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  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  and there is a document in your queue that you didn’t put there. You ... . This is not a color printer. You can’t feel your hands and feet. Anna N ... power drill.   You ask for a studfinder, but it turns out I don’t

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  he doesn't know how to handle his emotions. A.M. ‘18 (early action ... didn't. R.M. ‘19   I just got off from McDonald's and sat by myself in ... dog didn't know what was going on but she was down to party anyway. S.A

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Upside Down Gnomes From Wisconsin Always look up.

  

  isn't always predictable in a class with more than 200 students. I fell ... think, slowly, but it wasn't ever enough. Being sick was a good break ... realized I wasn't enjoying it anymore. In a past life I would have taken the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 26, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Stove-Cook Your Oatmeal and Never Look Back To not-admitted applicants and anyone who knows anything about fuses.

  

  Oatmeal cooked on the stove is so good. I wouldn’t know this, but a ... make you rich. It won’t hand you success. It won’t even set you on a ... motivation behind applying to MIT, chase it. Don’t let the switch of a single

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 19, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Random Random Projects/Moving Out of Random Randomly zigzagging about until I find myself in the future, somehow no longer in Random.

  

  :)   Rose R. ‘17 Mural-ish thing :) In order to brighten up my room a bit, I'm ... sixteen positions, varying the current from 0mA to 150mA in 10mA steps ... Hall but I’m typing it from a fancy but empty apartment in East Cambridge

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 13, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This Bathroom Ceiling Some science, some fiction: traverse the space and time of our bathroom ceiling.

  

  isn't fiction: this is Earthrise, a view of the Earth rising from the ... T. ‘08 (“I don’t think it was from anything specific, just a Google ... .875 ceiling tiles in each of the three showers; outside the showers we have a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the blogs at twenty some reflections, plus an index of posts

  

  Ceri R. '16 Memories by Latasha Boyd 6.5 Years Post-Graduation, I’m a ... a human doing by Caroline M. '18 In which I am somehow still an MIT student by Alex M. '21 throughlines by Paolo A. '21 I’m Still Here (for

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  topics I wouldn’t devote a whole post to, but consider important as ... page with a series of six consecutive posts. I am calling the takeover ... 6. In this post, I reflect on previous Yultide posts, in a quasi

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m Still Standing after all this time at MIT

  

  5ny5tMsxrs After we finished the movie, a friend of ours came to the ... neighbors couldn’t hear us and mistake our four person party for a 1AM rager ... student. I wasn’t, and have never been, a male British pop sensation, but

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-Med @ MIT The title says it all.

  

  program (where I wouldn't have to take the MCAT and would be guaranteed a ... have to take the I-never-want-to-ever-take-this-again exam a.k.a. the ... that a B at MIT wasn't the be-all-end-all of their med school ambitions

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the Bloggers’ Personalities! A post about personality tests, part 2!

  

  Gryffindor INFJ O: 93%; C: 75%; E: 58%; A: 68%; N: 43% Type 1 wing 5 "I'm too ... because I get annoyed when people don't say thank you LOL.” Allan K. ‘17 ... -hearted nerd.” Yuliya K. ‘18 Scorpio Pig Gryffindor ENFP-T Openness - high (95

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 12, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m not an imposter… I’m going to be featured on the MIT News homepage

  

  pretty late and it wasn’t my best work. Still, I’m going to be featured ... like competition isn’t a part of MIT, but it’s different to how it was ... W.013, a CI-HW which I didn’t want to take but I didn’t get a high

  • by ana~
  • October 29, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  , we didn't really know what was going to happen. We had a lot of ... "] from the tech, back when HSSP was a thing and ESP wasn't[/caption] Since ... didn't expect to get fifty classes, let alone a hundred and twenty! But

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Burton 1 Social Club This Thanksgiving, I'm thankful for my ridiculous, hilarious, amazing floor.

  

  didn't eat because I'm (thankfully) a vegetarian.. basically, there was a lot of food and I'm kind of still in a food coma, so I'm not going to ... I've mentioned a couple times that, like East Campus, Burton

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Today I hit my TA with a door I didn't MEAN to.

  

  I hit him with a door. HIM: AAHH!! ME: OH! Oh. UH. SORRY. Sorry. I'm ... really sorry. Errrrkk. I'm going to.. uh, yeah. Sorry. You actually can't ... . So I look for a couple things when I'm TA-hunting (not in a Elmer Fudd

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 7, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  e) Other Some pretty important stuff, and then just some pretty stuff.

  

  around to this topic. I'm loath to write about it because I feel choosing a ... luxury I'm very grateful for, because while your college major doesn't ... simple path from A to B, from course 5 to course 9, but I don't think I can

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to MIT: Choosing a Dorm the good and not-so-good reasons

  

  )convenient the accommodations are, you will not be happy in a dorm that doesn't ... feel best and be supportive of that choice. FRIENDS: don’t pick a dorm ... . That’s why I’m adding it as a separate factor from convenience. A friend

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 14, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  As We Approach Decision Day On getting in and on not getting in

  

  manifested itself academically. I had a close relationship with my parents, and I didn’t have a rebellious streak beyond my accidental goth ... magic didn’t happen. MIT is not a magic wonderland. There are grades

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 8, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My dorm room’s 24-year history meet 16 former residents of my room

  

  , and then Ben didn't remember who lived before he did. It was a pleasant ... the oldest floorpi graduate I knew, Charles T. '10. This lead to a ... . After emailing him, I learned that he didn't live in H306, but M306. M306

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 19, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Merit When getting into MIT isn't convincing enough

  

  I’m spending this IAP doing, among other things, five shifts a week ... separate post about why it’s rewarding. This isn’t that post. I’ve had a lot ... finally got someone to answer, it was an older man with a bone to pick. “I’m

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • January 22, 2015