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  Halloween is the best day of the year. Yes, I recognize that it is now closer to Thanksgiving than to Halloween. Sorry.

  

  pumpkin in my life, which is part of why the pumpkins that emerge at French ... girl, since I kind of gave that away) wins. 5: At the pumpkin drop, a ... Halloween is awesome, for a bajillion reasons. Reason 1 of 1

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paths there are so many

  

  see in this moment, the door that didn’t open is just *one* door. It may ... , whatever works). Let's do it together: In my circumstances, I tried my best ... say the least. The reality is that the college application process is

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 19, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  disconnected from all the people there. I mean, how do you even start a ... ." Just a few months ago, I would never have said that in public to someone ... usually the only Asian student in the classroom, and that was just one in a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  You Are Here a list of things i can't make myself do, and a few i can

  

  most of the work I had to do, putting myself in a pretty good spot when ... want to do is watch more episodes of True Blood? How quickly can I shower ... following it. Even in a perfect world where I do conform to the rules of my

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 19, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  non-stop / walang hinto what a mess

  

  the things i’ve been doing this summer: i am in a urop. i talked about this a month and a half ago, but the gist is that i’m working in a ... my day into a single statistic, which is how much work i got done, how

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 8, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends

  

  in a way that is measurable in a messy world that so often defies that ... happiness in a difficult time. When this all started, I remember doing the ... This is a long belated blog post; it's been a busy summer. But I didn

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  me and said I had a package awaiting me in the secretary’s office. I ... they had contacted me. I had taken the SAT nearly a year ago, but that ... find out the status of my application. In that time, I joined College

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  [Guest Post] You Have a 50/50 Chance a guest post from my mama

  

  . "What if I don't get in?" "Am I good enough?" (That is a question we all ask ourselves). "The acceptance rate is only a 5% or 6%" I've always ... participating in extracurricular activities. Years of attending a school that

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Group Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Survivors three bloggers face the horrors of public transit

  

  excuse is that I forgot to sign up in the previous years. But that isn ... . Nobody will know that I shrieked and ran from a guy in a pigeon mask. On ... of doing a Next Haunt run in the past, the shrieks from the basement

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  trail on a mountain in Oregon. I miscalculated slightly how fast I could ... from Home Depot. As a kid I had always wanted to do that. I met a lot of ... ’t follow me. In Rome, there is a running path along the Tiber river that

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Praise Of Holistic Admissions not an admissions machine

  

  - broadly defined - for college to matter.   I hope that this quote is ... didn't mean that it's a place to idly chat with people (although it is that). I mean it is an environment within which one undergoes

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Fireside Chat with President Sally Kornbluth get to know our president!

  

  Chorallaries? Did you know that she is a foodie and loves to try new restaurants ... would be a lot more dull.” Do you have any nerdy interests? MIT is known ... explains how, as a dog lover at heart, she has gotten into the hobby of doing

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Home Under the Dome sorority recruitment, tips, and my experience

  

  a sorority? How do I sign up? When is recruitment? What’s the ... in no way saying that everyone needs to join a sorority, but I am ... [annotation note="Like many others, I didn’t know a lot about what being in a

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • August 14, 2024
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Bumps, slumps, trips, and … Breaking out of a slump, now with more Cleveland!

  

  food that comes in a brown paper bag: Brazilian cheese bread. I'll leave ... ." The cycle of hobbies is almost a guarantee in my life. A hobby I know I ... 'm inclined to do something different, but as a last-minute blogger, I'm not

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Subtle Black MIT Traits A few things I have experienced as a black person at MIT

  

  there is a level of connection that I just can’t or don’t have with you ... around campus. So with that in mind, I hope to see a lot more of you guys ... experienced as a black person at MIT, and I put it in the form of the popular

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The joys of web development or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the web

  

  I liked doing than disliked doing. In one sense, that's a good thing ... , that I didn't find in competitive programming. It's a feeling I felt even ... is kind of annoying, and I enjoyed programming more when I’m not doing

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 9, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  An Open Letter to MIT Applicants Don’t Panic (and know where your towel is)

  

  score number. Let me tell you how I ended up here. As a senior in high ... about how I wanted to be like Kaylee and explore space with a crew that ... told them about how media has played such a huge role in shaping who I am

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  circumstances that faced me. A promise that I felt could only be realized if in ... ;   In the back is the binder that I describe, and the open is binder is new one that I am starting now that I am here at MIT, and in all

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty people later ✈✈✈ (pronounced whoosh) ✈✈✈ (pronounced nyeowww)

  

  't want to do it. I can't understand wanting to do puzzles in a vacuum. It ... 't have fifty people; the number's closer to 65. But this is a series, and I ... observation could probably be made about a lot of things? Maybe my point is that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  the book launch, my dad and I stayed in New York for a few days, and I ... power keeps flickering in and out, and I’ve had to remind myself that ... is constantly juxtaposing every sight I take in with its American

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 17, 2014