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• Blog / Admissions

  Two Sides Of The Coin… For Us Too Watching the people who didn't get in receive their letters is as heartbreaking for me…

  

  I posted a version of this as a comment in the last thread, but decided to blog it here as a real entry so that more folks would see it. I ... /she doesn't make it. In no way am I comparing my feelings to those of a

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 15, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  I moved to Maine just a wisconsin girl in an east coast world

  

  the world and the people in it would make sense when I needed them to ... FREAKING insane. As a brief overview, I have (in approximate order ... Tried to establish a new normal in the middle of the woods I’ve been here

  • by Powers '23
  • March 29, 2020
• Blog / Public Statements

  The Class of 2019 Graduates from MIT

  

  (webcast embedded from commencement website. I'll return to this blog ... graduating), in the embedded webcast above.  On Wednesday night, I had the ... person I could recognize in the mirror. If that is true for some of you now

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 7, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  self-destruction my entirely self-inflicted problems

  

  , and i would have this dull tension in my abdomen that would persist for ... interview. i was pretty nervous for it - it was my first ever in-person job ... through while growing up and also because i’m worry-prone in general, so

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 27, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Remember to Breathe Chicken Soup for the Applicant's Soul

  

  million extracurriculars I was involved in. A word of advice: Take a deep ... mom in a frenzy exclaiming that I'm not going to get into any of the schools I want to get into. I was in your spot once, and I'm there once

  • by Bryan
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Q & A Answers to questions on being in a fraternity.

  

  this is speaking from personal experience, I think living in a fraternity ... In response to my latest entry on being in a fraternity: Leo asked: 1. How large are the individual rooms in a frat house(or in your case

  • by Bryan
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Exhaustion Guess who's not ready to go to grad school after all

  

  overwhelming amount of exhaustion. I am doing much less than I ever have in a ... floating in sludge, and that every amount of work I do actually get done ... 've always felt that I lack in comparison to other MIT students: I just don

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 5, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  How I Spent IAP bonus content: one sentence statements about books and movies

  

  ramen in one night), I’ve been spending virtually all of my IAP at home ... 's invaluable in many ways. For me, it was mostly that I had four pristine weeks ... summer, but decided that ultimately I hadn't devoted enough time and would

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • January 29, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  NY Times article on women in science Women in science...the debate rages on.

  

  . Admittedly, I would have far less faith in my ability to “do-it-all” if it was ... Biomolecular Systems on Friday morning. In an effort to procrastinate, I was ... equal representation of women in science. When I casually mention to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 19, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Bumping Up Against—and Breaking Through—the Glass Ceiling Part 2 of my adventures at the National Conference for College Women Student Leaders

  

  Note: This entry is the second part of my blog last week, in which I ... -looking poster!   I’ve been fortunate in my life because I was never aware ... population, I never felt different for being a female engineer. In fact

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 20, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  All these days I spend away What does "home" mean to you?

  

  Period. As holidays go, I'd say Spring Break falls somewhere in the high ... 've mostly been enjoying myself. I am, by the by, back home in South Bend. I ... . Last year, if you'd told me I would be writing these words, I probably

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 25, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  soulsearching / naubos na in which i ramble about purpose

  

  teaching, in graphics design, and it would address what I think is a huge ... how privileged I am. It would make me feel guilty, in a sense, to be ... . The Fall Career Fair happened in September, and I didn’t really actively

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 22, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Standing out But what if you come to MIT and you're not the best in the class…

  

  cause the student to shrivel up like a bacterium in Lysol. I remember ... people who had "merely" gotten 4's on the AP test. In high school, I'd been ... rejoice when I got class average. My first semester average would have been

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Polymer Police Using spectroscopy to prove my mom wrong (except she was right and I was actually…

  

  [/annotation]. I couldn’t possibly do that! Damaging the scarves in any way was out ... would be very sad if I burned her merchandise. I also didn’t want to cause ... , most of the tools would end up damaging the scarves in some way. For

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 16, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Class of 2009 note #2

  

  ? MIT students/alums, what advice would you have for incoming freshmen in ... awaiting your Interactive Introduction to the Institute (i3) video introduction to MIT's dorms, you can watch the trailer here: 2005 i3 Trailer

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 8, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Sophomore Stupid It’s morbin’ time

  

  would have been unproductive. In hindsight though, maybe I could have ... able to several personal projects in the time I would be taking a class ... in the two weeks after classes ended. I got distracted as little as

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 30, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Things I Know to Be True: Addendum One A post I hate, and some truths from my first year at MIT

  

  Back in September, I wrote my first blog. I called it Things I Know ... behind it. I don't like the blog at all. I take some pride in saying this because it means I am a different person than I was in September. For many

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • June 20, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Paris Hilton comes to MIT Just kidding, but I bet that got your attention

  

  and Sam ran it together in 2006). We also got Tuesday off because MIT is ... so I still had class on Tuesday afternoon.) I think every MIT student ... hand, it’s four days off in a row! Imagine the possibilities! You

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 24, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  I Can Save You Possibly.

  

  . But anyway - Now that I'm in the IAP EMT class, I get to experience the ... being in pain myself. Undoubtedly a nice change, I must say. Having just ... still glad to be in it. When I interviewed for the class a few months ago

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 9, 2010
• Blog / MISTI

  [JOINT POST] Travelling as a black female "Alexa, play Brown Skin Girl..."

  

  asked me to describe my time in India, I would repeat a three-word phrase ... took excursions outside the city. I would be in a group with my friends ... saw a billboard, I would note the complexion of the models used in

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 3, 2019