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• Blog / Admissions

  Everything You Ever Wanted to Know All your wishes have been magically granted.

  

  the exact same credentials, I'm not confident I would get in. Admissions ... much less tangible piece of advice, so I think it would be good to refer ... 's name. I met her at her dental practice, and we spoke right in the

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 13, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  It’s been a long road… ...gettin from there to here

  

  would have been helpful, in college, to have known that I was autistic ... role in forming me into what I would be as an adult. Forged and formed ... Admissions bloggers. I lived on 5th East in East Campus and I majored in course

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  and i am afraid of falling a long winded chess metaphor

  

  follow. I think to myself, as I'm hunched over my laptop and holed up in ... and strumming a guitar like the sounds playing in my ears? What if I ... in southern Californ--"Where?" I grew up in Los Angeles. "Okay

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 21, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  Liminal Activities Period IAP is a mindset and you can keep it forever

  

  accessible in the liminal space between semesters. I remember starting every ... the fall semester, barely able to believe that I passed and do not in ... next semester never started, would I ever get up off the couch? I

  • by Joel G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  my application essays try not to cringe

  

  irrevocably changed in many ways (my meme game has improved exponentially), I am ... 's what I wrote about, and what I would change if I could do it all over ... , which I participated in during high school. Then my dad was like, "I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 27, 2019
• Blog / MISTI

  The train in Spain is ungainly, take a plane I'm an MITblogger, get me out of here!

  

  work with Amtrak and studies in Course 11, I think I have a job for you ... 'm glad that we ended up going. It's unlike anywhere else I've seen in my ... would be if you came to MIT! This stands in stark contrast to ten years

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 23, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  many thoughts head full

  

  of it and the power rests in my hands. On days where I had my 10am 8.01L lecture, I would wake up at a crisp 8:30AM, wash up, eat some ... 't starve to death this IAP. Once it hit 11am, I would walk to the MIT

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 26, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 2 Neither zumba, nor yoga.

  

  my Astrophysics pset (I typed up answers in LaTeX.) So, I doubled back ... . I clicked my way to the PE site, saw that yoga was offered in the T ... before noon; I figured that even though classes start at ten past, it would

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 16, 2013
• Blog / Residential Life

  🦆🦆🦆🏳️🏳️🏳️ 🦖🦖🦖 SIMMONS!!! RETREAT!!!

  

  , when I expected the retreat would still be going on. But a short email exchange later, I realized we actually would be back in time. I’ll fill out ... , October 14th at our Heads of House’s cabin in Concord, MA. As we drove, I

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 17, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m Still Here (for now) quick reflections on the last ten years

  

  I’m sitting in the quiet car of a Northeast Regional Amtrak train, writing a blog post for the first time in almost four years. Since I started MIT in the fall of 2015, I’ve taken the trip from New York to Boston

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Hacks

  50 Years of NASA One small hack for MIT, one giant leap for NASA.

  

  people in MIT's legendary Course 16 program (Aero/Astro Department) would ... talking about in the morning, and I managed to catch a glimpse of it on my way to a 7.03 (genetics) exam in the morning. After the exam, I headed

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 2, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  I Get To Blog Today! Is this meta enough?

  

  .  From the letters I would write for my grandparents overseas in elementary ... 's something that I've simply convinced myself to be true, but MIT in fact does ... how I think. How I make sense of the things that are happening in my

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I went to a motorcycle festival don’t worry, parents, I didn't see other MIT kids there

  

  , and planned that it would take about a third of the hours it did, so I ... pattern, one I still haven’t figured out a response to. In machine shops, I ... waist, her hair flying in the wind while he turns the gas. I looked, and

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 23, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  today is my birthday & i still don’t know who to become

  

  like a moment in time, sips away like a bottle of wine. Here I am ... in diary pages and used calendars. Another year until I acquired the ... potential classes because I’m considering double-majoring in computer science

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 6, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  infinite corridors can’t believe there are no posts with this title yet

  

  is the picture i have in mind: i was so preoccupied during undergrad ... set in stone as i imagined: i’ve already switched jobs and roles, signed ... brutal. i was reeling from moving to a new city and living in a house with

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  a week of summer ft. cafes, lab, and assorted thoughts

  

  in volcanoes, and I wondered, again, how grad school would suit me ... , and/or see people. I love the cafe in the morning. Classical music ... yet unwritten, the ending not set in stone. I left with two characters

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 8, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I failed an exam last week and it will be okay

  

  the five stages of grief: i. denial in which I wake up, horrified ... a notoriously difficult exam in a fraction of the time ii. anger I ... excelling at math. I'm mad at MIT: I'm taking 102 units in an attempt to start

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  ways of saying goodbye joint post with CJ '23!

  

  yourself. TT: I would feel the same way if I was in your situation. TT: Which ... . from everything goes on: But if I was gone tomorrow, would the waves ... 's laughing in the background So this is how it ends I promise to never go

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  There Are No Uninteresting Things I'm taking classes. If you ask nicely, I might tell you about them.

  

  I would have a problem if Snively managed to get more posts up than me ... that I don't have to think about in the circuits that I design. 6.034 - Artificial Intelligence: Mostly what it sounds like. I'm more interested in

  • by Evan B. '10
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Questions and answers

  

  you that you feel get you closer to your goal in life? So I guess what ... expressed some interest in it when I was about ten, and after that my family ... school, I would have been less likely to figure this out - I would have

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 23, 2005