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  I Was Deferred And it was not the end of the world

  

  the president of the United States and pulled an all nighter chilling ... of the applicant pool, this time considering your mid year report. And ... worked my ass off (at the cost of sleep - not recommended). Calculus was

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bursting the MIT Bubble 1.0 things to do in Downtown Boston

  

  when the post-finals laze took over, I devoted most of my time to local ... MIT has the best possible college location. On one side of campus ... . This post is Part 1.0 of my favorite ways to burst the MIT bubble

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2015
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  A Night at the Office A bit longer than I expected.

  

  -weekly offering of free food; even though the food (wings!) has been in the office ... pleasure of spending a Monday night or Thursday night in the newspaper's office in the Student Center. Last night was one of those nights; let me

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 1, 2011
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  The Long Road to Happiness Stuff no one likes to talk about...

  

  the difficulty of adjusting to MIT called How to Fail. Since then, I ... (also not true) and I just can’t even think back to the feeling of ... saw regularly for the rest of the semester, and into IAP. Externally

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 22, 2017
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  Fig. 6: Eigenverantwortung The time of my life. What responsibilities?

  

  ;Accept your room offer in one of the student houses and wire the required ... They're not kidding when they say the Swiss are some of the most On-Top-Of-It people in the World.   During the exchange

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • August 28, 2018
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  dormspam-the-game (Part 3) parting remarks from no-longer-anonymous gamemasters

  

  , the creator of the show, who gave us permission and offered us some ... , for I was one of the gamemasters and have more content to share :D For much of the summer, I worked with Whitney Z. ‘21 designing, iterating

  • by Paolo A. '21 G
  • October 6, 2020
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  MIT Gothic You are reading an admissions blog post. You are reading tumblr.

  

  , especially around this time of the semester. The rest of this blog post is by ... coming out of it: Pisces. One of the branches coming off that is Felidae ... of the riverbed. You tell them it’s because of residual pollution and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  Over the last few weeks I have found five historical videos of MIT ... thoughts about them. I also pulled some pictures and gifs of the most ... , just across the river from Boston, lies the Massachusetts Institute of

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?

  

  antics of Nadya Okamoto. Here is a summary. At the time of writing this ... across the world and fights against the stigma of menstruation and period poverty. A quick google search of her name brings many articles listing the

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
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  Underwater Dreams (from a distance) A reflection on immigration, student activism, and civic engagement at MIT.

  

  questions, then hope. The event was the showing of Underwater Dreams, a ... , every piece of the story. my notes on the flyer... brochure? pamphlet ... before Obama’s executive action on immigration. Of the millions of

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2014
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  50 Reflections

  

  several offers to, um, join a tour of certain lesser-known parts of the ... offer you 50 Reflections. Here goes... The years I spent at MIT were among the best -- and, at the same time, the hardest -- years of my life

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
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  Boomeranging The day before classes start is Registration Day. It’s also the day we welcome readmitted…

  

  the fourth time I’ve sat on the Returning Student Luncheon panel of… the ... current batch of returning students (who I’ll call “the returners” from here ... when you meet her, and she spends a lot of her time making sure the

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 14, 2014
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  tyrannosaurus REX the prefrosh are coming, the prefrosh are coming!

  

  kicks off "welcome week" for the Class of 2023. At some schools, maybe ... on by the administration, the Department of Student Life, and the Office of the First Year, where you can learn (among other things) about

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 20, 2019
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  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  lower than the dorms, while maintaining the style of living with a bunch of other college students. I also valued the chance to try living off ... I took the risk. I was in search of a summer rich in feelings

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 31, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dragons A blog post for deferred students (and everybody else waiting on decisions).

  

  step and dramatically improve the lives of all the people you encounter ... most of you are facing right now, the dragon that felt like the final ... didn’t make it. Holding hands on the way to class. Falling in and out of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 14, 2014
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  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  The bridge of one of my favorite songs goes: Malingap, buwis ... the top of a building. We’re surrounded by the city, but isolated from ... . Malingap is someone giving me an impromptu tour of East Campus in the middle

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brief Wondrous Lives A little too much thinking brought to you by four in the morning.

  

  senses of the word. For one, my floor is playing Assassins, or ... photos of a Malaysian baby with the words "I'M WATCHING YOU" scrawled ... extra cautious of all Malaysian babies in my way. As this week the spoon

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2) My take on the MIT short essays.

  

  system, but doesn't offer any examples of the problems. At the end of the ... in the merits of the first blog in regards to a long college admissions ... the product of intense cognition, I thought I'd share some of my views

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  What I Did in High School in the actual sense of the phrase

  

  My high school was this tiny sort of dinky-looking building on the ... , and it wasn’t the end of the world. Learned that college Was in Fact ... lot of time doing that first year of high school (and all of the other

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  online community of peers sharing the same stresses and anxieties. College Confidential had the answers to all of my questions - about how I should approach ... ’t completely true; some students only had two of the three. But, for some

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014