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  Save Point sleep wake hope

  

  staggering other array of readers ranging from my old grade school teachers to ... on this post alone for the past six days. Most of it, I've been writing ... whole lot of difference. Sometimes I know that they are worlds apart. I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  somewhat (including the offer that I have in front of me right now). Not ... grad school now, I lose the job offer I have open, and there are no ... school and academia are not free of this problem either. the “ivory tower

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • April 20, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  school, and quickly steered me towards a different course of action: going ... , this necessarily means that I can only capture a very small part of what ... hours of teaching Class class class class Help Help Desk desk It

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who

  

  , a department under MIT’s School of Humanities, Arts, and Social ... in Chapter 2 of The Business of Media Distribution. He notes that ... I've talked about Mystery Hunt at length, from the perspective of a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 29, 2023
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  non-stop / walang hinto what a mess

  

  hila at tulak i feel more busy right now that i’ve been during my fall or spring semesters. the only time i can think of that’s comparable was during iap, or maybe near the beginning of spring. but even then, that feeling

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 8, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  until the summer after my sophomore year of high school. Of course ... last two years of high school, I ended up coming out to a lot of my ... school, about half of my friend group was out as queer. That was neat, at

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  15']my own process of applying to grad school,[/annotation] where to be ... existence of my “safety school” (which isn’t a school at all, but a job ... continuation of that self who existed in high school, someone who yes, has grown

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 16, 2021
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  Pictures from a Semester of Classes The Sequel Society Didn't Know It Needed

  

  : MIThenge Anyways, besides the whole school part of this school, there are a ... course he would ever lecture so on the very last day of school this ... Athletic Center which marked the end of a very long first semester at MIT. So

  • by Richard O. '28
  • December 29, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  life even if one does fail out of school (and your interests are academic ... halls of the Infinite Corridor. “Come back for grad school.” Sage advice ... In my (high-school) senior spring, when I was almost sure I planned

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dragons A blog post for deferred students (and everybody else waiting on decisions).

  

  , because several people in my school applied early action, and two of them ... decisions came out, some of those people in my school were rejected, but they ... : of the five to ten deferred applicants from my school, I was the only

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 14, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An actual day in the life It's not the most exciting day... but it's a day!

  

  'll be sad.) Since the stated purpose of the blogs is to introduce prospectives to a day in the life of an MIT student, I have rather uncreatively ... alarm goes off after about seven hours of sleep. I hit snooze, because who

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Let’s Go Fly A Kite Up to decision night!

  

  definitions of “well-qualified” and “top school” are subjective, but the point ... thousand of you have applied. You’ve poured hours and hours into your ... offer from Apple and a congratulatory call from the President, with the

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Riri Williams Pi Day Video Behind the scenes of an extraordinary three minutes!

  

  business hours access to the shop, but we needed the help of Mike Skuhersky ... demographic present at MIT and a field of study that we offer is a person we can ... all saw posted on Tuesday. For those of you that aren’t Xtreme Nerds

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  below). What I heard was the sound of a middle school cafeteria x10. I ... Written by Danny The Brass Rat is one of MIT’s most iconic symbols ... one of those events that all sophomores look forward to. During the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?

  

  College Confidential reaffirmed a lot of these beliefs in high school. If ... ’ was my identity for all of grade school both in Ethiopia and America ... my senior year of high school, I got close to a sophomore in my Spanish

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thoughts for the New Year A semester's worth of thoughts, tbh

  

  dream school. Like many of the current EA 2022s, I was excitedly making ... solid ground. Such is the nature of this school, and this is one of many ... feelings on things, so in honor of New Year’s Eve, I decided to reflect on

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer…” wherein Neil Armstrong's legacy kicks off a year of Unified Engineering, and I reflect on…

  

  'm grateful for the blessing of attending an engineering school whose humanities ... protector, nerdy engineer -- born under the second law of thermodynamics ... first day of class. Sixty-odd students fidget nervous-excitedly in a

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 9, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  'll reproduce the post here: I'm a senior in high school this year, and will be graduating come June. I have had all A's throughout high school except for last ... are much smarter than I. Also, I'm kind of an asshole about how smart I

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  's drinking water from a bottle of what was once "Cloudy Apple"* juice. *Yeah ... ." There are a bunch of different things I could (should) touch on. Why ... that the Maryland Institute of Technology? Sameer had moved to London

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012
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  Sunrise, Sunset An MIT-Israel student shares his day

  

  ’s a nice change of pace from the school year, which is practically non ... Israel: http://benbellinisrael.wordpress.com/ I was trying to think of a clever title for my daily activities and was reminded of the musical

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012