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  Bleary-eyed Some thoughts and reflections on this year's admission cycle - particularly for those not admitted.

  

  weren't tears of sadness, or happiness (at first). My eyes were just ... Probably one of the most linked-to/referred-to posts on this site is ... (except the statistics in there, of course, have gotten even crazier - e

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 16, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.

  

  any sense if I said it to someone at MIT. He also told me the story of ... nonsense? Just as it’s nonsensical to think of someone at MIT losing their horse to a lion, is it not also nonsensical to think of someone at MIT not

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” and other ways to improve your test scores

  

  feminist rant at you, I'll give you a “well, sort of,” because calling out ... -analysis found that on average, men outperform women in a cluster of tests related ... to explain this, researchers have hypothesized about the impact of

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes, by the Group Chats and their potential replacement, Interstellar!

  

  At the start of each semester, I typically join Facebook Messenger group chats for most of my classes. These group chats are somewhat helpful ... , I like the name "Interstellar" a lot. So many of the things we use at

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  , fails to admit a lot of additional external factors which could be at play ... not a strictly complete description of the philosophy at hand; in fact ... , or lack of interest, because at least that would've told me something

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to Freshman Days composed in the wee hours of morning

  

  asylum, and one of them was e^x. The other mathematician was angry at e ... jabs at a school of other learned human beings? Teachers often invite ... the heart. I got by on 3-5 hours of sleep then. Soon, the lessons

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 29, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Save Point sleep wake hope

  

  of the person I always wanted to be. At MIT, hundreds of miles from my ... on this post alone for the past six days. Most of it, I've been writing ... whole lot of difference. Sometimes I know that they are worlds apart. I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Blog Projects

  This blog post was written by a winner my entry for #BlogstonCommons

  

  street to [annotation note="* The Bunker Hill Monument"]The battle of Bunker Hill.[/annotation] I saw a bunch of historical places like the ... realistically [annotation note="King's Chapel Burying Ground and Copp's Hill

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Miss the South Musings on a secret Instagram account

  

  significant amount of forethought and editing. At least that’s what I tell ... thoughts at the end of each day. It’s gotten to the point where I walk across ... This blog is about my hometown, which I filmed a little bit of last

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  finding place

  

  't have the capacity to make it happen unless they do. At the end of fall ... feel at home. I'm trying to do more outings and have a bit of a group ... [/caption]   Nearing the end of my second year, I have a much stronger sense of place at

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • April 7, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The future isn’t the answer reflecting on anxiety

  

  took a bad hit at the start of January. The anxiety that made 2021 a ... , and all of its inevitable pain is hurtling towards us at frightening speed. It’s possible that my anxiety is the product of being at a

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  by stupid luck. Simply being at MIT, of course, increased the ... to enroll at MIT, I read obsessively about student life at MIT--the research and academics are, of course, first-rate, but I wanted to know what

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Guest Entry: Christina Bognet Supplemental materials to help you through the next few days.

  

  rational in convincing myself that things would turn out okay, at the end of ... that seemed perfect at the age of 18, that I actually feel as though my ... ! *** Precisely one year ago today I sat drinking coffee at a Dunkin Donuts with one

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 8, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  i dissected a roach *cronch* *slurp*

  

  thing tends to happen. At the image of eating a little bit of roach, I ... content warning: discussions of roach uwu Roaches are curious little ... a roach spawn point for about a week. Most of them however, were

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 28, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  sea glass turbulent waves in these parts

  

  at the expense of your health and wellbeing.”  I have yet to ... submission in this blog. [annotation note="well it's actually been two weeks at the time of publishing this blog since i like to let my writing marinate

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 5, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  señoritis navigating work/life balance - and spring break photos

  

  plenty of rigorous work. someone asked me if there would be at least a ... learned about work/life balance at MIT with the help of many wonderful ... was about work/life balance—is it stressful to balance everything at MIT

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 28, 2015
• Blog / Advice

  Enjoy Life Farewells and New Beginnings

  

  Today is my first day of school as a PhD student at MIT. Today is ... never would have ended up at MIT and probably wouldn’t have ended up as a ... of my favorite poems, all about looking toward the future and starting

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 5, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  senioritis not to be confused with señoritis

  

  surprising amount of momentum behind me, but i don't think i managed to pull ... idea of positive work—even if you feel like you aren't making a stitch in the cosmic fabric of the universe, you certainly can do positive work

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT Underwear Exposé (and Sorting Hat) The coolest data you never wanted to have.

  

  A lot of socializing at MIT happens on the dorm mailing lists. One of ... , the kinds of emails sent within a dorm mailing list include, at the top ... connectors, funnels, and hairdryers. At the end of one IAP, from BMF and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2016
• 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

  

  year of high school, when he placed at the Massachusetts State Science ... in the case of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II -- wait, are you all too ... his freshman year, and has been working at Draper Labs since the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005