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• Blog / About Decisions

  [Guest Post] An Overthinker’s Guide to Finishing Your Transfer Application by Warren K. ’27

  

  admissions or read applications for a living (though I did ask someone who does ... or ask too many people (especially strangers) to read through your ... , and if you edit the essay into the ground you’ll lose that. This will

  • by Jeremy W.
  • March 4, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  How to Meet More People a guest post from Amy F. '20

  

  for others to know us, we need to be vulnerable so others will do the same, we need to take the pains to understand so others will do the same, and we need to want to care so others will do the same. This is beyond

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • June 18, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Birthday! 1 in 365 readers are really pleased that I remembered their birthday! ...or creeped out…

  

  this blog post on any given day will be floored that some MIT admissions ... kitchen to ‘sing’ Happy Birthday. Why the quotes? That will soon become ... cakes. Usually, when you have a square or rectangular cake, it gets cut

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 19, 2010
• Blog / Events

  A Latino Christmas An introducción to Next House's newest student group.

  

  starting. Credit: Caesar. Olay '09 and Will '11 leading the mötley cr ... subjects between songs. Credit: Will '11. We saw this face many times on many people that night. Meredith '12, Will '11, and Steve '12. My film

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • December 11, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Rrrrrrr. CPW! [UPDATE] CPW Smoke. Don't breathe this.

  

  ahead of me" days. A quick break from 2.001 will be good though, and I ... blender. I was a skeptic (how can you beat WillItBlend?) but I decided to ... guys are excited, and in a little over a week you will all know just how

  • by Snively '11
  • April 1, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  From the eyes of a newly minted EC A flashback++

  

  about, but if you tell me, I will, but my lack of blogging is not the ... there or what it took to get in. As I started to fill out applications, I ... I was or what I wanted to do when I grew up. And let's just say this

  • by Bryan
  • March 31, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So I said to Einstein… ...think of a name for my new theory while I go talk to my relatives.

  

  250 C or when I want to sparge the water with helium to get out any dissolved carbon dioxide or when I need the tank to fill up, so I sometimes ... solving techniques while banging your heads against the problem sets, or

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 19, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Happy Holidays, and some advice

  

  in life. Once you've achieved this goal, you figure, everything will be wonderful. Life will be good. I mean, you got into MIT, right? You've got it ... until they get that piece of paper that will open the gate into the "real

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 23, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Doogie Howser, et al.

  

  . Often, phone calls about this to the Office will be routed to me, since I ... at age 16 or 15. Younger students are not a huge population at most ... plain run out of opportunities. Some of these students' families will move

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  one with nothing making peace with unproductivity

  

  resources, like energy or life points. being a card game, cards are the most ... , i'm gonna use the time for personal projects or whatever. none of that ... 'll probably end up feeling the same anyway, or at least very similar. i think i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 5, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Food, glorious food In which I learn that Simmons Dining is not, in fact, the best that Boston's…

  

  would have told you Simmons Dining (or maybe Maseeh Dining [annotation ... "] Map of restaurants I visited over the week.[/caption] Day 1 (Saturday ... bagel or something), but it was just okay. Punto Rojo (Dinner) To

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 6, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Black Panther 2 Plot (Totally Real) (Not Clickbait) (Please Click Anyway Though) Not a fanfiction about Black Panther (because I am not a fan)

  

  generally dislike superhero movies, but because I know exactly what will ... dorm at MIT) will appear in a few scenes. There will be some car chase ... (because Chadwick Boseman died 🙁). Ironheart/Riri Williams will be

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 8, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  Crocheting With the Firehose Gauge your stitches, gauge your life

  

  logistics of crocheting at MIT. How will I pack all my yarn? What project ... store in Cambridge?[/annotation] To whom will I bestow crocheted gifts ... ="Unless you'd like to burn yourself. Then use a triple crochet."]will make a

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 13, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What makes me an MIT student? Some thoughts about blogging and a special question for returning readers.

  

  will say that I am truly enjoying the ride, for better or for worse ... 't. Maybe they don't watch "Lost" or "24" (seriously, are those TV shows?), and maybe they aren't first or even last in line at the free finals

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Short Thoughts Girlhood, editing, iPhone notes.

  

  struggling with bouts of illness for the past month or so. I'm not sure what ... or to find myself shivering in a heated room; I often go to sleep with ... 's more personal than anything I'm usually willing to write. I'm linking to

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 13, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Blogging Is The Salt Shaker Of My Life thinly veiled platitude included free in box of metaphors

  

  complement the substance of our life experiences, or something equally ... intriguing that little glimpse into MIT through the blogs was, or how curious ... from a lackluster turn of phrase, or to propel a drowning post inherently

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Aftermath Literally.

  

  , looking for answers – why you were rejected, deferred, or accepted, how you ... to get in and got in or had all the passion in the world for MIT and were rejected/deferred, you will be thinking about yesterday’s decision

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 17, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Nuns, fret not! Like baby alligators in the sewers, you too will grow up fast.

  

  public high school, not private or magnet - our biggest pride was our ... office will take that into account. I, too, had no science olympiad ... your weaknesses, and I'm not saying that NOT having AIME scores will get

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 2, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Responses to comments! I answered your questions. Like, fast this time.

  

  or did you contact the coach and (this is going to sound stupid) how ... 't going to be recruited to a DI school or anything. I definitely initiated ... 'm pretty sure that filling out this form will accomplish the same thing. Then

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorm Rush and Hall Rush

  

  then there was Hall Rush (or In-House Rush...I guess if you're in, say ... Harvey will care that I bled on the 'S'?" I carved out the letters in "East ... (or burning, for that matter), there was just a lot of evaporating

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 2, 2005