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

  

  students' MIT acceptance moments, prompted by a pre-Pi Day email thread ... didn't. R.M. ‘19   I just got off from McDonald's and sat by myself in ... 't get in. I figured that if the tube didn't come by Christmas, I would

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
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  A Fireside Chat with President Sally Kornbluth get to know our president!

  

  of science because you are surrounded by such amazing people and ... really shines in all of these new projects spearheaded by President ... , and was struck by the camaraderie and cooperativeness of the students in

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 13, 2024
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  [Guest Post] We’re Not in ~Kansas~ Missouri Anymore Going From a Small Town to Boston, by Claire S. '25

  

  big cities alike. As you can probably tell by the fact that I’m writing ... were made, people said they were from the Bay Area, New York (by which ... ’m always hit by the stillness and peace of the nature around me. [caption

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 17, 2024
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  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  the top of a building. We’re surrounded by the city, but isolated from ... ? Surrounded by people, yet isolated from them. I know that people aren’t trying ... everything that’s happening at MIT feels the same way. Each hour passes by so

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  An Astrological Guide to the College App Process We all know astrology isn't real...or is it?

  procrastinate if you haven't submitted a Regular Action application by January 1st ... with MIT by learning about who you are and seeing we think you'd be happy ... represented by balancing scales in the zodiac because they are truly the most

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 20, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what am i doing great question.

  

  by the way passive mechanisms allow us to move about. For example, this ... .832: Underactuated Robotics. Help I’m surrounded by grad students :O one of them ... enjoyed. I was even convinced to take 6.832 by another person in my lab, and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 18, 2018
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  VEDA In which I try to vlog every day in April

  

  Cream to This (Death by Exercise) || VEDA #19 – focus groups, dancing, AXO ... elsewhere on campus)! I'm going to try to pop by some events that my friends ... . UPDATE 4/27/15 Only 4 vlogs left -- April feels like it flew by! These

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

  This Is How I Read productivity hacks, but for reading applications

  

  England we have seasons: climate cycles characterized both by familiar ... habits are nocturnal, he does his best work in the dark." By 7 AM, I am ... apartment 6PM-8PM: read cases (by this time, f.lux has probably kicked in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brief Wondrous Lives A little too much thinking brought to you by four in the morning.

  

  " their victim by finding them spoonless off the floor and tagging them ... workshop this term taught by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Junot Diaz. It ... , too. And by extension, they desire things and dream of being something

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009
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  Bring your stuffed toys to class reflections on liminality

  

  internship. Celebrate by playing board games. Tell all your friends about it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 11, 2021
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  Robo-CJ writes haiku “didn’t you already make a blog post about this?”

  

  need to do my real analysis homework by mistake The details are rather ... last haiku, written by me, and not a robot: hello admit! come join the ... your inbox. please come and visit. oh, and by the way, i hope to see all

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020
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  Parametric Cooking how i make fifty plus recipes with just three!

  

  : designing based on a set of parameters and functions, rather than by just modeling ... *salt and pepper are by default, included in every blend **italicized ... 's no better way to avoid over or under-doing anything than by just doing

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 30, 2019
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  On identity f(x) = x

  

  problems as I have. It seems, by default, that I think other people ... surrounded by people who excel in every corner of the universe, and no longer could I define myself by claiming to be one of them. Three I’m gay. I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  here comes a thought on decisions

  

  , we can watch, we can watch, we can watch them go by from here, from

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 13, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paths there are so many

  

  in you to move forward, fueled by your determination and goals

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 19, 2018
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  The Long Road to Happiness Stuff no one likes to talk about...

  

  was getting chipped away at, bit by bit. Here is an excerpt from ... in several languages”. Or maybe I just go by “Angela”. And everyone I ... . Sometimes I have bad days, but, like I’ve learned to manage migraines by

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 22, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  by stupid luck. Simply being at MIT, of course, increased the ... whatever career you choose, your success isn't measured by how much you can ... : What it’s like being a student in this strange place This is an essay by

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
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  Views of Campus, the Charles River, and the First Snow with a snowman and a snow dalek

  

  Beaux-Arts style, characterized by large windows, large staircases, and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 20, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fit or happiness made easy

  

  right place would be the one with the right "fit". I know by September

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing is Magic And 15 minutes is all you need

  

  , has done by merging his interests in puzzles and computer games with

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 13, 2011