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• Blog / About Decisions

  So the rest of your decisions are coming in and let's take a second to talk about it

  

  waiting game was too difficult to play alone. And among my peers, I ... college decisions being sent to their inboxes. Such a beautiful season. If you’re like 92% of kids who applied to MIT, then you probably didn’t get

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • March 27, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  i’m back .gif not an undergrad, not a grad student, but a secret third thing

  

  ourselves say goodbye to the lives we had built separately and together in ... in my friend's car to head back to the West Coast. We stayed in small-town hotels, accidentally drove through Canada, listened to a lot of [annotation

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  secondhand stories an allegory

  

  mixed together, regardless of experience. i got to work with new actors ... it. i mean, sure, i went to acting school for four years, but i ... some scenes, and then sending it to this mysterious council of evaluators

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 22, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This title is irrelevant In which I discuss two important aspects of undergraduate life: scientific research and climbing stairs.

  

  letter to MIT, I glimpsed a beautiful future in which all of life ... disillusionment, even after you pack your suitcases to the acceptable airline limit and ship yourself to the college of your dreams. Writing this would make

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 28, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  7 / Pressure is a privilege Training for my last hurrah, the US Championships

  

  . Internally, I was screaming to myself to get it together, to focus, to block ... TO SET THE MOOD: 'Aranjuez' by Jorge Muñiz & José Luis Duval ... , pushing training to the side. I didn't even plan on skating this season

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • February 15, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  can’t stop smiling a time capsule for freshman fall

  

  now it’s February... But this one is pretty close to my heart, and I ... ate a breakfast of cheese & crackers. I walked to my first class of ... to my second class. I grabbed lunch with some friends, and then trekked

  • by Allison E. '27
  • February 12, 2024
• Blog / People & Identities

  [Guest Post] One Year Later Some things changed, some things didn’t

  

  out to his family. Here's his story.   A little over one year ago, I came out to my mom and my dad. Since then, things have settled into a new ... takes a long time for sediment to collect at the bottom of a liquid

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 11, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Cancer life-changing.

  

  of you who haven’t – well, I’m about to tell you about it :) Camp ... whom are MIT students) come together for a week of pure camp fun – filled ... a number of events and fundraisers on campus to raise the $65,000 we

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 18, 2012
• Blog / Events

  MIT Can Talk! Bon appétit!

  

  together to support their friend who was paralyzed in her senior year. Still ... important items that engineers should add to their personal wish list. Now it's time to blog about something I feel particularly passionate about: public

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 4, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  “what if I get rejected” for everyone nervous about admissions decisions

  

  I'll cut to the chase: it's November, which means that a lot of the ... application season, and are either trying to vibe out whether they want to apply to MIT, or they already have and now must wait a grueling amount of

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • November 13, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  It’s Your Future, Charlie Brown! Charlie Brown, Friendsgiving, and the Erosion of Deep Literacy

  

  is like 10 pages of blog, and I still have more to say!"]There's a lot ... Mrs. Patterson had alluded to all week while we sat on the floor of her kindergarten classroom (the class next door even came over to join us, it was

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • November 20, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  making the most of things we threw our annual rager in, uh, Minecraft

  

  was super wholesome and endearing—I love that we came together to do ... I just wanted to quickly share something that brought me a lot of ... best we could to do honor this tradition was talk for a couple of hours

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  aeroastro privilege all-expenses-paid tour to seattle and los angeles

  

  to the AeroAstro Centennial (which closed with an Elon Musk Q+A). We get access to our own machine shop, laboratory, and lounge in the ... biggest building in the world by volume. It's perhaps difficult to visualize

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 10, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All Hail the Working People Living down the 40-hour work week.

  

  waking up at 10:30 AM everyday to nothing but enjoying sunshine, pointless ... forward to the alarm ringing at 6:45 AM. I drive an hour to work – which ... suburban Coach bus that will take them to work. Inspiring!) I’m interning at

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 31, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Complementary in Kinetic Typography Posted with permission from the author. Meet Rishi '14!

  

  my talents together to make a presentation to the Admissions committee ... When I saw this video back in late April, it was instantly copied to a ton of MIT internal email lists that I am on. I proceeded to get

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 23, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  GEL-ing Gordon Engineering Leadership program, that is

  

  bring these atypical students together. Best of all, you get to share in ... the campus life center, gently harassed a staff member to let me use his ... those of you up to speed on the course numbers), I’m pursuing a Theater

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 14, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  And now, for a brief interlude from our regularly scheduled finals whining. I should be studying E&M right now, but this is much more fun.

  

  and something needs to piece me back together. me: no worries, I’m on it ... few weeks ago, I was heading over to my sorority house to study one ... going? me: Back to the house… to study…. Them: False. You’re coming with

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • May 17, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  I Think I’ve Found Paradise (Guest Entry) Work hard, play hard. For the next four years.

  

  to be a man of few words, and my guest-entry was going to revolve ... consider me to be a pretty serious, goes to bed at 10, enjoys jazz music type of guy. So from the minute I leapt off my five-hour plane flight to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  All these days I spend away What does "home" mean to you?

  

  planning CPW, I mean that the entire campus comes together to make CPW as ... , ranging from ever-welcome three-day weekends to (most beloved of all) the ... any class. But on the other hand, most professors still expect us to put

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 25, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Schedules are up!

  

  being able to string a few sentences together)... and that my schedule is ... 's a requirement for biology majors to graduate, and I'm a senior this ... looking forward to it. Multivariable calc is a prereq. Eep.) I also have to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 18, 2005