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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day in the Life: Weekend Edition 80% more fun and 800% more apples in one serving!

  

  tiles, and I laid in bed and watched for a while. Some mornings also ... + piccolo) below the seat in front of me just the way I was taught by countless airline stewardesses, and went back to sleep. In my dreams, I

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 16, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music Groups at MIT, Pt. 3 [by Jessica Noss '14, Guest Blogger] Techiya and Beyond.

  

  ’t know that most Jewish music was in Hebrew or Yiddish, and I didn ... ’s the third). All I knew was I wanted to be in an a capella group, and since Techiya was the only one I got into, it would have to do

  • by ARTalk
  • May 22, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I Picked My First Apple apples, part 1

  

  undergraduates living in the dorms. I went on that trip for the first time today, and now I have enough apples that it would be wasteful for me not to eat ... 're triploid."]Mutsu[/annotation] thrown in there. I like a tart apple. They had

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 16, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Decisions mailed;

  

  future. In fact, I received word today that I've been accepted as a presenter at a national admissions conference in the fall, where I'll try ... , and at a quarter to five, the mailman came to post the letters. Sadly, I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 11, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  present tense “you've got to let go of the fear”

  

  underperforming. sure, half of the people in a class are below median, and i've been in that half several times now, and i'm lucky that i've never really ... bad, in a felt sense. i've been having more and more vivid dreams

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

  a gcal september never really used it until now

  

  clicking and dragging it forwards in time, whereas previously i would have ... adding more of these... i use gcal constantly, in stark contrast to the ... . events get filled out as the day goes on -- i don't plan too far ahead in

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 29, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Who’s that new kid? ANOTHER one?? Are you KIDDING me?! She doesn't even fit on the page!

  

  'm just a girl working in a bakery.) I've lived in California all my life, where it's okay that I wear t-shirts and flip flops in December. When it ... in the same place, I don't stay there for long. I spent half of my last

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  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