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  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  6. In this post, I reflect on previous Yultide posts, in a quasi ... Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences a Chance I have wanted to advertise the ... composed the draft right away in a stroke of inspiration—an occurrence so

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the Deferred I feel your pain.

  

  choreographed a dance of my own, and how it felt to grow up in New Zealand. My dad ... Monday, simply because I knew I wouldn't be able to focus in any of my ... page and this paragraph: When we admit a class of students to MIT, it

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  neighborhoods we move into and come to love. What do pregnant mice, cheerleaders, and four-foot light-up tinsel giraffes have in common?

  

  'm here to update you on the breathtaking life of a biology PhD student, which is breathtaking enough to divide into a very small number of ... a PhD candidate in biological and biomedical sciences at Harvard

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 27, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  self arrives to campus, you’re given a booklet with pages and pages of ... something with a pile of Legos that seemed to reach my knees. Knowing no one, I joined an upperclassman who invited me to help her make a duct tape

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  sea glass turbulent waves in these parts

  

  conference due in a month.  I chose… none of them. I chose to withdraw and to ... kind to myself remains a work in process. wave imagery inspired by ... a bit before throwing it out there for the internet to judge

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 5, 2022
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  i dissected a roach *cronch* *slurp*

  

  creatures. They’ve nearly perfectly adapted to an urban environment, with a sturdy carapace, unparalleled scavenging prowess, and ability to fly. In other words, in a world that humans have built for themselves, the roach

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • September 28, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  afford to relax. I read an interesting article in the New York Times a few ... to ride in a chariot, it was priceless to see the reactions of passers ... you got in, and you aren’t a worthless plebian just because you didn

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing is Magic And 15 minutes is all you need

  

  in college. (Yes, you will have to write at MIT even if you are a math ... start with a few in your head and see what happens to them as you begin ... lately with one kid on his way to college and the other on his way to a

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  A Half-Century Retrospective Revisiting the MIT Application from the 1972–1973 admissions cycle

  

  making an effort to shine a light on its esteemed programs in the ... them to elaborate on their interest. 18. In a paragraph or two discuss ... location on the Infinite Corridor to its new home in the MIT Welcome Center

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Do I have a story for you… *SPOILER* I do

  

  faulty voltage regulator in a protoype before demo session; pitching to ... you can too. Many more will be able to in just a short while. And before ... 's insane. Equal in insanity magnitude is I became a blogger in 2008, which

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Defying That Sinking Feeling On learning to swim and envisioning success

  

  need to wear yourself out. There were a few common refrains in my ... joined my other classmates in stepping up to that challenge. It was just a ... seven weeks in, it's a bit more like learning how to swim. You can cling

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A Night at the Office A bit longer than I expected.

  

  pleasure of spending a Monday night or Thursday night in the newspaper ... for quite some time, so people know when to show up in the office, no ... Cormick article so I'm not dying to see it at this moment. 8:28pm: Rebecca sends in

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  To whom much is given… ...you know the rest!

  

  analysis is a big part of trying to process the outcome of a journey that a ... benefit from and contribute to this community, so to have the people in your ... it this far if you didn't have someone in your corner. For some it is a

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 13, 2012
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Are people on the East Coast friendly? An entry especially for those from the Midwest.

  

  work to do) at MIT that I haven't spent a whole lot of time in Boston ... us in for tea while we waited for a tow truck to come! Anecdote 6: One ... East Coast a bit... unfriendly?" Now, to be fair, I still can't answer

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 21, 2010
• 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…

  

  , how it would feel to be rejected so that the emotion wouldn't come as a ... wouldn't have to keep reading as my stomach sank. I decided on a restaurant to go to (a fancy, really good dessert place), which would be a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  25 Stories of Getting Accepted to MIT told by students and alums

  

  a lot of fun. In the car on the way home I pulled out my phone to ... . Apparently, my face was a sight to see. So yes I'm screaming and in much ... were convinced i wouldn't get in and forcibly tried to not make a big

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Community Projects

  Happy 21st Birthday to the Random Hall Milk the Milk is now old enough to drink, but *please*, don't drink the Milk

  

  from the supermarket to a dormitory at MIT. It has lived there ever since ... ago, a fairly lactose-intolerant resident of Random Hall decided to make ... ’t possibly hurt, he made his way to Shaw’s, a grocery store, braving and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Some people call me the space cowgirl

  

  lot of a student who used to work in our office, who we'll call "Pink ... horchata (yummy Mexican drink). I wanted to tell you a little about the last ... whose application I just read was like Pink in many ways. She came from a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2004
• Blog / About Decisions

  As We Approach Decision Day On getting in and on not getting in

  

  the Internet. Applying to MIT has a parallel in science: not all ... lead to a lot more than an admissions decision. If you get in on ... keep doing it for the next four years. In fact, you want to keep doing it

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 8, 2012
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Iron Man, MIT ‘87 (?) After 21 last month, another MIT movie.

  

  finger in both pictures? Iron Man with a Brass Rat! Having Iron Man, a.k.a. Tony Stark, be an MIT alum got me interested in the movie ... really like to give these kind of honors to fictional MIT grads, though. In

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2008