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• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  (talking about the best time for sending some email) had mentioned earlier ... morning milking and was setting up some electric fence for the cows when ... look of sadness when it came. I figured, MIT is for those other kids at

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer…” wherein Neil Armstrong's legacy kicks off a year of Unified Engineering, and I reflect on…

  

  with me for the past year: that is, that becoming an aerospace engineer ... : 1. Take the candidate outside. 2. Wait for the familiar rumble of ... more than I liked physics." (This post you're reading is the long

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 9, 2014
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Decade in Online Posting looking back: from the forums to the blogs

  

  , and it was the best. Physics is my favorite subject, especially since it ... [/annotation] It is my lifetime goal to try a corndog For the first time in my life ... journal my aunt got me for Christmas one year). Every time I found the same

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  reject modern web design return to 2006

  

  and closing the same 4 social media apps until 3am i’m that kid you’re friends with for the first few days of school before you meet an actually ... does anyone else remember when the internet looked like this? sorry

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Few of my Favorite Things (Counting Blessings) Maybe the most sentimental blog post I’ve written.

  

  I’m home in Pennsylvania for three weeks, for the second time this summer. The morning after I got here, I woke up to a pile of stuffed animals on top of me where I had fallen asleep on the couch and, on a post

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 6, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Flying Close to the Sun a semester of fire

  

  experiments, and make sure the paper is completed for submission. To uphold the ... on repeat for choreographing is probably why I’m in the top 0.005% of ... fire and [annotation note="okay the brimstone part is more metaphorical

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  I had just weeks ago. I try to ignore it for the most part, giving it ... underside of my nose, to grabbing the cup on my desk that’s been empty for ... ’ve taken before. The workload for all of my classes has been reduced by a

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 19, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Gangnam Style Yes...........this exists.

  

  Influential People in the World" in 2012 for his liquid metal battery research ... In case you haven't been on the Internet recently, a music video called "Gangnam Style" was released over the summer by K-pop rapper PSY

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 27, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later what happened after pi day 2011

  

  . It still is. Though it was mainly written for high schoolers, I found ... Farewell day, and the girl whom I loved for all these years had sort of ended ... I've gotten a number of email responses to my blog post about the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Merit When getting into MIT isn't convincing enough

  

  small subset of the whole—have no qualms about telling us exactly what is ... imposters. The plus side is that after you break through, you usually have a stronger sense of who you are and what you want to do. This is the thing

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • January 22, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  An Open Letter to MIT Applicants Don’t Panic (and know where your towel is)

  

  extraordinary things about a small subset of people is that they have the power to ... authority figure who I had very little respect for in the first place was ... ’t offer it. I’m lucky my family is financially stable enough for me to

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  tell your friends you love them for we are but blips in a timeline

  

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • May 9, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  jack of all trades master of none...

  

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • August 24, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Folding While you wait for decisions...

  

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cynic This is mainly a reminder note to myself.

  

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 27, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  我没去过北京 在外国出生的孩子的故事

  

  (Read the English version here!)     我没去过北京。我们回中国去的时候，总是去上海、南京、杭州，总是在江苏一带。我记得，我小的时候还能说上海话（我三、四岁的时候，外婆照顾我，我就学了上海话）。 我第一次去中国是四岁的时候。我们到了上海就去我亲戚的家了。我只有一个清楚的记忆：有一天，我阿姨要让我小睡一下。她告诉我，“如果你不睡觉，叔叔会切掉你的鼻子！”。 我还不知道这个记忆是真实的还是来自我的梦，可是我知道以前我就会说上海话，可是现在回想起这个记忆，是英文的。 我小的时候

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 23, 2016
• Blog / CPW

  CPW Problem: What Can People Wear? CJ pragmatically writes concerning poor weather

  

  (Condensed pre-word: CJ pens without constrained phenomenon within comments. Perhaps written clearer? Proceed warily.) Campus Preview Weekend, commonly pronounced/written “CPW”, progresses. Welcome, current prefrosh, welcome! CPW’s putative weather contraption prevents…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 5, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Quick Guide to Adobe Illustrator The very basics, for people who have never used it

  

  working in RGB mode - CYMK is sometimes buggy for me (click the triangle to ... lines. The best way to learn how to use the pen tool is just by playing ... best options for your trace, or click on the triangle to the right of the

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • February 19, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Setting up a Global Warming Research Center…in Antarctica Meet Zahir Dossa ’08 (Courses 6 and 15; Nu Delta), who could sell you your…

  

  friend at the time what the best school in the world was. Without the ... established himself as a techie par excellence. His 6.170 team won the award for the best Gizmoball game in Fall 2005, he completed a competitive

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • October 25, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  blogger wrapped 2022 judge our music taste (the 5th installment)

  

  . the top two for top artist minutes listened are on the lower end here, but MG and I are somehow also at the far right? it's the sheer amount of ... ), so this checks out. MG and I at the top again! let's go musical

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 8, 2022