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• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, Now A Goldwater Scholar finding her way four years later

  

  In May 2016, I wrote Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later, where I shared the ... among them, then all I can say is that MIT is just another place. If it is ... worked out okay. In 2014, we denied another student, whom I'll call CT. I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 18, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  When Friends Become Family How MIT has become my home (with some beautiful pics to accompany)

  

  acquaintances. However, I do have a very small amount of special people in my life I can consider true friends. There are those people in your life that ... something like “haha that was honestly as hot as MIT will be in December, I am

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / IAP

  As the City Slumbers thoughts while walking in a park

  

  me over Zoom about their wild college days. I can’t wait to see them in ... masks. I hadn't been to that park in forever, which isn’t all that surprising, given that I’ve only lived in Tucson half the year. My cousins

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 21, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Sixth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 2PM on 12/22/05.

  

  can send in our January scores, I would like to take the SAT again. I ... that the earliest I can start is in August? (I like to get things done ... be taken" date. Who do I need to contact in order to change it so my

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 2 Tempering Iron

  

  things that can and will change at MIT. In fact, that’s what I love about ... something I learned to do well in high school. I talked to TAs and LAs, and ... me I’m fine with a C in their class. Back in high school, I was on the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 28, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hitting Rewind on 2013 a summary of posts I never ended up writing from IAP till now

  

  a pset-test-class kind of way. More in a let-me-absorb-as-much-of-this-place-as-I-can-before-I-leave kind of way. In three short months, I'll be graduating...can't believe it ... finally read the last book in the Eragon series! Yeah...I haven't really

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 18, 2013
• Blog / Advice

  Hey International Kids! Press 'Submit' already!

  

  special kind of courage. I know some of y'all may be in my shoes in this ... important as well. After rush, I settled in my dorm pretty quickly and got to ... important. The curriculum is different in my country. I haven’t done AP

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 25, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  Always the Art Kid many many many identities

  

  the "reading kid." I read books with friends in [annotation note ... ="1022"] i have no idea why my face is so distressed in this picture but ... up in science. They tell me that they're equally surprised I attend a

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • November 28, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Second Semester Schedule + Thoughts A mind-dump of excellent quality

  

  21W minor. Apparently you can’t do that sort of thing in one day, but I ... late, but I thought I should wait until my schedule was FINALLY set in ... -recorded) the two classes I was taking in January. The [annotation note

  • by Powers '23
  • February 19, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Photographic evidence Warning: trig ahead.

  

  So I thought I’d show you just what I was talking about in my last entry where I talk about the horrible trigonometric torture I endured in ... think I have a fictional character crush on Piz. I can’t help it, he

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  self-assessment, re: playwriting notes on taking playwrights' workshop this semester

  

  no other. In high school I became interested instead in poetry; not ... meaning in the everyday arcs of human experience. But still, I struggled. I ... way. In particular, I found myself wanting to say big things

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Getting a Physics Major – Part I I split this up because i need to start studying for finals.

  

  set. I had worked all summer in Latex and Matlab, and I was pretty ... 't know how you guys do it, I can barely get all this stuff graded on time ... for graduation, and the order in which I took/will take them: Freshman

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 14, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cancel all operations Tell your friends to cool it, my cover's blown.

  

  , "I bet I can name that tune in three notes." And then I think about the ... . However, I feel like I've been so delinquent in responding to comments on ... anyone at MIT own a BMX bike? ANYone?" I actually know a few people in the

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

  Notes on the Interview (the EC edition!) in which you receive advice and an alum surreptitiously gets to blog again

  

  Maybe I need to get over myself - it's been six years since I was in ... Jones informing me that I was selected to be a blogger...BUT every once in ... about MIT now and then :P So, I'm sitting in NYU's Bobst Library (there

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  Skating or School? Why not both?

  

  own. But every night I collapse in bed, sleep as much as I can, and wake ... , that pursuing skating and MIT meant I would be subpar in both, not able ... have in store for me. And yet, here I am, in my third year, still

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 21, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Tips for the EA deferred send us your FUN form by February 15th

  

  advantage nor disadvantage for having been deferred in EA. I can't give you a ... deferred in EA. Can I call or email to find out why I was deferred? No. We ... I send? The only "new" thing you need to send in is the February

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 17, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  Sensations On Having Feelings

  

  past it like some of the giant ideas in this area. I had no beginning ... incomprehensible. But, perhaps the best reason I can give for my love of Ladies and ... intertwined.   I remember high school as a blur of grey; in one word, I

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 9, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  Sexy MIT Engineers My

  

  Freshman fall I decided to join a sport. I had never played sports in ... first one: I love sleeping. And dreaming. I can’t function with less than 6 hours. The second: I exist in the mornings for breakfast. I stocked

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hi, (gasp!) I’m Kim Kimd's first post as an admissions blogger!

  

  you can see in my bio, I'm a senior at MIT this year. I'm taking a lot ... on out, and therefore I can say, Hello! I'm Kim. Well, I guess I ... Wow. I've had an intense week. And it's only Wednesday. Now, finally

  • by Kim D. '09
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Womanhood

  

    I can’t think about being in love without feeling violated anymore ... ’re so little.” “You’re mine.” “I can see the fear in your eyes.” “I’m a ... , the swell of my hips. I can’t get around them. I look in the mirror and

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 28, 2022