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  I Was Deferred And it was not the end of the world

  

  Flash back to four years ago from this upcoming March 14th. I ... :24pm. I sluggishly made my way upstairs to my PC and log on to my ... my mom I got into MIT. She said congratulations. I went to bed. It

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 17, 2014
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  Mark Zuckerberg Visits MIT NBD.

  

  , we got to add Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder and current CEO of Facebook, to that weird, weird group of people. After finding out that my name had been drawn for the lottery to see him and Mike Schroepfer (VP of

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 14, 2011
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  the blogs at twenty some reflections, plus an index of posts

  

  week, we (belatedly) celebrated by asking a bunch of former bloggers to ... case you [annotation note='or you want to consume all the content at once ... their entries from most to least crufty: It’s been a long road… by

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 29, 2025
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  Save Point sleep wake hope

  

  them to. Poetry, prose. Prose, poetry. Sometimes I think there's not a ... story or narrative. Since coming to MIT, I've had far less time to dedicate to my writing than I really would have liked, which is one of the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking the L On "failure" at a place like MIT.

  

  really ever came to anything. Among all the thoughts, only one feels all that important to share with applying students: taking the L. Y'all, I've taken so many L's. Physics L The summer before you come to MIT, you have

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 16, 2024
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  50 Reflections

  

  Petey asked me to write something to kick off the big anniversary celebration. The invitation is a complete honor. It's great to be back in my old ... the blogs, and I just turned 40. It's hard to believe an entire decade

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye

  

  It’s been 3.5 years since I came to the United States from Nigeria, to study at MIT. In 2017, this ongoing chapter of my life promises to ... to USA, to MIT, have been some of the most monumental years of my life

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
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  Queer at MIT, but not on the blogs the map is not the territory, but it's getting closer

  

  to a need with which many other bloggers past and present concurred ... way to blog? Maybe like creating a profile that any blogger can use when they want to write but can’t have the blog be associated with them. I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018
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  MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )

  

  After Graduation, I now have a lot of time to "reflect upon my MIT ... of the summer, so I hope to continue writing a few blogs discussing various aspects that I've come to gain a better understanding of after my

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
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  College Shopping List Everybody do the shopping cart!

  

  Welcome to the scary world of College Shopping. Who knows what you ... what you should wait to buy in Cambridge? Who comes from far away and knows what's absolutely necessary to be brought from home and what can be

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 26, 2007
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  [Guest Post] a space for women at mit by Nandini Choudhury (WXGS Assistant Director)

  

  .[/annotation] In 1882, MIT officially began admitting women to all departments ... Cormick Hall: the first women's dormitory at MIT. Fast forward to 2023: MIT ... .[/annotation]Originally, women were not allowed to enroll—which was normal of universities back in

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • August 12, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take a Load Off Quoting The Band's "The Weight" should make the wait bearable

  

  . And it's still true of everyone who wants to get in to MIT. And I ... nicely when he said you don't have to build, say, a nuclear reactor to get ... example, this bears no resemblance to snow: Gratuitous picture. Yes, this

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 1, 2010
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  I Miss the South Musings on a secret Instagram account

  

  , I made a separate Instagram account to serve two dozen followers split ... and violently ill upon ingestion. I use the account to share things that ... understand the irony of that statement, since I am paid to share my life with

  • by Ella T. '25
  • October 1, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  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 ... written to you long ago on Pi Day 2011, when I had received an admission

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Am I Smart Enough for MIT? On second thought...don't answer that.

  

  , things have been crazy busy. (Perhaps at some point, I'll eventually get to ... some balance to the conversation. I remembered a guest post I wrote a ... was actually in response to an admitted student who was deciding whether

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • November 2, 2008
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  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?!

  

  manifestation in 1924. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology goes to great lengths to advertise itself as a place not only of rigorous academics, but ... capital to expand its underdeveloped social life. Several visionary

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  ’s posts from past summers - as she wrote, “sometimes MIT students like to do ... this year’s cohort of students applying to MIT to know that as well! If ... writing phase in middle and high school. I eventually moved on to RPG video

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  i made furry art for Caltech i have art powers and choose to use them for chaos

  

  over to stay with us, we decided to give them a warm welcome by trying to ... pinned to a corkboard after only two hours of professional stalking. I ... thought, maybe it’s missing something. What happened to the other colleges

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 6, 2023
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  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  One. I would use the blogs to process my feelings if I had any feelings to process. But the weird part about all of this is that I feel very ... ready to be sad. It’s like, you know when you’re going up stairs, and you

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
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  Random Random Projects/Moving Out of Random Randomly zigzagging about until I find myself in the future, somehow no longer in Random.

  

  list asking people to send me their projects. Here are some of the ... this year! It's Cthulhu, rising from Rl'yeh to crush the unsuspecting ... had to make an automatic panorama from some images that we took (we

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 13, 2015