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

  

  so we don’t really know how to do it). In other years at MIT, I would ... try to figure out where my lecture hall is. It’s in a room I’ve never ... engineering courses were typically in one of five lecture halls that I became

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
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  [Group Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Survivors three bloggers face the horrors of public transit

  

  excuse is that I forgot to sign up in the previous years. But that isn ... would make me change my mind. I’m also not that good at solving puzzles, especially when I’m under pressure. Getting jumpscared in front of friends is

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
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  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  either. I was in a holding pattern: the first six weeks of a semester would ... to get help, I don’t know how my story would have ended. In the event ... after a summer where I exercised regularly, sometimes jogging in the sun

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Pretender a message to both you and me.

  

  Student program, where I would follow around a student for a day to get a feel for MIT life. And I fell in love with it. I wanted to go to MIT more than anything else in the world. I had already submitted my EA

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 12, 2014
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  IHTFParadise – A Journey of Depression at MIT Guest entry by Angelina G.

  

  beautiful Thursday in the New England fall. I walked out of the Convention ... in the past 24 hours. Yet I didn’t feel hungry, nor did I have any ... the cookies. I confided in her that for the first time in my life, I

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2015
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  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  .112 lecture in 10-250" or "I have three psets due every week this semester and it's really hosing" or even "I'm doing a UROP in Course 7" don't mean ... - speaking in MITese. But what else would you expect from a school where

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
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  REX at Random Hall Pancakes, LN2 ice cream, board games, game theory, math, raves, staying up entirely too late,…

  

  Three years ago I was in the room I’m still in now, and just like ... inhabits the streets of Cambridge in the morning, and I spent it wandering ... stacked on each other, full of stuff my dad and I had bought my last week

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 23, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  and I said "MIT," I got a lot of blank looks. My school was in a small ... inspired them to visit me more than they would have if I went to UW ... back in Wisconsin. When I was little I took weekend classes where we

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011
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  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  . You blink and look down at the studfinder in your hands. I give you a ... uneasily in his lonely office. I give you a studfinder. You look at my face ... Apple™ computer. Type in your alias for openEmu, i.e., emu into your

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
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  This story has to do with professor accessibility. And something awesome that I got in the mail.

  

  got in touch with him: “Dear Anna, I would be delighted to talk ... a package slip in my mailbox earlier this week; I passed it to the desk worker, who put a big squishy brown envelope in my hands. I read the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  myself. Then I would go home to my apartment in Watertown and read, and ... indoor track, mentally planning what I would do in the case of a zombie ... , just like I did in high school. That bus will bring me, and a few dozen

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

  25 Stories of Getting Accepted to MIT told by students and alums

  

  a large quantity of ice cream the night before. If I got in, I would ... everything that would distract me. We had made a bet - if I didn’t get in, she ... 't get in. I figured that if the tube didn't come by Christmas, I would

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
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  [Guest Post] We’re Not in ~Kansas~ Missouri Anymore Going From a Small Town to Boston, by Claire S. '25

  

  : “Definitely not in a big city.” I’d spent my entire life in a small town in ... ’m writing this in my dorm room overlooking the city of Boston. Ultimately, I ... ’m just as deserving as anyone else to be at MIT—after all I made it in

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 17, 2024
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  everything i made this year (mostly)

  

  Wow I haven’t blogged in one million years! I feel like I’ve written ... year, in order to 1) see what actually happened and 2) figure out what I ... , I would say that this was a year of trying new mediums and materials

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 1, 2025
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  There is no such thing as a typical day on energy levels and productivity

  

  done. I try to work, I really do. I spend time sitting in front of ... . Sometimes I feel like lightning strikes me and I get a project done in three ... is impossible; I’m lucky enough to have never experienced this. In

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 25, 2020
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  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  while. In short, I would not be quite so quickly alone at the end of the ... to know that I would see them again in the fall. I felt happy that ... In that moment, I felt that my conception of [Next House] finally

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 31, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  of studying in the US would be like, but we spoke in the offhanded ... me and said I had a package awaiting me in the secretary’s office. I ... it to Penn within days of their mail. I also sent in my SAT scores and

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
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  Are people on the East Coast friendly? An entry especially for those from the Midwest.

  

  more likely to just say "no" than "sorry, I would, but... ." In my ... would be as friendly as the people of Wisconsin. I probably wouldn't have ... my school librarian. She asked me what I would be doing the next year

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 21, 2010
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  i don’t want to say goodbye sorry sad blog incoming

  

  everyone else"]pods[/annotation] were a thing. My podmates and I cried in ... me into adventures that would make for great stories in front of a ... thing does not currently exist in my possession. Two Fridays ago, I threw

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 24, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  16 for the 16’s 16 Guidelines to Making the Most of your CPW

  

  , "I never thought I'd be in a fraternity/sorority." K: You might think ...   N = Nat, K = Kirsten 1. Don't buy ANY food! N: One of the best ... people and make event hopping friends. K: Also, if you're interested in

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 18, 2012