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

  

  September 2nd The round tables are blue, yellow, and green this year ... are four of us. We’re a good group, a healthy mix of ages, genders, and life experiences, and we’re here to talk tips and tricks, to tell the

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

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

  

  replied "Yay!! What does that mean?" because it's an odd term and people don ... the president of the United States and pulled an all nighter chilling with my new best friends and a bunch of current and future nobel

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 17, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fit or happiness made easy

  

  there? Exactly a year ago from today, teachers and classmates insisted the ... and incredibly vague. A good fit is a place where you feel completely ... you, it's much easier to be happy. In terms of colleges, I had no idea

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  junior year, and I am twenty. There is something frighteningly final about ... changed from "what happens now?" to "what happens next?" and there is so, so much static I hear whenever I ask myself this question, pounding and

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 31, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 things I love about MIT and hopefully you'll learn to love them too.

  

  and now it’s time to decide which offer to accept. As a senior blogger, I’ve written about this before (here , here, and here), but I thought ... most diverse interests. There are the pre-meds and the hackers, the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  . Before college, I would make long-term plans and carry them out with my ... requirements of the classes, and hell I learned a lot of material that term, but ... --the research and academics are, of course, first-rate, but I wanted to know what

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

  I Have Never Been to Beijing A (loose) translation of the previous post written in Chinese

  

  in the Chinese-language post, and additionally, some things in the ... China, I was four years old. We arrived in Shanghai and went straight to ... speaking Shanghainese, and now I remember that moment in English, which is

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Some people call me the space cowgirl

  

  More reading going on here tonight, after a yummy Super Burrito and ... 's more rigorous majors, Aero/Astro, and now works for NASA. Goes to show ... Aero/Astro. And, while she didn't have big SAT scores, she was clearly a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2004
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This Bathroom Ceiling Some science, some fiction: traverse the space and time of our bathroom ceiling.

  

  windows, three showers, two toilets, two sinks, 1507.75 wall tiles, and 3907.0625 floor tiles. There are 960.296875 wall tiles, 439.1875 floor tiles, and 70 ... blue sky for walls, and in this space the three floors above us are

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014
• 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

  

  requires passion, and, luckily, you get to define passion on your own terms. ... , Adam '07, and his admissions story. (Well, that and I took a thermo test today, and I was planning to write about tests. But Laura beat me to it

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

  An Entry About Snow ...Even though we don't have any

  

  used as a metaphor for life, and that it's highly unoriginal to come up ... feet. I had never snowboarded before and the last time I skiied was ... expectations about snowboarding, and I have the bruises to prove it. My left arm

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Things Wot I Did Whilst Studying at MIT A tale told in pictures (and someone else's words).

  

  before my eligibility for student employment runs out, and I vaguely recall reading the post two days after I got to campus and swearing to live by it ... was the cost of film and processing. Digital cameras are cheap and you

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 27, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  new rooms, running around excitedly, and generally being real darn ... fantasy. REX is the beginning of the real deal, and the signal that your old ... , on Tuesday, the international students and FPOPs will come

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 20, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  How to look over your application and advice about breathing. My older younger brother is your age. I am fully aware of how much you’re…

  

  Oh man, it has been a while and a half since I’ve blogged. However, this is not important, and you guys can probably stand to wait another ... left before your early applications are due, and if you are anything like

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing I don’t have time for hosed into my core

  

  (maybe)barely totaled 56/120. This is 6.046, Design and Analysis of Algorithms, whose prereqs are 6.042 and 6.006, both classes I have pretty ... , Computer Science, Economics, and Data Science, along with all three of my

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 25, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Random Random Projects/Moving Out of Random Randomly zigzagging about until I find myself in the future, somehow no longer in Random.

  

  awesome responses I got. Jenny R. ‘15 Eli [D. ‘15] and I painted our door ... wrote the code to make the panorama: basically, you detect features and corners in the two photos to figure out how to line up the images, and then

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 13, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  November 1st is my January 1st each november is a new direction

  

  These past three weeks have been really hard. And I'm sure that for you, it has been too. The MIT application can be very daunting and, if ... were afraid of the potential rejection, and I think that's really

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 3, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2) My take on the MIT short essays.

  

  from George Orwell, "Politics and the English Language", 1946. ----- So ... . Since then, the application has been revised, and although I still believe ... application looks like (it really doesn't look that different, ha) and I've been

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My Product Design Internship in Austin how to build things: both externally and internally

  

  [/annotation] – and where better to breathe in that sweet, American, summer air than in Austin, Texas? The land of cowboy boots, sweltering heat, and a city that ... aquifer, meaning that it has a ton of rivers, lakes, and springs dotted all

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • July 26, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what am i doing great question.

  

  want to work first) I was left with a feeling of real panic and (somewhat ... because everyone calls it just “the Muddy” and I actually forgot the real ... :MIT facts and information, and instead I just blogged my feelings (which isn

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 18, 2018