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  Blogural Inaugural I just wanted to use this title.

  

  (although perhaps they do have a language of their own), but I wanted to start ... , decide whether or not you'd like to apply here for school). Since applying ... . Smaller and lighter than your choice of where to apply to college, but

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Bleary-eyed Some thoughts and reflections on this year's admission cycle - particularly for those not admitted.

  

  the type of student that had pulled several all-nighters in high school ... Probably one of the most linked-to/referred-to posts on this site is ... (except the statistics in there, of course, have gotten even crazier - e

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 16, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Shiny Circuits Shiny, in some subcultures at MIT, means REALLY AWESOME

  

  lives of MIT students. BUT, right now even though I have both pictures and the life of an MIT student, my pictures are not about my life as an MIT ... Fall). That's because most of the things I'm doing now as an MIT student

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Group Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Survivors three bloggers face the horrors of public transit

  

  -themed escape room in the Next House basement. In my opinion, it’s one of the coolest showcases of student culture here. Students pitch in their talents ... of doing a Next Haunt run in the past, the shrieks from the basement

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  collaborative. The incidents at MU and Yale brought a lot of other school’s black ... everything around you is grayscale. All of your clothing, furniture, and decor ... redness of the apple unnoticed. Ok, this is not an original intro. It was

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  . My circuit design was only failing one of the online tests, which meant ... sort of caffeine from the convenience store across the street from the ... my laptop! And most of it won’t be affected by my grade! I smirked at

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take a Load Off Quoting The Band's "The Weight" should make the wait bearable

  

  . And it's still true of everyone who wants to get in to MIT. And I ... , albeit reasonable expectations of its applicants. Chris Peterson put it ... in. But part of being human means acknowledging some limitations. For

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty people later ✈✈✈ (pronounced whoosh) ✈✈✈ (pronounced nyeowww)

  

  , about what people were doing. Justine offered a ride home, so four of us ... This post has spoilers for the theme and structure of MIT Mystery ... drafts of this post, and Alan for editing. What it's all about Team

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  finding place

  

  . I haven't posted in a while. Too long. It's been one of the semesters. MIT has taught me a lot of things about community. I was in a small high school, and although I made good friends, I always felt a bit isolated

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • April 7, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Challenge You Pi day approaches.

  

  reason for wanting to come – and the primary reason of everyone I have ... ) – was not the fear of being unable to succeed without MIT, but rather a ... to unique resources and unique opportunities. A close friend of mine

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Are people on the East Coast friendly? An entry especially for those from the Midwest.

  

  When I applied to MIT, I didn't consider whether the people of Boston would be as friendly as the people of Wisconsin. I probably wouldn't have ... my school librarian. She asked me what I would be doing the next year

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 21, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Entry About Snow ...Even though we don't have any

  

  with supposedly clever sayings about boxes of chocolates, games of cards, onions or riding bicycles (have fun looking these up). Of course, that ... throw myself from high places with just a piece of plastic attached to my

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  locked (I never bothered looking into it earlier). The School of ... Over the last few weeks I have found five historical videos of MIT ... thoughts about them. I also pulled some pictures and gifs of the most

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Reading aka inhaling all the books i can before school starts

  

  (Preface: This post is essentially a tribute/continuation of Selam ... this year’s cohort of students applying to MIT to know that as well! If ... alone here :) ) Before I had friends, I had books. For those of you who

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Fireside Chat with President Sally Kornbluth get to know our president!

  

  , has sung onstage with one of MIT’s student acapella groups called the ... portraits of dogs? Did you know that she loves folk music, her family and friends, and political drama TV shows? I didn’t know any of this.  In fact

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  There Is No Formula A formula would take the human component out of our process, which is perhaps the…

  

  the human component out of it, which is perhaps the most important part. Reading through this thread doesn’t make me think of SAT scores or grades. It makes me think of the guy who fell in love with trains as a kid and

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 16, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to Freshman Days composed in the wee hours of morning

  

  jabs at a school of other learned human beings? Teachers often invite ... the heart. I got by on 3-5 hours of sleep then. Soon, the lessons ... surprise and a victory over the demons of laze. It came when all my socks

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 29, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  We’ve been there, too. It feels like the calm before the storm. Please don't forget to breathe.

  

  the time senior year of high school rolled around that I wasn't looking ... " was code for "depressingly early sunset." After a lot of writing and ... hypnophobia—fear of sleep. In particularly bad bouts, I'd freak myself out about

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  words and abbreviations and numbers are part and parcel of our culture ... - speaking in MITese. But what else would you expect from a school where ... showcase this phenomenon of "speaking in MITese," because I personally feel

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  brink of an epic hurricane, a Presidential election, and either the most ... . Toward the end of September I became noticeably stressed out. I stopped ... said. “My mommy loves me.” Then I watched an episode of America’s Next

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