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  Ten days of live-action roleplaying no joke, there i was…

  

  as a ghost who didn't know he was a ghost, an undercover robot working ... , the glorious time of year when classes aren't as big of a deal for most ... spot of joy in an otherwise dark winter. As much as I want to, I don't

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  College Shopping List Everybody do the shopping cart!

  

  , closet, desk, shelves, phone. Most people don't even connect their phone ... pillows, but most of them don't, so getting your own is a pretty good idea ... I didn't think I'd have that much time to shop once I got there, which

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 26, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] We’re Not in ~Kansas~ Missouri Anymore Going From a Small Town to Boston, by Claire S. '25

  

  -school-senior-me didn’t know how to answer. So I gave the only response I knew for sure ... for, well, MIT Admissions, things didn’t go the way I’d planned. I ... . And I’m very happy I made that choice. But that didn’t mean my

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 17, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Subtle Black MIT Traits A few things I have experienced as a black person at MIT

  

  . For those of you that don’t know S.A.T is a page for Asian people to ... be a lot more of the same. A lot of “I don’t feel left out exactly, but there is a level of connection that I just can’t or don’t have with you

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Grey and Other Colors

  

  verbalizing the thoughts in my mind. My words don’t feel refined, eloquent, or ... . Life isn’t always black or white. It’s some murky combination of many ... frequently, and be happy with my work. Turns out the answer isn’t that simple

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 8, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  , and that problem is this: sometimes, you don't have all of the data, either because it is unavailable to you, or because something can't be ... being in the 750-800 range doesn't have much impact on your chance of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  that there was just one tiny (read: stupid) error somewhere, but I couldn’t ... heading back. After sitting down at my desk, the ALU didn’t seem quite so intimidating - not because it was less complicated, but because it didn’t seem

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mostly Harmless Rifle. As in, the phys ed class. As in, I fired one.

  

  Adams, chapter 6 This post is shameless. There haven’t been very many ... uninhabited petri plate. It is important that you mash steadily. If you don’t ... . Just kidding, bacteria don’t have mustaches and hats (or do they). I am

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 22, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choice and the MIT lifestyle ...because "MIT" and "student life" aren't mutually exclusive.

  

  recitation to revise problems or figure out problems I couldn't do on my own ... , less frustrating, and more fun. But I don't know that many people in the ... dress up and dance awkwardly to cheesy 80s music. I think maybe we don't

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me

  

  purely about applying. I don’t know what grad school is actually like yet ... your application stand out (it won’t), but because grad school is a ... of the burnt-out grad students I knew didn’t seem to have too strong of

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bumps, slumps, trips, and … Breaking out of a slump, now with more Cleveland!

  

  you don't blog for a long time, you lose your ability to rhyme. Not that ... to the blogs, so I don't feel bad. Life away from MIT is great; the ... that it wouldn't tip over. I think a lot of people are scared to leave

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On Escaping An introspective vlog about MIT and getting ready to leave

  

  , statistically, people do with YouTube videos) I won't blame you. Self ... ," awkward faces Things you won't see in this video: a cohesive narrative of

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 2, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  What I Did in High School in the actual sense of the phrase

  

  , but I got in, and he didn’t. When MIT hopefuls ask what an MIT student ... person isn’t nearly representative of “what you did in high school,” so it ... compare the two for fun. But anyway! During high school, I: Didn’t

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Applying Sideways How to get in to MIT.

  

  accepted to MIT? No.   But it doesn't work that way. Because here ... built a freakin' nuclear reactor didn't get in to MIT, what chance do they ... of them built a nuclear reactor! I don't mean to discourage anything

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mind and hand

  

  is Latin for "Mind and hand". Now, in most cases, a school motto isn't ... science or engineering. Then you get some who don't care so much about ... do, but couldn't build anything if their life depended on it. They don't

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tyrannosaurus REX the prefrosh are coming, the prefrosh are coming!

  

  like a freshman, i.e., to be naïve and excitable. And there ain't nuthin ... !"]sophomore[/annotation]and as I drive to MIT for Year 2 (I'm writing this in the car :D), I can't ... else's way, and don't feel bad about that. If it turns out you don't

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 20, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

  isn't the piece of paper, but the lifelong ties to the people who I grew ... MIT was to find Good People(TM). I didn't really know what that meant at ... and learn from My flatmate Emily T '17 who doesn't let me make excuses

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 6, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Today I hit my TA with a door I didn't MEAN to.

  

  It wasn't like I meant to do it. I was late for recitation, and I ... 'm really sorry. Errrrkk. I'm going to.. uh, yeah. Sorry. You actually can't ... unwritten, unspoken truth? As long as you don't tell anyone, because the shock

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 7, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a sad sad toaster made of glass. Do you like your toast with tears? Because I'm sad.

  

  savings time. Okay, so it's been like a month. I don't know what happened, dawg. I don't even have some great, 1,000-googol-page-long entry saved up ... bored because I woke up and had like three hours before class when I didn't

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  sea glass turbulent waves in these parts

  

  and don’t grant pity points to silly inexperienced undergrads, as reviews are [annotation note="you don't know your reviewers and your reviewers don't know you or your institution"]done blindly.[/annotation]  My

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 5, 2022