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  Happy 21st Birthday to the Random Hall Milk the Milk is now old enough to drink, but *please*, don't drink the Milk

  

  from the supermarket to a dormitory at MIT. It has lived there ever since ... ago, a fairly lactose-intolerant resident of Random Hall decided to make Macaroni and Cheese for dinner. Deciding that a little carton of milk couldn

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  Jeff ‘18: you're great roommates. To be fair, I’ve had this coming for a ... limbo for an eternity before inevitably executed. Or you’re not accepted, and the depths of hell open to swallow you whole, rejecting you from all

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Applying Sideways How to get in to MIT.

  

  in and of itself will get you in to MIT. For example: A few years ago ... officers follow the winds to the corners of the country to talk to students ... me from Raleigh, North Carolina to Atlanta, Georgia and a dozen places

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

  -buzz my hair and set me on a path of never having to pay for a haircut ever ... is necessary for self-sustainability) to be kind to myself Xiaolu, my ... , selectively forgetting what it was like to struggle for long days and nights at

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 6, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  suddenly to 30-50%, but for the most part it still doesn't feel cutthroat ... path for premeds here. If you choose to not follow that path, then you ... to seek out the thing that interests you. Also, be prepared for that

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

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

  

  them to make that a reality takes a lot of energy and thinking for me ... personalities. How to customize my practice for each trainee requires a lot of ... for his drink too. Our drinks came out at the same time and he went to

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  17 Things I’ve Learned in the Past Year growing, growing, grown

  

  )—on Tuesday night, I went to see Vince Staples for the second time, which was ... ’s like to start studying for a Friday 8AM exam (for a class you’ve attended ... understand how much the onus is on me to look out for and take care of myself

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  The future isn’t the answer reflecting on anxiety

  

  me to talk about and has affected me for a while. My mental health ... grade after trying to ride a skateboard, I wasn’t angry at myself for not ... couldn’t help but to admit to people that I felt scared for no solid reason

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  The Best Advice I Ever Got Take it or leave it.

  

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 30, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  As We Approach Decision Day On getting in and on not getting in

  

  document, and I tried for several hours to determine which variables could best predict my chances for March. I’m going to tell you now what I wish ... keep doing it for the next four years. In fact, you want to keep doing it

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 8, 2012
• Blog / Featured Blogs

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

  

  , and it is plenty friendly. As for Boston though, it might help to share ... us in for tea while we waited for a tow truck to come! Anecdote 6: One ... been, coming to Boston for the first time? How are people different here

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 21, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  dormspam-the-game (Part 3) parting remarks from no-longer-anonymous gamemasters

  

  , for I was one of the gamemasters and have more content to share :D For ... ! Approximately weekly "game theory"-ish games for Next to play Paolo why? I ... liked it so much that he was willing to fund prizes for the rest of the

  • by Phi A. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Putting Diversity into Context The diverse ways that colleges and universities define diversity

  

  , once put it, “If you have to pause, for more than a second or two, to ... , they should be a viable candidate for admission to a highly selective ... have fielded numerous calls and emails soliciting advice on how to

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  like for you to live your everyday life, and how much your teachers and ... face, let my eyes wake up, and still tired, headed off to work for ... regardless of the outcome, none of that goes to waste. We are all better for

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 16, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  On Escaping An introspective vlog about MIT and getting ready to leave

  

  being a senior at MIT, and I think that was enough for me to finally ... finally figured out what I wanted to say. I think that's how this semester ... that it takes me a couple tries to even get in the right mindset to make

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 2, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Life is like a Game Elaborate metaphors from an amateur comic artist

  

  artists I like, and hoping for the best. So I might try to include a mini ... struggles. For some reason (mostly the fact that I'm a media dork at heart), a video game metaphor was easiest to conceptualize in comic form, so enjoy

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 7, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  , waiting for the blogger application to appear. I knew that one of the ... other words: you do not need to have had a blog for a zillion years in ... writing come easily for you? If you take five hours to write 500 words, this

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  ask for complete strangers on the Internet to assess their likelihood of ... , that it is ripe for mockery (or can itself be used to degrade the self ... Internet to be skeptical of anyone asking for this sort of information when

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Choice and the MIT lifestyle ...because "MIT" and "student life" aren't mutually exclusive.

  

  , thanks to Vassko, has a more complicated answer. For those of you just ... involves goldfish, but for the life of me I have never been able to figure ... -party type. I, for instance, haven't been to a frat party since early

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Guest Entry: Christina Bognet Supplemental materials to help you through the next few days.

  

  they wanted to be somewhere else. As for me, I love MIT. I really do. I ... , whose first choice when applying to colleges was admittedly NOT MIT, but ... for you, Christina," he told me. "Ahhhh, I don't know. Probably not

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 8, 2006