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  Fall 2018 Transfer Decisions Are Now Live may the 4th be with you

  

  those of you who were admitted: welcome to MIT. For those who weren't: keep on trucking. I transferred, but if I hadn't, things would have been

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 4, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  it’s ok that it’s not ok sometimes things will happen, and you have to just let yourself be.

  

  --just standing, or sitting, or doing work. They don’t simply feel unable to feel ... addicts featured in Infinite Jest, although she doesn’t seem to be truly ... substances by her condition. I realized that, though fortunately I don’t feel

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 4, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, Now A Goldwater Scholar finding her way four years later

  

  ... For a while, I really felt like a failure that I didn't get in ... applying to things and places I didn't think I was actually qualified to get ... me that I wasn't going to get it, but I tried anyway in large part

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 18, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Seniors let's talk

  

  corner. You’re excited about getting to finally be your own person.You can’t ... meals. And the laundry you don’t have to do. You’re worried how the future will play out. College applications just don’t seem to end, and as you

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 17, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fall 2017 Transfer Decisions Will Be Released Today May the Fourth, and also your transfer decisions, be with you

  

  you who were admitted: welcome to MIT. For those who weren't: keep on trucking. I transferred, but if I hadn't, things would have been fine

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 4, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Leslie Jones Was Here and I Saw Her can't believe I haven't posted about this yet

  

  didn't get chosen in the lottery, which was sad.   AND YET shout out to the people who didn't claim their tickets lol     So

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 11, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Lost Art of Hand-Lettering Lives at MIT hidden in plain sight

  

  :   What you probably don't know is that, since 1994, all of the ... the many people who pass through MIT don't. However, the School of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Fears and Hopes how to move forward

  

  don't know how to feel. We will be sitting quietly in Lobby 7 all day ... delete people - that won't help us win 2020 I fear that fear will ... discourse doesn't work in America anymore. That inequality will grow

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • November 9, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Monday a detailed documentation

  

  purpose. Why take a class on race if you can’t read racist articles? The TF ... if it’s too hard, we don’t have to read this piece again. She concedes ... the ground to mail to my sister. 12:30 → The T ride back is accompanied

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 27, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fall 2015 Transfer Decisions Will Be Released Today May the Fourth, and also your transfer decisions, be with you

  

  you who were admitted: welcome to MIT. For those who weren't: keep on trucking. I transferred, but if I hadn't, things would have been fine

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 4, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Enjoying the Little Things In which I ramble about happiness and taking breaks

  

  this post. Also because I totally just didn't post last week: if anyone ... Pond was beautiful, especially with the changing leaves. I didn't include

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 27, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Perspectives from Deutschland Ich bin Anna und ich studiere Astronomie!

  

  . I was a blogger until very recently, so hopefully you haven’t ... , S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z, ü, ë, ä, ß. I come, you come, he/she comes, we ... …it’s overwhelming and astonishing. Sadly, we can’t hang out all the time, because we

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Other Side The view from another cambridge

  

  program. They talked about how they didn't have as much weekly work (we have ... after I'd committed to studying abroad... I don't think I've ever had a ... cycles), which I wasn't sure if I was going to pass pretty much the whole

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 31, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  The Swim Test Saga Four laps (and zero displacement) closer to graduation

  

  (100 yards) in droves, and receive a free t-shirt as a reward for not ... plausible, not because you didn't know how to swim but because your ankle was ... hobbling around on crutches, and didn't get to take the swim test with your

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 22, 2013
• Blog / Events

  A Couple of Firsts With a picture game

  

  quite. They didn’t want me. They wanted the upper classmen. I was just the ... I got so much free stuff that I won’t need to buy shirts for another ... of HackMIT because I wasn’t allowed inside. I was so excited for

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 17, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Summertime Science Got that summertime, summertime science...

  

  are curious.) But in any case, if you don't know who I am, all you need ... I love is my brother, Ryan. He is 11. This summer he told me he didn't

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 14, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I GOT TWENTY DOLLARS IN MY POCKET (because I got a press pass to SpringFest 2013, of course. photos inside!)

  

  .  And don't got no memories. Funniest moment of the night?  When ... !  Probably to the chagrin of the cops in charge of security.  But they didn't

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 27, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Mandatory: MIT Mid Year Report What you need to know.

  

  MIT Midyear Report is now available on MyMIT. Wait! Don’t fill it out ... ; Wait?! I won’t have any grades before February 15th and Labs said MIT ... -- so if you're in a school that doesn't have midyear grades, or you

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • January 16, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Inspired Brainstorming Three pieces of advice I employ

  

  next adventure,” she said, “I don’t want you to ever forget.” “Forget ... just don’t give a shit.” - Hardi Meybaum, GrabCAD CEO/founder I work at ... did right?” Hardi (harshly): “I just don’t give a shit.” I was worried

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  College Interviews a survival guide for the high school senior

  

  have any questions for me?" I came prepared but wasn't expecting to ... programs I couldn't miss? All a blur now, but I distinctly remember him ... interviewer doesn't know anything about you beyond what they may have gathered

  • by Connie H. '15
  • October 15, 2012