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• Blog / Admissions

  Checking in with EA Applicants because I just saw Chris' post, and you probably did, too

  

  ’re going to get in (relevant fun fact: MIT doesn’t do legacy admissions ... didn't get admitted to MIT. Here’s what you should read this ... on the way to getting what you want out of college. Not because of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 8, 2016
• Blog / People & Identities

  first time in cdmx and first time out of the US, but not the first time having an ethnicity…

  

  important to me for a couple of reasons: I had a premonition that I was never going to leave the country. I always get this before I travel ... 5 We woke up starving and went to get brunch in Condesa around Parque

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • August 15, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A typical first semester more or less

  

  , and I haven't been to 6.0001 lecture in two weeks. Actually, most of ... of time management. For me to put in the maximum amount of work into all of my classes (which includes going to all the lectures, reading the

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  All the Feels introduction to me and my thoughts

  

  ’s a real thing) to trying to get to find classes when buildings 26 and ... , archery, sailing, and fencing. I get the month of January to do anything and ... inside the MIT bubble, I feel myself growing in so many ways. I want to

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 14, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  See You Later

  

  . I've got the opportunity to get an MIT grad degree in a really mind ... right time. Like Yogi Berra said: when you get to a fork in the road ... This Friday, August 10th, will mark three years to the day since I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 6, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Guess who can legally drive alone in Maine now? Learning to drive on hard mode (i.e., in Boston)

  

  I wasn’t about to let anything get in the way of my Acadia trip ... excuses, and this Thanksgiving trip was the catalyst I needed to get started ... driving experience, I still needed to get a learner's permit before doing my

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  New Year, New Semester Celebrating Lunar New Year and a new spring schedule

  

  . Classes are in full swing, though I’m just getting acclimated to how much ... . We’ll get to go through a mock process, including having to write a cover letter to an imaginary editor pitching our ideas and getting peer

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Learning how to be a human being, not a human doing After 6 years of adulting post MIT, these are the things I value now

  

  , partly because I wake up at 8:55am to get to a 9am class. Every morning I ... injured organs. My partner helps me get up to go to the bathroom and I eat ... ’re having trouble waking up to get to work or going through a breakup of their

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  thank you notes before i go

  

  first to comfort, the first one to run over when something gets fucked ... actually make effort to understand it and get excited about it. I think this ... in your apartment and you will not be able to get rid of me, Eva, I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Campos on Campus A True Westside Story

  

  afraid to get to the heart of issues. So in the spirit of Charlie Rose ... Valley with a population over 4,000 students. How did you get to MIT? I ... shouldn’t be able to get into a top school too. So in 10th grade, MIT

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • June 20, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  How to jump out of an airplane and live We have football, pistol, fencing, and TKD. . . but did you know we also…

  

  experience.  Smiles all around! After 25 jumps I did my check dive to get my ... myself!  I also get to buy my own gear and do whatever I want, no coaches ... a year since I've graduated and I'm happy to report that real life isn

  • by Snively '11
  • July 31, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  frosh thingies i couldn’t decide what to write so i’m writing about everything

  

  drink water. (Speaking of which, here’s a friendly reminder to go get ... drastically different from high school. You get closer to each other a lot ... often outside of school. When you get to see people all hours of the day

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  and i am afraid of falling a long winded chess metaphor

  

  consequences? No, I do not want to play chess. "You have to get used to losing ... get smarter. Everyone starts off bad." I want to only do things that I ... puzzles. With chess puzzles, you just get preset boards and are meant to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 21, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Least Responsible Purchase I'm an impulse buyer but THIS was a bit much

  

  about as close to winning the lottery as I'd ever get so I followed ... 's supercharger network to get us home. We took turns driving (well, autopilot ... drove night and day to get home. The autopilot really made the drive

  • by Snively '11
  • July 17, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Congratulations! You got the job. You start in 6 months.

  

  a comment stating just that. Are you guys just out to get me or what ... getting in to MIT. I feel your pain. My senior year involved a lot of things ... for break and I can't wait to go out to get real pizza. Yum.

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 24, 2006
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  From East to West: An American’s Cross-Atlantic Voyage The start of my MISTI UK experience

  

  [annotation note="There are two ways to get from Heathrow Airport to Paddington ... knights from London to Bristol, where I currently reside in a castle. I ... phases: Flying from Boston to London Taking the train from London to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 10, 2025
• Blog / How to Food

  A Late Recap of IAP 2020 externing at Microsoft, baking butter mochi, and more!

  

  loved getting to know over the course of IAP! Maya and I worked together ... restaurant. It was challenging to get onboarded, learn background information ... IAP for short. It's an excellent chance to do whatever you want! If you

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 6, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I Hate Superman. (I Love Superman.)

  

  into a terrible accident, Dennis Sykes gets the reality-warping power to ... difficult to get out of it. We are literally fighting an algorithm designed to ... by day it only gets harder and harder to focus and ignore the

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • July 16, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  new york without i*stagram who are you performing for?

  

  too early for a flight has its benefits: you get to sit in an airport ... placed with care and intention, it would take me years to get through and ... else i’d get a chance to have jordan fisher be literally less than 4 feet

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 29, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mondays and Tuesdays and the Spaces Between A few days in my words and a break in someone else’s.

  

  to the MFA. 11:25 am: I get bored of Stata and decide to move to ... phases: after the first, I get to give students feedback that they then use ... .005 is in 15 minutes. I go to the basement to get Raising Steam by Terry

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 27, 2014