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  “So what are you majoring in?” *sweats nervously*

  

  feel just peachy about my life choices. Several months later, I ... different life paths to get a more solid picture of where each of them could

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  As a news editor for The Tech, every couple weeks, I have the pleasure of spending a Monday night or Thursday night in the newspaper’s office in the Student Center.…

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Thong I Should Be Wearing [UPDATE] Sexy sexy undies.

  

  Wait. . . what? Thongs? MIT? Together? Here’s the story. Well, actually, here’s the backstory, then the story. Back in July 2006 there was an issue with the Doonesbury comic…

  • by Snively '11
  • November 1, 2008
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  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  blink. There are ResLife workers at the edge of the mudpit. An RLAD shifts ... , and I am pleading with you. The ResLife workers are crying now. You ... with me to go across the street. I hear only ResLife’s laughter. I give

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  recommenders, and school counselors: Director’s Letter Undergraduate Life ... and campus life follow the Director’s Letter. I was pleasantly surprised

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022
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  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  too. But ultimately, it kinda just feels like another day in the life

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The joys of web development or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the web

  

  in your life annoys or irritates you the most? Whether it's renaming ... 'd be fine with doing for a huge chunk of my life—that the number of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 9, 2022
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  I’m not an imposter… I’m going to be featured on the MIT News homepage

  

  who say that their high school life was more difficult than college ... social event per day. Notable events include: “organize my life - 1.5 hours,” “figure out my life - 1.5 hours,” an all day event entitled “think of

  • by ana~
  • October 29, 2021
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  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  's your life not mine," she said in [annotation note="Bahala ka most closely ... for me before. All my life I'd grown up hearing things about my family ... and study them. "What do I wanna even do with the rest of my life

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Feeling Many Feelings :) and :( and everything in between about decisions

  

  beauty in all of those things, and in life, nothing truly good comes

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • March 16, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  avoid the self-checkout lane. I know, I really live life on the edge

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • January 9, 2019
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  A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.

  

  my life--school was hard, sleep was not happening, UROP-ing at the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to choose your major putting people in boxes, feat. credit for reddit, social science, and lots of yarn.

  

  So you don't know what to major in. You have no idea what to do with your life and you're kind of interested in a lot of things and everything is so cool but also you have to pick something. Or else. *ominous music

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 6, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  your dreams for dear life, meet your decision head-on, and emerge with

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I know you’re bad at something And here's what you should do about it. Hint: NOT "do something else"

  

  The brass drops off, and suddenly you’re alone with the rhythm section. All eyes are on you, as you lift your instrument to your mouth. This is improvisation: there is…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2011
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  Into the Smoke In more ways than one.

  

  . Now, I shudder to think of life before MIT, condemned to four years of

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  How to look over your application and advice about breathing. My older younger brother is your age. I am fully aware of how much you’re…

  

  Oh man, it has been a while and a half since I’ve blogged. However, this is not important, and you guys can probably stand to wait another week before I update you on the last 5 months of my life. Right now, this

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 28, 2009
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  If the Obama were a unit of measure . . . . . . what would it measure?

  

  Wait, have you heard? I mean, it’s only been published all over the MIT homepage, in three or four different blog entries, all over the news, and is the talk…

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Essay: Yogurt Edition! You like froyo? I like froyo! ^___^V

  

  essay - you're trying to convey a slice of your life, and thus you can ... probably begin with something like "An experience that changed my life is ... downs - what defines your life. I look at the college essay and I feel

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  My College Essay Early Action / November 2005. ~500 words await.

  

  pee his pants impressed that I'd climbed so high on the life ladder. I

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 11, 2008