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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend

  

  I've been reading popular science for a long time. It's why I ... off the TINIEST sliver at a time, in order to drag out the eating ... my dream job. You learn and write about any area of science that

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  laureates. I get home exhausted, and I suddenly remember that the time was 6 ... though I wasn't rejected the first time I applied, I was deferred, and it kind of felt like being rejected at times. But I also felt immense joy

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 17, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Let’s Go Fly A Kite Up to decision night!

  

  : maybe you’re accepted, and you envision yourself instantly getting a job ... afford to relax. I read an interesting article in the New York Times a few ... particularly helpful for passing the time on the morning of decision day. Have

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Merit When getting into MIT isn't convincing enough

  

  to donate to MIT. It’s a fascinating job, and it deserves an entire ... long time ago, “the engineering profession was less than one percent ... and steady, because my job is to be pleasant and polite and help people

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • January 22, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hard MIT Class ...or is that redundant? And yes, hiiiiii.

  

  problem your friend figured out in the time it took him to pee. You sit in ... Swimming. * Story time. And if you know me at all, you know it’s gonna be ... floating. Well, in theory. In practice, they unfolded like this: each time

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Underwater Dreams (from a distance) A reflection on immigration, student activism, and civic engagement at MIT.

  

  part of being alive at this time is that our youth have taken up with so ... part of it, at least. No one’s journey to MIT is typical. His wasn ... this country, and my parents are a part of that story just as much as I

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Being “qualified” for MIT Let me show you how it's done.

  

  of job applications. "Explain how you are qualified for this position ... . I thought about how the MIT application was nothing like a job ... zillion articles for nature newsletters, and goes running all the time (I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  AOs write the “What do you do for fun?” essay Ever wondered what admissions officers do when they're not reading applications?

  

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie for the first time. I fell in love with Adichie ... June, and each time, something new resonates with me—the nerve ... of connection (and new parts of myself). Back to reading now

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  schools I should target. I did know that time was running out, and that I ... irrational reason that I didn’t really understand at the time, I applied. I ... working on essays full-time, procrastinating on research papers so that I

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

  sibling dynamics at MIT yes lmao Nisha and I are related

  

  happy that they had no idea of this fact; clearly, I’m doing a decent job ... Nisha around campus a grand total of three times in all these months here ... ’t have time for high school-esque drama or petty judgments of others

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 20, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choosing Your Own Adventure and other things you can do when you live off campus

  

  people all the time and really want to feel a part of a larger community, maybe a dorm is a good place to stay for your time here. Many people stay ... to mentally separate that part of my life from the rest. I [annotation

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  There Is No Formula A formula would take the human component out of our process, which is perhaps the…

  

  around them. The absolute worst part of this job is the fact that there are ... the human component out of it, which is perhaps the most important part ... gave him a job before he could even drive. It makes me think of the girl

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 16, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  tour – I used to work part-time as a tour guide at MIT, and this 1934 ... . Here are some parts that stood out to me because of their connection to ... the Department of Chemical Engineering at MIT! At the time of the video

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the contours of a wild ride 2.009 😤

  

  second, so it was not continued, but it lived on every time we crowded in ... the tech review deadline came, and staff from all parts of 2.009 came in ... Monday, we attached the last parts that needed attaching... Then we

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me

  

  evolve over time, but they’ve just got to constitute tangible-enough fuel ... to that question is “something that is no longer worth my time,” a fuel ... having enjoyed my time here as a student. Things changed when: I

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a sad sad toaster made of glass. Do you like your toast with tears? Because I'm sad.

  

  savings time. Okay, so it's been like a month. I don't know what happened ... around and I'm like, "Oh no! It's the last time ever I'm going to forget to ... fifth power of time. And whatnot. Perfect! Empirical data agrees with

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  This story has to do with professor accessibility. And something awesome that I got in the mail.

  

  our job. I hope you’ll agree that this was an incredibly kind gesture ... professor to take the time to write to a colleague to tell him how much an ... sometime next week. Please suggest 3 times that would be convenient and we

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  m.701, drawing for designers. the class gave me a brief window of time every week where i was “forced” to dedicate the time to drawing, a hobby that i wanted to get into but never really put a lot of time into. here

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  demons on depression

  

  voice of God, urging him to quit his job and become a full-time pastor. By ... until maybe four or five years ago, which was roughly the time when ... and work here. My mother was a bank teller, at the time, although she

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 28, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Gothic You are reading an admissions blog post. You are reading tumblr.

  

  , especially around this time of the semester. The rest of this blog post is by ... every time they visit your dorm: last week it was a piece of hair, this time an ounce of blood. Neither of you decide to question why this is

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015