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• Blog / About Decisions

  [guest post] hindsight in 2020 — about life after mit rejections, situated knowledges, and ultimately getting closer to the asymptote…

  

  drove in sacramento? tracy, where i grew up, is known as a cow town. a ... stayed in drafts. However, I thought it was still relevant, both for those ... CHEST.  i wanted to leave everything, including myself, behind. in junior

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2020
• Blog / Events

  How I Spent My Sophomore Spring Break I didn't go to Florida or Cancun, but I still had a lot of fun!

  

  .  Instead, I attended a three-day program during Spring Break where I worked ... seven people in it, one of which I knew prior to the program and five of ... appreciate? ____" where ____ was either UPOP or the name of our mentor. I think

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 6, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  In The City That Never Sleeps NEEEEEEEEW YORK CIIIIIIIIITY

  

  Spanish Incubator, where I would study Spanish poetry and literature in the ...  not in Spain and I was left with effectively nothing to do this IAP ... UROP where we'll be reviewing the role that MIT plays in Marvel

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 17, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Days in the Life In which I overuse Instagram.

  

  reality when I inevitably run into the door frame. I wake up in the morning ... who remember back in the day when I used to doodle in my notes. The ... Langer lab, where I UROP. I work for a post-doc on nanoparticle drug

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 15, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Three of a perfect pair Biking! Clothing! Exploding! A day in the life.

  

  habit again while I was away in Philadelphia, this time on Matt's more ... , you can actually figure out what you're supposed to be eating. In this ... would do if she were there. In theory I should hate Dim Sum because 60

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Events

  How Many Liveblogs Can We Get Onto One Page?! Mystery Hunt Part 3.5

  

  towards the end. I'm not sure if you could sense it from where you were, but ... today at Noon EST. Hope you can watch! http ... . I'll post answers to the puzzles you guys worked on and some to

  • by Snively '11
  • January 20, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  One Day in the Life of Dora as told by the one and only Dora

  

  my 18.03 pset. But I didn’t actually finish. I was going to do it in ... and turned it in after class which ended at 12. Then Joy and I went to Maseeh dining where I had three pretty decent tacos. It was crispy taco

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 4, 2016
• Blog / MISTI

  More entries about buildings and food Same as it ever was. I'm still single, but at least I'm in Belgium.

  

  colors." Gwyneth Paltrow, I'm looking in your direction. Well, I don ... , Belgium. Because I was in Brussels, Belgium this weekend. if you happen to ... "travel like a lord" in first class. Wait, actually, I do have some big

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 3, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Valentine’s Day Special Featuring calculus, people who hate me, and a picture puzzle

  

  and curmudgeonry in our observable universe, I've decided to list off ... sending me a Valentine. In no particular order: 1.John Curtice I ... the cereal in your basket on sale?” Later that week, I had a wildly

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 14, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  goodbye after so long and with so much love

  

  -five blogs. Although I can still bring it up in my mind, the MIT that the blogs ... very limited unsupervised screen time, but I did, and I fell totally in ... the same. MIT has been a place where I felt more like I belonged than I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 1, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  On Essay Writing A guide to essay writing for the express purpose of obtaining admittance to an institute…

  

  the highly specific title in this post's tagline, they can be applied to ... in your life when something happened but you can’t quite recall all of ... prompt, I will say that it is naïve to think that you can get away with not

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • July 22, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Pre-MIT prep How to prepare yourself for life at MIT -- hint: watch Chappelle's Show. Everyone else…

  

  ?) before you can graduate. I am not advising you to finish your PE classes by ... puddles when I just stomp right through them." In other important news, get ... Medical School and I barely can remember if cyclobutene is flat or not (Sam

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  making space in my schedule to go to the maker space and 100 other things I was bad at this semester

  

  ... In December 2020, I learned about the MakerLodge training that first-years could participate in, and I immediately did the online portion of the ... campus. I registered for one of the first in-person trainings because I

  • by Waly N. '24
  • June 5, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  things i have done since leaving school but only in the ten hundred most used words

  

  job now i think a lot about how games can be good for people write ... enjoy doing as often as you can i am glad that loving games has brought me to where i am now i hope that i will get to show other people how much

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 19, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  My IAP All the snow has melted since I took these pictures.

  

  lab I most wanted to work in and least expected to take me, the lab ... always empty except for me). I’m hoping to buy prints of some of my ... . You can’t see it in the photo, but there was a beautiful thick snowfall

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 19, 2015
• Blog / Summer

  solace in the self it's me! cami!

  

  time. I'm working my first in person internship, a real corporate job ... and live in a country that I haven't lived in before, I want to explore ... , [SCREAM] My internship requires I live in San Francisco. I...was not known

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 30, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some comforting blogs to read while you await decisions

  

  kind of situation) is to make lots of plans, so I had ’em ready in spades ... the way in advance. I googled for various rejection letters so that I ... get a rejection letter. And the best way I can think of to calm your

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 13, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  An interview with AoPS "What Kinds of Students Does MIT Look For?" but ASMR

  

  as we have had in the past where students can explain anything in their ... where I can snap my fingers and somehow mass hypnotize every administrator ... read on our "What we look for" page, or that my response to "how can I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 7, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mormons and video gamers Bonding with strangers

  

  I was in the right seat. ...Nope. I moved. In case I hadn't caused ... made it in one piece. This afternoon, I arrived at my hotel and for a few ... "LARPing". My elevator company included a guy in a full cat costume (I only

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 3, 2014
• Blog / Advice

  Welcome to CPW! 'twas the night before cpw...

  

  :) Explore the different dorms!  I knew I wanted to live in Burton-Conner as ... , and I remember it was nice being able to ask students questions in a ... I wasn't initially interested in!" "Highly recommend trying Mike

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • April 10, 2024