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• Blog / Life after MIT

  i will miss learning and dressing up everyday happy last first week of classes to me and seniors of the world

  

  , to reflect how I see myself to those who see me.    In high school, I ... wanted nothing more than to go back in time and take those classes. I spent ... took everything in me not to add to my schedule.  Above all else, I love

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • February 12, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  actual conversations i definitely had last night happy new year i guess

  

  myself from saying that because i'm normal, haha A: in a sense aren't we ... mario kart A: like we're driving along in life A: at any moment we can ... never made any real friends in mit A: oh B: i mean, do you feel like you

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 1, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I’m Kind of a Big Deal Leaves and famous people alike think so.

  

  this stuff up. Okay, maybe you can, but I'm not, I swear). To make ... nerds who have no life. Is that true? Can you have a stronger interest in ... ? A NERD? Why, I've never been called a nerd in my life! Good heavens

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s All Going To Be Okay I won The Game!

  

  . That's why they can't predict the date in advance. I know it may seem ... Have you ever heard of The Game? I've referenced it several times in ... laptop), I immediately thought about admissions...in particular, the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 3, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  I get by with a lot of help from my friends Lend me your ears and I'll sing you a song! You just might walk out…

  

  roommate (from freshman year, mind you) and I lived in the same room freshman ... willing to forgo this summer so I can get to MIT as soon as possible. I can ... would happen in my life between then and now. I changed my lifestyle, my

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 1, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A quick one, while he’s away I write reviews of things that I know nothing about.

  

  in my head for the last few days. I wonder why. Last night I did some things and I thought I would relate them to you in the form of reviews. I ... Spencer '07 in a 654-seat theater. That's a lot of seats. Now, I have to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 16, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  taste ai has no taste.

  

  formulaic.” I’m not sure if the quote that ended up in the article quite ... other domain. You can have terrible taste in music but good taste in ... "] something doesn’t seem right…[/caption] Anyway, I don’t doubt that, in the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 20, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  nothing & everything what i did this IAP!

  

  've tried in I don't know how many years. I did... nothing. (But of course, in ... 's over"). I can't overstate how wonderful it was -- like a third way of ... , anything every day (I am 42 days in! More to come on this if I can keep it up

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 3, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, Now A Goldwater Scholar finding her way four years later

  

  In May 2016, I wrote Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later, where I shared the story of a student we had denied in 2011, and how well he had done ... among them, then all I can say is that MIT is just another place. If it is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 18, 2018
• Blog / How to MIT

  My History of Task-Management boy, is it a long one

  

  abandoned it in favor of Google Keep as soon as I realized how many things I ... Being organized is fucking incredible. I like limiting stress in my ... journaling, which I took up in my junior year of high school because I was

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 21, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Lament for CPW (Guest Entry) Of lanyards, Capture the Flag, and headwraps.

  

  the local U that I take classes at in the morning). These clothes are ... until I move into Cambridge will quite possibly be the longest in my life ... passed without incident. Sitting in a chair in the student center lobby, I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 16, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, damn lies, and statistics

  

  also, I guess, because they can help explain a slightly lower GPA in some ... I read Ben's entry about the thread on College Confidential (in the ... I decided that the comment would be too long. Because in addition to

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Remaking MITadmissions.org we are psychic vampires, please give us your ideas

  

  communities that we can help convene how to be a rock in the stream, a place ... more in common than that alone, and help them figure out how to continue ... ? and we want your help in answering them. In the comments below, I would

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 9, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  “what if I get rejected” for everyone nervous about admissions decisions

  

  're definitely getting in!" just increased the pressure. With how and where I grew ... ,[/annotation] I can tell you that I was nauseous once, too. But as a self ... true. This is how I got rejected from my "dream school", and how I got

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • November 13, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  This week’s Questions Omnibus

  

  in the sophtmore year? I'll rephrase your question as, can I get credit ... , cheaper, faster...I miss Anna's now that I'm in ohio and all I have is ... for a MIT ID number. Do I have such , or how could I obtain MIT ID

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 15, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Living Meaningfully and all the things that has entailed

  

  that I can continue to say that I’m in the place that I am because, many ... past Nisha, and to all of you, that I can, in fact, continue to say that. ... , albeit in the top 1000 most used words in the English language. I tried to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Public Statements

  Asking for letters of recommendation (during a pandemic) tl;dr: mostly the same as during normal times, but clarifying some points of anxiety

  

  . Mrs. Moore, because she had seen how much I had struggled in algebra, and how hard I worked to get an A in it, coming in every lunch to work ... letters, I can try to address them in the comments below. But my main point

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2021
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  Boston’s Climate Strike youthful activism

  

  . I managed to squeeze some time in to go into Boston in between picking ... - what I - hoped for. I had felt the despair sinking in for months now ... began to feel hopeful. For one of the first times in my life, I stopped in

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 20, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Bicycle Diaries Like the motorcycle ones, except far less artsy and with a serious lack of Gael…

  

  sister, and I find my bike. I take the key out, stick it in the lock, and ... few people walk by and I wonder vaguely how much it looks like I am ... Unni, how are you supposed to put the lock in the holder?" "You slide it

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 4, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  just do it don’t say you’re gonna do it!

  

  yo-yos. Mills can cut in 3 directions, (X, Y, Z), which makes them ... of my favorite lecturers in MechE, but on that day, I could barely stay ... for, uh, weeks. I eventually got one in, but by then I was too hosed to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 23, 2023