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  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  something like “exhausting and overwhelming, but fun.” I don’t think that’s a ... recruit frosh"]Frat rush[/annotation] is happening as I write this, and one ... upperclassman approached me and asked if I wanted some of a smoothie he was making

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  of depression and extremely brief mentions of suicide and self ... struggling to do so in a way that’s pretty and poetic, that will stick in ... beautiful blog post about being depressed and handling depression at MIT that

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s More Than A Job Thoughts On The Eve Of RA Decisions

  

  , and I imagine a lot of our applicants share these sentiments. A million ... the committee. Then a second reader (and sometimes a third) will read and write their own summaries. Then it will go to selection committee

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  So one day I up and took a gap year. I may have mentioned this. Every now and then, I’d stare out the window -- of my car, of a plane, of a smelly bus in Spain -- with music blasting in my ears, and do that thing

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
• 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…

  

  to Urban Planning, and (4) was offered an incredible and very ... The quote, in full: "I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket ... Laplace, and propelled by compressible flow." -- Neil Armstrong, February

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

  Boomeranging The day before classes start is Registration Day. It’s also the day we welcome readmitted…

  

  September 2nd The round tables are blue, yellow, and green this year ... are four of us. We’re a good group, a healthy mix of ages, genders, and life experiences, and we’re here to talk tips and tricks, to tell the

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Distraction News Your internet connection is unstable

  

  Classes are happening again and I am not ready. I am looking at the little boxes on Zoom and everyone seems so calm and ready to start back up again. People are giving helpful suggestions and input. The [annotation

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 31, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Ten days of live-action roleplaying no joke, there i was…

  

  knew what MacGuffins were and were also looking for them. I offered to ... for space police, and a Wookiee stuck in a tavern in the middle of a desert storm. And one of the Guild's oldest traditions is the ten-day game

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Muti Water Project ...is finished!!!

  

  on since my sophomore year. I worked to design and build a longer ... , where he went to middle school and where some of my relatives still live today. I've written two blogs about it already, “A Story About Muti” and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  study spots at MIT not exactly places to cry, but they'll do

  

  I could be exploring a new and fascinating part of the institute I ... polling my friends to find out where they like to study on campus and what ... chairs and stable desks nobody gets annoyed if I talk while working with

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  : "Funny how Harvard and MIT kids always tell people that 'they go to school ... II and III. Part of the reason why I'm reluctant to say I'm premed sometimes is really because premeds get a bad rep as people with no life and

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advisor vs. Advisee a '07 and a '21 answer a series of questions

  

  ” and out of state school I applied to. During the college app cycle a ... current and crufty MIT bloggers. A super familiar name popped up in the chain: Bryan Bryson. My advisor in biological engineering and one of the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Gothic You are reading an admissions blog post. You are reading tumblr.

  

  Happy Sunday! I am doing end of semester things and also reading Hemingway in dramatic black and white. There is perhaps my favorite meme that has been going around tumblr and finally found its way into our corner

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  25 Stories of Getting Accepted to MIT told by students and alums

  

  Note: all stories below are unedited accounts of current and former ... .  We had a snow day and when I called my grandmother to tell her, she ... morning milking and was setting up some electric fence for the cows when

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  me getting into MIT and why it meant so much to me. Enjoy!!!! Finally. I sat on my bed silently. My fingers were numb and my breaths were ... mind had exceeded capacity, and there wasn’t enough oxygen for each

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Night at the Office A bit longer than I expected.

  

  -weekly offering of free food; even though the food (wings!) has been in the office ... to have any until 8pm. I mean, it's issue night and he drew working people (the EIC and myself included) away from the issue! 8:00pm: And it

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  choosing between 8.022 and 8.02. so maybe i should drop 8.022 and work on blogs instead  # I took this class called 8.022, which is electricity and magnetism with vector calculus and things. I really like it. I am drowning

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  , he must also do them from a firm and unchanging state. The many ... papers I wrote) and some are from an online text, meaning they come from ... account of something else"; i.e. that which is most complete and most

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2) My take on the MIT short essays.

  

  from George Orwell, "Politics and the English Language", 1946. ----- So ... . Since then, the application has been revised, and although I still believe ... application looks like (it really doesn't look that different, ha) and I've been

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear My Old Friend, This is quite possibly weirdest way to introduce myself

  

  people you could have lingered with. and you will wish… that the universe ... ’m studying math and philosophy. You don’t like either of those subjects yet, but you’ll grow to. And you’re going to be very satisfied that Mrs. J is

  • by ana~
  • September 24, 2021