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• Blog / About Decisions

  hello deferred applicants, i, again, don’t know what to say, but i can try

  

  that they would be shocked if i didn't get accepted. there's something ... cycle. i wasn't ready to write dozens of essays and go through interviews ... deferred again, i wouldn't react in the same way? many of my friends reached

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  hell. handling the hardest semester at MIT, virtually

  

  , well, I'd survived junior year of high school, hadn't I? And it wasn't ... academics, and midterms haven't even hit me yet...things are rough. I'm taking ... "]HASS[/annotation] ones, so my workload isn't as bad as it could be, but I'm struggling to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 9, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Surviving Self-Quarantine 101 tldr; memes (haha jk...unless)

  

  particularly tedious. we don't have classes for the next week and a half, so we have a lot of time that we don't know what to do with. in fact, in the ... 1000 extracurriculars to students who haven't been this not busy since

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 19, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  One Day in the Life of Dora as told by the one and only Dora

  

  my 18.03 pset. But I didn’t actually finish. I was going to do it in ... interface has a bunch of different methods and if you create a class… I DON’T ... which didn’t seem super important. So then I decided not to go because it

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 4, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding a Second Home love is where you least expect it

  

  my dreams, and senior-year-me couldn’t be happier to be there. I was ... too many windows (which I won’t name, but you can probably guess). It ... campus and visit the last one on her list: Senior House. I hadn’t been to

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  More Milk Please And a cookie too. If by cookie you mean an awesome metaphor.

  

  -loving entity of your choice). How big is this bowl of milk exactly? Well, I don’t ... struggling to take it all in. Don’t get me wrong. I love it here already. Sure ... when I say “overwhelmed”, I don’t mean stressed out or crushed. I

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Mirrors Because reflection is not just that image you see of yourself in the morning, or…

  

  Fun fact about me, on days when I don’t have much to do, especially ... times over winter break, but I wasn’t particularly getting anywhere. In fact, I wasn’t particularly interested in doing a whole lot of anything

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 8, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Roombaaaa The longest trip I've ever taken in my life

  

  representatives (because who wouldn't want to work for a cool company like i ... ! Figuring I didn't anything to lose, I decided to go ahead and submit an answer online! I didn't really think much about it afterwards, especially

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 21, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Decisions, Decisions decisions!

  

  't that terrifying? If you can guess where you're most likely ... graduate institution. Of course, I didn't have a graduate institution yet; I wasn't even done applying! I knew that I was applying to MIT

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • April 26, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  More than 9000 reasons not to groan at my poor usage of outdated memes. ALSO, CPW!

  

  admitted who don't mind the expense of traveling to boston for the weekend in ... really cool t-shirts*. I'd like to go, but if there's somebody who is not leaning towards MIT, I don't want to take their spot" * I do not think this

  • by Cam T. '13
  • April 4, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Passions (No, not that kind)

  

  revolutionary bit -- what those people don't know is that the college essay should ... don't do it?) put your best foot forward and talk about you, the bits of ... 's something about you that you wouldn't enjoy sharing with other people, then

  • by Cam T. '13
  • January 1, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Hello, Layover (Part Two) Electric Boog-a-loo.

  

  doesn't exist for a semester or seven and take it in your last term at MIT. And now you're confused and don't know who's right and whether or not ... class, you won't pass, you won't graduate, you won't get a job, no woman

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 23, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where are you going, where have you been? (Part I) Academics.

  

  so far but couldn't shake the feeling that she was missing out on ... curious. "I don't know if I have." My boyfriend's a physics major, like me. He was my junior lab partner second semester, if you remember. He didn't

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 27, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sabar drums, Rwanda, and the C.I.A Can you guess what all this stuff has in common?

  

  impressive, so absolutely awesome I couldn't help but blog about it. Since it ... rank it up there with the Black-Scholes model. (don't know what that is ... MIT is an acronym, or as I like to say "L.E.A.M.I.T.I.A.A"(did you catch

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Thoughts On The MIT Interview ...from the perspective of an MIT interviewer.

  

  First and foremost: I am an EC, and EC's don't make admissions ... more about it than we do now). We don't make admissions decisions, but ... opportunity for a more personal admissions process, that, after all, shouldn't

  • by John DeTore '80
  • October 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Passing Out ...of classes. Or in class. We'll see.

  

  cried like you didn't see THAT one coming), but it's still nice to have ... . Who says legal adults don't need to feel secure sometimes? (Also, all ... classes and exams offered, but I didn't have any idea where I was applying

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What can you do in four years?

  

  exciting IAP...I didn't fully understand how much there was out there ... things that I have and haven't done, broken down by category... Housing ... anything really nifty for my room. Didn't really do FSILG Rush. Classes

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring cleaning and miscellany The Brass Rat club, sending 4-inch heels to Goodwill, and picking a new food-providing graduate…

  

  department didn't include neuroscience until 1986. I met a faculty member who ... close and I can't think of a time when there's ever been a serious ... -go-lucky person by nature. So I will just say two small things that I don't like

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  These are a few of my favorite things Silver-white winters that melt into Newbury Street shopping.

  

  conference semi-finals. The cheerleaders got to stunt, yell, and throw free t ... as an MIT cheerleader -- and I think I won't have a voice in the ... weasel out of ski lessons, since I don't own a pair of ski pants. So this

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Grad school admissions My (limited) insight into the graduate admissions process.

  

  morning at 6:45 AM. (My postdoc at the lab told me I don't have to come in ... fact good sense -- you really don't want someone careening around the lab ... on this project since November 2004... I can't believe we're almost

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 20, 2006