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• 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

  

  . (Read: blow things up.) Adam was involved pretty extensively in his ... /astro faculty members who has ended up being one of his closest faculty mentors

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

  The Long Road to Happiness Stuff no one likes to talk about...

  

  -life things, identity things, getting sick during the semester--had piled up. I ... , purposeful people. I wish I could just quit everything and give up and go ... weekend, felt like such a difficult struggle, when even waking up required

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 22, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  in the worst imaginable case. Though it ended up taking me 5 years to ... encouraged us to write about what messed us up, to know the person who really ... match up to myself back then---which is totally incorrect, because

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

  A Hard MIT Class ...or is that redundant? And yes, hiiiiii.

  

  , then return to their conspiratorial whispering. Before you think up a ... ? Well, it ended up happening. One fateful afternoon, I found myself ... growing up that followed me into adulthood. I didn’t just hate the idea of

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  cooped up; she was living so many people’s dream! Was it I who lacked ... ’ll be able to make it through the semester, let alone ever measure up to ... club. The club was responsible for purchasing and lining up smiley face

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science Out Loud! On teaching/making/producing educational videos and why it's so much fun

  

  the crew with a couple questions and offered to set up lights or wrap ... , how I ended up talking to Elizabeth about helping out with some other ... Picking up a welding mask Acting as a temporary camera holder Taping

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  growing up, he consistently told me that "if you don't enjoy medicine, it ... engineer. If you ask Matt McGann, he can dig up the essay on my MIT ... Berkeley (where up to 25% of the graduating class can be premed). It helps

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  ; Unlike many people who read the blogs, I did not grow up dreaming of ... except for up. I did not know how to respond constructively to this kind ... grow up dreaming of running Boston. In fact, I grew up hating running. I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The MIT Major Arcana a collaborative art project

  

  they can't finish what they signed up to do. It's not that that person is ... helped me come up with many of the ideas that make the card what it is :) V ... Engineering The Hermit gives up outside distractions to focus on their work

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The joys of web development or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the web

  

  it in JavaScript. Well, that ended up changing. Over the past two years ... frustration led me to make qboard. When I thought about what I've made up to ... , and editing text are all skills I've applied, and skills I've picked up

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 9, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  professional. The students were trained and skilled—certainly living up to the ... -located housing, students would end up interacting, an activity which would no ... sketches. Clubs began to pop up, given the increased time more students were

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Burton-Conner’s Renovation: A Saga on friendships that transcend shitty infrastructure

  

  inevitably be split up at the end of the year. It also was incredibly ... becoming a member of TT, I knew I was signing myself up for trauma ... expressed their intent to live in apartments, so I ended up stapling with the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 6, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends

  

  love having to set my body up precisely to execute a lift safely. I love ... couldn't deadlift inside unless I wanted to end up in my landlady's living ... cinder block oven for a disastrously large pie. I loaded up lots of lumber

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  different. This is waking up at eleven in the morning, and already feeling ... has been stacked. I wake up and I go to an orientation event or take an ... itself up like clay on my shoulders. Maybe that’s why frosh energy is such

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  , something reddish that involved guava—when a recruiter sidled up. Her greeting ... up a new game. I imagined Pac-Man, endlessly swerving about his maze ... , footsteps meandering as if I had somewhere to go, but somehow never ending up

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Is My Home Looking back and saying goodbye

  

  truly become my home. I have lived here, grown up here, and found family ... the end of classes. I teared up at the Black graduate celebration, at ... tutored 6th grade math. While wrapping up my time here, I got so excited

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 13, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  ’ people, knowing that I would win. But as I moved up in the hierarchy of ... ’s charged up, jubilant cheers and introductions, that feeling grew. The tears ... of my self worth. I feel less guilty about friendships I can’t keep up

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  decided to throw it up here mostly unedited (meaning, excuse all the typos ... professionals, as I feel like I can never wake up before 9AM. But today I have ... frizzy hair (quite overdue for a wash day by now), giving up on it, rushing

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  looked up only to meet 6 sets of eyes. Each set seemed to reflect upon ... hands instead; my stomach just wanted to throw up all of the thoughts it ... white. One more time. I had to stop breathing and blinking to muster up

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bursting the MIT Bubble 1.0 things to do in Downtown Boston

  

  hair, looking up and around and having the greatest time. We have gone to ... Italian deserts. On warm days, the North End restaurants also open up their ... up for the night, usually around midnight, students can still venture

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2015