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  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  , or none of my writing at all, or an author whose name was circled, or ... stained. It sat crisply in the back of an army of papers simply staring at me, my name sat proudly in bold at the front of a line of far more

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  study spots at MIT not exactly places to cry, but they'll do

  

  embarked on a quest to document the best study spots at MIT. most of these ... beautiful at night, incredible view huge desks lots of outlets a nice ... I could be exploring a new and fascinating part of the institute I

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three Guys, Six Degrees almost better than a five guys burger...almost.

  

  photoshoot while they supplied the breakfast :P At the end of the first year ... year, we were sitting around and talking about double degreeing at MIT ... requirements of two majors to get a double degree, rather than a simple double

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 1, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Ten days of live-action roleplaying no joke, there i was…

  

  ready at the same time. Everyone has a spell hand of around 3 to 4, and ... One of MIT's oldest student groups is the Assassins Guild. We're the ... for space police, and a Wookiee stuck in a tavern in the middle of a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  was chatting with this guy at one of my med school interviews - HIM ... study all day, or simply neurotic overachievers. At the risk of violating ... here's my honest assessment of being a premed at MIT. I. I didn't come to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to choose your major putting people in boxes, feat. credit for reddit, social science, and lots of yarn.

  

  -tool-cum-participatory-art-installation for our final project. What you're looking at is a rendering of my ... part 2: yarn art hi-res rendering of the board or if you're ever at MIT ... your life and you're kind of interested in a lot of things and everything

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 6, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  my job offer at the finance company I worked at last summer — is very ... somewhat (including the offer that I have in front of me right now). Not ... understand economies at scale — i.e., exactly the kind of work I’d be doing at

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • April 20, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fig. 6: Eigenverantwortung The time of my life. What responsibilities?

  

  orientation session at ETH, the word Eigenverantwortung popped up during one of ... Eigenverantwortung Adultness panned out. I had received the offer to study abroad at ... :  Accept the offer to study at ETH  Pick classes from the

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • August 28, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  REX at Random Hall Pancakes, LN2 ice cream, board games, game theory, math, raves, staying up entirely too late,…

  

  , and now the moment of glory is at hand. Do you have what it takes to be ... stacked on each other, full of stuff my dad and I had bought my last week ... waking up to the smell of food from surrounding restaurants that always

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 23, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s More Than A Job Thoughts On The Eve Of RA Decisions

  

  up at the mention of cell biology, how you were five minutes late ... , but at least it's fair. (And by fair I mean fair in the context of the ... (just ask the senior staff) but at the end of the day, a committee

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Riri Williams Pi Day Video Behind the scenes of an extraordinary three minutes!

  

  demographic present at MIT and a field of study that we offer is a person we can ... Man comics A lot of people at MIT were of course ecstatic, and in ... . Ayomide is a junior at MIT (Class of 2018) who studies Chemical Engineering

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HOW TO FORGE A DRAGON SWORD and other skills picked up in 3.096

  

  a heart with the bottle-opening tab at the crux of the heart. Getting ... analysis of the sword at the beginning. When I finished the hilt and roughed ... . This gave a degree of accuracy to 1mL, or 1g. I would be able to get

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 7, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes I Won’t Be Able to Take also "What Is Pre-Registration?"

  

  years of MIT before I actually decided to look at the entire course ... At MIT, we have pre-registration as well as regular registration ... months before the first day of classes. Pre-registration is not as

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 23, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  having been admitted, of being at MIT. (Though, to be clear, it ... sunday’s thread who reminded me of this quote"]“To love at all is to be ... “work” in general. One of my clearest memories at MIT comes from a group

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 16, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  the Department of Chemical Engineering at MIT! At the time of the video ... Department and the Institute for Systems Research at the University of Maryland ... until around the second week of classes, life at MIT was so chill that it

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Boomeranging The day before classes start is Registration Day. It’s also the day we welcome readmitted…

  

  , acronyms). Later, at my dorm, a couple of my friends will squint at the ... among friends, much less at a table full of strangers. I always ask people ... of the returners at my table are forthcoming about why they left. Some

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  You Are Here a list of things i can't make myself do, and a few i can

  

  on cue.  My mind buzzes at the thought of literally anything besides ... a small space in a corner of my mind where it slowly eats away at my ... most of my classes to keep me accountable in at least trying to pay

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 19, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tyrannosaurus REX the prefrosh are coming, the prefrosh are coming!

  

  kicks off "welcome week" for the Class of 2023. At some schools, maybe ... maybe (it happened to me) all three at the same time. A lot of the basic ... into your first week of class at MIT sleep-deprived, which… you'd survive

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 20, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Let’s Go Fly A Kite Up to decision night!

  

  thousand of you have applied. You’ve poured hours and hours into your ... offer from Apple and a congratulatory call from the President, with the ... , and the depths of hell open to swallow you whole, rejecting you from all

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m Still Standing after all this time at MIT

  

  feel relieved, and also nothing at all. Of course, the last year has been ... film making is one of the hardest things you can do, even when you're just riffing off of someone else's idea. But I hope you all enjoy it as

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