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  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  made me admissible to MIT — I started getting things wrong in the ... try to snag the one solo seat, all the way in the back and to the left ... sufficient to get me through secondary school and my undergraduate education

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  WHY? for people who don't like "no"

  

  know I would have done anything to get in, and still would. Depression ... a spot, unfortunately..." But you'll get used to it eventually. In ... , and it might make you sick. NO you did not get the leading role in the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019
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  I Really Just Cannot Write Anymore of My Thesis I wish I can bang out essays like blog entries.

  

  blogs I promised in here will still get written, but I need to finish my ... Boston nights still gets quite cold, even in late April. I do not yet know ... thesis mode. Now I have 60+ pages of it finished, and trying to get words

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2011
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  senioritis not to be confused with señoritis

  

  off the effortlessly forget to turn in an assignment thing. so i had ... last semester to not be about me, the more i was able to do. so in no ... i never really had senioritis in high school—it was probably the

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 10, 2015
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  Rain by any other name lagi na lang umuulan

  

  , from the northeast to the southwest monsoon. Habagat brings in hot, humid ... to the troubles in life, comparing problems with the weather, as ... to the rain. Maybe the closest thing is how, in those really old

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 22, 2021
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  Grey and Other Colors

  

  3 AM in a cold sweat that things have to change. This is an attempt at ... pleasure of getting to know. Hope it provides some perspective from life on ... moving to a new place, falling in and out of love with SF, trying to stay

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 8, 2016
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  [joint post] we visited every station on the MBTA and the Logan Airport Rental Car Center

  

  four hours in. But now we get to tackle the real beast—the Green Line ... ’s nice to have. In any case, it takes half an hour to get from Riverside to ... are also in 24-hour time, I’m just writing this way in opposition to CJ

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020
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  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  told me to come down. So I put all my things in the locker and ran to the ... immediately connected to the police department. And those cold snowing winter nights when I didn’t even want to think about walking across campus to get

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2013
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  MIT Is My Home Looking back and saying goodbye

  

  or were just cool and awesome people, and in getting to know them and ... been able to take a photo with truly everyone in it ^^; And of course, I ... sometimes worry I get way too excited to see underclassmen compared to how

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 13, 2018
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  I Miss the South Musings on a secret Instagram account

  

  a lot to get down and little time to do it, I’ll write one long ... full sentences. If I really need to think about it, I’ll write in Spanish ... entered Kindergarten with. There isn’t a lot to do in a small town, so

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  How Wrestling With Snapping Turtles Can Get You Into MIT A student profile of an aspiring limnologist.

  

  willing to get mauled in pursuit of our interests, she by vicious animals ... , writing search algorithms to help fictional cows find salt licks in ... to reenact this feat may result in serious injury, excessive brinyness

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011
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  Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends

  

  pernicious myth."]connection between body and mind[/annotation] to keep both in ... couldn't deadlift inside unless I wanted to end up in my landlady's living ... in Bitcoin because he thought the banks were going to fail. Now I had

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
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  College Shopping List Everybody do the shopping cart!

  

  what you should wait to buy in Cambridge? Who comes from far away and ... extra-long. And as far as comforters go, try to get something that'll be sure to keep you warm in the winter, because here is something I knew but

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 26, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  forty-five minutes of break, I slogged back to my room in the biting cold ... -sleep around 1am, I set every alarm in my room to an arbitrary time between 2 ... caffeine was in the tea, but I did not feel tired at all. If I wanted to go

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the blogs at twenty some reflections, plus an index of posts

  

  to blog, I genuinely wasn't sure of the response we'd get. It's a cold ... ways—which, as I get older, I think is the key to changing The World in ... remain by Celena C. '12 Don’t forget to check in with yourself by Jenny X

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dragons A blog post for deferred students (and everybody else waiting on decisions).

  

  wasn’t going to get accepted, I stopped being super formal in my update ... one to get in. There were two EA admits, and I don’t remember any EA ... MIT, and if you are able to get in from crafting “the perfect

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 14, 2014
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  All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)

  

  over that snothead you used to get into shenanigans with back in high ... looking for pictures to use in a Father's Day card) and came across pictures ... thinking about what I learned in college... All I Ever Really Needed to

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013
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  Ten days of live-action roleplaying no joke, there i was…

  

  joined: in 2020 no one ran one, and in 2021 and 2022 no ten-days ran due to ... spot of joy in an otherwise dark winter. As much as I want to, I don ... props are fun. I was reluctant to get robes at first, but some generous

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2023
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  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  to get help, I don’t know how my story would have ended. In the event ... struggling to do so in a way that’s pretty and poetic, that will stick in ... triggered the chemical switch in my brain to flip. There was the chemistry

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • March 8, 2015
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  I’m not an imposter… I’m going to be featured on the MIT News homepage

  

  student do you need to be to get one? Those types of articles feel like a ... ’ll get to it. Here’s one tricky thing about being at MIT: you never know how you compare to anyone else directly. I remember in high school

  • by ana~
  • October 29, 2021