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  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  feelings to process. But the weird part about all of this is that I feel very ... ’s side of the room. Four. MIT was gracious enough to put all of us on a no-cost meal plan, which began on Monday. My usual sources of food were mostly

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Gothic You are reading an admissions blog post. You are reading tumblr.

  

  time an ounce of blood. Neither of you decide to question why this is ... think of dark matter, or maybe quarks. A cluster printer is producing ... , especially around this time of the semester. The rest of this blog post is by

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015
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  [Guest Post] You Have a 50/50 Chance a guest post from my mama

  

  allowing her to go to concerts. (Yes, even on a school night.) We would line up at 0400 in the morning on the streets of LA or San Diego for a ... ask ourselves). "The acceptance rate is only a 5% or 6%" I've always

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends

  

  me is powerlifting, which is just a fancy way of saying [annotation ... into the floor on which I'm standing. I love being able to make progress ... ; sometimes, on the road [annotation note="I keep a stack of guest passes to the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We Should Take This Final and Push It Somewhere Else you'll need a lot of mOXie

  

  control can make getting out of bed to complete your final really hard, or ... you in your dorm room. Or, your dorm is in the process of being closed ... -semester classes. And, normally, you have to show up and actually take them, or

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 14, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Beacon Hill in the Fall More door.

  

  Northeast of the more frequently mentioned Harvard Bridge is the Longfellow Bridge, which connects MIT to Boston from the Stata Center side of ... again, now facing Cambridge. MIT is just to the left of the frame.   And

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 17, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Was Deferred And it was not the end of the world

  

  , which is sad because there are a lot of really cool people who apply to ... do is to focus on things that are not MIT (or other college) admissions ... :24pm. I sluggishly made my way upstairs to my PC and log on to my

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 17, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  whether to share it with the rest of you guys, but I thought that this letter may be of benefit to some current student, or some future student. I hope someone might be able to connect or learn something from a few of my

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What I wish I’d known, and what I’m glad I knew Before coming to MIT.

  

  feel low on self-confidence. I'm glad that I learned by the end of Year 1 ... . I held back because I was nervous, and thought it would be better to "make sure I had a solid foundation" before moving on. It's obvious to me

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Merit When getting into MIT isn't convincing enough

  

  stronger sense of who you are and what you want to do. This is the thing ... as a Tech Caller, which means I call alumni, talk to them, and ask them ... are excited to tell me about how they relate to MIT. Believe it or not

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • January 22, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Grey and Other Colors

  

  pleasure of getting to know. Hope it provides some perspective from life on ... where you want to work on mindless activities like TV or browsing ... to work on my own projects and exercise. Comfortable is dangerous, but

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 8, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  finding place

  

  going on, which is great. This semester I went to Mexico with some besties ... literally live next to you. I was not on top of things and was mostly unaware ... same time, it was a hard semester for me due to all the life changes of

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • April 7, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  VEDA In which I try to vlog every day in April

  

  'll be happy to reclaim an extra hour or two of life/work/sleep when VEDA ... VEDA (Vlog Every Day in April) is a thing in some parts of the You ... 's certain parts of campus or food or whatever! Otherwise I'll just do my best

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 24, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing I don’t have time for hosed into my core

  

  didn’t try to study 2 hours before the exam on 2 hours of sleep. I ... 'm going to admit it to thousands of anonymous readers on the admissions ... ’m supposed to be catching up on sleep, is because I need to process and I

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 25, 2018
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  You Are Here a list of things i can't make myself do, and a few i can

  

  schoolwork, and as my roommates come down to grab cups of water or make ... underside of my nose, to grabbing the cup on my desk that’s been empty for ... want to do is watch more episodes of True Blood? How quickly can I shower

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 19, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  , you've all heard plenty of life updates and reflections on the MIT (and ... going to! I'll start with a picture. It is 2014, and an embarrassment to ... palm pilot are equally potato. This is a picture of my third apartment

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 13, 2014
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  Distraction News Your internet connection is unstable

  

  sounds. One of the dogs, who is a visitor, keeps pushing the door open to ... yesterday; we ran out of bedding. Everyone on screen pauses, moves one or two ... packages piled up to be returned... ...or a picture of the Muddy

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 31, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HNY from NYC for IAP, 2016 time passes so quickly, help

  

  to get ahead on coursework--but the flesh is so, so weak. My family ... factorization on a math competition but haven’t bothered to factor it yet, hehe ... little to do, and I ended up desperately catching up on fiction, doing

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Making Connections we live in a society (affectionate)

  

  A few hours ago, I was on my way to my room in the[annotation note="EC has two buildings; one is to the west of the other"]west parallel[/annotation]of ... .[/annotation]And any one of these people who I help or who helps me, helps and is helped

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Women’s Soccer Talking to the 2009 NEWMAC Champs after they returned from the NCAA National Championship Tournament

  

  she was 4 (!) and is one of two goalies on MIT's team. Her profile on ... every day and travel to games on the weekends. As a reminder, this is MIT ... of sporting events, some of which I had never seen before. I saw

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 25, 2009