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  [Guest Post] You Have a 50/50 Chance a guest post from my mama

  

  Camille was very nervous when she applied for EA to MIT in 2018 ... up at 0400 in the morning on the streets of LA or San Diego for a ... than that, I saw my daughter smile for the first time in months. She was

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  College Shopping List Everybody do the shopping cart!

  

  more expensive than going off campus in exchange for the convenience of ... give you a towel card that you can trade in for a towel whenever you go ... people who have survived for significant periods of time living in Athena

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 26, 2007
• Blog / Community Projects

  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  one-weekend program in March, but it's for middle schoolers instead ... February to April. For Spring HSSP, I was in charge of dealing with class ... possibilities, and it took them around an hour. For Matt, Wayne, and I, the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Mark Zuckerberg Visits MIT NBD.

  

  auditorium. And just for you guys, I got some footage of his talk. Sorry in ... AN EXPERT IN ANYTHING.) Things Elizabeth Learned From Attending Mark ... fair (or play at all) in an adult's world at the beginning. He didn

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  , which you take to earn credit for an MIT subject without taking the class ... . Malingap is someone giving me an impromptu tour of East Campus in the middle ... , or I revise for an ASE, or I’m walking over to the other side of campus

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  theme song on the piano in the middle of the room. Nearby, an ... grasping. I soaked it all in and confirmed that MIT was for me. I was ... times were probably in their rooms behind closed doors, waiting for the

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  sitting in the library, studying for a Geography exam when someone ran up to ... —who worked in an educational sector of the United States Embassy. So after I ... certain college has no room for you at this point in time, then I’ll tell

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Subtle Black MIT Traits A few things I have experienced as a black person at MIT

  

  person in general. I wouldn’t trade my experience at MIT for anything and I ... people this is wild, especially for someone like me who has always lived in an area with a very large black population. However, for some

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  some warmth on a cold decisiony day "there have been times that I thought I couldn't last for long / but now…

  

  could get the argument out of the way in advance. I googled for various ... the ground for an hour and then go home. At home, the first thing I did ... high, decisions are coming soon, and everyone is hella stressed. (In case

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Life is Improv say yes

  

  orientation for the class of 2015, in late August. You can see why these ... . To negate in improv is to break the flow of absurdity and belief that ... 's standing only on thin air, he's negating. In improv, when you deny a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT, part deux The case study of someone else you wouldn't expect to have gotten in

  

  in the case of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II -- wait, are you all too young for TMNT?), I decided to profile my endlessly put-upon boyfriend ... .) Adam is what we like to call an airplane nerd. He likes to design them

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  that I could afford to fuck up in math, I could relax for a whole year of ... explaining something very simple, in an unpretentious way. She makes this class ... brain turned to mush in the classroom, and math was an hour of reading

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  How To Make Mediocre Furniture well, maybe i'll let you be the quality judge

  

  live in an apartment with some EC friends, who all lived on slugfest in ... , and that kept me up for at least two weeks in advance worrying about it ... months for me in a closet on campus; now it would wait another six months

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 17, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Applying to College vs. Applying to Jobs yes you heard me, the application process NEVER ENDS

  

  might want to apply for an internship. Just like applying to college ... internships in April, before my internship for 2019 had even started. [caption ... picky in terms of what companies i'm willing to work for, and also have

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 6, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  culminated in an hour-long cry session after a benign meeting with my biology ... ’re stupid, and MIT keeps an overflowing warehouse of proof in the second ... brink of an epic hurricane, a Presidential election, and either the most

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If man is five Then most people are six, and if most people are six then pre-meds are seven.

  

  means "almond bread" in German. I got to see Mandelbrot speak on Thursday! It was for like 30 seconds, for a variety of reasons, but it was cool just to be in the same room for a minute and catch a glimpse of his well

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  she was using in [annotation note="An experimental version of 8 ... MIT Admissions team back in 1992 to serve as an informational ... above I've explained how MIT's student body has seen an uptick in

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  most other places. In fact, I'm wearing the 2014 Rush shirt for my dorm ... for construction in 1923, and opened to students for the first time in ... . Thanks again to Lydia for helping me get that online before I was an actual

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

  ideas are as fluid as electrons in an E-­field, motivating me to learn how ... ) Instructor who, after I received a lowest-in-class grade for a presentation ... Election Tho T '20 who studied with me in the Stud for four days straight

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 6, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  I’m Still Standing after all this time at MIT

  

  went out of town for one reason or another. We sat together in our cozy ... by frame. I wrote the words I’d post with it in my head, an ever ... ’d called home for so long. The thought remained in the back of my head until

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 31, 2021