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• Blog / About Decisions

  WHY? for people who don't like "no"

  

  to college, but he was sure that I was a great candidate for whatever ... wrong. This has got to be a joke. Anger: WHY the hell would they tell me ... can hurt a lot more for people with technical brains, because we tend to

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  A Half-Century Retrospective Revisiting the MIT Application from the 1972–1973 admissions cycle

  

  Corridor. A copy of the MIT Bulletin from 1930 makes reference to the ... professional movers got to work. Prohibition style, I met a colleague with ... a VHS player handy? I’d love to see what’s on this tape."]VHS tape

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Pictures from a Semester of Classes The Sequel Society Didn't Know It Needed

  

  like before, I'm gonna continue to give y'all a glimpse of whatever just ... following 1 month January term as a way to get your calc requirement out of ... .111 (Chemistry) and 14.01 (Intro to Microeconomics) Thursday: 18.02A (Calc II

  • by Richard O. '28
  • December 29, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Home Under the Dome sorority recruitment, tips, and my experience

  

  ’s recruitment team spends a ton of time over the summer to get everything ready ... interested in joining a sorority or are just curious, I encourage you to read ... someone who is looking to join and be a new member of a sorority. I

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • August 14, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  to keep going or are scared about the present or future. A panic ... . If you are not in a safe space, try to find one. Whether it is your ... to split a $3 book of stickers or temporary tattoos with some friends

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 6, 2014
• Blog / Community Projects

  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  learn to adapt The fruit of my labor Impostor A sense of scale ... spring, we run Spark and Spring HSSP. Spark is similar to Splash, being a ... . Spring HSSP is a long-term program, open to middle schoolers and high

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  it is really like to spend your days here. Linked below are a few ... to burn out as a student at MIT? Here's a Quora answer about being ... . My parents were pressuring me to be a premed and become a doctor (like

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An actual day in the lab Hectic is my middle name.

  

  bed and get ready for work. It takes a long time. I am not what one ... to my subcloning. I add some of the DNA mix to a tube of bacteria, heat ... tells me to wait a few more minutes, so I play the "what was I doing on

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking the L On "failure" at a place like MIT.

  

  to take a math assessment. This essentially assess your skills and ... on 18.01 before getting to 18.02."]18.01a/18.02a[/annotation], and ... in IAP]. I got recommended 18.01 and 8.01L, but that had to be a

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  strange that people could commit to a college much like one could commit to ... school, that I'd wake up in a dorm in this school, I'd go to class and ... . The icon on the browser changes, from the letter M to a spinner. Seconds

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

  [joint post] we visited every station on the MBTA and the Logan Airport Rental Car Center

  

  ought to begin this post with a motivation. CJ: Motivation? There was ... few days later we went to a touchdown space on campus to plan it ... the top half of the Red Line. A map might be useful to follow along. CJ

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  You Are Here a list of things i can't make myself do, and a few i can

  

  drawing me back to a cycle of self-blame, taking root in my head and placing ... a pass/no record grading system across the board. I have to admit that ... most of the work I had to do, putting myself in a pretty good spot when

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 19, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

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

  

  help take down a hack. It’s back the next morning. It wasn’t ready to ... . You don’t know how to get back down. You finish a problem set. There ... a different number on it, but the only companies that will talk to you

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

  If the Obama were a unit of measure . . . . . . what would it measure?

  

  Obama's address. Needless to say, the MechE student who doesn't have a ... , and now all of a sudden I was going to see the President! On Thursday ... to campus I noticed that it was a little more difficult this morning

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  I initially wrote this to my little brother. I debated for a while ... hope someone might be able to connect or learn something from a few of my ... language we now all speak so naturally. A language that we must learn to

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

  We Should Take This Final and Push It Somewhere Else you'll need a lot of mOXie

  

  , being bedridden for a month and your mom having to fly in to take care of ... my classes. One night, I stayed up late to help paint a banner for my ... only exam I had to take. A project, I could push through, but an exam? We

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 14, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  nose to the paper, pencil poised, ready to race across the page as if ... trouble and for the past three and a half years, I missed opportunities to ... worth as a person to come from the things I’m doing and by extension, I

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Riri Williams Pi Day Video Behind the scenes of an extraordinary three minutes!

  

  video,” he said, “I basically want to make a two-minute trailer for the ... , making sure to state that Riri was a resident of Simmons dormitory. Erick ... as a part of his application to MIT, and had a YouTube channel

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  after she expressed her desire to join a sorority but was hesitant to join ... at MIT and was starting to accept that joining one wouldn’t be a ... to get a chance to meet as many fraternity members as possible and

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020
• Blog / Community Projects

  Robo-CJ writes haiku “didn’t you already make a blog post about this?”

  

  Poetry Day! It's not very much of a leap to think that I could be bisexual ... old blog posts, and then used gpt-2-simple to retrain it on a bunch of ... , so ready for CPW, because I didn’t get to go to CPW when I got admitted

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020