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

  

  field, but not enough speed to load my decision before the server timed ... . When I saw those magical words, I immediately read them three times to ... as not to alert my parents who were home at that time “for no reason

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  An Open Letter to MIT Applicants Don’t Panic (and know where your towel is)

  

  student chose to become part of MIT’s class of 2018. While I have nothing ... construct structurally-sound furniture pieces in my free time after school. I ... back in time and speak to Gandhi about social change, and instead wrote

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
• 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 am reminded that I am not at MIT. I am away from the buzz that defines ... counted traffic today!), for the most part our studies are focused on three

  • by Becca H. '12
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I put on my robe and graduation hat It's sortof hard to believe it's time for this already.

  

  back on the good times we had at MIT. Photo Credit: Ricardo Ramirez Part way through the ceremony, some people broke out half a dozen beach

  • by Kim D. '09
  • June 7, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The leftmost station on your dial WMBR = awesome campus radio

  

  clearly have no idea how to properly manage my time anymore, I decided to ... -ultra-delayed blog post about the best part of MIT: WMBR 88.1 FM, the campus radio

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the exclusion of everything else on making decisions, and how i chose mit

  

  fourth post in a four-part series, so here’s some context. I went to the ... turned out to be partly true, partly false. I think a better explanation of ... long time. Both of them even think they haven’t met each other in real

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.

  

  when I was seven, and at the time that I would one day be determined to ... scenes, people, and places--nothing that encompassed the whole time period ... post. This time, I have a story. The story is not about me (well, not

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  certainly receive a hefty sum of homework, the main problem is time management. That is, no matter how much time is given for an assignment, it will ... must say, is endemic on campus. This semester, for the first time in my

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

  Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python

  

  , to describe my time at Ward Melville. To analyze the data, I wrote some ... spent more time editing my agenda during the week and less time on ... 50 revisions" means. I know I spent some time using the agenda for its

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” and other ways to improve your test scores

  

  family, works part time, and is insightful, helpful, and agreeable. They ... might assume that he’s going to have an easier time than a woman of ... first part of the study, supposedly to measure their personal spatial

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  smoke and spice my comfort meal

  

  freshman year, it was literally the only dish I cooked. I made it 7 times, which comes out to around once a month. In times when things were tough, I ... the time lag of spice hit people. They would insist that they were fine

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • May 9, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  --mostly because I never “look the part” for anything, anywhere, in any culture. I have been stared at, asked countless times the “what are you” questions ... --which really are well-intentioned most of the time--can honestly be very tiring

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  there too many times to count :) I even did research there! =p 31. Take a ... really decent - spend some time there before you graduate! Sadly, your MIT ... , and you're missing out on a key part of the MIT experience if you never

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 15, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This Bathroom Ceiling Some science, some fiction: traverse the space and time of our bathroom ceiling.

  

  the whale is one of my favorite characters. Here is its short part in ... little time to come to terms with its identity as a whale before it then ... meant to fly, the curling star-mists waver and part . . . See

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  lost my perception of time, those moments when I was stressed and tired ... contribute my part today and the days to come and I hope you guys are with me ... Apr. 19. “Playing the bagpipes helps me get over bad times,” John

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions of Travel a guest post by Spencer W. '15

  

  around with old car parts in his backyard, Spencer spent four years at MIT ... two years, I faced a number of questions. This was due in part to my ... arriving in London: another round of ambassadorial gatherings. This time

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where the Free Things Are A List of Free Opportunities and Tools for Students

  

  Being able to experience new things is such a fundamental part of ... checking these channels out in your free time to learn something new that you ... Programs: The summer is a great time to try new things and explore your

  • by Richard O. '28
  • January 30, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Guest Entry: Stephanie Lin Presenting MIT's most recent Rhodes Scholar!

  

  parts of the process - because it forced me to think critically about my ... choice was a hard one – the entire time I was thinking, “what if they call

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 12, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Muti Water Project ...is finished!!!

  

  part of the well that will need the most maintenance and we sourced ... technological changes, I hope to continue being a part of them! (those enough ... ” or “I don’t have the time” or even as basic and seemingly valid as “I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hilbert’s Third Problem (A Story of Threes) Holy mathematics, Batman! Math at MIT, and why we need calculus to define volume.

  

  -M, where the M means it’s within my major) seminars I need to take as part of ... took at the same time) formulate a proof. This was a huge amount of growth for me, and a big part of my goal in becoming a math major. My

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2015