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• Blog / About Decisions

  We Were Deferred

  

  , we had a 0-45 min wait time for our bus depending on how ready/not ... (sorry not sorry for the pun). We were both faced with that infamous letter ... ’t get the “yes” we had hoped for and worked for for so long. It felt like

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 30, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Crazy admissions stories A story about craziness from both sides of the college admissions process.

  

  had not moved on with their lives. The implication was that they should be doing something more significant than working in admissions. Ms. Dai ... her son would have fun even if he chose not to go Greek. "Pure joy came

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 5, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  things i have been consuming this summer random bits of media i have eaten

  

  pandemic. In an effort to, well, not do this, I've been revisiting some old ... unsuspecting town. Not only are the residents of the town incredibly quirky and ... back and watching a really good show. Alex Hirsch is supposedly working

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 19, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  the best thing i did for myself as a pre-frosh the one where i gush about burton one

  

  the fact that not a single one of them was a pre-frosh. In a way, it was ... . Not necessarily by choice— the election process did involve moderate ... and not at all reflective of our general government process lol

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • April 7, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Starting over sucks but sometimes you have to do it

  

  that it's the journey that matters and not the grade. It's a beautiful ... change something we worked so hard on. But if we didn't take those steps ... everything." Failure is not the antithesis of progress, or even success. But

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 16, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  on a stage in black and red Performing in the MIT Monologues

  

  how to tell a story not just with words but intonation, pacing, body ... a second.” We did, and we did not laugh until the bag-searchers had ... felt the weight of all of our work, how much time and effort had been

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 9, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  the senior mindset gnothi seauton

  

  'm cataloguing them all for a blog post, but it's not ready yet; I want to collect ... what's best for me. I know I'm not the best at everything. That ... respect to undergraduate life at MIT only; I'm not saying I've got this

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 20, 2021
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  Leavetaking and homecoming

  

  -hopping in Europe, where ‘home’ was not the bed I slept in but the backpack ... ’ve come to think that home for me is not a place, not yet. It is the things ... working on UROPs or internships. I had my own room, furnished with my own

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 28, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  Never Have I Ever…reflected on my identity "too indian" or "not indian enough"?

  

  and pasted them together to make this. Not my best work, for sure. so ... , this show did not meet my expectations. It did many things well and is ... 's struggle between being "too Indian" and "not Indian enough," since that's a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 4, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  an unnecessarily detailed normal friday finding things to blog about when you're swept into normalcy

  

  . it's both happy and sad, and it was definitely really good but not ... again in order to not disappoint aikawa-sensei. the story goes like: i ... , which is honestly pretty all over the place and could use some work

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 27, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  CPW Advice 2k19 come party wildly and/or play wii and/or perceive wonders and/or...

  

  50-50 with regards to if they had or not). CPW was the first admitted ... run into but not another, or if you're generally not liking something ... 'll need to be able to ~listen to your heart~ to do that. Two things not to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 8, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ABCs of Senior Year friends, jobz, cats, "eight-oh-two"... + AMA!

  

  together or something. Letter grades: not important if you are, say, a ... restaurant (I did not even know $$$$ restaurants existed!). The restaurant used ... ’re not on campus, i will blog about SOS soon. Tapestry: the beautiful

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 23, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Books write our life stories Philosophy, astronomy, religion, neurology - and my plans for the future.

  

  said that it’s not used for anything and it’s just too big to get out of ... , awareness; and it is this, above all, that we need to regain, not only in ... risk forgetting that as we become more technologically advanced. I’m not

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 30, 2014
• Blog / How to Food

  Internet is Gonna Get Me In lieu of studying, I finally get around to answering your questions.

  

  they had definite potential. Next time I will not use so much baking ... Square every 20 minutes or so (it's not too far to walk, but can be a bit ... fine with a 17" laptop; if not, they're pull-out, so you don

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 29, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  It rocks to be me. I put on my Sunday clothes and see the whale!

  

  their website, but I'm not good at this kind of thing anyway. Anyhoo, four ... 't have teen angst anymore." I thought, "NO! NOT MY TEEN ANGST!" but Avenue ... sample, but the lady working there was nice enough to give us a sample of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Train in vain Pulling my first official all-nighter of the fall term.

  

  actually not too heavy on the wallet at all: $15 gas tolls: $3.60 x 2 = 7 ... not too much. You should see MIT students try to split the bill at a ... ) and 18.01 (Calculus), it's not too difficult to prove that the answer is

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What’s in My Bag? My everyday carry!

  

  relevant to my life/things I would actually buy or not!) So I thought today ... too much work ^^;) and then like random stuff I use for being a ... of erasing--even on exams. Point being, I’m definitely not using pen

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 11, 2017
• Blog / Events

  [Joint Post] Avoiding Sunstroke Solar Cars, Solar Stories, Solar Blogs

  

  [annotation note="not sure because the midwest isn't even really in the middle ... race, the first of which I wasn’t present for because I had to work my ... fiction,’ I can assure you it is not :) Background Info (Not really a story

  • by Waly N. '24
  • November 1, 2021
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: A Summer With Tulip Interfaces, Inc guest post by Sharon L. '21

  

  on the monitors. That’s one of the problems the startup I’m working at ... . The tools include audit, quality acceptance, work instructions ... with the IoT (Internet of Things) Systems team, where I work on building

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 1, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  clay crash course one month of wheelthrowing later…

  

  , as I sat on the T, I would note down everything I had worked on that ... subsequent step worked well for me. There’s no “correct” form for throwing ... two, I increased the amount of clay I was working with to 1.5-2 pounds

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • February 10, 2025