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• Blog / Admissions

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  'm gonna roll with it. Once your “I just got into MIT!” high school senior ... .” Eventually the semester ended, I went home, slept like a normal person, re ... I had met realized that the duct tape hat fit neither of us, she was

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Merit When getting into MIT isn't convincing enough

  

  finally got someone to answer, it was an older man with a bone to pick. “I ... ?” He paused. “When I was at MIT,” said this man, who graduated a very ... , would have thought had she been on my end of the line. I’m not sure why

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • January 22, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  everything i made this year (mostly)

  

  drawing are my bread and butter mediums, so I ended up with a good amount of ... four years of high school robotics, so naturally, I picked the major that ... to 2021... When I was applying to colleges in senior year of high

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 1, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  for days. Calvin Z. ‘18 You’re reading an email thread: “i don’t want to ... the kitchen for a snack and everyone is there. “I should be asleep,” you ... lecture. It is noon. Danny B.D. ‘15 You ask for a studfinder. I give you a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  (Bitter)sweet home meeting high school teachers again, and visiting my hometown for (probably) the last time

  

  i. I visited my high school over the winter break. I came back to my ... ’m ultimately glad that we’re moving on to other places. I visited my high school ... experienced adults. Even with the high school nostalgia, I still felt very much

  • by Jenny B. '25
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thoughts for the New Year A semester's worth of thoughts, tbh

  

  ever find what I want to do with my life? What if I don’t? And in the end ... I was reading through my old blog posts and realized that it’s been a while (read: the entire semester) since I’ve blogged about my thoughts and

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Love In the Time of Corona lots of evidence that the people are the best part of MIT

  

  W.)   I'm high-key emotional rn. While that was a lot, compared ... I remember exactly where I was when the email got sent out. There was this sense of nervousness and uncertainty in the air. I had woken up to

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  last two years of high school, I ended up coming out to a lot of my ... middle school. By high school, I had grown used to being treated ... high honor, but it is one which I received."]play in the all

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an Easter vigil alive at east campus

  

  -blue voice. A man in a denim jacket plays a green violin. "I can't feel my ... closer. A man stands on the stage, a banner fluttering behind him. The banner says "Live at EC." EC is short for East Campus. I do not know if

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 5, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  finding place

  

  . MIT has taught me a lot of things about community. I was in a small high ... [/caption]   Nearing the end of my second year, I have a much stronger sense of place at ... experiences finding place at MIT. I reflected back on the patterns and

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • April 7, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hard MIT Class ...or is that redundant? And yes, hiiiiii.

  

  ? Well, it ended up happening. One fateful afternoon, I found myself ... from one end of the pool to the other on fins, I was still struggling to ... one end of the pool to the other, by now for the others without fins—I

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.

  

  . At the end of undergrad, I was deciding between going and working in ... school that none of my teachers in high school thought I should be going to ... founded by two MIT folks) and I was out late last night at the Jay-Z Beyonce

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?

  

  .   The disingenuity doesn’t end here. A couple of weeks later I would read ... creating my school’s art club, but I had to change high schools the next year ... high school students and again was incredibly frustrated because I

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
• 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…

  

  night, and the ton of missed work I had to deal with afterwards, but man ... parents every day, I wish I'd stocked up before I left.)) In the end, I ... As I'm sure those of you to whom this post is relevant will not need

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fig. 6: Eigenverantwortung The time of my life. What responsibilities?

  

  from it all. Once in Zürich, I could finally breathe, hear myself ... *t together learn to become highly-responsible, functioning, independent ... Eigenverantwortung Adultness panned out. I had received the offer to study abroad at

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • August 28, 2018
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  On Teaching and Learning Minimum requirement: read the last few sentences of this post. They're important.

  

  host teaches Algebra I, Algebra II, and Pre-Calculus. The high school is ... , I was in their shoes: a senior in high school. A couple of them are ... by their first four clans; in English, this would sound like “I am (Man

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the bridges I’ve crossed in Cambridge, ranked my civil engineering hat is off

  

  two times I took the Green Line to the end, because that’s technically a ... end and wondering just when I can even reach it. I count the smoots as I ... even worcester and providence in rhode island. colloquially, this is

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Life is Improv say yes

  

  summer camps and in high school. Though I like to think I'm a kind person ... interesting title. I ended up TAing for him for three years. He chaired my ... the trends. The end product got a lot of press, and I was asked to join

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dragons A blog post for deferred students (and everybody else waiting on decisions).

  

  were deferred or waitlisted. Lisa Z. ‘17 The day after I got deferred ... junior year of high school, when I was starting to seriously consider ... , but once upon a time humans did battle with dragons. Right now I

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

  Today I hit my TA with a door I didn't MEAN to.

  

  'm not just saying that because I nearly hospitalized him today). I ended ... It wasn't like I meant to do it. I was late for recitation, and I usually go in the back door when I'm late but today, TODAY for reasons still

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 7, 2007