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• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Letters from the 2023 decisions threads

  

  from the other side of the veil: I applied EA to MIT a few years ago, got ... hopes; MIT had been my dream for so long. I felt like a new version of ... car keys brightly decorated with a keychain from the college I chose to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 25, 2023
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  Leavetaking and homecoming

  

  to a river pathway where I could bike to the mall with my sisters, or ... until I was eighteen. Then I moved around a lot, from southern Arizona to ... florist from whom I bought a [annotation note="I took the rose to lab. The

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 28, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  From The Midst Of Selection A recount of EA selection committee.

  

  committee. That night I edit 50 pages of copy for the new viewbook in preparation for a meeting the next morning. (Lunch: Mass Ave food truck ... until the group comes to a unanimous decision. If one can't be reached

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 5, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  For Newtown

  

  , there is a community here mourning with you and for you. Now I say to you ... Newtown, CT. I got home that night, ready to study for the final that I just ... the phone that night. "I'm about to watch a movie," he hastily answered

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 18, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Media That Makes Me Feel Okay School's out! Time to get distracted :D

  

  Didion: Are you seeing a trend yet? I can’t get enough of this woman ... time I’m about 50 years late to the trend, so you can judge me for not ... writes songs, I take a huge amount of inspiration from Mitchell

  • by Powers '23
  • May 30, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livescribe’s Pulse Pen: The Sequel! I've written about it before, and now I'm writing about it again!

  

  awesome creepy skeleton guys grabbed a burger from In and Out Burger, I ... ." "And I'm Chris." "Nice to meet you, where are you from?" "MIT" "Ah! Our ... me. We sat down at a table for dinner and chatted, ate our fajitas. I

  • by Snively '11
  • July 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I think I am slowly going insane This is your brain on AI-generated videos

  

  's website. I didn't feel like sifting through the actual dataset for a minimax ... video after video for an hour. It was a good break from my usual MIT ... from [annotation note="A big data labeling tech startup that I used to

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 6, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  GRE, Boston love, and loose ends from last time Wandering around Boston lost is one of my favorite things to do.

  

  actually knowing where I am. In some cities, this is a very foolhardy and ... , since I hadn't had to do a lot of the stuff on the test since 10th grade... the good part is that it's like riding a bike and you can pick it up

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  Reflections from the STARS@MIT Fly-In a 15-author guest blog, featuring the small town/rural students that visited us this october!

  

  for fun! What made you want to come to the MIT fly-in? “I live in a ... “I live in a town of around 4,000 people, and a two hour drive from the ... school looks for. I want to become an engineer, so finding a good school

  • by Sara N. '28
  • November 11, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  [Joint Post] A Jaunt Across Europe (Part 1) vomiting in Venice and other Italian adventures

  

  type of place. I feel most at ease in a big city where I can get lost in ... friends would be in Paris for a semester-long exchange program, and I wanted ... here, for the first and last time of my Europe trip, I bumped into a

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  A Major Crisis haha get it..cause..yeah,

  

  social media for as long as I can remember, from my cousin playing Call of ... blog, but also as a reminder for myself that this is what I'm thinking at ... and buying my own Steam games for the first time. Media has been a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 12, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tips for applying to UROPs

  

  for those who aren’t sure where to get started. There’s also a good ... the different ways that you can get one, written from a student ... and/or summer. You can even get paid for it, which is awesome. [caption

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to Get Home from the Airport for Free For prefrosh who are like me and terrified of entering dank underground tunnels they haven’t…

  

  to Boston from a family vacation in Toronto, I took the T back to MIT for free like I always do. When I first came to MIT I was terrified of public transportation. It was only a few years ago that I stopped taking

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 18, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Finals™ How to survive AND thrive this finals season?!

  

  . Once I get a solid foundation going, for the classes for which I can ... heads' start. No, I haven't started studying for a final that early, ever ... created a list of topics I need to cover and material I want to revise. For

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 18, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Guilty Pleasure or why it's all about "the Hockey."

  

  drive home to New Hampshire for a hockey game. My brother and I were part ... Manchester. Today my brother and I will head to "The Gahden" for a Bruins game ... When I was a freshman, like many before me and many since, I lived in

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • January 1, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  incremental game support group let's distract ourselves with games!

  

  two in the game. You can play this for over a month and still have ... for at least a couple minutes to see what's going on. Synergism. I ... 't really play games that much; I've had a Steam account with like five games

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 6, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Adonde? Excuse me sir, I seem to have misplaced my pants.

  

  Tube. He searched for "Improv Everywhere Best Buy" and showed me a hilarious ... 2:15 we left the dorm and headed for the subway. I was dressed in a ... . . ." Since getting to MIT I've been a part of several riots and a flash mob

  • by Snively '11
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Reading folders A little bit more on evaluating applications.

  

  application by thinking a bit about the applicant's context. I can see much of this on the Part 1. Where are you from -- a big city? a rural farming ... thinking about your high school, I have a sense of what opportunities for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  batteries recharging because that's what IAP is for

  

  out a ton of work so i can get my actual project closer to completion ... this is the third IAP i've spent on MIT. trust me, i really tried to get away, but my research called to me and i decided to forego a bunch

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 22, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I need a fix ‘cause I’m goin’ down Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love a 40%.

  

  , pulled an all-nighter studying for it, realized I didn't know my butt from ... high school, I got a 95 on my first 8.01 test after studying for like one ... , "WHAT-side attack?!" I was rewarded for my feeble efforts with a 59, only

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 27, 2006