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  The Pretender a message to both you and me.

  

  drove up to MIT for the first time. I had signed up for the Shadow a ... didn't want to give up and I wanted to never surrender. I didn't know if ... an make-up or extra assignment or not. And I won't know until tomorrow

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Boomeranging The day before classes start is Registration Day. It’s also the day we welcome readmitted…

  

  among all of the others you pick up here (course numbers, building numbers ... the side. Maybe fifty students show up to the Luncheon. That’s more than ... arrive early to help Laura set up. We spread out, settle in at different

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  sitting in the library, studying for a Geography exam when someone ran up to ... most of the academic things I’d been up to, including taking the SAT. Mrs ... sessions were out of the question. I toured CC, read up several college

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An actual day in the lab Hectic is my middle name.

  

  vacation since finals ended due to moving and setting up the apartment)... my body is not pleased that I'm getting up so early. 7:54 AM. I roll out of ... little bite-sized pellets of DNA which my cells will want to eat up. 30 min

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dormspam-the-game (Part 3) parting remarks from no-longer-anonymous gamemasters

  

  games. I ended up running 5 more of these games, including “Hide and Seek ... add some variety. setting things up We knew that we wanted to have ... had closed, but de Florez was still offering up to [annotation note

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  “You are capable of more than you know.” Reflections from six MIT transfer students

  

  were you, and what were you up to? Gaurab: I lived most of my life in ... , but I ended up going to Purdue because my family moved to the US. I ... surreal). During COVID, while waiting for the New Zealand borders to open up

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 13, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Feeling Many Feelings :) and :( and everything in between about decisions

  

  gets me every single time, and I regularly tear up watching World of ... all have," said Hermione nastily, picking up her quill again. So as you

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • March 16, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  The Room(s) Where It Happens You've hit submit. What Comes Next?

  

  suddenly fell over campus. We looked up from our computers and out the window ... it. Stu excitedly stood up from the committee table. “Is everyone else

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • January 9, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  computer, opening up the MyMIT page that I hadn't visited in a few months. I ... didn't match up to MIT standards, my grades were not the best, I had not

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

  Pre-Med @ MIT The title says it all.

  

  Greggor Crowley. (Best advisor ever?? Yup, I think so!) Together, we've come up with ... ended up at great schools. I guess my point is: don't let the idea of a B

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  for all. I grew up in Florida. The state is flat. There are no mountains ... only drummers, or an orchestra made up solely of tubas? Hopefully, you

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 25, 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.

  

  to have adjusted some internal excit-o-meter. So in the days leading up ... ! After the ceremony, I met up with my family and we went to a couple of

  • by Kim D. '09
  • June 7, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If man is five Then most people are six, and if most people are six then pre-meds are seven.

  

  listening to the answer, like, at all. And I ended up kind of majoring in both ... summer UROP in chemistry that ended up with my arm in a splint and a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT, part deux The case study of someone else you wouldn't expect to have gotten in

  

  . (Read: blow things up.) Adam was involved pretty extensively in his ... /astro faculty members who has ended up being one of his closest faculty mentors

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Long Road to Happiness Stuff no one likes to talk about...

  

  -life things, identity things, getting sick during the semester--had piled up. I ... , purposeful people. I wish I could just quit everything and give up and go ... weekend, felt like such a difficult struggle, when even waking up required

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 22, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  in the worst imaginable case. Though it ended up taking me 5 years to ... encouraged us to write about what messed us up, to know the person who really ... match up to myself back then---which is totally incorrect, because

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  , then return to their conspiratorial whispering. Before you think up a ... ? Well, it ended up happening. One fateful afternoon, I found myself ... growing up that followed me into adulthood. I didn’t just hate the idea of

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  cooped up; she was living so many people’s dream! Was it I who lacked ... ’ll be able to make it through the semester, let alone ever measure up to ... club. The club was responsible for purchasing and lining up smiley face

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science Out Loud! On teaching/making/producing educational videos and why it's so much fun

  

  the crew with a couple questions and offered to set up lights or wrap ... , how I ended up talking to Elizabeth about helping out with some other ... Picking up a welding mask Acting as a temporary camera holder Taping

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  growing up, he consistently told me that "if you don't enjoy medicine, it ... engineer. If you ask Matt McGann, he can dig up the essay on my MIT ... Berkeley (where up to 25% of the graduating class can be premed). It helps

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011