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• Blog / Admissions

  The Room(s) Where It Happens You've hit submit. What Comes Next?

  

  use moments of confusion or disagreement to grow together. It’s a very ... sunset. Together, we hurried to Killian Court to catch this moment before ... sometimes ask students to imagine who reads their applications and to tell me

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • January 9, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  So drastic and inevitable, the leap from high school to college seems like the perfect opportunity to change yourself and become the person you’ve always wanted to be - more outgoing, more aggressive, perhaps more generous

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Grown Up Well, not quite.

  

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 26, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  towards some inevitable death. Game over. I handed my poker chips to a ... Sometimes I went to recruiting events just to remember why I avoided ... , they really did—wheeled in old-school arcade games, paid for limitless

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  . Eleven of us went to dinner together Saturday night, and though none of us ... returned to Next, running out the dregs of our time together. Eventually, it ... contracted, collapsing from a community to a few lonely souls haunting a space

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 31, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  [joint post] a guide to mit gyms big brains, big gains 😤

  

  intro Gloria: Contrary to popular belief, MIT students actually do ... Center[/annotation] have limited hours, those looking to squeeze in a quick 2AM lift often turn to their in-building fitness facilities instead

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • September 4, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Have Never Been to Beijing A (loose) translation of the previous post written in Chinese

  

  them :) I have never been to Beijing. Whenever we returned to China, we always went to Shanghai, Nanjing, or Hangzhou, always somewhere in the Jiangsu province area. I remember being able to speak Shanghainese

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  volunteer as a summer camp counselor and play games with kids to teach them ... student chose to become part of MIT’s class of 2018. While I have nothing against major news platforms and don’t want to belittle stories that

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Boomeranging The day before classes start is Registration Day. It’s also the day we welcome readmitted…

  

  to a place enough times, all your visits start to blur together. This ... only way to describe us is “formerly returned students.” This year, there ... life experiences, and we’re here to talk tips and tricks, to tell the

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Advice

  You don’t have to be a founder move slow and fix things

  

  ' Guild game and how I got dragged to a square dance class by a hallmate ... the office, to writing or reviewing a game. In Tech Squares, work can be ... , not everyone who joins a Guild game or comes to Squares will do one of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 29, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye

  

  snow angels and worked together to build Olaf, my first and only snowman ... It’s been 3.5 years since I came to the United States from Nigeria, to study at MIT. In 2017, this ongoing chapter of my life promises to

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the exclusion of everything else on making decisions, and how i chose mit

  

  about why I decided to commit to MIT. I tried to keep it as close as possible to the original, but I did have to edit out some details. It’s the fourth post in a four-part series, so here’s some context. I went to the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Gothic You are reading an admissions blog post. You are reading tumblr.

  

  all day. You haven’t slept in weeks. You arrive late to lecture. The ... equations. They don’t look familiar. You try to find your professor’s office ... . You return to the first floor and walk to the other tower. You’re still

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Making Connections we live in a society (affectionate)

  

  March, we were good enough friends to decide to live together in September ... A few hours ago, I was on my way to my room in the[annotation note="EC has two buildings; one is to the west of the other"]west parallel

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj

  

  epic journey, akin to the experience of a full-fledged a Castlevania game ... To understand this post, you need two important bits of context. First is the famous quote widely attribute to former MIT President Jerome

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

  's doing a PhD in oceanography to pursue policy and science together by ... isn't the piece of paper, but the lifelong ties to the people who I grew with together (bet you guessed that). One of the primary reasons I chose

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 6, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HOW TO FORGE A DRAGON SWORD and other skills picked up in 3.096

  

  -ended nails that hold pieces of metal together. They are very hard to forge ... : how to not burn yourself Reach toward hot things (or potentially hot ... heat. how to taper, rivet, chisel, and assorted other skills. tapering is

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 7, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paths there are so many

  

  We were deferred when we applied early to MIT, and remember how heartbreaking it felt. We obsessed over MIT unhealthily to the point where going to MIT was the only future we saw for ourselves. Looking at the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 19, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  As We Approach Decision Day On getting in and on not getting in

  

  back together again. It’s an opportunity that you can use to learn, grow ... When I hit puberty my inability to assess risk thank goodness ... -hipster phase. I loved setting up ridiculous goals and then reaching them, just to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 8, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Diversity or Merit? false questions, false answers

  

  principle from which to derive a conclusion: Oh, [that student] did / did not ... , even though they are *unqualified* Let's cut to the core of the matter ... vast majority of applicants, is closer to the idea of qualified or

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 13, 2011