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• Blog / About Decisions

  We Were Deferred

  

  MIT was our dream school. The blogs were one of the main reasons for that. We read the blogs religiously throughout high school. We followed the tails of the bloggers, laughed at their jokes (or in the case of

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 30, 2017
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Curbing Hunger at MIT food for thought

  

  and what you want to eat for the next 4+ years. For some, it’s as simple ... , because in the end, food is great. I like food, you like food. So let’s get this show on the road.* A Couple of Doors Down (cooking is fun, too

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 6, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advanced Standing Exams: know your stuff, get out of a semester-long class! You should really consider taking them.

  

  8-class humanities minimum (the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences ... , physics, and calculus (these classes are known as the General Institute ... , the answer is no. MIT gives really remarkably, disappointingly horrible

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • May 24, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fight Fire With Fire How is MIT so hard?

  

  I received the following question on tumblr the other day:   ... people to buckle under the pressure. I’ve adapted the response I created for tumblr to this post, which I hope will shed some light on the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Preview of Things to Come too fast, too furious

  

  Yo MIT Admission Blog Readers, Like I assured you in the last entry ... Activities Midway - (by the way, check out Dancetroupe's performance at the ... my LAST Orientation Activities Midway (I had manned the Model UN booth

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 26, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Second Day of Class Course shopping and such.

  

  double the colors of the rainbow. In a class that I was in today, a ... slightly, her calendar almost resembles the pointillist works of Seurat. Pretty cool actually. I realized in college over the last two years that

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 10, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  My MIT Story How I came to be at MIT

  

  great school for math, one of the best." "Ok, I'll go there." *laughter ... had not only given me the MIT bug but had also resigned themselves to ... my parents brought it up, because the name "MIT" just sat in the back

  • by Snively '11
  • July 28, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Ninth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 2PM on 02/14/06.

  

  in place of the snail mail?" Yes, send it to admissions ... requirements. But AP seems to be the American standard. Which one is preferable ... well in two of my classes but well in the rest?" Slipping a bit will not

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  Tricky Questions A follow-up entry to answer all of the 50 million comments I got about the…

  

  Admissions Ben) was awesome enough to send a link to my blog in to the ... on that site). All of a sudden, the hack pictures were all over the internet- on gaming forums, random livejournals by people halfway across the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 20, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Eating my words at Area Four Mushroom and fontina pizza my beloved

  

  wood-fired pizza made from a 10-year-old sourdough starter, A4 is the go ... , as I believe their pizza defies all known laws of reality. For one, the ... perplexingly, the tip of the slice always flops down and [annotation note

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 29, 2025
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  There were many incredible applicants to the MIT Class of 2029, which ... you shoot for the moon, you miss, but that doesn't discount the bravery it took to try. The comments on this post are an open forum for those

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  snake doodles🐍🐍 i drew snakes to start off the year of the snake!

  

  [caption id="attachment_110676" align="alignnone" width="768"] happy year of the snake![/caption]

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 6, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  infinite corridors can’t believe there are no posts with this title yet

  

  in the (almost) two years since leaving school, the term “infinite ... is the picture i have in mind: i was so preoccupied during undergrad with picking the best possible version of myself to become - deciding on

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / CPW

  an orange tour 🍊🍊🍊

  

  through a website on the Google Chrome app on my iPhone so pls forgive the lag and low video quality"]livestream[/annotation]showing the Class of ... compelling. I went down the list, and orange felt just right: rare enough to be

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • April 29, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [guest post] time passes from spirit island a board game that i picked up 3 years ago is now my life

  

  've[/annotation] known cj for 3.5 years now. though the first 6 months it was very much not ... really got to know [annotation note="cj: the amount of times i am mentioned ... , when we had these things called "pods". i was in the same pod as alex and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  you’re on your own, kid

  

  doing okay? How are you feeling? What's your emotional state? I find the ... last night's blogger check-in that I literally broke the November rule despite being one of the biggest proponents of said rule, but let's not dig

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  It Lives. can i be nostalgic yet?

  

  from the drone of some electrical wire or the whir of a machine or the ... close enough, cutting through the chit-chat and the murmurs of the ... permeates the air, almost electric in nature. It was one of the first things

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 2, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  how to become a morning person a matter of willpower

  

  . For the past couple of years, I've used an app called Sleep Cycle to track my sleep. It calculates my sleep quality by recording me through the night, which sounds kind of creepy on the surface and definitely raises

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 12, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  i walk through campus and say stuff i cannot vlog to save my life

  

  .youtube.com/watch?v=ObQfChNMUvM I was bored and the weather outside was nice, so I thought I would go ... thought there’d be more. So one of my jobs is being a tour guide for the ... things. If you turn on captions for the video, and choose English (United

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 23, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Regular-ing Or: Over-justifying how much I eat out

  

  I had a breakthrough the other day. I was sitting in my favorite ... .A.V.O.R.I.T.E. In a busy week, I’m there at least once a day: The prices are reasonable, I can order on my phone, all the food is vegetarian, and it’s one

  • by Powers '23
  • January 26, 2020