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• Blog / About Decisions

  “what if I get rejected” for everyone nervous about admissions decisions

  

  after and called my friend to tell her that there was no way we were both ... it immediately. My friend knew for a fact that, despite how much it ... true. This is how I got rejected from my "dream school", and how I got

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • November 13, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  I Miss College Application Season The Good, The Bad, and the Casey Jones

  

  miss making wishes at 11:11 in English class. I miss the way my friend ... much. I miss hanging out with my friends in the school parking lot ... miss playing fortnite with my friends

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / People & Identities

  fall semester in the form of those modern poem books you buy for $15 at Urban Outfitters

  

  . My friend was juggling more than me, more classes and more life we ... someone else someone strange. honor me, honor me My body won’t stop ... to think of words that are good my insights could be deeper my lines

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 30, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  i ran out of social energy and other great ways to say no

  

  hours of my time each week for the past few weeks. it's one of those ... for a type theory class taught by a friend. it's not too much work, but wow are my saturday afternoons filled. i am not directing this year

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 18, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Q&A I asked current freshmen about the things they wish they knew for their CPW!

  

  things with them that you can both enjoy.  Some of my best friends at MIT ... my best friends here at MIT are the ones I met during CPW, such as my ... for you.  My friend Jake I. '16 and I got so tired at one point during

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 9, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  nothing & everything again & again my senior iap

  

  's even possible to feel that good about moving. Cooked: my friend Caragay ... , aka a January term but ~quirky~). For me, my senior IAP was an interesting redux of my sophomore IAP, which I blogged about here, and from

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 11, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m going to be a blogger! The words my family had to hear 635,382 times

  

  inside of my skin, or are they in my clothes, or my friends, or my habits ... As I write this we are just east of Buffalo. My mom is driving; my ... bags to make our car dip just a little bit. To my left in the line for

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 15, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  wow. my first three weeks being an actual student actually at mit

  

  cool - the process that brought me from my hometown, to getting accepted ... classes and doing actual problem sets and making actual friends (really!). It's crazy. I moved up here on the 19th of August, for my pre

  • by Joe B. '18
  • September 19, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Fall Sports at MIT Roll Tech!

  

  Hi, everyone! My name is Emiko, and I am one of the new bloggers :) I ... being an MIT student. I’ve made many close friends and enjoyed continuing my passion for sports."  Men’s soccer student-athlete: "So far I

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • September 15, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  Montreal a.k.a my awesome birthday blog a.k.a the end of IAP Photo's! Adventure! It's like a comic book, but real!

  

  Caffeine is in the air my friends, pencils are writing, printers are ... my things into a suitcase and head for New Hampshire with my friends ... , there was another surprise: Not just any cake my friends, yellow

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 27, 2009
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  one hour of musings we're so back

  

  half parts. I had my friends fill out a silly google form full of silly ... thought it best to process those in private, in the pages of my paper journal. Being in the public is a vulnerable act. My situations made me

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 10, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  things that made me happy lately from the first week of classes

  

  brewed jasmine tea at the [annotation note="My very cool independent living ... my posters on the brick wall facing my and Uzay’s desks. Every day, it ... pika’s dining room"]CGE[/annotation] to strike up conversations with my

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 20, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  Itinerary: IAP 2017 4 weeks in a suitcase and carry on

  

  with three of my friends from MIT also externing in the city for the ... in the city on the 29th. Some of my friends from MIT will be stopping ... my first trip of 2017, bringing along one suitcase and carry on. It was

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 20, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  coronavirus, one year later recounting the craziest ten days of my life

  

  homelessness to labor unions to the media. One of my friends is planning a ... the grading policy the next semester. One of my ESP friends is on the ... campus with my friends. My projects for classes were finally starting to

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 6, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  What Your Campus Wheels Say About You skrt skrt

  

  to attend the 9 am option for my physics lectures – which was admittedly a bit optimistic on my part. The mornings I had physics, I would wake up at 8:50 am and frantically dash from my dorm to class. Nothing

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 20, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  why do you do what you do do androids dream of electric self-awareness

  

  Recently, my friend rejected several people who were interested in him. This friend is single and would like to have a girlfriend, and ... they do everything they do. My friend rejected that woman and he doesn

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 23, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  the best thing i did for myself as a pre-frosh the one where i gush about burton one

  

  than friends, not quite family.    In my first ever meeting with ... me all the possible ways my life was capable of stretching and ... loaded my plate, turned around, and was briefly catapulted into the

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • April 7, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  Pigeonholing boxes = semesters, pigeons = classes

  

  . It was my introduction to writing that wasn’t the five paragraph ... exactly the right outlet to contemplate on my experiences here. I sit down ... class that lets me write in one of my favorite genres? [annotation note

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 13, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m Still Here (for now) quick reflections on the last ten years

  

  more times than I can count, whether by car or bus or plane or train. My ... from me, taking the rest of my life with it. For some holidays, my mom ... , and for the first time in my life, I learned to fly alone. I’d grip my

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / How to Food

  everything i cooked this summer it wasn't gourmet but it (mostly) tasted good

  

  realize in comparison to some of my foodie friends. One of my closest ... . Because of this, and because I don't think any of my friends will be on ... spring of my high school senior year, I decided that I was done with school

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 14, 2022