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

  

  lacrosse, water polo and crew competitions for the first time. I joined the ... that I didn't even know what the rules were for a lot of the sports I was ... every day and travel to games on the weekends. As a reminder, this is MIT

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

  Policies, Principles, and Protests thinking about responsible citizenship in a time of student protests

  

  increasingly knowledgeable electorate, and a citizenry with a depth of cultural ... , advocating for policies to prevent such a shooting from happening again. They ... demonstrations at the Florida Capitol and the White House, as well as meetings with

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • February 22, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  seen. Seems like a really kind person from essays and letters of ... fit for MIT, and I think the program she started is cool. I like her personality too! He's a survivor and has a lot of intellectual firepower. I

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

  I Challenge You Pi day approaches.

  

  and being happy will be a challenge for those of you who attend MIT, as ... reason for wanting to come – and the primary reason of everyone I have spoken to about this (both current students and friends who were rejected

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!

  

  moved back in with my parents and went back to my old summer job as a ... a suitcase, bought a one-way plane ticket, and moved in with Sarah ’09 ... overall Akron's pretty nice. Last fall, I trained for and ran in a half

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  An Entry About Snow ...Even though we don't have any

  

  used as a metaphor for life, and that it's highly unoriginal to come up ... throw myself from high places with just a piece of plastic attached to my ... has a bruise that looks like black death, it still hurts to sit down

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 11, 2008
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  10 Things I Learned 1st Semester Yeap.

  

  lasts quite a while. – This semester, I took Disease and Society in America, which is a HASS history class, and there were many papers to write ... print for writing-centric high school classes like US Government and

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 24, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  So Chance Me Maybe? Hey! I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my SAT...

  

  applying, about which colleges would be a good fit for me, and about which ... random imo” “MIT: High Reach with a 710 Math score. Aim for a 760 ... perfect GPA, my interviewer loved me, I had founded a few clubs, and my test

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  , like missing the forest for the trees, like looking at the sky and seeing ... choosing to intern between, and might've ended up with a different impression ... bandsaw and how to deal with Boston weather. But how do you put a name to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  On identity f(x) = x

  

  and a cover with tiny wrinkles and rips. When I entered middle school ... together and do a bunch of math for a week. Thousands and thousands of ... aesthetic for a long time, and I attached my identity to my suffering. I used

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Praise Of Holistic Admissions not an admissions machine

  

  didn't mean that it's a place to idly chat with people (although it is ... socialization. And so we have to take a great deal of care in constituting the ... admissions process here at MIT, and we talk about it a lot. But what does it

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / Blog Projects

  What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj

  

  on for dear life and hold our breath. We look out for each other, and ... things that you can look up and think, "Oh, it's a tree." —Robo-CJ trying ... taking a test you didn't study for, except you're not being graded and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Dissecting emotion what is feeling

  

  a song for four minutes and it'd feel like twelve. Time is not real ... for. But it felt like a pale imitation, as if looking at a painting ... knowledge that you won't experience it for a while. There's aching, and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 3, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what work is bite-sized senior spring

  

  with joy and curiosity and energy, which, for me, is so much harder than ... working a lot, working hard, working with my head in a book, working late at ... not so good at and that i can usually get away with neglecting. this is

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A (Belated) Letter to July In which I start blogging again with an angsty video

  

  's how I've felt, though: clunky, with a jumble of thoughts and fears and ... thank you enough. You brought my dad and my brother with you too, and for ... is the way my hiatus ends Not with a bang but a vaguely-poetic angsty

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  here comes a thought on decisions

  

  [annotation note="i debated with myself for such a long time on whether or not i ... decision. remind yourself to breathe and ground yourself, even if just for a ... [/annotation] came into my head, and i thought the words were really fitting for the

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 13, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  To whom much is given… ...you know the rest!

  

  few weeks. I can tell you with a fair level of certainty that it is just ... , but that each and every applicant has been given a lifetime's worth of ... it to say, we may look just as favorably on the trajectory and distance

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 13, 2012
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  The Future Is Grim check it out

  

  wake up for class, and asked if there was a way I could make up the lab ... section. That's a lot of hassle for one student, and it would've been much ... Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department (or EECS for short (or

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 28, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

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

  

  The brass drops off, and suddenly you're alone with the rhythm ... delightful to you. Freedom! A chance to be expressive and creative in front of lots of other people! For me, this sounds like: My Worst Nightmare! A

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

  Dear My Old Friend, This is quite possibly weirdest way to introduce myself

  

  ’t make it better for you.  Often, I look at my past and know I’ve grown as ... . You’re younger than me. You are so bright and angry with a world that ... people you could have lingered with. and you will wish… that the universe

  • by ana~
  • September 24, 2021