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  Guest Entry: Christina Bognet Supplemental materials to help you through the next few days.

  

  'm getting in! I'm getting in!" moments, followed by, "they'll never take me ... get in. Period. I checked the decision online, put my head in my hands ... from what I thought was my dream school. I have grown so much in the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 8, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Long Road to Happiness Stuff no one likes to talk about...

  

  (also not true) and I just can’t even think back to the feeling of ... had to refer a lot to the private tumblr blog I kept where I vented ... ;   Sometime in early November, I found myself in the waiting room at

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 22, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The rise and fall of CPW all the cpw history, plus proof the weather machine is fake

  

  then back up to 415 in 1998. I also don't know where to fit this in, but ... like to live in the week everything was canceled. I can imagine that if I ... the tech[/caption] I also didn't know where to fit this in, but here

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  10 reasons why MIT is beautiful if I do say so myself.

  

  ending. (3) Because in between classes, I might eat lunch in Killian ... sailing photos, but I'm not confident enough in my abilities to bring ... engineering can be colorful: ^from 2.008 Design and Manufacturing II.  I

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 22, 2014
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  All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)

  

  will look like out in the real world. A real world where I can't just ... . The family I had in our home of Simmons Hall was generous and I can ... , and try to level the playing field accordingly (I can't remember where I

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013
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  Hacking A performance art that lets students remind the teachers who's smarter.

  

  MIT a lot, which is natural; I talk about it in my biography after all ... you can read up on at the MIT Hack Gallery but I'm going to skip to the ... class syllabus, just because I can. Required Reading: 1) MIT Hack Gallery

  • by Snively '11
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Avatar and Desserts Exploring Food Art

  

  with bending and how they can work in harmony or clash, and I love the ... everywhere, and I can't tell if it's because it was always there and I just ... childhood shows like SpongeBob or Dora. A lot of channels I had access to in

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • December 10, 2020
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  [Guest Post] How to Build a Three Story Fort by Zack I. '27

  

  , driven by passion, and a feat made possible by community. In fact, when I ... half actually screwing the sheets in. I expected plywood flooring to take ... finalized, I embarked on a sidequest to rig up the net in the center. It took

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 1, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  i dissected a roach *cronch* *slurp*

  

  interstitial fat around the gut, I unrolled the intestines as carefully as I can with the tweezers. I still ended up accidentally poking a hole in the ... before I started dissecting the head, I leaned in a bit too close and saw a

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 28, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  e) Other Some pretty important stuff, and then just some pretty stuff.

  

  me if I haven't written back to you in the past few weeks. This ... decisions that can be instrumental in the steps to what you're doing with your ... certainly worked hard back then, but I was never forced to engage in the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some More Pi Day Facts and Advice You thought all that was over, didn't you?

  

  , no matter where you are going. This is a video for pre-frosh in general, not just for MIT. College is a weird place, so I hope you can gain some ... Hello, everyone! Most especially, hello 2019s everywhere! I ran

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 23, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  some warmth on a cold decisiony day "there have been times that I thought I couldn't last for long / but now…

  

  , so I had 'em ready in spades: I imagined, as realistically as I could ... could get the argument out of the way in advance. I googled for various ... smoothly. BUT: I hadn't thought at all about how I would feel in the days

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Some people call me the space cowgirl

  

  to work for a school where I can honestly say that. There's a lot more ... whose application I just read was like Pink in many ways. She came from a ... admissions [I] have seen in [my] time, both as a student and as an admissions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2004
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  i don’t want to say goodbye sorry sad blog incoming

  

  's window. I remember thinking that this can't be our last goodbye, but in a ... everyone else"]pods[/annotation] were a thing. My podmates and I cried in ... thing does not currently exist in my possession. Two Fridays ago, I threw

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 24, 2023
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  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  .112 lecture in 10-250" or "I have three psets due every week this semester and it's really hosing" or even "I'm doing a UROP in Course 7" don't mean ... - speaking in MITese. But what else would you expect from a school where

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
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  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  helps me remember where I came from and where I’ve been, which in my ... (which I mention in my blogger intro). I’ve always thought Jenny was too ... least three other Asian Jenny’s in the class of 2013. Ultimately, I wasn

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s Not Me, It’s You How to kiss goodbye to a school that rejected you

  

  am the one thing in life I can control.” The single most formative ... million things you can’t control. You can’t control where you went to high school or where you’re from geographically or what your gender is. You can

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 29, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  try to figure out where my lecture hall is. It’s in a room I’ve never ... professionals, as I feel like I can never wake up before 9AM. But today I have ... engineering courses were typically in one of five lecture halls that I became

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
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  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  it because I want to learn as much as I can in a limited period of time ... better. This should be the breakthrough where I finally fall in love with ... . Then I soliloquized alone in my pod lounge, ate lunch on the way to lab

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Academic Conference and also things I have learned about publishing research in the past few months

  

  now, and I can affirm that the only parts that I truly feel confident in ... that took up a lot of my spring and summer, but I made it! So in this ... research in general over the last few months. As a disclaimer, I don't speak

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 14, 2020