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• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Letters from the 2023 decisions threads

  

  journey in the time since. I wanted to blog some wise words shared by prior ... ongoing record of what happens after you don't get into MIT.  From @Wox, in ... as though there was everything to lose, all the work you put in, the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 25, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  feeling old and coming home

  

  . Plus, I was so focused on actually getting in to college that I didn ... in a rush to get to the destination. It's not even that I've never ... places students in schools abroad to teach short courses

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 12, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  The Open-Ended Question Why I chose MIT ... twice

  

  So it's hard to imagine I just participated in my FIFTH CPW but yea, I'm getting a little old, but it's cool. It's really crazy awesome to ... guys all rock in one way or another. Sorry to those of you who couldn

  • by Bryan
  • April 15, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Post-engagement, pre-Bahamas An exciting week!

  

  , so it's best to get lotteried in.) 4. Kelly asked, Hey Mollie, if it ... Museum of Science today to check out the reception site. Hanging in the ... , taking 5.111/5.112 in the fall frees you up to take 5.12 in the spring

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 2, 2006
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  What MIT Is Like for Non-Technology Majors a quirk of the institvte

  

  's acronymal third letter! At MIT, you get to choose your own T. Most students ... program for teens who want to get into MIT right after middle school. The ... the harder subjects for the senior-year projects when we get to use real

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 1, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All-You-Can-Eat Summer I hit food coma at the first paragraph.

  

  the last to get up. After I get up I go to my job in Building 46, where ... recycling bin of everything you wanted to do in Boston during the school year ... 'm probably going to hurt myself if I continue getting carried away with these

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Winter Through the camera lenses of people who don't have winter

  

  Around 7:15 this evening, it started snowing in Cambridge.   While heading back to my dorm, I ran into Kevin. The both of us being from California, we were ecstatic and decided to go grab our cameras and take as

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 13, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  Going Home ... but where exactly is that?

  

  ecstatic to get back to campus after a much needed break, to see my MIT ... books and get back to my on-campus family. Update: My flight did not ... luck, it was cancelled and I had to stand in a line with 300 other people

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 6, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  4 / Just *breathe* Everything is going to be all right

  

  TO SET THE MOOD: Eyes SHut - nocturne in c minor - Ólafur Arnalds ... , mindful, intentional. Last Monday for Veterans Day, I slept in, went to get acupuncture for sudden pain I was having in my foot, did some

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 2, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  E-mail It's like D-mail, only the next letter.

  

  of which you get in May after you matriculate) and you're taken to your ... lists on MIT's end has to happen) you'll start getting your MIT e-mail in ... MIT address) to spam filters. In short, people stopped getting e

  • by Snively '11
  • September 30, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Getting My MIT Decision on Pi Day Pie a comic

  

  this comic was inspired by the pie invention scenes in Waitress the Musical

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 12, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Days Without a Laptop… i need laptop-rehab

  

  , I have to say that that probably takes great moral fortitude in its ... university in the US - perhaps even the world. i usually can get MIT signal in ... + humanities major in a school full of engineers, so I never had to sit down in a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 22, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Doctor Who?

  

  can see exactly what our soldiers actually get to eat out in the desert ... summer, where she gets to "work from home" one day a week and sit in her ... to his thesis defense in full uniform: Doesn't Professor Tester (my

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  i (don’t) want to be alone on loneliness

  

  want to get things done. i have projects i'm, in theory, excited about ... without me in it. I don’t want to get left behind because everyone else has ... truly found paradise". and in i (don't) want the summer to end, i talk

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 12, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Application Cycle Your MIT application is just the beginning

  

  , business), get a “real” job, take a year off to figure things out, work for a ... thanks to the Rhodes Scholarship, followed by 7-8 years in an MD ... I will try to make a difference in the world within my field. Then I

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Home is where the heart (of Texas) is Going away to school isn't such a bad thing.

  

  in the garage and I use it to get to A to B. My car at college rests in ... , most people from my high school decided to stay in Texas for college for ... to put you in a new environment. Changes are destined to happen whether

  • by Bryan
  • December 30, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Post-Thanksgiving Post-stuff and Foodstuffs In which I'm reminded I have a life, and am thus eligible to give a…

  

  's couched underneath a few other stores in the area, it's hard to find, but ... coolness - not all of which I completely understand - to render images in ... I almost don't know how to get started with things. That same

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  meandering my nonlinear academic path so far

  

  lot of what I was looking forward to in college.   freshman year  As a ... to keep pursuing existing interests in computer science, while seeking ... lol” kind of way, since one of the first things I had to get used to at

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 5, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  DOFMH A sick day from work, where "sick" means "I wanted a day off"

  

  hooky more than I ever did. But when your mother is begging you to call in ... sleeping in until 11 AM; I then rode my bike to the Student Center and ate a ... time to blowdry my hair normally. In fact, I don't even own a blow dryer

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 25, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Let’s see those cell phones up in the air” cause every little thing's gonna be alright

  

  in Beijing called Linked Hybrid. Of course I had to see Simmons ... Maps and found a way to get there via public transportation. But once I ... , shuffling through options in my head - I could go back to the bus station, go

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 25, 2011