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• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at CSAIL

  

  that went to MIT also would have changed and grown in similar ways, and I ... starting startups to revolutionize education. I got to fall deeply in love ... 't solve everything. All in all, I had a transformative experience that has

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 16, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Trp

  

  about interdisciplinary research in the life sciences. Now, I'm back in ... would you admit?" I never answer questions like that, because we don ... individual merits. Maybe they'd both get in. Maybe neither would get in. And of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2004
• Blog / Classes

  Regrade Request Analysis points, please?

  

  it out, I had to make regrade requests. In this blog post, I ... regrade requests and responses like? I took two classes in Fall 2019 for ... lot of topics in math which I hadn't encountered before. I also made

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 3, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  the perfect choice doesn’t exist not the same river, not the same you

  

  . everything that i expected it would be before coming in wasn't at all what it ... effort in getting me to commit. i knew that whichever one i picked, i would ... , regularly scheduled programming. one. as i alluded to in my last post, i was

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 22, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  West Coast Trip Report some work, some play, lots of nerd stuff

  

  I'm back in Boston and absurdly jetlagged. I promised, though, that I would post updates from my West Coast trip after I returned, so, here is ... proceeded to scream into an iPhone in a bathroom in the Mission so loudly that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 30, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Wonder what an Amtrak station in the middle o’nowhere looks like? Pulling an Anthony on you: pictures of train stations, followed by my IAP so far.

  

  the most part, I'm about to find out just what there is to do in this ... -nine celsius, if you're so inclined.) When I landed in Boston, it was anything ... This was the title of an email I sent to Neha '10 a couple of weeks

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 17, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  a season of secondhand joy on mudita and vicarious delight

  

  hey. it's christmas season in mit. i was never a big fan of christmas ... person would appreciate a hug from them. and, i don't know. a cynical me ... , personally, have seen this in the world outside mit. but it is in mit i have

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 12, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  it’s thanksgiving or something and other things happening in my life

  

  dining, i'm staying in mit's campus when i otherwise would've been hard ... that is happening in the philippines too, even now. and yeah, sure, i ... its own indigenous people just feels weird. in other news, i am overdue

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 26, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Let me introduce myself. Alternatively titled: Whomst'd've?

  

  see how much better my life would be if I just were in 18.01. That's not ... , and BTS. I main Ashe in Overwatch. I love chemistry and biology. I have ... 't know if that's the truth. In a previous blog post, I listed out my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 5, 2019
• Blog / Personal Travel

  CMU / Parallel Universe i am not a clown

  

  semester, I went to PUMAC, in Princeton, and I kinda wrote about it too. Then ... go to CMIMC, in Carnegie Mellon, and I had a great time. It went quite ... was majoring in something, and I was like, "woah woah woah, don't you

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Packing incoherent thoughts from move-out week

  

  freshman year when I stuffed every single thing in my room into cardboard ... off, my friends and I were squished together in the front of a U ... Boston. It was a miracle that I ever made it to the airport in time. Then

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 18, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Writing an essay using thumb tacks and arousing the suspicions of a snarky Nobel laureate

  

  Looking For A Good Fantasy." I stood in that entrance hall for a solid ... ." How embarrassing. Anyway, I spent about an hour more taking notes in ... like that. I would look at a sentence, search for one that seemed to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 5, 2012
• Blog / How to Food

  Most delicious deliverables ever Also, I'm not having a bad hair day. I'm having a bad hair fortnight.

  

  carbs after a tough run and I’m not in any mood to assemble it myself ... impressive in my opinion when I have UROP, Track, and play rehearsals going on ... never knew when culinary creativity would strike. One Sunday, when I had

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 12, 2011
• Blog / People & Identities

  Quarantine and Social Life trying to maintain some connection

  

  I felt comfortable texting in the chatroom while watching. I would try ... texting them, and those conversations would span a few days. I also tried to ... compilation of some of my favorite calls/interactions in the last few months. I

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 26, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  A Part of Me or apart of me?

  

  with my posts until I deem it cringe"] Song:[/annotation] Voices in my ... graduate, and so, in two years, I should have a degree in mathematics from ... . Sometimes, I wish I could get rid of the voice. That it didn’t just linger in

  • by Paige B. '24
  • September 22, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  So, you’re applying to college.

  

  ." If only I were to get in, I thought, I'd be set. My life would be made ... , you probably aren't. For well over a year, from my rural roost, I sort of idealized MIT. The more I read, the more I learned, the more I

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 31, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Hydranting My Spring Semester 5 stages of courseroad grief

  

  "]17.307[/annotation]this year. I'm leaning towards a concentration in ... difficult considering I'm not entirely set on what I'd like to concentrate in. With all that in mind, let's get started! I start planning my semester

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • March 5, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions

  

  In yesterday's entry, I wrote, "With 5 days [now 4 days] until the ... about the MIT workload. I'm sure I could get it done, but would it be at ... academics like I am. thus, i don't really think I will fit in to a 'nerd

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 28, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Books I did read this semester I am literate if not literary

  

  Previous me wrote in a blogpost that I "did not want to write about ... and recess, in the hall and during class. Then in high school I took ... that’s ok. It’s about the habit. I would say it’s a small miracle this

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 21, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  What Should I Do Next Semester? i'm making a list and checking it twice

  

  Okay, so I'm sort of cheating - I already wrote this post on my math blog, but I thought it would be interesting to write it again for a ... done. I am graduating in February. I will be spending the Spring semester

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • November 14, 2011