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  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  I’m sitting at the kitchen table in my London flat; my sister Lisa (MIT ’17!!) is sitting to my right, underlining passages from her AP US History textbook The American Pageant,…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Being “qualified” for MIT Let me show you how it's done.

  

  On Thursday, I sat in front of a camera for an hour (along with admissions director McGreggor Crowley) and answered questions from international students. Near the end, someone asked: “Can…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating The Tunnels…Of Freshman Academics You didn't actually expect me to write about hacking on the internet, did you?

  

  double minor in 14 and 8 and do research with this CSAIL robotics group and

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  halloween down the infinite

  

  with 30+ photos at 11:30pm is a good way to get a blog out on time is

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 1, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Into the Smoke In more ways than one.

  

  I still remember when I first stepped into the arrivals hall at Tel Aviv’s Ben-Gurion International Airport. It was just past six in the morning and the airport was fairly…

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The leftmost station on your dial WMBR = awesome campus radio

  

  (I started this post wayyyyy back in January. Ask any blogger who's seen the unpublished posts; I just keep changing the date and planning to post it. I fail at life, I know.) I woke up on Wednesday morning at 11

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Entry About Snow ...Even though we don't have any

  

  Over the years, I have discovered that just about anything can be used as a metaphor for life, and that it’s highly unoriginal to come up with supposedly clever sayings…

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the bridges I’ve crossed in Cambridge, ranked my civil engineering hat is off

  

  [/annotation] there just days after my 21st birthday in 2018. I remember the line ... can usually enter a show early if you’re 21 and enter through the bar

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Upside Down Gnomes From Wisconsin Always look up.

  

  This semester has been different from anything else I’ve done. I started out taking 7.06, cell biology, and 6.854, advanced algorithms, the sequel (or what I thought would be a…

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 26, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What I wish I’d known, and what I’m glad I knew Before coming to MIT.

  

  At the CPW Women’s Leadership Lunch, one of the prefrosh at my table asked me what I wish I’d known before I came to MIT. I wish I’d known from…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  This next week and a half promises to be electrifying. We’re on the brink of an epic hurricane, a Presidential election, and either the most disappointing or the spookiest Halloween…

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to get a UROP A lesson on stalking.

  

  Me: “Can I please list ‘can raise each eyebrow independently’ in the ‘skills’ section of my resume, so it doesn’t look so empty?” Other Freshman: “I made my first resume…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m Still Standing after all this time at MIT

  

  tl;dr I made a music video to commemorate graduation happening in a few days. I have spent many stressful, agonizing hours discovering that film making is one of the hardest…

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  author Timur Sahin '11 and reflects his experiences living at MIT's Senior

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012
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  There is no such thing as a typical day on energy levels and productivity

  

  to sleep at 3 and wake up at 11. My lunch and dinner times vary, and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 25, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Snively’s Cross Stitch Corner I really enjoy cross stitching

  

  I graduated from MIT in 2011. Upon graduating, and while living alone in a city where I knew nobody, I filled my time with new hobbies and copious amounts of…

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  finishing at 11am. Then I pushed through the day and my other assignments

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 3, 2015
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  Sunrise, Sunset An MIT-Israel student shares his day

  

  treatment of cells 10:45–Induce necrosis with KCN 11:00–During the 5 hour

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to decide which classes to take amazing classes and how to pick them

  

  14.01 Microeconomics or 24.00 Problems of Philosophy. You need to take

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Gothic You are reading an admissions blog post. You are reading tumblr.

  

  Happy Sunday! I am doing end of semester things and also reading Hemingway in dramatic black and white. There is perhaps my favorite meme that has been going around tumblr…

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015