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

  

  I've gotten a number of email responses to my blog post about the different paths our lives can take. One of them was from a student whom we denied five years ago. He and I had emailed a bit when he was denied, but I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  , me just being yet another ordinary kid living an ordinary life hoping

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bursting the MIT Bubble 1.0 things to do in Downtown Boston

  

  facades, and everything feels friendly and lively and free. Crowds roam the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  people existed in my head. I began to type, and they began to live on dark

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 17, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  , of pessimism, of worry, of fear and live in the moment, passing on the

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What I wish I’d known, and what I’m glad I knew Before coming to MIT.

  

  'd spent more time with my living group (French House) freshman fall. I think

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  ’ll look back on these four years as the best years of our lives and the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  living thing and its fossil. A fossil isn't the plant or animal itself: it

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to get a UROP A lesson on stalking.

  

  graduate student living in your dorm. Mine does work at the Media Lab, and I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Am I Smart Enough for MIT? On second thought...don't answer that.

  

  supposed to. (Hanging out with friends in my living group, going on road

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  come college life: trying to pick a school, a living group, a major - you

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 7, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a sad sad toaster made of glass. Do you like your toast with tears? Because I'm sad.

  

  don't even live here]." And I was all, "So?" And then I went back to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An actual day in the lab Hectic is my middle name.

  

  decide you want to live there, can you pick that dorm for the second

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  everything i made this year (mostly)

  

  hear about the mundanities and excitements of their daily lives (and to ... project consumed our lives for the last two weeks of the [annotation note

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

  I’m not an imposter… I’m going to be featured on the MIT News homepage

  

  the ideal MIT lives. There’s already a flaw in this reasoning, but we ... get better lives—for themselves, but mostly for me and my sister.  A

  • by ana~
  • October 29, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  AOs write the “What do you do for fun?” essay Ever wondered what admissions officers do when they're not reading applications?

  

  lived quieter, slower-paced lives. There, nestled back against Aspen and

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  to the great advantage of all freshmen who do not live in fraternities or at home to live in the Institute dormitories", with specific mention ... requiring first-years to live on-campus. There's mention of the Women

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  You Are Here a list of things i can't make myself do, and a few i can

  

  the endless noise of constant motion that comes with living in a house ... at a live performance of my favorite band, brushing into people as I

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 19, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Semester 1 fantastic dishes and how to cook them

  

  ."]I live in EC.[/annotation] International student from Taiwan ... note="cj: pika is one of mit’s independent living groups and they have a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 8, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Reflections on 50 Things thinking back on The Blogfather's wisdom in my senior year

  

  , actually look forward to a respectable 9-5 job, so they can finally live on a ... says, “enjoy every second.” “This is the only time in your lives when

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018