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• Blog / Blog Projects

  where is south dakota again? and other fun questions for your south dakotan friends

  

  during my freshman year when doing a future plans project. I knew I was interested in doing something with EECS, so for the dream college section, I ... high school discoveries of MIT do speak somewhat to a lack of MIT in the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 3, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  June Questions Omnibus 1 Bigfoot asked a few weeks back, "Will you be posting an omnibus soon, Matt?" Yes,…

  

  Science program does not disqualify you, either. You do not have to have done research in high school to be admitted to MIT. We do hope that even ... research program. If you are doing that, then you'll be as competitive in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 13, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Alive and Kicking I kick, therefore I am ~taekwondo~

  

  explore new interests and experiences. Push myself to do things I would have ... somehow. One instructor had strenuous exercises for us to do, and it wasn ... confident I pulled something in my hip during my third meeting. Doing what

  • by Waly N. '24
  • August 3, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  December Questions Omnibus 1 Post-decision questions answered.

  

  wonder what does MIT do with our (for those reapplying) old application folders. Do they open them again? And if yes, what impact do they have on ... trackin said you never got it. so what can i do to obtain that info for sure

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / Travel

  Rejection Therapy and my insatiable urge to collect trading cards

  

  thing is, though, that in this video, he isn't rejected, and they do let him climb inside the firetruck! So I said I was gonna do it, I was gonna ... gonna do this season[/annotation]. Then he asked if we wanted trading

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 16, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life Tokens the currency of joy

  

  family have dispersed, and our bodies are too worn out to do much. If ... system to value experiences the way we do objects. So I think about them as ... [/annotation] using the life token argument. At first, we were going to pay him $5 to do

  • by Allison E. '27
  • July 6, 2025
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  can be tough because it feels like there's nothing that you can do, but

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  You always have been hi everybody!

  

  those of you who do not know me, my name is Cami and I graduated MIT in ... been up to since then? Where do you live? What do you do? What is life ... apartment but it was so cute doing the whole girls in a New York City

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Community Projects

  Mystery Hunt mile markers portrait of the blogger as a young puzzler

  

  dorks who are ready willing and able to do utterly ridiculous things. The ... campus for a weekend, to do things, which are limited only by what the writing team decides to do, not by hunters’ willingness to do them. And so

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Not Admitted Early

  

  even thrive — wherever you go; whatever you do. As Aiden H. '28 wrote

  • by Decisions
  • December 17, 2024
• Blog / People & Identities

  the pieces scattered behind you

  

  sister. We talk politics the way we always do, the things we’ve done and the ways we plan to do more. We aren’t aligned on every particular but ... do about it. I understand how grind culture is harmful, but I love what

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 28, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer On-Campus #2 yayay

  

  MIT). This is what I do in the day, except for weekends. Not only do I ... exercise, so I'm not stuck in the gym wondering what to do. I'm working out ... entrepreneurship to ocean engineering to outdoor activities. I got to do the First

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 20, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  classes are over!!!! i feel so free

  

  many lovely people around me while doing it. So, here I am. About to be

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 16, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  running out of time the woes of every single graduating student

  

  makes me feel like everything I do in these remaining weeks holds ... , but now it just signals the end. what do you mean I won't be a college student in a month, give or take? what do you mean I have to say goodbye to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 27, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  DRAW TIM (the beaver) behold the artistic talents of MIT staff

  

  threefold. One: do an activity that doesn't require participants to be put on ... . [annotation note="or if they do, they must have a secret or not-so-secret artistic talent that can be celebrated"]Nobody is going to do a great job

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 5, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  choosing the abridged version

  

  how i decided what to do after graduation. this is a condensed version ... doing QR as my full-time job i’d likely end up discovering parts of the ... ’m not very interested in finance itself, i do think it’s impressive that

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 20, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  I Hate Change but at least, I'm creating it

  

  ? about the changes I've been making to do so. I've been waking up earlier ... supposed to be good, but can't stop feeling like I'm doing something wrong ... 's selfish (at least it feels that way), but it's important. I can't do

  • by Paige B. '24
  • February 17, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tips for applying to UROPs

  

  you’re looking for. You don’t have to be “good enough” to do a UROP ... , but they do exist. Besides, it doesn't hurt to reach out to a lab that ... ’s probably going to be another UROP out there where you do meet the

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  academic struggles zig-zagging in a world of straight lines

  

  , “Rona, you can do that, but it might make things harder for you later ... relationship with schooling as “unconventional” nor do I think of myself as an academic misfit, and I do fortunately have some material achievements, but I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  papurgatory I am demolishing my print budget and my solitary working habits

  

  ” despairometer"]office hour[/annotation] and doing my [annotation note ... ] pset due Monday and generally doing basically anything that was not ... skull this week and because I want to go do a few cartwheels on Random

  • by Alice L. '24
  • September 17, 2022