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  Blogger Decisions Released Many thanks to all of this year's incredible applicants!

  

  and two blogger alums) met earlier today and had to deliberate for hours ... not personal if you weren't selected - we had an 11% "admit rate" for ... front-runner for his major. He's excited to find a UROP, join Assassin

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 7, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thanksgiving and a Small Hack Quick updates from tropical Boston

  

  to person before Professor Minicozzi arrived: Of course, this hack ... be thankful for. Happy Thanksgiving to everyone! Be thankful if you ... genre. Today I’m just going to ramble about minor happenings this week

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 27, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Night at da Opera A Jolly Splendid Time!!

  

  sets the groundwork and frame for who I want to become and be.  Looking ... or the guy who set the world record for marathon, I just have to keep ... . One of my big pulls for the class, though, were the field trips. That

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 1, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Choosing a Major I hope this is helpful to you at some point

  

  probably wouldn't list that, personally. How much do you have to study to ... easy for you and bore you to death. Some majors cover some really ... . To be quite honest I was 2 weeks ago leaning toward 8-B for the option

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  to the skeletons in my closet an open letter to you

  

  eating at me for a couple of days now and what better to rid yourself of ... were going to be friends for life. i thought this was it. i thought you ... 've been trying to be a better person about that. genuinely. the friends i

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 27, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  On Mens et Manus The realizations one has whilst building improvised flotation devices.

  

  person, when it suited me, goes to the intensely frustrating physics class ... Name the first thing that comes to mind when you think “MIT” and ... “mens et manus” to refer to—and second, I never did any of them. Nor was I

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • October 14, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  if only I cad more time… Diving into software, ft. a bad pun

  

  , thinking of the online atmosphere, I was very averse to the idea of joining ... relatively simple to make. Except for the fact that it took me about 30 minutes ... around the diameter for 360 degrees than to use a circle and rotate 180

  • by Waly N. '24
  • October 30, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  My Rejection Resume working up the courage to look failure in the eye

  

  hard for me to deal with because - as you'll learn in this post - I deal ... 's pause for a second to unpack that. It's definitely not true that every ... really wanted to work for were *not* big tech companies and therefore had

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 12, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  on anger understanding and learning and navigating

  

  exact same classes for those four years. You really got to know some ... infinitely more worth it to stand up for myself and be considered a "bitch ... things just shouldn't happen. It shouldn't be okay for women to be told

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 12, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  Lies in MIT, lies about MIT these are the lies that i tell myself at night

  

  of junior fall, I lied to my advisor for the first time. He looked at ... these ways, MIT isn't hard because I chose for it to be hard, it just is ... something false, without meaning to mislead the person listening, I wouldn

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 27, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  tidbits pieces of advice

  

  for physics help, and he ended up getting out of bed, walking to my dorm ... 'right' way to do MIT. I personally take 3-4 classes a semester and ... to remember to let yourself breathe and save time for yourself. You don

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 24, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  VI-A Course 6? Work experience and a Masters degree all at once!

  

  've noticed that my personal yen to travel is particularly strong after a long ... course, being in Beijing, there was plenty for Kat and I to explore in our ... had glowing things to say about the program. For some students, the real

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 3, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] 10 Reasons I Joined Rocket Team

  

  knowledge to the test and lay up a carbon fiber notebook for myself with the ... for scale![/caption] I was extremely hesitant to go because I felt like ... leave for the launch site (if you were lucky enough to get some sleep

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 11, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  symptoms of nostalgia emo-posting

  

  spend birthday 21. Personally, senior fall has gone by too fast for me to ... terrible inside joke for people who went to MIT at the time of Spring ... having to check my phone for the time. So I'm getting an analog wristwatch

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 2, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  Alive and Kicking I kick, therefore I am ~taekwondo~

  

  committing to MIT or any college for the matter. I had a strong desire to ... ’t even be on campus to try out an intramural sport, for example. I ... to IAP, I was looking for what PE classes to register for during my

  • by Waly N. '24
  • August 3, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Jeux sans frontieres Who knows how to have fun better than I do? Oh, nobody.

  

  't ready for this to be a new year already, but it is. I rang in this new ... forthcoming?), and then headed over to the Colonial Park Diner for some late ... person has 60 seconds to get their team to guess as many phrases as

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 2, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Doors of East Campus a la Humans of New York

  

  to focus on the door murals in particular for this post. When you ... of New York, credit to Yuliya for the idea and inspiration) “Door ... personality in whatever form you choose to.” - Erik P. ‘21   “I LOVE

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 16, 2018
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Roman Life A.k.a. not-Greek life.

  

  , on Friday night, we decided that we would go to Cape Cod on Sunday for ... google maps, we decided on a trip out to Sandwich, MA for our mini-retreat. Saturday night we went to Shaw's and bought food for our picnic. We ended up

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 21, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  creative lockdown: low points of a virtual fall Part 2 of a fall semester recap

  

  for some things to improve and change as time goes on. One of the most ... to never missing out on schoolwork despite not feeling up for it at ... , which I realize might not be the right word for this, to die down

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 27, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Tech is Hell we are happy, tech is hell

  

  inevitable and despicable. For the rest, he knows himself to be the master of ... The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the ... , and his passion for life won him that unspeakable penalty in which the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 13, 2021