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  The Room(s) Where It Happens You've hit submit. What Comes Next?

  

  of a committee table we had hauled into his office.) It was nearing 5PM ... seeing this?!” He exclaimed. He rushed out of his office into the other ... your application goes spiraling into a dark, anonymous vortex, and after

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • January 9, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hard MIT Class ...or is that redundant? And yes, hiiiiii.

  

  -wielding tourists. You bump into one of their shoulders; they regard you for a moment ... into what felt like a century. It was one of those persistent markers of growing up that followed me into adulthood. I didn’t just hate the idea of

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  sea glass turbulent waves in these parts

  

  advisor about this, who were so kind to me as I melted into a puddle of ... Sooo I wrote about pouring my heart out into a research conference ... the time of publishing this blog since i like to let my writing marinate

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 5, 2022
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Guest Post] How to Build a Three Story Fort by Zack I. '27

  

  into this slice of MIT culture, creativity, and chaos. Everything below ... into the side of the stringers at the correct height and angle so that ... it easy to slot all of the appropriate pieces into place and simply

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 1, 2024
• Blog / Featured Blogs

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

  

  At the end of the semester I emailed Random Hall’s social mailing list asking people to send me their projects. Here are some of the ... panorama of my door, also attached.   YQ L. ‘15 As you might know, I do a lot

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 13, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Beacon Hill in the Fall More door.

  

  Northeast of the more frequently mentioned Harvard Bridge is the Longfellow Bridge, which connects MIT to Boston from the Stata Center side of ... is behind us, the Charles River is below us, and Boston is in front of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 17, 2016
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  An Admissions Excavation Chris gave me a box of stuff and this is what I found inside

  

  relics turned into the discovery of a bunch of cool snippets from MIT ... mission, as it were, was to dig through this mystery box of old DVDs, CDs, and tapes of admissions movies and pictures and unearth anything funny

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  This week, I am fulfilling my dream of taking over the Admissions page with a series of six consecutive posts. I am calling the takeover ... School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (SHASS) for a while, but

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  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?!

  

  —a heartening display of the Institute taking student opinion and preference into ... Ames Street into the basement of ’93. The Dorm Goblin was quick to take ... Ford car into the ’93 basement is from page 334 of the 1926 Technique

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

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

  obsession with astrology. Scientifically speaking, there are tons of reasons ... would cringe seeing this post), but I find it fun to read an analysis of ... everything I say with a grain of salt. However, whether you agree with what I

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 20, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  To whom much is given… ...you know the rest!

  

  great deal of emotional energy has been invested into. Regardless of the ... lives poured themselves into you. Inevitably, the range of one's personal ... , thought or uttered some portion of that phrase over the course of the past

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 13, 2012
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Are people on the East Coast friendly? An entry especially for those from the Midwest.

  

  When I applied to MIT, I didn't consider whether the people of Boston would be as friendly as the people of Wisconsin. I probably wouldn't have ... work to do) at MIT that I haven't spent a whole lot of time in Boston

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 21, 2010
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Pictures from a Semester of Classes The Sequel Society Didn't Know It Needed

  

  of the semester was more about the math that went into a passing grade ... Athletic Center which marked the end of a very long first semester at MIT. So like before, I'm gonna continue to give y'all a glimpse of whatever just

  • by Richard O. '28
  • December 29, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the exclusion of everything else on making decisions, and how i chose mit

  

  , who of course is surprised that I’m here. And this snowballs into ... identity, of distilling the essence of me into a few hundred words for a ... ? Fourteen. After the second day of the IOI, I vividly remember crying into a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  An Unofficial Guide to Unstandard MITglish, 1st Edition The joy of jargon.

  

  upon liberal sprinklings of vacuous truths into the slurred speech of the ... laps, but the coach regarded my discretization of the pool's length into ... , localized dialect like a wandering hitchhiker on the sideroads of esoteric

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-Med @ MIT The title says it all.

  

  Thoughts I'll add more of my thoughts as I get further into the medical ... /engineering school and has the reputation of being incredibly difficult. This isn't the first time one of the bloggers has written about being pre-med at MIT, but

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2012
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Why I wasn’t sad to leave MIT On shedding.

  

  ’s more of an “I now live a post-MIT life and therefore my weekly updates do ... my interests, without the burden of commitments I wasn’t totally ... required a lot of trial and error. In order to figure out what could go

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  i don’t want to say goodbye sorry sad blog incoming

  

  me into adventures that would make for great stories in front of a ... entitled to politely anti-haze current members into doing tasks of their ... "]anti-hazed[/annotation] Isabella '24 into helping me carrying my boxes down two flights of stairs

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 24, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Bleary-eyed Some thoughts and reflections on this year's admission cycle - particularly for those not admitted.

  

  Probably one of the most linked-to/referred-to posts on this site is ... (except the statistics in there, of course, have gotten even crazier - e.g., the admit rate is now 9.6% instead of 13%). This post will not be as

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 16, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  going into it. Many of the weeks have been unfortunate at best and ... . I packed up everything I owned into cardboard boxes, packed up all of ... In that moment, I felt that my conception of [Next House] finally

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 31, 2022