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  To the Deferred I feel your pain.

  

  others of you are stuck in that frustrating and seemingly interminable ... was one of those kids. I made it here. You can too. ... plethora of emotions that come with it. Right now, some of you are nearly

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 16, 2009
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  demons on depression

  

  visualize something, kind of see a picture in their head vividly, which can ... can draw a banana. In all respects, I can act like someone who is ... Content warning: depression, emotional abuse, suicide. In the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 28, 2021
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  Critter gaze upon my son

  

  , forming a pit in which it can trap and digest slightly larger creatures ... how cutting a starfish up can give you more starfish than you started ... " conformation, increasing genetic diversity in the population.   Day 13

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 26, 2020
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  3 weeks in northern Italy Global Teaching Labs and MISTI-Italy

  

  strange but in the short-term, this minute, I am glad because I can sit here ... I spent the last three weeks in Italy through GTL, and the two before that in Santa Fe. In Santa Fe I slept on a beautiful couch carved out of

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 2, 2016
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  “Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” and other ways to improve your test scores

  

  correlation doesn’t imply causation, a controlled experiment can. As in, one can ... then asked: “If you were the person described in the text, which ... -so-cute memories of a familiar and horrifying scenario in which you feel judged in a

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
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  smoke and spice my comfort meal

  

  other. It’s neat having things in life that you can always count on to ... , but you can substitute any protein here. Chicken breast, diced tofu, seitan, whatever suits your fancy. Pour in each of these sauces. You

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 9, 2023
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  All the Bloggers’ Personalities! A post about personality tests, part 2!

  

  or 8 “Hmm. In my personal life, I can see myself as Type 2. I think ... “ADMISSIONS BLOGGERS---EXPOSED!!!!!!”) Some of you may remember that a(n embarrassingly long) while ago, I wrote a post about personality tests, in

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 12, 2018
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  The end of a chapter

  

  was in desperate need of some de-stressing) then came back to Cambridge ... rising senior *letting out a little scream in my head*. After a year ... my year abroad and now, I can’t take some of the classes I really want

  • by Linh V. '13
  • July 8, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions of Travel a guest post by Spencer W. '15

  

  around in an oversized fish tank: ‘I can’t wait to get out here.’ When the ... intricacies of the sideburns. “Well, between you me, that’s the worst room in ... Fi. If you’re there now, enjoy it any way you can, devour it. Let it be the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  you can get a good grade in the course, not so that you can beat out ... interested in academic medicine down the road, and if you can manage to squeeze ... : "So where do you go to school?" ME: "Oh, I go to school in Boston

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011
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  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  poems you write in middle to high school years when you have feelings. So ... 6. In this post, I reflect on previous Yultide posts, in a quasi ... the greatness of SHASS in other posts. Last semester, the awesome

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  “You are capable of more than you know.” Reflections from six MIT transfer students

  

  were you, and what were you up to? Gaurab: I lived most of my life in ... what are you up to? Gaurab: I’m a junior at MIT majoring in EECS. I do ... community can form in a short amount of time, it’s just a matter of seeking it

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 13, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Search of Answers Seeking recommendations, rather than providing them...

  

  you are looking for a quick synopsis. Rankings can provide a comparative ... institution)? If you have, I’d love to hear about it in the comments section ... about the difficulty in selecting the students who will ultimately be

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 13, 2011
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  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  recruiting events. The latest one, held in early May of this year, was at Abide ... , they really did—wheeled in old-school arcade games, paid for limitless boba, etched the space in muted gold light. A woman in a crisp suit

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
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  MIT Women’s Soccer Talking to the 2009 NEWMAC Champs after they returned from the NCAA National Championship Tournament

  

  accomplishments in soccer, you can tell that these women are not only extremely ... tournament for the first time in program history. They were knocked out of the ... at MIT. Liz is a senior, majoring in Mechanical Engineering (course 2

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 25, 2009
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  “You know what would be cool?” some pizza would be a start...

  

  universities that you can go to for your education. It's not like MIT teaches some secret form of Math that no one else knows about. Heck you can even ... Science to Student Life, the best way to get free food and every tangent in

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 8, 2009
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  Classes I Won’t Be Able to Take also "What Is Pre-Registration?"

  

  binding as regular registration. You can resubmit your pre-reg subjects as ... to take the class. You can submit as many classes as you want for ... about unless you read the course catalog. I can't believe it took me three

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 23, 2019
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  I know you’re bad at something And here's what you should do about it. Hint: NOT "do something else"

  

  measures and symbols telling you what key you're supposed to be soloing in ... delightful to you. Freedom! A chance to be expressive and creative in front of ... ; they suggested naming the band "The Band Of People Who Can't Play Solos" in my

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  This Is How I Read productivity hacks, but for reading applications

  

  'd give you a window into a day in the life of reading applications. We ... installed over in Civic so that he and others can have walking meetings during ... I really love the "day in the life" posts that have gone up recently

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 3, 2014
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  [Guest Post] You Have a 50/50 Chance a guest post from my mama

  

  listening and praying the rosary (I can't help it I'm Catholic after all) in ... to clear out the obstacles in her path, I can't. As life has taught me, the obstacles in whatever form they may be will make you stronger in the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2021