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  what work is bite-sized senior spring

  

  'm the one who needs to be reminded. a happy moment in market design i ... .19, Market Design, and i was reassured. it was in a cramped, too-warm room, but ... for me, but not in the conventional sense. i'm insanely comfortable

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  computer, opening up the MyMIT page that I hadn't visited in a few months. I ... took a few days/weeks to settle in. I got some congratulations at school ... 'm sitting on a train that took me from Washington D.C. where I had just met

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 17, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Application dreaming

  

  majoring in BME. I am a published poet in my country. Should I send my book ... table than a slate of straight As in math and science and a big SAT I Math ... "diverse" or "confused about goals"?   In the past week, I have read

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / Featured Blogs

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

  

  . “Otherwise I’d go in a heartbeat.” Hang on. I paused. Christopher Nolan makes ... I’ve decided to continue a long chain of poor decisions by starting ... finished a 7.012 Biology pset early Wednesday morning, I wrote an essay for

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

  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  -harm. I’ve been trying, for months, to find a way to write about what it was ... is what happened to me: I started out as the girl who got a reasonable ... after a summer where I exercised regularly, sometimes jogging in the sun

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Painting by number The anti-formula

  

  generated by pbnify.com[/caption] In a rant post many years ago, I referenced ... (which can also be read “what is the minimum that I need to do”) in order ... .  In those situations, a new interpretation, spawned either by creative

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 2, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  , to his boat for a sailing trip. in the hours before we set sail, we ate ... life story in smooth beats. it felt like i was saying what he wanted to ... being in a position of good fortune. five. for the past few days, i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 22, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thoughts for the New Year A semester's worth of thoughts, tbh

  

  than getting a Pirate Certificate (at least, that’s what I tell myself ... few weeks ago, I made a trip to 7-11 in a shirt, a long jacket, and no ... live in, what clubs I wanted to join. Some things are going according to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every now and then, my mind = blown. Thanks, Science!

  

  this magical science place. But before I do, a big disclaimer is that I ... at the idea of doodling a science-question post. I still plan on getting around to that. But in the midst of my magnet research, I stumbled

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 11, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-Med @ MIT The title says it all.

  

  a list of schools I should be considering, a packet of information to ... admissions. Why I Chose MIT  In all honesty, there are times (*cough* hell ... gifs) I visited MIT for the first time during CPW, and I came in

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2012
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Few of my Favorite Things (Counting Blessings) Maybe the most sentimental blog post I’ve written.

  

  realized that though I don’t think I’ve felt rooted to a place before, Boston ... I’m home in Pennsylvania for three weeks, for the second time this summer. The morning after I got here, I woke up to a pile of stuffed

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 6, 2013
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Into the Smoke In more ways than one.

  

  -profit company. I still haven't interned in a government job (a viable career ... unremarkable Monday morning. I had just come off a pair of flights totalling twelve hours and spanning a full calendar day. I was more than 9

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  The Great Wifi Outage of 2007 Burton-Conner's wifi went out two days ago; Evan will tell you more by the end…

  

  're sending in a application fee waiver request?(email and tell them?what if i don't get a reply? Should i still go ahead and send in the request ... with a class of 200 each. That worries me - I don't know what it'll be

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing is Magic And 15 minutes is all you need

  

  start with a few in your head and see what happens to them as you begin ... I have a personal blog that I write about my teenagers and I haven ... certainly isn’t because of a lack of material. I have more material than ever

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  [Guest Post] You Have a 50/50 Chance a guest post from my mama

  

  . "What if I don't get in?" "Am I good enough?" (That is a question we all ask ourselves). "The acceptance rate is only a 5% or 6%" I've always tried to be a supportive parent, so I answered her concerns with "It

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2021
• Blog / Blog Projects

  I’m Still Standing after all this time at MIT

  

  tl;dr I made a music video to commemorate graduation happening in a ... bed like I was a character in a movie. I watched the original music ... that fall semester in 2019, when I took a film class that gave me the

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  video.  It's been a crazy 101 days since I last posted in this corner of ... 's been a while since I did this. Just writing. The words are clunky in my ... worries in a tangled cloud around me. I'm trying to sort through them one at

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

  How Wrestling With Snapping Turtles Can Get You Into MIT A student profile of an aspiring limnologist.

  

  and I said "MIT," I got a lot of blank looks. My school was in a small ... connections. Also, I can keep fish tanks in my dorm room, which is a major plus ... As someone whose idea of Friday night fun in high school involved (a

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT Is My Home Looking back and saying goodbye

  

  been able to take a photo with truly everyone in it ^^; And of course, I ... four activities were what I was most involved in, but during my sophomore ... and senior year I became a lot more involved, also, in the MIT ASA

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 13, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  moment’s notice.” In retrospect, it’s a cynical take—in college, I’ve had ... . I didn’t know what to do, so I chose to do nothing: stumbled into a ... a literary agent and published a book. But I found no joy in self

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019