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  So Chance Me Maybe? Hey! I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my SAT...

  

  an AP test in my life. My GPA wasn’t perfect (still isn’t). I was ... was a competition, in which the applicants strove to cast themselves in ... did nothing but study and mire in awkwardness. And I learned that a

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a sad sad toaster made of glass. Do you like your toast with tears? Because I'm sad.

  

  go to the Concert in Bad Taste. Or go on the Burton-Conner boat cruise. Or see a movie for $3 at LSC. Or bring up singularities in everyday ... Friday I turned in my last problem set ever at MIT. So the other day I was

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  too. But ultimately, it kinda just feels like another day in the life ... of bed in 20 minutes is unfortunately pretty good for me these days ... yesterday evening, and there is a lively discussion in the chat about what

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Favorite Classes at MIT! survey says...

  

  based on around 100 responses. In addition, I tried to rank the top 5 ... ) 12.400: Our Space Odyssey (1) 18.504: Seminar in Logic (1) 18 ... lot of the reasons mentioned the content of the class in different ways

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bring your stuffed toys to class reflections on liminality

  

  't stay in MIT forever. Talk to all your friends about how you can't stay in ... . Go on walks alone. Go on walks in the middle of the night. Go on walks outside MIT. Go on walks with friends. Go on walks in the tunnels. Follow

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 11, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  I wanted to do earlier in college? What if I had taken those harder ... stuck in this limbo of not knowing? As human beings, we are constantly focusing not just on “what is”, but “what can be”. In many ways, this is good

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 16, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paths there are so many

  

  see in this moment, the door that didn’t open is just *one* door. It may ... feels awful. Instead, tell yourself: "In my circumstances, I tried my best." Literally verbalize it (out-loud, in a whisper, in your head

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 19, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Reflecting on 10 Years and Lessons Learned Happy Birthday, MIT Blogs!

  

  country, build robots, or do work in five countries. I also had no idea that ... ’ve described the lessons that I learned in the order I learned them, but there ... , and have success in college and beyond. 1. Senior Year of High School

  • by Kim D. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  To whom much is given… ...you know the rest!

  

  as true in college admission circles as it is anywhere else that it ... given much. That does not mean that everyone has received in equal measure ... reflect this value. In short order, our decisions will be released and the

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 13, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  REX at Random Hall Pancakes, LN2 ice cream, board games, game theory, math, raves, staying up entirely too late,…

  

  Three years ago I was in the room I’m still in now, and just like ... home on 2 am trips to Wal-Mart through empty dark streets in my pick ... inhabits the streets of Cambridge in the morning, and I spent it wandering

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 23, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Train Coming on navigating

  

  city I was moving to.[/annotation] I was scared. -- At one point in The Curious Incidence of a Dog in the Nighttime (one of my favorite books and ... I found it hard to breathe. In the play, Christopher pictures his dad

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 15, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  (Bitter)sweet home meeting high school teachers again, and visiting my hometown for (probably) the last time

  

  hometown in Alabama during the second week. I was staying in Georgia with my ... that this is probably going to be the last time I’ll be in Alabama for a ... I were both in town and had nothing to do. Other than that I cut my

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Gangnam Style Yes...........this exists.

  

  In case you haven't been on the Internet recently, a music video called "Gangnam Style" was released over the summer by K-pop rapper PSY ... Influential People in the World" in 2012 for his liquid metal battery research

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 27, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  in Cambridge and Boston? Did you know that she does needlepoint ... friends, and political drama TV shows? I didn’t know any of this.  In fact ... with her face-to-face in her office to get to know her better. Her office

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My blogger bio over time what does it take to get to know someone?

  

  I live in East Campus. I could tell you that CJ is short for Carl ... favorite artists. Or we could go on an adventure. There’s this nice spot in ... expensive everything is. We could cross Harvard Bridge at two in the morning

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 26, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Beyond the Stop Light it's been a ride, MIT

  

  starting out with separate artstagrams but may in the near future make a

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 26, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sibling dynamics at MIT yes lmao Nisha and I are related

  

  exploded with laughter in the middle of my physics lecture as soon as i saw ... if you know either Nisha or me in real life—even tangentially ... barely overlap. In fact, our lives don’t overlap much; I’ve bumped into

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 20, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  . Let me explain. Malingap [annotation note="in which frats hold events to ... prefrosh temped on the same floor he was living in. Malingap is the feeling ... . Malingap is someone giving me an impromptu tour of East Campus in the middle

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what work is bite-sized senior spring

  

  for me, but not in the conventional sense. i'm insanely comfortable working a lot, working hard, working with my head in a book, working late at ... it's 10pm and i feel silly going to bed in case something else happens

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  had long stopped feeling hunger, but the void in my stomach seemed to ... deprived wasteland in my head. I checked my laptop again. 2 minutes. I ... dancing along my back in its high heels, stabbing my skin with its piercing

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016