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• Blog / Admissions

  Most of You Will Be Deferred Option three

  

  windshield wipers off. I felt a nervousness I hadn't felt in the weeks prior ... 't read the rest of the email. I turned the windshield wipers back on. I ... lot of attention to MIT Admissions. I didn't read the blogs. I didn

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • December 6, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  baby steps something tender and new

  

  whole process. i have a lot of hope for the fall. i feel like i’m in a ... i’m proud of, and i hope that in the future i will become less lost ... , blinking away the wisps of my dreams as i touch down on earth. “what did you

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  glassblowing & me a series of memories

  

  surprisingly large part in my conception of self over the past two years. I ... . February 20, 2020: I write my name on a little piece of paper, sit in 10 ... luckiest sophomore in the world when my piece of paper is pulled and I get

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 18, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  regrets about college and the pandemic

  

  it, and then over time i can train myself to notice and let go of the habits associated with regretting. i can learn from the consequences of my ... — there is plenty i am skeptical of in the world and in myself, like our

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 30, 2021
• Blog / Events

  The Third Side of Fraternities The way I see it...

  

  that live in a small dorm but is part of a fraternity, so I don't know ... American sports, and I remember all the time he spent in front of the ... 't speak for this, since I've never lived in my fraternity house). Of course

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 6, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  More Milk Please And a cookie too. If by cookie you mean an awesome metaphor.

  

  around in bowls of milk. One day I too shall be an old, one eyed cat who ... something new? While I can’t yet say whether or not this shotgun method of ... the original metaphor, I might be covered in milk now and out of breath

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / Classes

  Notes on Cancer rate my handwriting

  

  I'm taking 7.45 Hallmarks of Cancer this semester with [annotation ... of those buildings that course 7s and 20s spend a lot of time in ... .[/annotation] That's such a cool sentence to type out. In the past, I've had issues

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 10, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  the hardest you’ve ever worked the firehose strikes again

  

  they have a system that helps keep everything in balance, and if I can ... burned. I’m hoping that now, finally, I can teach myself to schedule in ... math major at a tech school in the ‘80’s. When was the hardest that I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 14, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Recollections of a Stranded Traveler IHTFP: I Have To Find a Plane. In the meantime, I reflect on happier interpretations…

  

  gospel of SkyMall. Until then, I plan to start a business in manufacturing ... order of business: I can haz boarding pass? ... in a Vacuum.” Nary a mark of the sender's identity was uncovered, but a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Which I Sound Like an Old Man I'm really not that old...according to CVS cashiers, I apparently look 17 =p

  

  semester - and also, I've mastered the art of changing out of a suit in a ... accomplishments. In San Francisco, I've been hanging out with a bunch of MIT '10s ... nights I've trudged back to New House in the wee hours of the morning

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  a semester i’m excited for to the tune of "a girl worth fighting for"

  

  saying something. Let's go through all of these so I can fangirl about ... can actually do well in - all my years of being good at English class ... .013 lecture, I'm honestly kind of excited to be back in a biology class. I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 7, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Great Hunger an artisanal take on my quarter life crisis

  

  you can in, say, a coding interview. Increasingly, I feel the weight of ... stop thinking about it.  In reality I think we all have a little bit of ... they graduated. With 7 years post-grad, I’m still in the midst of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  growing over time continuing to become myself

  

  ways it felt like my life was paused. (I'm sure lots of y'all can relate ... beginnings of deep friendships in the East Campus courtyard. I felt like a ... library windows.[/caption] Next, I showed up to the first meetings of my in

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 31, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Take Care of Us asking for change

  

  of work in a regular semester. I am...so sick and tired of being ... one of their names in the news. And it's absolutely sickening that I ... my vlogs, where I can see over the course of the week just how I grow

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 12, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Recap of My Junior Fall stream of consciousness

  

  of the day, I would just be clocking in my 8 hours for money and that ... incoming year of Vice President of Academic Affairs and I'll be in charge of ... semester has officially ended and I can happily say I've wrapped up the most

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 31, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions for 2016 And what I gained after a semester at MIT

  

  environment, and I’ve been trying to soak in as much of it as I possibly can. So ... next year I can feel proud of what I have accomplished in 2016. Happy ... present myself to other people? What am I capable of? In short, what do I

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Guest Entry: Leadership @ MIT You can become a leader on the MIT campus. Here's how...

  

  group processes…The description for a good leader can go on and on, but in recognizing that different people have different styles of leadership in ... students in matters concerning the Institute. The goals of the UA include

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 14, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Awesome Biology UROP: florescent plants, genomes, metabolomes, big data, puzzles + more! Bonus: A VIDEO!

  

  in order to amplify the correct fragment I'm interested in, I can run ... metabolomic data (two huge data sets with a lot of unknowns), I can start to ... look like under UV light! I love being able to work in all stages of my

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Thoughts from the Dungeon One night only

  

  I’ve been stuck in the same dungeon in Metaphor: Refantazio for the ... would roll, and I could move on with my life. But…no. Mentally, I can ... ’m dealing with in Metaphor. Right? No. I was wrong. This is my fourth attempt

  • by kellen manning
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Events

  total eclipse of the cruft

  

  , Maine. In total we drove (well, Robert drove; I worked in the back of the ... of others, I traveled to northern New England to see the total solar eclipse on April 8th. I had happened to see the total eclipse in 2017 in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 16, 2024