MIT is like a T800's mission: It's about the people. I've met ... ended up having to completely reinstall the OS. As usual, XKCD says is ... friends I meet more great friends and so on and so forth. In fact, this is

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  We’ve been there, too. It feels like the calm before the storm. Please don't forget to breathe.

  

  submitted in time for the EA deadline. Somehow, I managed to distract myself ... rectilnear grid is thanks to the Commissioners' Plan of 1811. One quirk of the ... work out walking times to most places in NYC. I did this mental math and

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The joys of web development or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the web

  

  'm interested in: As much as I want to cut off the other things I’m interested in ... , I've written things in JavaScript and TypeScript, to the point that ... in your life annoys or irritates you the most? Whether it's renaming

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 9, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  to undertake whatever course of action in life is most meaningful to ... across the country to join them in protests, including several school ... integrity on its face. The purpose of this blog post is to communicate that

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • February 22, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the Deferred I feel your pain.

  

  limbo of deferral. This entry is for the deferred. This entry is my story. ~*~ I started tossing essay ideas around in my mind soon after the 2009 ... choreographed a dance of my own, and how it felt to grow up in New Zealand. My dad

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 16, 2009
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  On identity f(x) = x

  

  in East Campus. I like math, and writing, and coding. The trouble is ... ’m from, or what I’m interested in. I’ve done it so much I find it hard to ... the IMO is selected. And yes, I made the top twenty. I was in the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2019