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• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, Now A Goldwater Scholar finding her way four years later

  

  ... For a while, I really felt like a failure that I didn't get in ... into. I'm emailing today of all days because something a little crazy ... story of a student we had denied in 2011, and how well he had done

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 18, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Immaterial Girl in a Material World There is an imposter among us

  

  office hours just a few weeks later. They were both under the guise that I’m ... (6-4 wasn’t around yet), and AI wasn’t much more than a buzzword to me ... about languages I knew. I never built things that didn’t require a

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 1, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  play dough

  

  I'm a very Type A person, I'd say. I tend to need to be in control of ... . When I put down a sticker, I wouldn't be able to pick it up again or I ... hesitated. "I'm scared to." "Why? Cause you can't reverse it if you do?" I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 28, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another take on pass/no-record and some other stuff. Hey look, I haven't pontificated about anything in a while.

  

  . You didn't get an A. You got a P. Just like _________ over there having ... that advice. I do it myself sometimes, usually when I'm in a terrible ... a different thing to different people. Don't assume you know what it

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Happily ever after I don't believe in fairy tales, but real life isn't bad either.

  

  just did the math -- I'm only getting $3.50 more an hour as a grad student than I was as a UROP. Well, at least my paychecks are bigger.) I'm ... a lab yet -- just like you don't pick a major at MIT until after your

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 21, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  Story of a Lifestyle I'm going to kick you - No, for real

  

  opportunity came on March 7. At 4 AM (yes, that is A.M.)– 2 busses pulled up at ... Orientation, put myself on their mailing lists. But seeing how i'm still evading the Swim Test...crew isn't happening anytime soon. Luckily, the other

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • March 30, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  we do some memeing around these parts memes i've made so far on campus

  

  I love memes. I can't help it—I'm a Gen Z'er, so I grew up on the Internet with meme classics like Nyan Cat and Gangnam Style. Memes play a ... ="i don't actually use adobe photoshop. i taught myself how to edit images

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 23, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s been 3 weeks the firehose is still alive and kicking

  

  know I haven’t blogged in a while (yes, yes, I feel the mass of your ... a higher frequency than I did last semester. The stories haven’t ... the blogs (for which I’m always grateful) and I had a bunch of stories

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a major road to trouble exploring interests as a baby beaver

  

  couldn’t pinpoint a simple way or the right medium to use. A way that would ... school, I realized that you couldn’t just major in medicine, and for a ... built stuff like robots. A cool field, but one I couldn’t really gauge my

  • by Waly N. '24
  • November 23, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Moving On, Moving Out, and the Conservation of Freshmen Reflections of a (kinda) sophomore.

  

  Environment, Health, and Safety Office. I'm not a member of SAVE or anything ... problem set is due and why I'm not stressing out about it. The other part of ... ...but what now?" What now, indeed. As I mentioned before, this Saturday I'm

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 22, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  A Day at the Races Read this entry. It will rock you. I promise!

  

  "of." Now, the rent-a-cops there didn't seem too imposing, and at that ... good; I didn't have time to stick around for a night at the opera, or ... realized that a real member of the press probably wouldn't do that. So, to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  branches was it easy to let go?

  

  . it doesn't feel painful, but maybe it's because i'm already done. it ... , which has a beautiful music video. i'm not a fan of psychological horror ... call everything a feel good game. i'm working on my first large code

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 12, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  My highest achievement at MIT.

  

  Edit: Okay, it wasn't split as neatly as that scene in Brave, but that

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 25, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  The Decisions Are Not In The Mail Bad language on MyMIT.

  

  language didn't get updated as it was supposed to. Hopefully this will be fixed in a few hours. Sorry for any confusion! Ben

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Getting a Physics Major – Part I I split this up because i need to start studying for finals.

  

  but no input :)) Once, a TA, god bless his soul, said to me, I don't ... Juniors in physics tend to complain a lot. The more of them there are ... junior physics lab with a bit of preparation. By the end of the first 2

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 14, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  but her emails how to assert?

  

  did it. The Vice article arrived at a different conclusion that I don't ... . According to my own personal [annotation note="p a t h o l o g y ... to compete. I [annotation note="we live in a society, man"]can't fix

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 5, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Numbers are names too What, you don't speak entirely in numbers at your school?

  

  assigned to each department is a matter of historical contingency, and doesn't ... maybe because I haven't had any experience with psets." It is a little ... hours a week between class, lab, and homework. 2. M also asked, Mollie, I'm

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Leadership @ MIT (from a froshy perspective)

  

  , because I worked a job all summer. Don't do this if you can avoid it, kids ... I did some ~leadership~ in high school, as I'm sure many of you did. Maybe your experiences were similar to mine; probably a lot of them were

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 3, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  I moved to Maine just a wisconsin girl in an east coast world

  

  emotions until I think I’m “safe”. I didn’t exactly feel “safe” until I ... us a flexible move-out date. bLeSs tHe HoUsInG gOdS. Our host is suuuuupppeeerrrrr chill (like for real. Actual quote from a housemate: “I wouldn’t

  • by Powers '23
  • March 29, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Your credit history is too short and other adult things

  

  've made mistakes, but that doesn't mean I'm a bad adult, whatever that ... an apartment there. Yet I didn't think about needing a credit score up ... feeding yourself, or Roth IRAs. My holey shoes aren't a problem now, but

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2023