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

  

  Flash back to four years ago from this upcoming March 14th. I'm sitting on a train that took me from Washington D.C. where I had just met the president of the United States and pulled an all nighter chilling

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a freshman year 🦴🧠🩸🖐️🫀 my first year at mit, told through the body

  

  .091[annotation note="Introduction to Solid-State Chemistry"][/annotation] and 8 ... , attending office hours, and getting outside help, i somehow managed to scrape ... , where undergrads help grad students with research or get supervised by

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  25 Stories of Getting Accepted to MIT told by students and alums

  

  concentrate. I decided to play video games to distract myself and, as it turns ... , “OH RIGHT MIT LET ME JUST SAVE MY GAME AAAAAA” and then came the ... room. My girlfriend was helping because my hands were shaking too hard to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  , likes/dislikes, means of socialization, etc. were all fair game. The ... Bros and other games...but choices were definitely made in the process ... , I chose to maximize bonding activities especially helpful for me

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ten reflections on mit

  

  undergraduates; 16 million people in the United States go to college right now ... helping me to better person. As a graduate student, being a part of a cohort

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 15, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The MIT Major Arcana a collaborative art project

  

  helped me come up with many of the ideas that make the card what it is :) V ... three people to reference the abbreviation "HASS" (H, A, S). Here's a game ... game theory class I took on listener. I especially made sure to add a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Life is like a Game Elaborate metaphors from an amateur comic artist

  

  It's been a pretty rough week, so I took a break and drew out my struggles. For some reason (mostly the fact that I'm a media dork at heart), a video game metaphor was easiest to conceptualize in comic form, so enjoy

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 7, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Burton 1 Social Club This Thanksgiving, I'm thankful for my ridiculous, hilarious, amazing floor.

  

  floor works for me. We're a cohesive unit, not just a bunch of people who ... screaming for you in the stands of your final NCAA volleyball game, with your

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Advice From The Elderly My last blog entry, at least from this chapter.

  

  your age, and I hope you find them helpful. So here goes nothing - Try ... in your sweatpants eating Twizzlers and watching seven episodes of Game ... casting agents for the next season of Game of Thrones and just happen to be

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bad Ideas Weekend 2019 good times

  

  United States, you have probably ran the FitnessGram Pacer Test, a

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  e) Other Some pretty important stuff, and then just some pretty stuff.

  

  -maaann-what-the-heck-am-I-doing.) MIT, as opposed to some universities both in the United States and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Do I have a story for you… *SPOILER* I do

  

  the company they helped build. Times where my grocery bill was higher ... critical flaw in production units that would cost several orders of magnitude ... .009 classrooms in the fall to help teach the class that set me on this path. I

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes I Won’t Be Able to Take also "What Is Pre-Registration?"

  

  . Pre-registration is about helping you figure out what classes you want to take and helping the administrators figure out how popular classes ... classes as you want, as long as the number of units is greater than or equal

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 23, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  reject modern web design return to 2006

  

  that was meant for babies “I'm just not feeling this game...” opens up another game “Really not feeling this game...” browses entire list of games “You know, I just might be depressed.” “could a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s not fair! ... and why that's OK.

  

  is access, and the standards are specified by the state legislature. If ... help you to understand. Maybe you think the admissions process works like ... for all. I grew up in Florida. The state is flat. There are no mountains

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  REX at Random Hall Pancakes, LN2 ice cream, board games, game theory, math, raves, staying up entirely too late,…

  

  a laid-back game that gives you a great chance to socialize while you ... for 77 Kelvins. 15:17 - 16:17 Game Theory and Chocolate Do you like game theory? Do you like chocolate? Do you like learning about some

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 23, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  101 Things To Do Before You Graduate! 102. Read this blog entry.

  

  ! 99. Help reduce MIT's carbon footprint - I ALWAYS print double-sided at ... 't ultimately matter :) 13. Watch a varsity game - sadly, most MIT students don't really support their sport teams by watching the home games, even though we

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  postwar Canada") The Kansas and Colorado State Boards of Education ("for ... their front row seats to help us out, and the results were pretty ... to applaud in public" and the Belarus State Police for "arresting a one

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013
• Blog / Advice

  You don’t have to be a founder move slow and fix things

  

  much about the student groups I help run that I sometimes forget why I ... ' Guild game and how I got dragged to a square dance class by a hallmate ... help keep them going. Ever since I wrote about gift economies in the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 29, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mostly Harmless Rifle. As in, the phys ed class. As in, I fired one.

  

  US Army and the Massachusetts State Police and now runs his own private ... . Look at the long game. A lot of times we get all focused and wound up on

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 22, 2015