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  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  mind I must have gained in the past couple of weeks, cringed at some of my essays. To one of them asking why I wanted to be at Penn, I had ... realm of elation separate from mere joy at this achievement, I realized

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Unofficial Guide to Unstandard MITglish, 1st Edition The joy of jargon.

  

  speakers of MITglish enunciate consonants at the end of words with ... the incoming Class of 2013, I offer an introductory documentation of ... , localized dialect like a wandering hitchhiker on the sideroads of esoteric

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  Stata Center has three towers. Some of the windows look out at other walls of the Stata Center. Others look out at a desert under unfamiliar stars ... blink. There are ResLife workers at the edge of the mudpit. An RLAD shifts

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
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  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  was a spark, an extra degree of freedom, a young, harmonious vitality ... of the library to look at the Boston skyline in the distance. The roof ... belong. At the same time I’m miserable, sometimes. IHTFP is the middle of

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

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

  

  's EVERYTHING. You literally passed through *at LEAST* 5 different rounds of ... much leaves a lot of that at the door (unless it comes up specifically ... , things have been crazy busy. (Perhaps at some point, I'll eventually get to

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Great Wifi Outage of 2007 Burton-Conner's wifi went out two days ago; Evan will tell you more by the end…

  

  'll just lecture at you, and you'll just be another face in a sea of 200 ... Simmons) pay $300 at the beginning of a semester to help keep the dining ... students who qualify for the SAT waivers, which can be used at good number of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  descriptively incorrect. At its most basic form, it's a variant of post hoc ergo ... considered in a complex ecology of decisionmaking? To some degree, yes; that ... , one complaint in the comments on those entries was about a lack of data

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  at them at different times, and lots of different methods of framing ... Last Saturday night, I was in my kitchen, looking down at two Pyrex ... , before my phone rang and jerked me out of my stupor. A friend was in the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 21, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself on choosing a college, and realizing one of many possible futures

  

  different age. As a result, he would, at the end of either program, emerge a ... should leave my apartment and buy a gallon of milk at the store across the ... apartment) is a choice too, excluding an infinity of possibilities at the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
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  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  I’m back to Nigeria, there’s a lesser but marked degree of reverse ... The week after my semester at MIT ended, I was accompanied by this looming sense of vertigo—like something inside me was always cycling

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

  the contours of a wild ride 2.009 😤

  

  floor of Stud, starting at 12 noon and ending around 1am. We did a lot of ... than usual lol, because I could not function at this level of ... being intense, silly, and a lot of fun. This blog is my story of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

  at the top of this summit is breathtaking and I'm taking a moment to ... will be part of the first graduating class of 6–14's. (Computer Science ... isn't the piece of paper, but the lifelong ties to the people who I grew

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 6, 2018
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  Perkus Nonacademia MIT will give you more than just an engineering degree.

  

  getting it on. So fast forward a bit: I'm there again at the end of August ... of MIT, I've made friends that are more like family at this point, gone ... I'm chugging into my 3rd year here at MIT blogging, studying, and

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2010
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  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  furiously. I had a deadline at 5 pm for my Economics of Health class essay, so ... claps of thunder. I looked up at the sky and it was greyer than usual and ... ’t believe what I was looking at. It was one of those catatonic moments, when

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2013
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  The leftmost station on your dial WMBR = awesome campus radio

  

  post it. I fail at life, I know.) I woke up on Wednesday morning at 11 ... ignore the paper for another 42 minutes and watch this week's episode of ... possibly imagine must be at work here (or at least concerned with whether or

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 13, 2008
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  demons on depression

  

  . My father was a professor, at the time, and got an offer for a research ... , however, the balls began to fall and the masks began to crack. At the end of ... images in one's mind. It turns out the majority of people, when asked to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 28, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Was Deferred And it was not the end of the world

  

  kind of felt like being rejected at times. But I also felt immense joy ... worked my ass off (at the cost of sleep - not recommended). Calculus was ... the president of the United States and pulled an all nighter chilling

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 17, 2014
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  Christianity at MIT An intro to Cru!

  

  wake up at the crack of dawn. Groups leave together on Sunday mornings ... I’ve been trying to write a blog about Christianity and Cru at MIT ... to nothing and would have LOVED a blog about that sort of thing when I

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  . Nerdy, silly, sporty, food-offering, you name it, that type of activity is ... completed with excellence. At the core of what makes MIT challenging is ... of yourself". I look back on those days and feel tempted to laugh at

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  college? I imagine it went something like this. At the end of another very ... offer of admission, from the big name universiy, that will impress their ... to deny just how much of a curmudgeon I have become. I’m pretty sure

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011