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  Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later what happened after pi day 2011

  

  the years. You might want to know how I fared in past five years (wow ... own opinion of which ques was more important, and how to answer in viva ... -ordinate my learning mostly from [a] Planetarium in New Delhi. Me & other

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016
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  (Bitter)sweet home meeting high school teachers again, and visiting my hometown for (probably) the last time

  

  . As I'm getting prepared to move away from it, I'm starting to see how ... that this is probably going to be the last time I’ll be in Alabama for a ... I were both in town and had nothing to do. Other than that I cut my

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 12, 2023
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  10 Things I Learned 1st Semester Yeap.

  

  Meet-Up. Just this week, I used it to set up a get-together in New York ... -yogurt-more-endearingly-“Froyo”. I can’t count how many “Ordering Indian in 10! Come to Room # if you ... Say hello to the holidays and winter break!!! Now, sitting at home in

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 24, 2009
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  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  -campus in a new neighborhood. Moreover, it would be an opportunity to get to ... used a ladder to get in and out of bed. Rather than the conventional four ... sure liked to get in my food if I wasn't attending to it. One morning, I

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 31, 2020
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  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  themselves. As I was getting my food to leave the man in front of me reached ... get in than people like us.” In order to fit in I would laugh and try to ... experiences.   I was waiting in line with my head more or less glued to

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Axes of Confusion ????

  

  in. We initially chose 21E to get a taste of both CMS and 6 to try to ... each week you get assigned a new lab/pset. We approached both classes in ... representation, and that is EXTREMELY important to us. Steven Universe, in our

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 21, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  hardships. But in times like this when we go through hardships, no matter how ... students telling me how I had encouraged them to continue striving on past ... to two hundred responses in close to three days. So I say this to you

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 14, 2015
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  What I wish I’d known, and what I’m glad I knew Before coming to MIT.

  

  never worried about how I compared to my fellow incoming MIT students. I ... speaker to ask questions is ultimately how I got my first UROP. Since then ... MIT students - but we all go to MIT. Being in touch with friends with

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer…” wherein Neil Armstrong's legacy kicks off a year of Unified Engineering, and I reflect on…

  

  pointed out to me, while many students develop a tangible interest in math ... by an inbred desire to "succeed," in the vaguest possible sense of the ... (remember, this is a kid who didn't know what an Allen key was or how to

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 9, 2014
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  My dorm room’s 24-year history meet 16 former residents of my room

  

  Apple. Fall 2000 to Spring 2001: Jeanne S. '01. Jeanne lives in New York ... hanging a bicycle using the fridge as a prop to get it up in the air." They ... Campus is going to get renovated soon, and gods know how the floor plan

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 19, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2) My take on the MIT short essays.

  

  narrative -> point -> how it connects to me. In fact, this is what I use ... which you are used to seeing in print. (ii) Never use a long word where ... in the merits of the first blog in regards to a long college admissions

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
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  An MIT wedding Paper airplanes instead of rice and a reception at a science museum... what's not to…

  

  August 2006, he asked me to marry him in Killian Court with a bunch of tour ... ), Chicago (Swapna '05), New York (Laura '06), and of course, lots of people in ... to take pictures in the museum, and we got this great picture of us

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 1, 2007
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  HERE LIES P/NR September 2018-December 2018

  

  , but where I come from, the closest you get to snow is shredded ice in ... , to ‘hit the ground running.’ The painful struggle to get through the ... couldn’t just afford to go to bed. Coffee became my new best friend

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 16, 2018
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  A Brief History of Cars on Fire at MIT You didn't think I would miss an anniversary, did you?

  

  If you're the kind of person who remembers to look up once in a ... yourself wondering: How did THAT get there? Four score and zero years ago ... , who mentioned it in an email to me: I saw the car after it had been

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 5, 2016
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  A Midsemester Night’s Dream Technically an All-Nighter's Dream, but hey, close enough

  

  to write this post at 5:38 AM. In front of me is an empty Pringles can ... stressed I am, or how much work MIT is, or how to handle it, because I ... 3, my floor, seems to like movies. It’s how we relax. Our floor lounge

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  16 for the 16’s 16 Guidelines to Making the Most of your CPW

  

  events is so much more than that. Food events are a great place to meet new ... to other prefrosh. Everyone wants to meet new people just as much as ... know you all are going to go here), then you should really get to know

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 18, 2012
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  Advice From The Elderly My last blog entry, at least from this chapter.

  

  . MIT honestly paid my friend to go spend a month in Mongolia learning how ... . Inevitably, this means that my parents have tried to get involved in every ... hoped to do in order to get me to where I needed to be. Embracing that

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  some warmth on a cold decisiony day "there have been times that I thought I couldn't last for long / but now…

  

  , how it would feel to be rejected so that the emotion wouldn't come as a ... could get the argument out of the way in advance. I googled for various ... smoothly. BUT: I hadn't thought at all about how I would feel in the days

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice you’ve heard before and a story you haven’t you can just skip to the pictures if you want to, I wont be offended.

  

  There are going to be a lot of people eager to give you advice on how ... mandatory-attendance HASS class. The advantages? I got to sleep in later. I got to "save time" that would otherwise have been spent in class. I got

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
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  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  manifestation in 1924. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology goes to great ... rest of the student life equation: how, thanks to MIT’s flagship ... traced back to the early student life of MIT’s dormitories. In particular

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014