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  i’ve joined a sorority and what that means to me

  

  You'll recall in this blogpost I talk about joining Greek life and ... love the sorority a lot and I love the people in it. I often go back and ... what I'm saying, but I wish more people would highlight the incredible

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 21, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  College Application Anxiety what if your biggest fear is getting *into* MIT

  

  get in— I completely understand the fear and anxiety that comes with ... my accomplishments and all my skills would be frozen in time and ... up and figure out how I would measure up at that instant. What I didn

  • by Connie H. '15
  • June 26, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Power Tools at 2 AM A typical MIT experience.

  

  considered trying to move to East Campus for awhile, but in the end I decided ... unfortunately, I would like it to be officially known that whatever anyone else ... I've been on campus for over a week now, which basically means that I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / Events

  On Latin American Things Hablas español? Do you want to?

  

  , because I'm leaving for Mexico in a few hours and I have yet to pack and ... . Born and raised in the states, but I still love pupusas and fried yucca ... presence must be very prominent in all of the US. And then, I get here to

  • by Karen F. '11
  • March 21, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT Perfect SAT scores and #1 class ranks are so last millennium.

  

  psyched about brains. When I was in 8th grade, my mom brought home a copy of ... more importantly, my freshman year in high school I briefly dated a ... this is going. Yes, I applied to MIT just to see if I could get in, and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  COPENHELL a giant metal fest in Denmark 🤘🏽

  

  ’s shoulders throw up in the port-a-potty toilets get in the mosh pit I ... expected none of this and took it in with glee. I ran into the first shop I saw, pawed through band shirts that I’d usually find only in the back of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 28, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  friendful life recently

  

  night in my early years here. i treat myself like i would an old friend. i take my shortcomings in stride and i don't shy away from acknowledging my ... than get stuck in a self-destructive loop. i think younger mel would be

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 30, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  November Questions Omnibus 1 As usual, Q & A.

  

  regular decision apps must be in- preferably longer, but I know you are in ... live in essay. Is it okay if I put one in the completely optional section ... it is! I have a number of friends who are enrolled in some aspect of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Eighth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 5PM on 01/24/06.

  

  factor in my deferral from EA, so yes, I think writing could and should be ... . ------------------------------------- David wrote: "I'm a deferred early action applicant, and I sent in a DVD ... . Will such additional pieces be noticed in committee? (I mailed the DVD

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  growing over time continuing to become myself

  

  to hang out, in case the answer was no. I would see other people doing ... always going in the wrong direction no matter how hard you try. When I ... beginnings of deep friendships in the East Campus courtyard. I felt like a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 31, 2022
• 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