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• Blog / Admissions

  I Wrote an MIT Application Essay on Getting a B in Calculus College Search 2KChel, how I found MIT, and how I turned the B around

  

  my town and we have family friends in the area who were happy to put up ... juggle a lot of stuff, since all my friends were doing that too), and I did ... scenes for ThesisNovel before I sent the first fifth of it off to my

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 12, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  [Guest Post] An Overthinker’s Guide to Finishing Your Transfer Application by Warren K. ’27

  

  I remembered that I submitted my application in January. Last spring I ... -time, so I had to budget my time carefully. I made the plan to do most of my application work during winter break so I could devote my full attention to it

  • by Jeremy W.
  • March 4, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  play dough

  

  things, get upset when things don't go my way, or when things or people ... things are out of place, which is funny because to the average viewer, my room looks like a mess, but in reality it is my organized mess. I know

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 28, 2021
• Blog / Events

  science bowl we ran! a competition! virtually!

  

  friends who would totally enjoy science bowl. I rounded up a handful of my friends who liked biology, chemistry, earth and space science, and physics ... , my middle school science teacher started a team at my school, and I

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • November 16, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  2020 vision new year's resolutions

  

  accomplish this year: Cherish my close friendships. I entered MIT in September 2016 as part of the Class of 2020, which means most of my friends are ... or people who resembled blobs because I forgot to wear my glasses

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 1, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Three More Tales of Junior Year the sequel to Three Tales of Junior Year

  

  , in my months of deliberation, I fell in love. With my life at MIT. I loved the niche I found here, and stayed because of my friends, my hall, my dorm, and the opportunities I got as a rare HASS major. I stayed

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 31, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  More on balance Some parameters for self-improvement

  

  about image and reputation. Many of my best friends are pretty uninhibited ... because we're young. In any case, my parents and my friends are two very ... I've spent the past few days untangling my personal life, which has

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • October 7, 2015
• Blog / How to MIT

  Deadlines and Habits Staying sane

  

  this on my own; I often run with my friend Sophie '14, who is *much ... I am a first-semester senior. As a result, my brain has been swimming ... surviving without an open stream of communication with friends who have gone

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 19, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Admissions Decisions and Mystery Hunt A few thoughts and a lot of puzzles.

  

  puzzle I enjoyed and worked on with my friend Catherine O. ‘12 (but didn ... days after my eighteenth birthday and a few hours after MIT decisions were released. On the drive home I considered calling someone to check my

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 12, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  ★★★★☆ Reviewed in the United States on November 3, 2023

  

  A couple weeks ago, my dorm (Burton-Conner) got an email from ... meant I had to pack everything I could into two suitcases, so I spent my first month at MIT transforming my garbage bag laundry hamper, travel

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 3, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on fitness, health, and food a couple of moments over the years

  

  related things, body image, body weight, physical appearance My ... school, I was relatively hyperconscious about my weight and my physical ... 's something that my family members would poke fun at and point out and I think

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 24, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  decisions, decisions why are there so many of them

  

  back in January, back when I could still give hugs to my friends and ... my friends or returning to campus, where I could have access to ... decisions I've made over the past few weeks across all sorts of areas in my

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 9, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  hike the desert pretend i am a lifestyle blogger

  

  is closed and all my friends are busy. My mom and I predicted the ... ’m hoping that my friends and I make more time to get out to the mountains ... outside my house. The river in Tucson is dry, always has been, but it goes

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 21, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I came to MIT A few reasons I chose MIT, and I few reasons that would have made me…

  

  me, the print is my friend Akhil '05 MEng '06... we made it sometime in ... . (Grad school interviews = free booze.) I got to hang out with my friend ... to lab tonight at 7:30 to change the media on my COS cells... and if

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A Part II Why the Media Lab is cool. Bonus: A great "You Know You Go to MIT…

  

  School, and a lot of my friends and I would semi-jokingly refer to us as ... of sense as my personal blog, since lots of my friends from different ... , but I am confused about your title "Tecker." My son is on a trip with

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You win some, you lose some. day in the life.

  

  a gooey kind of reluctant understanding. During office hours my friend ... It was cold today. So cold. My dad put my winter coat in the mail and ... 11-12. This morning I woke up at 11:10, rolled over and shut off my

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  checked off 101 things to do before you graduate...

  

  of my friends on a Friday or Saturday night. I haven’t watched many ... day, but then my friend and I got lazy and decided to do delivery from ... sure if I ever will. Get a Flour Rasberry Seltzer ⛔ My friend this week

  • by Waly N. '24
  • May 31, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 2 electric boogaloo

  

  , but many of my upperclassman friends assured me that I would learn a ... brings many occasions to mind - my friend brushing and untangling my hair ... myself, another friend teaching me C++ for hours on end before my Play

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Week in the Life of a Second Semester MIT Student first week impressions

  

  seriousness here are some messages I panic sent to my friends in the first ten ... I have very smart friends in my classes and I'm scared of looking ... as probably the least intelligent in my friend group and this has left

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 7, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Gap Year, Week 1 my plans for a year away from MIT during COVID-19

  

  my friend to live together on the farm. On July 6, MIT released ... I've officially been on my gap year for a week! To begin my gap year, I left my home on Long Island to go live on a Christmas tree farm with

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 31, 2020