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• Blog / Admissions

  Yes, we care about your stories Reflections from the road

  college admissions, I often get asked about how hard it is for me to read ... hardships to get into MIT (or that hardships are the only way to get in ... we started a Black Student Union in our school to build community, but

  • by DJ Rock
  • October 10, 2019
• Blog / People & Identities

  the pieces scattered behind you

  

  pliers to Boston. In my room, there’s a shelf of books taller than a man ... five-something am to squeeze an hour of writing in before school. I struggle to crawl out of bed now, but I’ll stay up late into any night to get

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 28, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Share Your Story, 2014 edition How did you find out you'd been accepted? Was there any celebratory dancing? Please tell…

  

  decisions are released online. But you still get a tube and/or big packet in ... - what's your story? Feel free to share in the form of pictures, haiku ... ). Looking forward to meeting you all in a few weeks! :)

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / People & Identities

  On Reconnecting spending winter break in India

  

  . With no stress of the semester to keep you company. In those moments of solitude, my mind has found itself wandering back to my time in India. In ... soap operas with my parents. I no longer get to eat my mother's home

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 13, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  We Treat You Nicely VOTE VOTE VOTE!

  

  Don't forget to vote for me in the 2008 Blogging Scholarship! And ... two things that I want to throw at you today in this entry. The first ... new Macbook) and so I just used that. I don't know how to resize them

  • by Snively '11
  • November 13, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  what happened yesterday? "what's the name of the mushroom shop?"

  

  , it felt great to just take all the time in the world to get out of bed ... few days in the end of August where prefrosh get to explore living ... note="yesterday here is referring to last last Saturday. you know how

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 20, 2022
• Blog / How to MIT

  The Ultimate Showdown Making important college purchase #1

  

  significant inspiration to getting your own computer. Using a desktop as my primary mode of computing my freshman year kept me in my room to do work ... 're about to head off to college, and you're thinking to yourself, do I need a

  • by Bryan
  • July 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Odds and Ends My brain is too fried to think of any original content. So I'm commenting on…

  

  knees. (Hint: to find me in any picture of the squad, scan the picture for ... . And I'm trying not to get skin cancer.) A better picture of me ... MIT philosophy. Finally, a note on the classic how did I get here story

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Questions and answers

  

  you that you feel get you closer to your goal in life? So I guess what I am asking is, specifically, how has MIT helped you come closer to where you want to be? How much of this was unique to MIT as opposed to

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / CPW

  I’m nervous to meet you A letter to the prefrosh at the dawn of CP*

  

  CPW, so I have absolutely no clue how this event’s supposed to go, even in person. I’ve been looking forward to being a Blogger at the “Meet ... convinced I could never fit in. I wanted to shake your hands, give you hugs

  • by Powers '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Hayden Christensen Comes to MIT, Looks Pretty Pictures of the top of Hayden Christensen's head inside!

  

  . How much effort do you put in trying to stay true to real-world science ... how it went. I didn't get to talk to, touch, or even really see Hayden ... me. And also, I didn't get to pick them - Fox did. Okay, here we go

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  There’s No “I” in Team There's also no "Tennis" or "Senior Day", but that won't stop me from writing about…

  

  In just four short weeks, my time as a MIT freshman will draw to a ... , the internet is forever), and I look forward to the ones I’ll have in ... , practices became focused and I began to compete in individual tournaments. I

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 1, 2014
• Blog / MISTI

  Total immersion An MIT-Italy student finds her way around Rome

  

  wondering…was there another way to get to and from work? A week or so ... stop would take me to another bus that could in turn take me all the way ... five other routes to get to work, and Justas many to get home. Some I

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Uh Oh Joke: What do you get if you divide the circumference of a bowl of ice…

  

  . National Ice Cream Day was on July 16, 2006. Even though I did not go get ... ) Herrell's D) Christina's Boston and Cambridge are home to many other fine ... distance of the 'Tute. Get the Scoop here. Joke answer: Pi a'la mode.

  • by Bryan
  • July 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  c/o 2017

  

  , someone gets up and talks about how much that senior means to the group ... -- "my" class -- carries a lot of people who taught me how to care, how to think, and how to be a good friend, mostly by being good friends to me

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 12, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  books I read in 2024, ranked and thoughts on the best ones

  

  ’m inexplicably in love with someone I don’t know how to talk to?? What?? 2) Rooney ... thought from the beginning to the end of a chapter, in which three or four ... relationship between Peter and Ivan, and I get that Margaret was supposed to

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  And tomorrow brings a new day

  

  across the world. I know how frustrating it is to hear "It gets better" or ... time and sometimes there are not enough words in the world to comfort ... senior year and I know how scary it is to package your identity up into

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 15, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Jellyfishing and other ways to recruit people to your organizations

  

  . Feedback – It’s nice to get honest feedback from a peer about how ... .390 (Introduction to Computational Biology), and 20.330 (Fields, Forces, and Flows in ... as putting in time to the GEL outreach committee. Over in the land of

  • by Stanley G.
  • March 10, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  what your favorite study spot says about you badly stereotyping places to work on campus

  

  . you might procrastinate at times, but you definitely know how to get ... can't get things done when you work in a group. you're addicted to ... why it baffles everyone how you manage to get all your work done on time

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  “Well, you just cost me money.” Best. Desk Call. EVER.

  

  forwarded me this in the meantime and I had to share. ---------- Forwarded ... 't really know how to do that. MIT has multiple science departments, so you ... On any given day, you'll totally forget how awesome it is that you

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 23, 2010