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

  

  a school you love is crushing, and it can often be framed in the ... a lot to offer the world. If you were rejected somewhere, that ... army is a lot like getting rejected from your favorite college. That

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 29, 2016
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  I know you’re bad at something And here's what you should do about it. Hint: NOT "do something else"

  

  delightful to you. Freedom! A chance to be expressive and creative in front of ... , Fear Level is inversely proportional to The Number Of Seconds I Think I ... straight up told me that I was going to do it. I practiced hard at home and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  I’m back! (And what I carry on it) "You can tell a lot about a person by what they carry" - Atlas

  

  - Sometimes the unexpected happens, and when it does there’s not a charger in ... - To see and be seen from the front. Doubles as a pretty good flashlight ... changed a LOT in the few years I’ve been gone. Registration is now online

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 11, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Things Wot I Did Whilst Studying at MIT A tale told in pictures (and someone else's words).

  

  reading the post two days after I got to campus and swearing to live by it ... classes that have nothing to do with your major(s), purely for the fun of it ... think of it as a stepping stone. 18. Take risks. 50. This is the

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 27, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  sea glass turbulent waves in these parts

  

  and life stories, they reassured me that the choice to stop had been a ... a bit before throwing it out there for the internet to judge ... give you written feedback and a preliminary decision based on the current

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 5, 2022
• Blog / Events

  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  apparatus is that if you spin a mother around in a circle with her head at the ... to applaud in public" and the Belarus State Police for "arresting a one ... surface of a pond -- if those people and that pond were on the moon."  3

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Coping With Anxiety What is anxiety? What is panic? Definitions? Confusion? FINALS?! Cats.

  

  why that is a trigger to your anxiety. Ever hear of the saying "bring ... . And someone told me that it helps to scratch off the tattoos, which ... something that works for you because every person is different and there are

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 6, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  An Admissions Excavation Chris gave me a box of stuff and this is what I found inside

  

  that this is, indeed, the 2011 EA poster!) There were extensive Power ... Flashback to about a month ago, when Chris sent an email to all the ... to help out with a side project. A couple back-and-forth emails later

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / Advice

  Enjoy Life Farewells and New Beginnings

  

  is a long one and remember that life is meant to be enjoyed. Thanks for ... ’ve mostly been thinking about the past and saying goodbye. And I thought that maybe the best send off to you (especially to you aspiring scientists and

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 5, 2018
• Blog / Community Projects

  Happy 21st Birthday to the Random Hall Milk the Milk is now old enough to drink, but *please*, don't drink the Milk

  

  from the supermarket to a dormitory at MIT. It has lived there ever since ... to live, and is currently one of the oldest and proudest residents of ... that lived in a hermetically sealed jar in Random Hall and is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Putting food on the table daily with Daily Table affordable, nutritious, and delicious groceries near MIT

  

  that option, including the [annotation note='There is an MIT shuttle to ... Daily Table, $1.99, thanks to a direct partnership with the company. And ... staffers, they've used the phrase "every shopper is a funder" to describe how

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  about the job - and consider that it's possible to write a post in half an ... suspicion that Lisa and I actually share a consciousness. Anyway, I wanted to ... wanted that job for a long time. 2. How I blog - the writing and posting

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  No Chance Why "chance" sites like AdmissionSplash are Bad Things.

  

  , that it is ripe for mockery (or can itself be used to degrade the self ... its whole. And to the extent that people think tools like Admission ... determinist by any means. But there is still something to the law of the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  half full! We ran down, up and across the isles to find a row that had ... . Just to give a sense of how crazy and loud it was, here is a video of the ... some assignments, and went to office hours for a different class that is

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting for Decision Day In which I give a pep talk of sorts (with a little help from my…

  

  into the goblet of fire and hope that you’re chosen to be a part of the ... always-inspirational things to say. Here are a couple of my blog posts that might lift your spirits: An Open Letter to MIT Applicants and Life is Like

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bye (for now)

  

  's tires rotated, and somewhere in the back of my mind there is a small voice ... weeks to happen). my hope is that it can serve as one more resource, a ... that you know you missed. and there are lots of thoughts. they come in a

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 12, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Choosing Your Own Adventure and other things you can do when you live off campus

  

  ahead, there's a community garden to your right, and the ever recognizable ... elsewhere in non-MIT affiliated housing. There's a lot of pros and cons to ... people all the time and really want to feel a part of a larger community

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Halloween is the best day of the year. Yes, I recognize that it is now closer to Thanksgiving than to Halloween. Sorry.

  

  ) when the door behind me flung open with a bang and a hat was pulled onto ... oscillators that it seemed only right to become one. For a driving force, we stole a wheel from the wii in the TV lounge and labeled it dcos(wt), and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  set (we got to work with a partner, and we both agreed to put the ... convey this to you clear enough: the Tech office is a very distracting ... and a previous call to the airline), and she eventually caved in

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Cozy Hobbit Times, Cozy Hobbit Food

  

  means it is customary to make wishes and toasts. I toast the adventures you’ve had; on the other hand my wish for you is that through storms and ... to cut them. Place the potato (or equivalent) and garlic cloves in a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 14, 2016