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• Blog / About Decisions

  Spoiled Milk I wrote an entry so long overdue my milk has spoiled in the process. So…

  

  's not because I don't have the free time to drink my milk. It's because I ... crazy, aren't they? You convert entire moments of your life that have made ... somewhere you don't even know with all the hope in the world that somebody

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 24, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  Bavarian Rhapsody I'm just a poor boy, I go to MIT.

  

  briefly contemplated buying a Hard Rock Café: Munich t-shirt, because that ... 24 euros and decided that, with current exchange rates, I didn't like anybody that much. Blah blah blah... pictures. I don't know if it was

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 29, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m supergirl and I’m here to save the world My day, being thought of as superhuman, and answering several questions.

  

  , since it wasn't a very full flight and I had a whole row to myself. 7 ... dressed (in my world, putting on track pants and a t-shirt != getting ... you really don't hate it. What you hate about it is the enormous

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 25, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Many Ways To Define “The Best” A long response to a CC thread in which I offer my opinions on AP…

  

  'll be sortof long, sorry. First, the MIT adcom perspective. I don't know the exact numbers; I couldn't tell you even if I thought it would be ... ?" Sometimes they didn't know the difference, which is a tragedy that deserves

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers to some questions

  

  . Don't be shy; the ECs are used to people wanting to schedule interviews ... your purpose so that he/she knows your mail isn't spam. I remember ... that someone won't open the lid and dump in something unrelated to the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 19, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  rage, as explained by thermodynamics I had a bad day and soon a thermo exam

  

  time. [annotation note="don't worry, the thermo will be high school ... macroscopic, meaning it isn't about the individual atoms and particles bumping ... different--like how the temperature of the air doesn't mean every single air

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 25, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  tick tick tick and the euphoria of it stopping

  

  exhausted. tick Have I done anything worthwhile here? It feels like I haven't ... minimum. I'm average at best. Why can’t I excel anymore? I’m just barely ... this club? Why am I doing… any of this??? tick I can’t get peace here. I

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 16, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  Lies in MIT, lies about MIT these are the lies that i tell myself at night

  

  it, that MIT isn't that academically intense; that it's only as hard as you want it to be. That most people don't actually take six classes a semester, that MIT had parties like any other college, and that MIT wasn't

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 27, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  the umpteenth post about balancing art and tech version: slightly jaded

  

  ; I don’t entirely like this rush of one thing and then another, too ... skills on the way, that would be lovely, but it wouldn’t be enough. Of course it wouldn’t be. Welding metal will not ever actually compare to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The coolest spring break ever? Visit a College Campus!

  reputation isn’t the best reason to select a college. Thus, since I ... ; Tricks Do ask good questions (that aren't on the website) Campus visits ... and don’t get nervous about what you’re asking! That being said - it

  • by DJ Rock
  • February 26, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  When Friends Become Family How MIT has become my home (with some beautiful pics to accompany)

  

  it isn’t awkward. Those people you can genuinely say are friends ... really got the chance to get superrrr close to people. This didn’t mean I didn’t have friends ( I did, I was insanely popular ;) ), but I just wasn’t

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes! Classes! Classes! Classes!

  

  I don't actually care whether the Red Sox win or lose. (Uh oh. Am I ... than done, but try to remain a semi-reasonable human being. Don't hole ... classes you're taking - don't surrender to senioritis and stop doing

  • by Karen F. '11
  • November 1, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Leaf in Face I got hit in the face the other day. By a leaf.

  

  a painful metaphor for my life right now. (Sometimes, a leaf isn't ... ? (If there is any at all.) There's no specific upper-bound, but MIT doesn't award second bachelor's degrees. As long as you don't already have an

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 15, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus, Part 1

  

  Campus dormitory; he moved his stuff in August of 1996, and didn't move his ... . That isn't a common situation (most students prefer to "upgrade" their ... sent in w/regular application), the midyear report tracking box isn't

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2005
• Blog / Summer

  The Courage to Change Even Through the [Tough] Mud[der]

  

  ="although nothing is possible with the heart of the cards 😏 jk please don’t do this it’s not worth it"]THIS WAS A TERRIBLE IDEA DON'T TRY THIS IT ... half marathon by the end of the summer.  But that didn’t end up

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 11, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Some questions that I've received from prospectives.

  

  scrolling and scanning, here's a table of contents: 1. Calculus and APs aren't ... 'm worried that by pursuing a science/engineering career, I won't be helping ... school as great as MIT...I'm obsessed with it. I'm sad that I probably won't

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 8, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On a Week of IHTFP An Exam Week story. Starring none other than 18.022.

  

  don't know. That's a HARD class.” I guess the MIT freshman mentality was still in me, and I thought, "Wouldn't I be wasting my time here if I wasn't challenging myself? Won't this help me be REALLY awesome at EVERYTHING having to

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bad Grades and Big Screw-Ups Pulling back the A's, B's, C's, and P's to see what's inside

  

  loved the class, too. I just couldn’t do it. It was too much work. Grade ... : Writing and Reading Short Stories  I didn’t write a single short story for ... this class because, I don’t know, I didn’t write short stories?!? But

  • by Powers '23
  • January 14, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  then and now a reflection on the very bad

  

  didn't know how to respond. My mom pulled me out of school after that ... long in too much detail. To this day, when I think back on it, I can't ... our year committed suicide. I wasn't very close to her, but it still

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 5, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Pursuing CS as a (near) beginner being a prospective CS major with little programming experience

  

  also up there in my interests but I didn't want to work with organic ... the center: "activities where you create things." I don't know. There ... exploring a different field, which was biomedical engineering. I don’t know

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 14, 2022