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  MIT Women’s Soccer Talking to the 2009 NEWMAC Champs after they returned from the NCAA National Championship Tournament

  

  watching (i.e. water polo), it was hard to know how good MIT's varsity teams ... first students to arrive in the fall and practice twice per day before the ... full schedule during soccer season actually helps her to get more work

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 25, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Painting by number The anti-formula

  

  response to “how” is that it was facilitated by parents and their connections ... (which can also be read “what is the minimum that I need to do”) in order ... generated by pbnify.com[/caption] In a rant post many years ago, I referenced

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 2, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s Not Me, It’s You How to kiss goodbye to a school that rejected you

  

  context of “I wasn’t good enough to get in.” That’s not the right way to ... ambition was to be an officer in the British army. Despite his repeated ... nothing to do with you. I’m making this point because getting rejected from

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 29, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Boomeranging The day before classes start is Registration Day. It’s also the day we welcome readmitted…

  

  tell them this: 7. “It’s hard enough to get into MIT once – you got in ... arrive early to help Laura set up. We spread out, settle in at different ... can’t imagine me ever being unable to force myself out of bed in the

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  November 1st is my January 1st each november is a new direction

  

  chances of MIT were that of a coin flip. But I managed to get in early ... a night multiple nights in a row if I needed to get an assignment done ... early actioners, whether you get in or not, you did it. You applied, pat

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  in my math class—how to compute a probability density function, for ... job offer in Auckland and took a year off to work instead of coming back ... . After New Zealand, I’m irrevocably different in some senses—more prone to

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  didn’t know quite how to put it, and instead peppered small references to ... in the works, but I might need another Yultide for motivation to finish ... poems you write in middle to high school years when you have feelings. So

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Feeling Many Feelings :) and :( and everything in between about decisions

  

  told me to chill and “be cool” in selection committee – I told her that ... lines in Harry Potter, I relate to this moment in Order of the Phoenix the ... young person. I get the sense from the essays that he has had to fight

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • March 16, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Challenge You Pi day approaches.

  

  . “Who will get in? What happens to the people who don’t? Who will I become if I get in? Who will I be, who will I become, if I don’t?” First, I ... stems from. I never thought that failing to get into MIT would mean

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every now and then, my mind = blown. Thanks, Science!

  

  getting around to that. But in the midst of my magnet research, I stumbled ... background science too quickly. Trying to please everyone here. (Here. In ... that in real life) Guys. Science is really, really cool. It's amazing

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 11, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  here comes a thought on decisions

  

  to lose yourself in. oh, you're losing sight, you're losing touch all these little things seem to matter so much that they confuse you in the ... was so gorgeous it didn't matter that it probably makes little sense to

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 13, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I put on my robe and graduation hat It's sortof hard to believe it's time for this already.

  

  keeping me from getting too excited about ceremonies in general. After four ... to have adjusted some internal excit-o-meter. So in the days leading up ... . Every senior gets four tickets to give to friends or family for graduation

  • by Kim D. '09
  • June 7, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Random Random Projects/Moving Out of Random Randomly zigzagging about until I find myself in the future, somehow no longer in Random.

  

  corners in the two photos to figure out how to line up the images, and then ... :)   Rose R. ‘17 Mural-ish thing :) In order to brighten up my room a bit, I ... sixteen positions, varying the current from 0mA to 150mA in 10mA steps

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 13, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  We’ve been there, too. It feels like the calm before the storm. Please don't forget to breathe.

  

  submitted in time for the EA deadline. Somehow, I managed to distract myself ... of mind to talk about why I was interested in Foobar University. Oh ... gut wasn't churning with worry-anticipation. And so I decided to get a

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Random Ceiling Tiles The ceilings of Random Hall and a friendly message.

  

  Some of you have to make a decision to come here (or not) by 23:59 tomorrow. If you're on the fence, I have one small bid to make you fall in ... the path you choose gets difficult, it will be very helpful to rekindle

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 30, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  it very easy to get lost in a sea of exams and to forget why I came ... semester. Usually I know better than to take six classes in a semester. But ... ’t come to MIT to relax or even to hang out. I came here to learn, and in

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  i dissected a roach *cronch* *slurp*

  

  sturdy carapace, unparalleled scavenging prowess, and ability to fly. In ... ’s ability to thrive in all its squirming, leg-wiggling glory is terrifying ... to kill, and being one of the most annoying household pests to get rid

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 28, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an Easter vigil alive at east campus

  

  "live" means verb, "to live," or "live", as in concurrently, alive ... while he vivaciously reads a testimony to the salvation he finds in God ... Jesus' three-day decease. He pauses to let us feel the in-between. We are

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 5, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Early History of International Students at MIT studying the people MIT made, and the people who made MIT

  

  in Constantinople.” Alas, Nicolas’ friends never got to visit. Nicolas ... given out to any MIT “graduate student conducting work in the field of the ... Rico to see how “knowledge, expertise, practices, and corruption

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice On The Essay The rules are simple: write your own.

  

  I recently opened my in-box to find an email from someone who "would love to interview an admissions officer from your prestigious university ... place where you get to say "hey, I'm a human being, let me

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 25, 2007