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  neighborhoods we move into and come to love. What do pregnant mice, cheerleaders, and four-foot light-up tinsel giraffes have in common?

  

  entries page before, I'm Mollie. I graduated in 2006 with degrees in biology ... rabbit (who did not attend MIT) in an apartment just north of Boston. I ... in the lab full-time doing research. Eventually I'll finish the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 27, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing is Magic And 15 minutes is all you need

  

  already know why he isn’t getting to them. He isn’t sure how to start. I ... I have a personal blog that I write about my teenagers and I haven’t updated it lately. It’s not because I’m tired of writing- I’m not. And it

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  . I spent days after I submitted my application pacing back and forth in ... chances of MIT were that of a coin flip. But I managed to get in early ... realize that I would've been fine going anywhere. It's not about the school

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

  A Midsemester Night’s Dream Technically an All-Nighter's Dream, but hey, close enough

  

  stressed I am, or how much work MIT is, or how to handle it, because I ... . “Otherwise I’d go in a heartbeat.” Hang on. I paused. Christopher Nolan makes ... -body diagrams. I had caught myself gushing sob stories to my friends about how

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

  Words of Advice for the Incoming Class you did it! now what?

  

  nasty habit to talk in absolutes. I'm guilty of this to. They say things ... we are trying something new! if you'd like to consume this blog in ... and I can only barely imagine what this excitement and feeling must feel

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  0.125 not a course 0 class, but a fraction complete

  

  how to cook! Or it might be more accurate to say I learned how to learn how to cook. It turns out that cooking, unlike baking (where I had far ... combine them for tasty results. With this revelation in hand, I've gotten

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 4, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  (which I mention in my blogger intro). I’ve always thought Jenny was too ... least three other Asian Jenny’s in the class of 2013. Ultimately, I wasn ... diversity of people and options here made me confront the person I was in high

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bring your stuffed toys to class reflections on liminality

  

  and how you ended up here. Imagine how different your life would've been ... about how you can't do this after you graduate. Worry about how you can't stay in MIT forever. Talk to all your friends about how you can't stay in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 11, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where the Free Things Are A List of Free Opportunities and Tools for Students

  

  covers topics in Calc I-III, Discrete Math, Linear Algebra and Differential ... channel was one of the reasons I loved biology back in high school)   ... ’s History Description: Thee, and I mean thee, YouTube channel to help you in

  • by Richard O. '28
  • January 30, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  my scream would sound like; I couldn’t remember ever hearing it before ... semester. Usually I know better than to take six classes in a semester. But ... amount of money I can spend in this convenience store that will keep me

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The Room(s) Where It Happens You've hit submit. What Comes Next?

  

  about how our process works, but I’ll share a little bit about how our ... in need of a second opinion. When I’m really desperate for human ... the table - ways of seeing that might be unlike my own. I love how

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • January 9, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating The Tunnels…Of Freshman Academics You didn't actually expect me to write about hacking on the internet, did you?

  

  professional blogging career. How can I... ...get sophomore standing? The ... whatever you want. And get used to it. I want to double major in 6 and 2 and ... join. How should I optimize my courseload to get a headstart? I actually

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the Deferred I feel your pain.

  

  . ~*~ I started tossing essay ideas around in my mind soon after the 2009 ... about how much I loved reading, how Course 9 (Brain and Cognitive Sciences) blew my mind, how my school was teeming with energy and diversity, how I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  -bloggers and MIT ex-pats, I live a stone's throw away in Cambridge's Central ... food that comes in a brown paper bag: Brazilian cheese bread. I'll leave ... better. First and foremost, I'm incredibly happy with the people in my life

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Snively’s Cross Stitch Corner I really enjoy cross stitching

  

  I graduated from MIT in 2011. Upon graduating, and while living alone in a city where I knew nobody, I filled my time with new hobbies and ... "things alums do in their free time." In late 2011 I taught myself to cross

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sibling dynamics at MIT yes lmao Nisha and I are related

  

  exploded with laughter in the middle of my physics lecture as soon as i saw ... barely overlap. In fact, our lives don’t overlap much; I’ve bumped into ... desperately wanted to distinguish myself in some way, but I always felt that she

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  : "So where do you go to school?" ME: "Oh, I go to school in Boston ... in Boston.'" I never thought about it, but if you must press me for a ... harsh though, but considering how there are so many premeds in that class

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The leftmost station on your dial WMBR = awesome campus radio

  

  (I started this post wayyyyy back in January. Ask any blogger who ... clearly have no idea how to properly manage my time anymore, I decided to ... pretend that's how I've spent the last six weeks. We now return to our super

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  ” or “tenet”). In response to “how’s it going”, I sometimes respond with ... I wanted to do earlier in college? What if I had taken those harder ... desperately want. But the person that I am in this universe is a function of

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 16, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Gothic You are reading an admissions blog post. You are reading tumblr.

  

  Happy Sunday! I am doing end of semester things and also reading Hemingway in dramatic black and white. There is perhaps my favorite meme that ... : MIT Gothic. I think it paints a very concrete picture of life at MIT

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015