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  MIT Is My Home Looking back and saying goodbye

  

  the end of classes. I teared up at the Black graduate celebration, at ... continued success. I entered high school and, with the help of my co ... my journey throughout the years. Though I will (mostly) end my career

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 13, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later what happened after pi day 2011

  

  , five years already!). After my high school graduation in 2011, I decided ... . It still is. Though it was mainly written for high schoolers, I found ... Farewell day, and the girl whom I loved for all these years had sort of ended

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  edition of HowToGAMIT. I ended up volunteering to be HowToGAMIT's treasurer ... Almost every time I return home from MIT, I find myself mentally translating certain MIT concepts or words or course numbers when I'm talking to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  An Open Letter to MIT Applicants Don’t Panic (and know where your towel is)

  

  score number. Let me tell you how I ended up here. As a senior in high ... high school was expected to apply somewhere. I talked with my dad a ... their names before. MIT ended up on my list because I read about the hacks

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mostly Harmless Rifle. As in, the phys ed class. As in, I fired one.

  

  . Just kidding, bacteria don’t have mustaches and hats (or do they). I am ...        “Oh yes, well I managed to transmit a new entry off to the ... moments at MIT when I’ve felt really awesome and really, really badass (not

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 22, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  was not the end-all be-all, but because I had proven to my classmates ... voluminous, but somewhere inside I know that it is a means to an end, a tool I ... does, that in high school I used to say that this was just what I wanted

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT, part deux The case study of someone else you wouldn't expect to have gotten in

  

  on how I got here is the most popular thing I've ever written ... young for TMNT?), I decided to profile my endlessly put-upon boyfriend, Adam '07, and his admissions story. (Well, that and I took a thermo test

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ten reflections on mit

  

  of leaving high school and growing up and maturing. Whether I’d have ... decision, I think) — but that summer I ended up in Boston anyways ... that I had in high school. It’s so interesting going back and re

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 15, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  much.) However, I ended up squandering all my work time during the four ... at every turn. But, I knew how this would end, of course, because I ... airport); in reality, I ended up leaving closer to 12:45pm. When I arrived

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HERE LIES P/NR September 2018-December 2018

  

  times I ended up in a class that was way over my current capabilities ... . Becoming is honestly the most relatable book I’ve ever read, and I highly ... The alarming rate at which the semester flew by shocked me, and I had

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 16, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Reading aka inhaling all the books i can before school starts

  

  ’t really have high expectations for but I ended up enjoying it quite a bit ... writing phase in middle and high school. I eventually moved on to RPG video ... excited to take one of his classes, and now I probably won't end up doing so

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  that with me into college. I wasn't particularly well liked in high ... lot with reckoning my high school self with this person I was becoming ... because I hadn't felt that way since high school and those feelings came

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Perkus Nonacademia MIT will give you more than just an engineering degree.

  

  getting it on. So fast forward a bit: I'm there again at the end of August ... disks for work computers. By the end of it Erich asked if I'd be ... I'm chugging into my 3rd year here at MIT blogging, studying, and

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  150 years of MIT course catalogs the mit history you want to know

  

  I am when it comes to history, is that 1865 is towards the end of the ... over the past few months. I used to think history was pretty dry, but I ... , yes, not the kind of history that I like reading for fun. What

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-Med @ MIT The title says it all.

  

  is most worried about: will I be able to maintain a high GPA at MIT ... ended up at great schools. I guess my point is: don't let the idea of a B ... The most frequent question I received during CPW was: "You're pre

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  This story has to do with professor accessibility. And something awesome that I got in the mail.

  

  approachable. My high school was small, and I could swing by a teacher’s office ... I love getting mail. Actual mail, that is: packages and postcards and letters with actual human handwriting. I was therefore super pumped to find

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what am i doing great question.

  

  I thought, since my last post was actually quite uninformative re:MIT facts and information, and instead I just blogged my feelings (which isn’t all bad, I suppose) today I could actually tell you what I’m doing this

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty people later ✈✈✈ (pronounced whoosh) ✈✈✈ (pronounced nyeowww)

  

  unlocking we did. Why puzzles? Here's a question I'll end the post with. Why ... 't have fifty people; the number's closer to 65. But this is a series, and I intend to see it through, no matter how ridiculous the titles end up being

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  We’ve been there, too. It feels like the calm before the storm. Please don't forget to breathe.

  

  the time senior year of high school rolled around that I wasn't looking ... more focused on the countdown to 9PM. As the day ended, I called home ... rewriting and fretting around my application to MIT, I managed to have it

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This Bathroom Ceiling Some science, some fiction: traverse the space and time of our bathroom ceiling.

  

  This summer while Random Hall is closed I am living on Beast, 2E, the second floor of the East Parallel of East Campus. Today I want to tell you ... new life and new civilizations; to boldly go where no man has gone

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014