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  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  road, but the start of a new journey. I know that those words can be ... what.  There’s a lot of things that you might be feeling. And I can’t begin to know exactly what those feelings are. But what I can do is share

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 16, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT Underwear Exposé (and Sorting Hat) The coolest data you never wanted to have.

  

  kitchen. The data are squirmy, like most data: We can’t know what ... grouped with seniors in the MIT people directory. Similarly, I can’t know ... the information we collected from my inbox, we can use Bayes’ Theorem to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Feeling Many Feelings :) and :( and everything in between about decisions

  

  most: Ron said, "One person can't feel all that at once, they'd explode ... can probably imagine, when we release our admissions decisions on Pi Day ... admitted or not, can never fully capture our deepest belief in your

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • March 16, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Stove-Cook Your Oatmeal and Never Look Back To not-admitted applicants and anyone who knows anything about fuses.

  

  you cook oatmeal on the stove. You boil a cup of milk. You can hear it ... in the world can have breakfast or building cities or improving ... obvious mountains to climb. I can walk in any direction, or switch

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 19, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Blogural Inaugural I just wanted to use this title.

  

  'll see what I can do about that) admissions blogger. I think that means ... here), and generally what my life's like (so that you can, I don't know ... three tines. As you can see above, my fork's lacking in general forkiness

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 8, 2009
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  In the Realm of Giants imposter syndrome with a senior year twist

  

  -junior year summer internships can be handy, especially if you liked the place ... an engineering firm, or wherever else I can apply to with my sanity ... right now"]to colleges for undergrad,[/annotation] and I can’t trace the

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2020
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  Robo-CJ writes haiku “didn’t you already make a blog post about this?”

  

  focusing on making haikus, but I have a lot going on and I can't keep up. i ... three minutes darn i can't save the world if i don't then i will starve ... more for all of you admitted students. yeah i know, i can edit: oops i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fit or happiness made easy

  

  natural, where you can focus your efforts on achieving instead of diverting ... for everyone, but in the end you can't imagine yourself anywhere else ... , schools, groups and so on. If you can find those pieces, you're probably in

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Snively’s Cross Stitch Corner I really enjoy cross stitching

  

  ’s blocky and my brain grasps it. I can also create reasonable pixel art if I ... E degree. It’s something I can do, mindlessly, while watching TV or ... – it’s slooooooow going when stitching. The market can bear about $2

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2020
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  10 Things I Learned 1st Semester Yeap.

  

  Central Jersey, I can’t help but reminisce about 1st semester and MIT. I can ... -yogurt-more-endearingly-“Froyo”. I can’t count how many “Ordering Indian in 10! Come to Room # if you ... deliver so you can still have froyo in a warm comfy room." Crap. 2

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 24, 2009
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  [Guest Post] We’re Not in ~Kansas~ Missouri Anymore Going From a Small Town to Boston, by Claire S. '25

  

  big cities alike. As you can probably tell by the fact that I’m writing ... best way to deal with this is to find a community at MIT that can become ... only a twenty minute walk), and my friends and I can be more spontaneous

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 17, 2024
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  Subtle Black MIT Traits A few things I have experienced as a black person at MIT

  

  it can be like being a part of one of the smallest minority at MIT ... there is a level of connection that I just can’t or don’t have with you ... in high school as a lot of other students, ideas and mindsets can be

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  An Astrological Guide to the College App Process We all know astrology isn't real...or is it?

  their sun, moon, and rising signs so that I can give them an "astrological ... ambitious people I know. And during the college application process, this can ... they expected, so try to be open as much as you can. Gemini Many in the

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 20, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to trick yourself into thinking that you’re writing a report The most productive procrastination technique revealed at last!

  

  Laboratory Fundamentals in Biological Engineering, this semester, and you can ... like you sufficiently understand enzyme-DNA dynamics, you can move onto exploring all of DNA repair, or at least homologous repair which you can

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 17, 2015
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  Merit When getting into MIT isn't convincing enough

  

  is; firsthand information from students can change minds.) “Well, I ... , but it’s not always simple. Sure, sometimes you can come back with a witty retort and a raised middle finger. Sometimes you can’t. I had to

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • January 22, 2015
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  Thank you for reading A rigorous study of 26-year-olds (n=1) showed that getting older is positively correlated to the…

  

  got to hang out with Beyonce in the time since I was that age. I can ... lungs, I can run, and I can breathe. As David Foster Wallace says, this is ... thankful to have them. To realize that as an adult, I can choose how I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  , either because it is unavailable to you, or because something can't be ... Jurassic Park was a work of fiction, and just like you can't reanimate a velociraptor from its fossil, you can't understand the life of an applicant from

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
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  Life is Improv say yes

  

  orientation for the class of 2015, in late August. You can see why these ... you make, or strive to make the smartest decisions you can in any ... as often as possible. The worst thing you can do in college - and in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things Charles Has Made fare thee well, rocket powered roller skates

  

  : An annotated timeline of everything he's ever made at MIT! You can see ... can even follow along at home should you be so inclined

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Some people call me the space cowgirl

  

  that SAT scores can't account for all kinds of intelligence. The student ... to work for a school where I can honestly say that. There's a lot more

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2004