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• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  health in the process. The ultimate goal was MIT, I decided sometime in ... undergradate and current MIT graduate student, wrote in the Tech last month, the ... keep doing it for the next four years. In fact, you want to keep doing it

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 8, 2012
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  [Guest Post] How to Build a Three Story Fort by Zack I. '27

  

  , driven by passion, and a feat made possible by community. In fact, when I ... ="Residence Exploration Week"]REX.[/annotation] In the past, we’ve built rollercoasters, a ... fort with a bouldering wall and net suspended in the middle of the second

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 1, 2024
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  Thank you for reading A rigorous study of 26-year-olds (n=1) showed that getting older is positively correlated to the…

  

  about as long as I was in college, which is an incredibly weird feeling ... themselves (and are all probably making way more money than I do, since I'm in ... that long ago that I was 17 and applying to college, the truth is that in

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Have Never Been to Beijing A (loose) translation of the previous post written in Chinese

  

  most fluent in English, there are some added thoughts here that were not in the Chinese-language post, and additionally, some things in the ... , we always went to Shanghai, Nanjing, or Hangzhou, always somewhere in

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2016
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  HERE LIES P/NR September 2018-December 2018

  

  dome-shaped reality in the smoldering heat of the summer. September ... than ever before, in the form of taking five classes in my first semester ... exactly what you want. October? I have no idea what happened in October

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 16, 2018
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  I’m Still Standing after all this time at MIT

  

  ://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qo9elE7Ij-c One night, in the middle of my time away from MIT, I watched Rocketman with two of my roommates. Out of seven people living in ... tl;dr I made a music video to commemorate graduation happening in a

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 31, 2021
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  Why I wasn’t sad to leave MIT On shedding.

  

  not belong on the MIT admissions website” post. At least, that's what I ... lead to becoming narrow-minded. Wasn’t it good to be interested in ... hours in the day. To my surprise, I felt lighter and more free to pursue

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  I've been doing a lot of thinking about lives lately, in multiple ... "Spoonsassins", in which one is given a spoon and a victim and told to "kill ... person is left. This creates all sorts of interesting mind games in which

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009
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  REX at Random Hall Pancakes, LN2 ice cream, board games, game theory, math, raves, staying up entirely too late,…

  

  Three years ago I was in the room I’m still in now, and just like ... home on 2 am trips to Wal-Mart through empty dark streets in my pick ... inhabits the streets of Cambridge in the morning, and I spent it wandering

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 23, 2013
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  My blogger bio over time what does it take to get to know someone?

  

  I live in East Campus. I could tell you that CJ is short for Carl ... favorite artists. Or we could go on an adventure. There’s this nice spot in ... hallways, and buy lunch together. We could head downtown Boston and window

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 26, 2023
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  A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.

  

  was seven years old I took my first trip to Ethiopia with my family. My ... an entire month, because we went in the winter during the dry season ... doodled in my journal everyday, and when I came back to our second grade

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
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  Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!

  

  enough. Then in 2009 I graduated and was never heard from again. Until now! In celebration of the 10 year anniversary of the blogs, I'm back to tell you about my life after MIT.  But in order for me to properly tell

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014
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  the blogs at twenty some reflections, plus an index of posts

  

  come back and blog for us—just like we did for the tenth blogiversary. In ... remain by Celena C. '12 Don’t forget to check in with yourself by Jenny X ... a human doing by Caroline M. '18 In which I am somehow still an MIT

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  in the shower the website loaded, so my mom yelled "you got in ... a large quantity of ice cream the night before. If I got in, I would ... decisions came out. I could get 1 bar of wifi on my phone in one corner of the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
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  Distraction News Your internet connection is unstable

  

  in the living room, but he also doesn't fare well outside where he can ... eats any and all food, including the special food my mom buys for Dog 3 ... -verbal. Cat 1 will roll around in pollen if left outside, creating an allergen

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 31, 2020
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  How To Make Mediocre Furniture well, maybe i'll let you be the quality judge

  

  mediocre furniture Part I After I built my loft in sophomore fall, I was ... just leave them in the hallways to be taken. And we students do so, very ... all the additional wood I would need in February. Then it was March, and

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 17, 2021
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  Hacking A performance art that lets students remind the teachers who's smarter.

  

  MIT a lot, which is natural; I talk about it in my biography after all ... ordinary. Sometimes it's small, a chainsaw in a wooden case, sitting in a ... that have happened at MIT. In a nut shell, a hack is an addition to the

  • by Snively '11
  • June 7, 2008
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  0.125 not a course 0 class, but a fraction complete

  

  , nothing – and on the fifth day, my drive, which had been in sleep mode, woke ... combine them for tasty results. With this revelation in hand, I've gotten ... 't mean "start brushing your teeth eight hours before class starts." In high

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 4, 2019
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  There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.

  

  !!!) When I was applying to MIT, I got something in the mail. The website was ... This blog post was written by Mitra, Sam, and Bryan. In 1994, one of the most popular TV shows ever began, Friends. In 2004, at the end of

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
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  Advice From The Elderly My last blog entry, at least from this chapter.

  

  in your sweatpants eating Twizzlers and watching seven episodes of Game ... To the class of 2016 - My name is Jess, and I graduated in 2010 ... to Science Magazine, who published a study on my expected lifespan in

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2012