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  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  before. I was hoping fasting would bring me some sort of ease about what ... deprived wasteland in my head. I checked my laptop again. 2 minutes. I ... , and honestly, I had decided to stop arguing about when it should be a

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  semester, I have already taken a final exam. In the midst of sitting down for ... forward a few days, I dropped the class in question, thinking it would make ... sense that I was being productive—what food we would order for a House

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

  50 Things Advice for the class of 2010.

  

  experiment and see what works best for you. At least a few times in your ... once a year. Trust me on this one. If you are in a relationship and ... for you; beginning with the launch of our new site in early September, I

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Queer at MIT, but not on the blogs the map is not the territory, but it's getting closer

  

  for the cool girl in school was what it felt like to be straight. And I ... in a long-term committed relationship with a man, I'd... rather other ... , and I'm in a position where I could hide behind my hetero relationship

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  ’m supposedly a person who has checked all of the boxes to know what I want out of ... write. It's been a while since I've done that, in part because I've been ... , which is a big reason that I'm writing this post. In one week, I need to

  • by Phi A. '21
  • April 20, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  rather than entrepreneurial, in which case I imagine it would be less of a ... (in other news, i just realized that i have no idea what is good form ... 't anticipated her interest in economics. I'm the same--I did not take a single

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

  Why My 5.13 Problem Set Took All Day Moral of the story: Don't procrastinate, or I'll never talk to you again.

  

  will probably be my downfall one day when I'm ninety-two in a backless ... I've always been a procrastinator. I've procrastinated on such tasks ... ? I have like, four more years before it becomes socially unacceptable

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  in late January. I'm living in Next House after a busy on ... recruit volunteers. It's Thursday, March 5th. I'm in a meeting for ... ,[annotation note="in particular, I had missed mine to play in a pit orchestra

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  pennies and published them in my post My Two Cents. I got a lot of responses ... hardships. I felt like I had made a difference in many people's lives. So it ... late working multiple nights in a row and it culminated with me dropping

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  25 Stories of Getting Accepted to MIT told by students and alums

  

  a large quantity of ice cream the night before. If I got in, I would ... ’t even check that morning since my friends and I were going to a math ... a lot of fun. In the car on the way home I pulled out my phone to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  could only find in few other places. I merely had a general sense of what ... me and said I had a package awaiting me in the secretary’s office. I ... had qualified to the AIME. I was pretty excited, and after a while, in a

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / Advice

  My Product Design Internship in Austin how to build things: both externally and internally

  

  ="Which I dip in Chick-fil-a sauce. What? It’s classy ... Boy oh boy, what a summer it’s been so far. For the first time in my ... ], and I often go together. We bob around in the water for a bit, clamber

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • July 26, 2024
• 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 ... exactly what needs to be done. I stick my cell culture media in the ... yeast smelled like, so I stuck my nose in the container and took a big

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  dormspam-the-game (Part 3) parting remarks from no-longer-anonymous gamemasters

  

  Next Forum Games, a precursor to dormspam-the-game, in 14.05. I promise ... ... What do I get for winning? Uh, literally nothing. A sense of pride and ... games in quarantine what if i do them with all of campus whitney: ok

  • by Phi A. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “So what are you majoring in?” *sweats nervously*

  

  simple. I signed up for 6.01 in my first semester and went to a few ... .01 abilities of everyone around you? …Yeah? After taking what I felt was a lot ... that kind of attention. In a moment of grave seriousness, I’ll say it has

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  actual conversations i have definitely had with freshmen during orientation

  

  what things are you gonna check out FROSH: well i was looking at the a ... : i know right??? * * * FROSH: so what year are you ME: i'm a senior ... : are you in a frat ME: no ME: ME: well i'm in the toons ME: ME: we

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 30, 2017
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  The Random Hall ‘13s Life plans, advice, and stories from last year’s Random Hall graduates.

  

  ladder. Maybe I’ll do a master’s on the side to check my pulse? In my free ... of them changed my life in a good way and I’m excited to see the ... . Out of the sky dropped a summer position. Back in 2011, I had UROP

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 20, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the exclusion of everything else on making decisions, and how i chose mit

  

  Here's a post I made in my personal blog, around a year ago, talking ... fourth post in a four-part series, so here’s some context. I went to the ... I could hit up anyway. In the worst case, I could probably sleep in a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  What I wish I’d known, and what I’m glad I knew Before coming to MIT.

  

  asked me what I wish I'd known before I came to MIT. I wish I'd known ... instructor. I hope - and think - that I never participated in a conversation ... "make sure I had a solid foundation" before moving on. It's obvious to me

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Decade in Online Posting looking back: from the forums to the blogs

  

  writing a lot more than before. In March, there’s this."]I feel so confident ... decide."]and I'm in a dilemma.[/annotation] Should I go for the school that ... in my East Campus room. I spent a lot of time online, and I made what

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020