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  I am a sad sad toaster made of glass. Do you like your toast with tears? Because I'm sad.

  

  quite 1,000 googol pages. All I can offer you by way of reconciliation is ... savings time. Okay, so it's been like a month. I don't know what happened, dawg. I don't even have some great, 1,000-googol-page-long entry saved up

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Stove-Cook Your Oatmeal and Never Look Back To not-admitted applicants and anyone who knows anything about fuses.

  

  obvious mountains to climb. I can walk in any direction, or switch directions, for any amount of time, toward horizons whose features I can’t see from here. I can raise or raze my own mountains and plant my own

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 19, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Masquerading as a Liberal Arts Student The life of an MIT student abroad

  

  program. While I have been throwing numbers into my classes when I can (I ... Every time I check my email (incredibly, only once every few days) I am reminded that I am not at MIT. I am away from the buzz that defines

  • by Becca H. '12
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  We’ve been there, too. It feels like the calm before the storm. Please don't forget to breathe.

  

  rewriting and fretting around my application to MIT, I managed to have it submitted in time for the EA deadline. Somehow, I managed to distract myself for the agonizing six weeks following October 31. And then, I got this

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bumps, slumps, trips, and … Breaking out of a slump, now with more Cleveland!

  

  getting lazy. And that's okay: it happens. Now that I see it, I can do ... rhyming's necessary, but it was always a crutch for me. I digress. Let ... (still) parentheticals. Off to a rocking start). I'm sure at this point

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  10 reasons why MIT is beautiful if I do say so myself.

  

  engineering can be colorful: ^from 2.008 Design and Manufacturing II.  I ... Sometimes MIT gets a bum rap for not having a pretty campus.  I ... is beautiful: (1) Because I get to see this view every day walking

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  reject modern web design return to 2006

  

  can’t come out tonight i gotta sit alone in front of a muted tv opening and closing the same 4 social media apps until 3am i’m that kid you ... decent person the last time i went to urgent care i checked off “excessive

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  i made furry art for Caltech i have art powers and choose to use them for chaos

  

  pinned to a corkboard after only two hours of professional stalking. I ... long ethernet cables for the lights from the loading docks), but I did fill the whiteboard with various drawings. I wanted something truly

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 6, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s More Than A Job Thoughts On The Eve Of RA Decisions

  

  College Confidential: You know, I get sick of college admissions officers ... 's supposed to be comforting, obviously, I just find it really insincere. I mean ... shouldn't try to sugarcoat the harsh reality. I'm thankful to whomever

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s Not Me, It’s You How to kiss goodbye to a school that rejected you

  

  am the one thing in life I can control.” The single most formative ... could do about it. Now, there are a lot of things that you can influence about your college applications. You can study like Hermione Granger to

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 29, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Midsemester Night’s Dream Technically an All-Nighter's Dream, but hey, close enough

  

  ’ll do some data mining and see if I can find updated numbers. Now, anyone ... I’ve decided to continue a long chain of poor decisions by starting to write this post at 5:38 AM. In front of me is an empty Pringles can

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  150 years of MIT course catalogs the mit history you want to know

  

  . The only comments I can offer are, again, that the Mathematics degree ... over the past few months. I used to think history was pretty dry, but I ... , yes, not the kind of history that I like reading for fun. What

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to My Favorite Places on Campus can't leave without making one more post of this format

  

  leave. I can't wait to go back and visit as a grad, and reminisce on all ... Some people may remember the sporadic posts that I made in this ... "]viral[/annotation] and some remained fairly unread, but I *think* that most of them ended

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  great dilemma: be yourself or create yourself - just which one is it? I ... the love of his life. Forgive me if I spoil the ending, but “Jay Gatsby ... official documents, I could’ve came to MIT and introduced myself as Chloe

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Figuring out what I want to do with my life personal essay time :)

  

  sometimes, and i admire people who create all of these things so i can benefit ... -intentioned research on other imaging applications can be reused on spysats. I worry a ... although [annotation note="at press time, i can report that the five

  • by Alex M. '21
  • March 5, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  highlight some of the awesome things that MIT students are working on, I can ... (embarrassingly) close to the due date. I can almost hear my high school counselor ... Today on social media, I was greeted with an article about how one

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

  The Room(s) Where It Happens You've hit submit. What Comes Next?

  

  you might wonder who on the other side reviews your application. I ... and advocate for students. We might be crusty, but I’d say we are warm ... might actually be pizza. And there are several places where you can read

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • January 9, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Institute of Smashing What do you think MIT and a garbage compactor have in common?

  

  fact in studying here, no matter what major you choose I can almost ... the things I can do as a result. It may be a work in progress, but my ... :   It's good for you   You see, in the many conversations I

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting for Decision Day In which I give a pep talk of sorts (with a little help from my…

  

  bloggers, but I can't link to all the posts here. They're just a quick search ... you aren't in a place where you can watch the video with sound. I didn ... hard can I work, and what am I working towards?” And college is the next

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Into the Smoke In more ways than one.

  

  twenty countries on my own (I suppose if you're bored you can guess a few ... I still remember when I first stepped into the arrivals hall at Tel ... unremarkable Monday morning. I had just come off a pair of flights totalling

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 2, 2010