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  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  -campus in a new neighborhood. Moreover, it would be an opportunity to get to ... used a ladder to get in and out of bed. Rather than the conventional four ... sure liked to get in my food if I wasn't attending to it. One morning, I

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 31, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Some Advice Sometimes I wish I could tell freshman-me that everything's going to be okay

  

  you could get involved in. Not to mention classes. College will be a ... 'll be happy to hear from you. 2) The first people you meet in a new place ... scribble down quotes that inspire you. You're going to change a lot in a very

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  lecture at 11, so I rush to get ready at 9:45, going through the motions of ... try to figure out where my lecture hall is. It’s in a room I’ve never ... so we don’t really know how to do it). In other years at MIT, I would

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paths there are so many

  

  statistics of how many deferred students get admitted, it was painful to think ... who was able to get through the door you wanted to, or through a ... in you to move forward, fueled by your determination and goals

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 19, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “You know what would be cool?” some pizza would be a start...

  

  Science to Student Life, the best way to get free food and every tangent in ... with a severe mental disorder in an MRI. This makes me want to wear a ... (scientific ones nonetheless. You know, the ones that are hard to get

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 8, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  e) Other Some pretty important stuff, and then just some pretty stuff.

  

  really engaged in my education during high school. Yet you get to college ... knows exactly how to get what they want in life and I'll convert, but to ... me if I haven't written back to you in the past few weeks. This

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  demons on depression

  

  images in one's mind. It turns out the majority of people, when asked to ... that way to me. There's a Quora answer that describes anosmia in ... to stay in the Philippines. She called my dad, who was shocked, but

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 28, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting for Decision Day In which I give a pep talk of sorts (with a little help from my…

  

  't stick exactly to all of the words, but you'll get the gist of it. Best of ... ’s no chance of getting in when secretly your heart/brain/stomach is ... confidence in yourself and your abilities and your passions to throw your name

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Application dreaming

  

  're excited about. While I was in California in early October, I started to ... . You get the point) The best candidates to MIT bring much more to the ... score. MIT students are three-dimensional, are good people in addition to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes, by the Group Chats and their potential replacement, Interstellar!

  

  Canvas, so Stellar might be in the procss of getting phased out. Regardless ... Messenger group chats to do a little analysis and see if I could get any ... percent of the class in the chat! This makes sense to me; the easier the

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  an admissions blogger I only have 23 minutes left, so time to get ... because I liked to read the blogs. A few years later, I spent a summer in ... other words: you do not need to have had a blog for a zillion years in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Things Advice for the class of 2010.

  

  half of your class at some point in the next four years. Get used to it ... journal in taking you back to your favorite moments. Take naps in the ... from you too - in fact, that's part of the reason they chose to be

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a freshman year 🦴🧠🩸🖐️🫀 my first year at mit, told through the body

  

  a tree. in my freshman year, i aimed to get my [annotation note ... grad students in research projects. with urop, we get to learn more about ... where my mom had me wash my hair in vinegar to get rid of lice. to me

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.

  

  . The TV show in fact is older than many of you applying to MIT right now ... that I did in my head to write the above statement, so I wrote it down ... engineering to pursue a PhD in biological engineering at MIT. (It’s not as crazy

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  Light) almost exactly the size of the Pantheon in Rome. To get there from ... . I had been given permission to call in from my office on campus. Two ... had to turn off his video etc -- ahh, PhD defenses in the Zoom era

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The Great Wifi Outage of 2007 Burton-Conner's wifi went out two days ago; Evan will tell you more by the end…

  

  class website or announce in class, they'll eventually get to know you. If ... caught the fever and engaged in a vicious and terrible battle to the death ... video. Caution! Mild condiment violence to follow. In case you

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We Should Take This Final and Push It Somewhere Else you'll need a lot of mOXie

  

  Actual Problems. Now, in May, as things started to get progressively worse ... you get something like this to happen? Final exams and projects are ... control can make getting out of bed to complete your final really hard, or

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 14, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  's supposed to start getting actually warm in a few days, which I hope comes ... event: any student majoring in EECS can line up to get free food. Usually ... about making it to my 1 pm on time, but I get in line. Luckily, it moves

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  How to look over your application and advice about breathing. My older younger brother is your age. I am fully aware of how much you’re…

  

  trying to get across, then you need to fix something. If you don’t like the ... that it is not in my job description to deal with. 3) Read over your ... ’re trying to get across? Would you want to admit yourself? Do you have typos

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!

  

  ! In celebration of the 10 year anniversary of the blogs, I'm back to tell you about my life after MIT.  But in order for me to properly tell ... moved back in with my parents and went back to my old summer job as a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014