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  More on deferrals

  

  regular action, and I'd guess that number will be in that neighborhood again ... report. You can download one off of the website if you need one. Your ... action decisions in mid-March. In my experience, I don't find extra formal

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 15, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  It rocks to be me. I put on my Sunday clothes and see the whale!

  

  in tenth grade. Well, I can almost understand why Barnaby was so ... their website, but I'm not good at this kind of thing anyway. Anyhoo, four hours of karaoke country music later, I was in New York's Chinatown. There

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Hi, Applicant to the Class of 2021! here, i try to convince you that it's ok to be dazed and confused right…

  

  … (in)tense. I haven’t experienced that much uncertainty in my life ... in high school (like holding a job or tutoring or helping at home)? Can ... acceptance as well as anyone else can. If you feel lost and alone in the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  it’s only a matter of time a post for the deferred

  

  , disappointment rapidly setting in. I refreshed the website a couple times to make ... empty."]a rock inside an empty tin can.[/annotation] For the accepted, I ... home that day, and I was competing in two events: student congress and

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 20, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [Guest Post] A Whiff of Nostalgia Amidst the Scent of Youth by Daniel Barkowitz

  

  in 2009, I was part of the blogging crew. You can’t find my older posts ... start it with this line: “I was born in a place that doesn’t exist anymore ... my birth has become an accident of human history. See, I was born in

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  packing for the road looking back on nights that last forever

  

  table saw my handful of plastic Ben Franklins and invited me to buy in. I ... basement. I went to get water and two people were switching shirts in front ... dorms, at MIT. There is a narrative, I think, of fitting in to one dorm

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 27, 2024
• Blog / Summer

  turning back time now your clock can follow the right hand rule!

  

  "]summer[/annotation] at Canada/USA Mathcamp, where I lived five weeks in Tacoma, Washington ... -for items in dozens and dozens of households. This is what I love about ... ticks away in my dorm room, sitting with the Kermit puppet I made and

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 27, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  DONE (sorta) If I'm done, why am I still stressed?

  

  kitchen, I decided that I hadn't roller bladed in a while and I missed it ... + Roller Blades = awesome. Rumor has it that I can get a fine for skating ... think about what it'd be like to have no cares or worries. As it is, I can

  • by Snively '11
  • May 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Time To Have A Sit-Down With Your GC. Can we tawk?

  

  . As you can see, your GC has a very important role in the College ... this information can be found on your school's website. Once you find out ... will snap like a maple tree in a hurricane. (I have no idea what that

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 24, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m in Lusaka, baby, so why don’t you blog me? I told Sam to blog this entry since I'm in Zambia (that explains the title).

  

  butter), and go to the market to buy fabric for skirts/sarongs. I have not ... I am writing this from an internet cafe just outside Lusaka, Zambia ... just under a day, and we are staying in a guesthouse near the capital for

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Today A Trader Joe's monologue

  

  walk as fast as I can, my feet barely grazing every second stair. The ... covered in chalk drawings. Then, I feel an overwhelming feeling of nausea. I ... favorites, because I can hear them trotting behind me. Soon enough, they will

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • April 23, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  ambition finding direction

  

  ambitious people. You can sense it when you walk around one. In a hundred ... in and day out. extremely smart? again, i wouldn’t object, but i ... ways (except parenting, which i currently have no interest in). but right

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Celena in CPW-Land (Guest Entry) Skipping school to have fun, duh!

  

  room just screamed, "Take a nap. NOW!" One thing I did notice in all ... because I'm just in Physics Honors. The room was pretty though. After 30 ... Qichen and Alex pretended to look at something in the sky, while I watched

  • by Snively '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I Never Thought I Would Join a Sorority ...but here I am?

  

  , existential crises, and everything in-between, I know I can go back to a group ... many questions about making friends in college that I even wrote a blog ... reputation, especially for us nerds. In particular, as a multiracial woman, I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  5 years out What some MIT alumni are doing five years after graduation.

  

  : Technology Review. Actually, what you buy on newsstands is a slimmed-down version of what alumni receive. I, along with 100,000+ other MIT grads ... -to-date on their classmates' developments. This summer, I was elected to a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 31, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Final Projects Some examples of some projects you might see in MIT writing classes

  

  taken, and the projects I've done in them.   21W.750: Experimental ... experimental writing. As you can see below, I chose to use repetitive letter ... on our class website, here. For my news article, I wrote about mental

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 13, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Get The Scoop The dish on ice cream around MIT.

  

  blog entry, you can probably tell I support diversity in ice cream ... , I never really do the Ben and Jerry's thing. I can buy that at the ... Without fail, if I could only eat one food for the rest of my life

  • by Bryan
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

  

  present. I hate physics, so of course my family buys me a book about physics ... Materials My first official Mechanical Engineering class. How can I hate and ... survive a robot uprising Look, at least I'll be ready, alright? Can you

  • by Snively '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  i stole a vhs player! and other old things i’ve acquired over the last 2 and a half weeks

  

  , but I was [annotation note="and i absolutely still am"]in the trenches ... to get out in the near future, but for now, i want to share what I ... vhs player. I have a habit of buying/getting things that I don’t need

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • May 3, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  40 Hours in Cape Cod Take note, I typed this entire post with a broken shift key. Please appreciate the…

  

  sky. (In fact, I pondered this in C Major, diatonically.) You might recall that I joined a cooperative living group in January. As it happens ... highways in the company of half-comatose housemates, I perused the 60 mph

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 27, 2010