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  Paths there are so many

  

  We were deferred when we applied early to MIT, and remember how ...  having gone through the college application process, and two years (going on ... go down this route! We've been there (way too many times), and it just

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 19, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Thong I Should Be Wearing [UPDATE] Sexy sexy undies.

  

  , Wellesley College, and Bob Jones University. None of them had actually been on ... accepted to several tech schools and the comic strip writer decided that he ... and, well -- I read this before I came to MIT and thought it was one

  • by Snively '11
  • November 1, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

  , Economics, and Data Science) But the most important thing that I take with me ... team of capable people who will support, surprise and inspire each other ... , community, city, or town. How has that world shaped your dreams and

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 6, 2018
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  Christianity at MIT An intro to Cru!

  

  questions of life and the universe). One of the great things about this ... I’ve been trying to write a blog about Christianity and Cru at MIT ... ’m not doing it right, and then push it to the backburner. But now this

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  everything i made this year (mostly)

  

  that come with a degree from MIT, and although these things may not be as ... many stubs and snippets over the past few months, but I haven’t been able ... and mental space. In an effort to record at least some of what happened

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 1, 2025
• 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…

  

  -renowned geneticist and the former director of the Whitehead Institute, as well as a ... worthless Conner 3 residents, and a bloody dormwide revolution ignited when someone whipped their shirt around their head and declared, "YOU CAN TAKE

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
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  Guest Entry: Stephanie Lin Presenting MIT's most recent Rhodes Scholar!

  

  !!) with a minor in Applied International Studies and concentration in ... (obligatory fun fact), really love parentheses and tend to write/talk too much ... next year via the Rhodes Scholarship, and Hamsika asked me to write some

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 12, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  No Chance Why "chance" sites like AdmissionSplash are Bad Things.

  

  different social network sites, and been syndicated to CNN among a bunch of ... , address, and other factors that affect admissions, like whether they ... , it is much worse than unhelpful. It, and tools like it, actively harm

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] a space for women at mit by Nandini Choudhury (WXGS Assistant Director)

  

  watched this documentary about the uprise of female faculty at MIT, and it ... lives of female faculty here']The history of women at MIT is long and rich.[/annotation]Originally, women were not allowed to enroll—which was normal of universities back in

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • August 12, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sibling dynamics at MIT yes lmao Nisha and I are related

  

  state, and having the same damn last name isn’t enough—at a blogger ... A little while ago, I got my first(?) mention on MIT Confessions, and ... me assuming that I’m Nisha, and I hear “Ankita, I thought I saw you at

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 20, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  MIT is like, the good and the bad. Give comfort and advice about your applications. And to connect our lives to the life of you, the reader. The ... will continue to grow and become yourself, that this is not the end of a

  • by Phi A. '21
  • March 16, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  finding place

  

  experiences finding place at MIT. I reflected back on the patterns and ... school, and although I made good friends, I always felt a bit isolated ... being frosh (first sem is hard!) and a challenging math class. So I spent

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • April 7, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mostly Harmless Rifle. As in, the phys ed class. As in, I fired one.

  

  US Army and the Massachusetts State Police and now runs his own private ... editor. He had to trim it a bit, but it's still an improvement.” “And what ... moments at MIT when I’ve felt really awesome and really, really badass (not

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 22, 2015
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  101 Things To Do Before You Graduate! 102. Read this blog entry.

  

  ! 101. EARN YOUR MIT DEGREE(S)! Biology AND History! :D Been there ... since my freshman year, and I just asked Grace to take a photo of her list ... , considering that I never went out of my way to do anything and most of the list

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 15, 2011
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  Burton 1 Social Club This Thanksgiving, I'm thankful for my ridiculous, hilarious, amazing floor.

  

  -Conner is first divided into Burton and Conner side, and then from there, into floors - from Burton 1 to Burton 5, and from Conner 2 to Conner 5 (Conner 1 ... culture, and while there is clearly no objective way for one to claim one

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT, part deux The case study of someone else you wouldn't expect to have gotten in

  

  , Adam '07, and his admissions story. (Well, that and I took a thermo test today, and I was planning to write about tests. But Laura beat me to it ... , build them, and fly them (guess who the cameraperson was on that video? Oh

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  I wrote this on my first day of classes this past Tuesday, and ... brushing my teeth and washing my face, throwing on clothes, fussing with my ... out the door. I jump on the 1 bus and get off at MIT, get coffee, and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
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  MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )

  

  for two degrees, took five classes for five semesters, four for two, and ... engineering degrees). 2) I've never built anything at MIT (most engineering degrees). * To my credit, I was fluent in Python prior to entering MIT, so

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [joint post] we visited every station on the MBTA and the Logan Airport Rental Car Center

  

  . Alan: Fortunately, it was zero degrees Celsius, and not zero degrees ... , who was also a floorpi resident, and how he did a speedrun through all ... station, and made notes about where he could’ve saved time. It took him 9

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020
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  How to Make Money at MIT for all of us who don't know how to make a startup :(

  

  their experience and ask for donations to the university. This is meant to ... high school once I turned 16. And while a lot of students at other universities might continue to work off-campus jobs, this is very much not the

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 4, 2025