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  So Chance Me Maybe? Hey! I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my SAT...

  

  perfect GPA, my interviewer loved me, I had founded a few clubs, and my test ... an AP test in my life. My GPA wasn’t perfect (still isn’t). I was convinced I failed my interview, I once almost cofounded half of a club, my

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Future Is Grim check it out

  

  . I'd be tempted to say I'm a bit biased, as he was my 6.01 professor ... and slept through my lab section. This was a fairly substantial crisis ... itself which was a non-trivial part of my grade. I sent Prof. Grimson an

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 28, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  get SLAPped! it doesn't hurt

  

  campus. my tenure as a physical resident of ec had just ended due to the ... used to keep every single email that came into my inbox out of frosh ... receives, and i also realized that my gmail storage was filling up rapidly. i

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 21, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brief Wondrous Lives A little too much thinking brought to you by four in the morning.

  

  senses of the word. For one, my floor is playing Assassins, or ... across it in red. I am lucky to still be alive, having brought my spoon ... extra cautious of all Malaysian babies in my way. As this week the spoon

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  This week, I am fulfilling my dream of taking over the Admissions ... reflect on and preserve cool recent experiences—makes me realize that my ... clubbing, queer stand-up comedy, and my new hobby. These are the kinds of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-Med @ MIT The title says it all.

  

  I thought it'd be worth it to add my own thoughts into the mix ... and anti-social, and that I would fail all my classes because they'd be ... spot at Baylor Med School), but my four days at MIT convinced me that MIT

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Snively’s Cross Stitch Corner I really enjoy cross stitching

  

  in a city where I knew nobody, I filled my time with new hobbies and ... stitching, designing patterns, and generally injecting cross stitching into my ... ’s blocky and my brain grasps it. I can also create reasonable pixel art if I

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  process feels and looks through my eyes: First, we spend an enormous amount of time reading alone. My amazing, very human, non-pizza colleagues and ... and January. My desk is actually less than a foot from my bed. I sit on

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • January 9, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  How Wrestling With Snapping Turtles Can Get You Into MIT A student profile of an aspiring limnologist.

  

  gears, motors, and bike chain that could easily tear my scalp off as I ... introduce you to my next-door neighbor, Nora '12. An aspiring limnologist ... kind enough to do a Q&A for my blog, so enjoy! ---------- Did other

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  smoke and spice my comfort meal

  

  ... and everything nice! My favorite dish in the whole wide world is ... ’s been my Instagram username for the past 2 years. For the entirety of my ... , where my family is from[/caption] It holds sentimental value because it

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 9, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab How to lose a phone in 90 seconds

  

  This story ends with me losing my phone on a drone on a yacht on an ... , debugging a server at my desk outside the office of the graduate student I was ... . It turned out to be for my grad student (I say “my”, but in reality I

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  must say, is endemic on campus. This semester, for the first time in my ... applications, my UROP, being a news editor for The Tech, and, well, living. The ... much.) However, I ended up squandering all my work time during the four

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Blogural Inaugural I just wanted to use this title.

  

  that it's my job to tell you about MIT, the things I do here (or don't do here), and generally what my life's like (so that you can, I don't know ... to) Gee, my classes are boring   At MIT, fortunately, that's not

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Pretender a message to both you and me.

  

      Early morning on December 5th, 2012, my family and I ... than anything else in the world. I had already submitted my EA ... Court. I was sad because there was a chance that this wouldn't be my life

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  WHY? for people who don't like "no"

  

  metaphor for it. Instead enjoy this large photo of my very small dog, who is ... waitlist for Columbia! She ended up going to MIT! I told my dad about the Johns Hopkins rejection, and he was mad on my behalf. He's never applied

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  Dance. My voice unconsciously rises far too often, and sometimes I realize ... dollar for every time my mother told me to lower my voice, I could probably ... I feel my blood run cold. Of the many memorable and inspirational

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • March 16, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  Every time I check my email (incredibly, only once every few days) I ... organized chaos that is Hanoi, Vietnam, the last stop on my semester long ... feel, and debriefing and debating academic concepts is quite a change. My

  • by Becca H. '12
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  was chatting with this guy at one of my med school interviews - HIM ... here's my honest assessment of being a premed at MIT. I. I didn't come to MIT intending to be premed. My father is an urologist, and when I was

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  year when I got my first B. If it weren't for that B, I would have been ... truly the smartest in my class. However, this past year has shown me that ... stick with my family. Ugh. Oh, and to top it all off, the only hobbies I

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Day in the Life Liveblog of my Thursday complete with (not so great) pictures

  

  would be interesting to document my Thursday because I usually end up ... picture from my seat on the bus without looking too strange.   9:56am ... ; Creeper picture of Toby (left). I miss my beagle Taffy (right) so much and

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 15, 2014