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• Blog / Challenges

  poem snippets searching for hope amidst darkness

  

  . i hope that you can find solace or hope in some of these words ... cry or laugh & i would put my hands in mud to make myself last & though i want to live forever so earnestly, my hands can’t mold clay &

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 4, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Questions Fall 2007 Here are answers to the questions posted in my blog over the last month or…

  

  basically is looking for? And how can I actually get to catch the eye of the ... has had me in junior or senior year. Is this true, or can I submit a ... classes I took. Should I just fill them in other spaces?" You can simply add

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Lie la lying down Sometimes there are perks to attending a school with a notorious reputation for producing stressed…

  

  to get these. All I have to do is live in my dorm. I can handle that. I ... I've got an exam in twenty minutes, but I wouldn't be able to ... working on my calves. I feel bad because they can only massage 25 students

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 4, 2005
• 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

  Average The benefits of challenging yourself in high school

  

  As a freshman in college, one of the most important things I do is reflect on my experiences here at MIT. How am I doing in my classes here ... , I remember being average was "BAD" in high school because you needed

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 16, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Unfold I met my blog muse while doing the laundry, and then came this entry.

  

  've acquired a number of t-shirts in some shape related to MIT. I then realized ... person who found it could probably tell the story of how I've spent my 27 months at MIT so far. Somehow each morning I can sort through this mess

  • by Bryan
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cows, Cheese, and Myristic Acid, Oh My! (Almost) everything I learned about fat (and educational videos), I learned from 7.S390.

  

  Last summer, when I lived in East Campus and these were my backyard ... and cheeses live. In fact, I drew them in pencil, traced them in pen, scanned them in Hayden Library, and recorded my screen with Quicktime as I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 19, 2015
• 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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

  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