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  why i chose mit the paths not traveled

  

  else who had gotten into MIT and struggled to meet other kids. In ... . I wanted to impress people around me and I wanted to get a job? And even now ... wouldn't carry out the rest of my career in the same manner. I want to work

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 21, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT is hard Yes, yes I am.

  

  every day at MIT is a new challenge to overcome. Overcoming it elicits a ... 't know how it happens, but everything seems to work out in the end. MIT is ... wanky blog entries lately, I'd like to write one that's not, because

  • by Snively '11
  • October 18, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Neil Gaiman! The uncensored version =P

  

  ...er...girl): It's always dangerous, non-productive or you get lied to when you ask a ... . Even in retold fairy tales, people get amazing feats done by being clever ... more beneficial to the audience. You maximize your time and don't get as

  • by Karen F. '11
  • May 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Short Thoughts Girlhood, editing, iPhone notes.

  

  or to find myself shivering in a heated room; I often go to sleep with ... -athlete. The job has been trying in the cases when I've had to edit work that is ... 're recruiting, so if you're going to be at MIT in the fall and are interested in

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 13, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  today is my birthday & i still don’t know who to become

  

  to be held in a wiser person’s arms, safe in the knowledge that ... agree to get married or break up. We have started this conversation many ... 2021 is two-thirds over. To celebrate the newly abandoned month, I play

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 6, 2021
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at the Media Lab

  

  I have ever seen in my life. I was determined to get to MIT Media Lab ... undergraduate admission in the past, who went on to pursue their ambitions ... accepted to MIT Media Lab, the place that I was dreaming of in high school

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 24, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  5 / The final countdown A month of stress and relief

  

  , said tschüss to all those tenuous late nights (and early mornings) in ... TO SET THE MOOD: Cologne by Haux       The last ... . As I took my last midterms, handed in my last rounds of psets, and

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Weather Sensitive I know you think that I don't care, but I really do.

  

  't, then look! You do now!) In Fort Lauderdale, we don't have seasons. Sure, it gets cold in that wet, drippy way that makes you feel like you ... said, I present to you three pictures of the view from my window. Early

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 27, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Big Questions and Small Scientists The kids I volunteer with are magical.

  

  . I was getting a tuberculosis skin test, which I needed in order to ... step in the lesson plan - it said to drop the tablets in the water, and ... !!!!!" I was stunned. One kid sidled up next to me, and gazed up in awe

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 27, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  it’s ok that it’s not ok sometimes things will happen, and you have to just let yourself be.

  

  probably not considered “enough” to be clinical) in which a person feels ... addicts featured in Infinite Jest, although she doesn’t seem to be truly ... how can you possibly go on. I think, in contrast to Kate, my self

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 4, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  DO YOU WANNA BUILD A SNOWMAN?? I KNOW YOU DO

  

  , and we had to get back to work, so we went back inside and psetted until ... consider it my sacred duty to announce the [annotation note="i.e. the first ... ’ve been getting occasional “it MiGhT snow… mAyBe” messages from the cryptic

  • by Allison E. '27
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s here! The post you've all been waiting for, or at least until you saw Snively with…

  

  in this video. * I sent 107 emails having to do with the i3 over the ... . Well, we finished the something awesome months ago, but we wanted to keep it under wraps until its official release. Today, I'm finally able to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 25, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Landing  Your Aircraft Has Arrived at Gate '21 

  

  . Just as surreal as it was to get my acceptance more than four years ago. And just as surreal as it was to hold my MIT ID card in hand, staring ... next four years were to hold. I was anxious about living so far away from

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 4, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  72 Hours Three days can be a long time.

  

  Chemical Processes, was in competition with CalTech Industries to produce 310 ... ROTC in addition to waiting until the last minute for my ICE project. But ... out." In my sleepy haze I grabbed the marker from him and went to the

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • November 8, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2009 Numbers

  

  In a recent post, I wrote, "Our yield was even higher than we ... admitted 1495 of those students, making this the most selective year ever in ... highest overall yield (the percentage of admitted students who decide to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 31, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why I do too much stuff at MIT 1)My mom doesn't have a problem with it.

  

  two are out to get me. You'll never get my wisdom teeth! Neither of you ... to get through MIT is hard, and you'll often wonder whether or not the ... anything to blog about, just a lack of time in which I can do so. (I am

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 13, 2008
• Blog / Community Projects

  simfinite hopscotch! hippity hoppity blue tape grandiosity

  

  , face possible criticism, to realize your full potential. In my case, I ... war (or worse!!). This was all in order to reach my highest goal, my ... 's literally no way to tell. About an hour in, the ogs had to leave, but a

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • December 15, 2024
• Blog / Events

  The Great Debate: Latke vs. Hamentashen The post-coverage.

  

  , representing the Hamentashen team. In order to understand his slides, I’ll ... guys will get to see it. I assure you that the real thing was much better ... MIT was packed to capacity with students eager to hear six MIT

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 6, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Ritual & Ceremony I'll be out of contact the next two weeks as I celebrate a big event.

  

  colleagues in Admissions will be happy to help you. And not 24 hours after I ... 're in Northern California, I hope to see you, too. Best wishes to all of ... -- applying to and going off to college -- I, too, have been preparing for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 14, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The Number Game A few words of advice before applying to college.

  

  to spend countless hours in lab is also an extremely important factor ... So I had a little free time this morning so I paid a little visit to ... upset about how everyone was trading their "stats" like I used to trade

  • by Bryan
  • August 2, 2006