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• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  me that I wasn't going to get it, but I tried anyway in large part ... story of a student we had denied in 2011, and how well he had done ... ... For a while, I really felt like a failure that I didn't get in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 18, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Next Steps for EA Deferred what to do next

  

  to wait a little longer as we reconsider their cases in Regular Action ... . What new stuff should I send? The only "new" thing you need to send in is ... chance of being admitted to MIT. With that said, in the last few years we

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 21, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Sororities @ MIT- Become a part of it! Come to the first day of recruitment on September 1st to learn more about what…

  

  incoming freshman will not have this semester to see what being in an MIT ... sisters in an informal setting. This is useful for underclassmen who are to ... your desk in the Reading Room to see a row of empty coffee cups and Red

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 20, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  They may take our lives… ...but they'll never take our free Celtics tickets.

  

  , offering advice on how to get tickets, which games would be best, and other ... chair, which means I get to plan things that I always wanted to do and ... to college in Boston, like heading to Wellesley or running the Boston

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 14, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Bang! Update [3] Gotcha!

  

  pistol team is on its way to West Point in New York for a shooting ... evening against West Point, but first we had to get there. What we ... you miss the black center and hit the white part you get to stare at

  • by Snively '11
  • January 25, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Who’s that new kid? ANOTHER one?? Are you KIDDING me?! She doesn't even fit on the page!

  

  gets below 60 degrees here, we cry. So not only do I have to wrap my head ... get to help me think of a name for my real blog. (I named my old one ... come from one of those families where you are the only one who knows how

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Week(end) [Read: New York] Adventures Parts 2-4 I’ve affectionately named these adventures: #metroentertainment

  

  workshops and lessons taught me a lot and gave me great ideas on how to ... up at the rest stop to find myself in the mist of a blizzard to welcome ... at SEO and also with an admitted student over lunch to tell her how

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • April 2, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

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

  

  , maybe try and improve at one of the many sports you know how to play in a ... sparring steps. I still am not sure how one would be able to use this in ... sports to be canceled, and in the weeks before the start of the fall

  • by Waly N. '24
  • August 3, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  trust how do you decide who to trust when there are lots of untrustworthy people?

  

  insecurities happens to be loneliness, other people get ensnared in emotionally ... vast majority of people are safe to be around in the vast majority of ... in the desert, and it was really difficult to tell beforehand whether

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Filling an Empty Nest my parents tried to replace me with literal birds

  

  In April of 2018, I left home for a few days to attend [annotation ... , when I did finally get home, I was in for a surprise. Although I was only away for 3.5 days, in that time my parents managed to: Finally realize

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 10, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Spring Think Some spring break reflections and thoughts

  

  trip wayyy long ago (back in the fall!) and now we’re actually going! How ... , Geneva. It seems everyone on campus was trying to get away from the ... that in years past~) Believe it or not, though I have been to Ethiopia

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 27, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  Miscellany In which I talk about my life and Fancy sportsball DNA folk songs

  

  feel like: So I just made a vlog to get back in the rhythm of filming ... this season (in fact, it's the first undefeated season ever), leading to ... working to get more artists to lecture here. (I still have a tiny bit of

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / Residential Life

  it’s not the same, but it’s still home back at MIT

  

  without planning it in advance"]happened to be on the same flight as a ... wondered how it would feel to be back. The cliché goes that "home is where ... Kart tournaments and everything in between, flooded back to me. Home was here, not

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 7, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What Is an MIT Community? ...a personal experience

  

  limited example of my hall, I will do my best to explain how. On First East ... Schlosser (review here). How fascinating it was to watch everyone unmoved ... engineers, and we love to stay updated on their projects. One day, we may get

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 13, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Weathering the weather So much snow!

  

  most faculty are looking for people to help advance their projects in ... get paid for a UROP? How much?" First, money is important for college ... who interview? Also, can you give tips on how to prepare - what are the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 12, 2006
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  New Major in Climate System Science and Engineering

  

  impacts of a changing climate * How to model and analyze complex climate and environmental phenomena * How to analyze large and diverse datasets to produce reliable predictions * How to quantify the societal impact of climate risk

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 21, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  rearview reflections newly-minted cruft rambles on post-mit life

  

  things in college (missed)   Let’s say I want to learn how to do Pogo ... apartment hunting, and figuring out how to use a dishwasher. Not entirely ... in June,[/annotation] which has been a while, but considering how many

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Folding with Flair Adding a third dimension to boring old paper

  

  in a “draft” blog post when I applied to be a blogger. That draft never ... ornaments. I was amazed by how the satisfyingly geometric creases gave rise to ... ’s super satisfying to fold once you figure out how it works. Five

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • August 4, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Conspiracy and intrigue

  

  contributor's copy of How to Get Around MIT (frosh should use it, it's a good ... probably lead her to shoot me, and she might get me before I got her (in ... Before we get to the subject of this entry, we have a question! Xin

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 11, 2005
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Freshman Summer plans and progress

  

  out how to get UROPs. I was seated at one of the café spaces at Stata ... -and-tank-top-wearing days to finally be upon us again, I have also been in an application ... !) Applying for an internship is a challenge- actually, applying to anything in

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • February 10, 2019