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  Why I Chose MIT On deciding where to go, now that you're in

  

  be very helpful to rekindle the assurance and sense of purpose that ... decisions and a lot of big changes. You can follow whatever career path you ... yourself how you spend your time and money. The school you choose in the next

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 29, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  can’t imagine me ever being unable to force myself out of bed in the ... ’ll hit your stride eventually, and then you can take on as much as you want ... center open and close, close and open. Even from here, I can hear the

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  study spots at MIT not exactly places to cry, but they'll do

  

  I could be exploring a new and fascinating part of the institute I ... and a big workspace with a bunch of chairs, tables, and couches on the ... event going on upstairs, it might echo through this floor and annoy the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• 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

  

  , pictures of rockets on the wall -- and I can't imagine he hadn't dreamed of ... , build them, and fly them (guess who the cameraperson was on that video? Oh ... on how I got here is the most popular thing I've ever written

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

  Save Point sleep wake hope

  

  than it should have, and it's taken on new shades of meaning over the ... labels you try and put on it, you will only come two-thirds of the way to ... human. Even on this blog, where I can say exactly and precisely I want, I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  i made furry art for Caltech i have art powers and choose to use them for chaos

  

  , and Rose was hanging upside down on the ceiling pipes. We held up the ... some design inspiration from that. Since I didn’t want Harvard to be the ... aiming for here. On the last day before Caltech left, as a parting gift

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 6, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Praise Of Holistic Admissions not an admissions machine

  

  automatically and deny the rest. Would this really be a better admissions process ... socialization. And so we have to take a great deal of care in constituting the ... misguided. "Academic merit", it is suggested, should be the sole dispositive

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If man is five Then most people are six, and if most people are six then pre-meds are seven.

  

  just to be in the same room for a minute and catch a glimpse of his well ... 's going on with both of these majors. For the edification of frosh and ... recommendation would be to get a UROP or two and see what you're more interested in--the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Am I Smart Enough for MIT? On second thought...don't answer that.

  

  it all and is on the other side now, I know you'll be juuuuust fine ... . COME VISIT US BENNO!) You can just check out the link above, or read ... . But now I'm worried that I won't be able to catch up to these kids and

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Beyond the Stop Light it's been a ride, MIT

  

  P.S. Even though we won't be posting on the MIT blogs anymore (at ... ! If you would like to see our content beyond these blogs, we will be posting art on our recently created artstagrams here and here! We are

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Solar Catsby Turning my little ray of sunshine into a solar cell

  

  -art research facility for nanoscale science and engineering. Built near the end ... work in the cleanroom to design and fabricate our own nanotechnology ... . Without a doubt, 6.2600 is the most magical and exciting class I’ve taken at

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 2, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Dissecting emotion what is feeling

  

  , and I'll be graduating. That's probably the closest I'll ever come to a ... without writing. Time is not real, because I can close my eyes and listen to ... , because the other night I slept at 9:35 PM telling myself that it'd just be

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 3, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  Enjoy Life Farewells and New Beginnings

  

  engineers in my life, but he was my favorite; his influence on my life, the ... of my favorite poems, all about looking toward the future and starting ... ’ve mostly been thinking about the past and saying goodbye. And I thought that

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 5, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  10 reasons why MIT is beautiful if I do say so myself.

  

  engineering can be colorful: ^from 2.008 Design and Manufacturing II.  I ... electronics on board.  So here's the boathouse from another angle: (6 ... ! (9) Because the Esplanade is only a short walk from campus: and

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sibling dynamics at MIT yes lmao Nisha and I are related

  

  Be Named came to the realization that Nisha and I are, indeed, sisters ... A little while ago, I got my first(?) mention on MIT Confessions, and ... ; Well, it turns out that looking like twins, being from the same small

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 20, 2020
• 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…

  

  , this is not important, and you guys can probably stand to wait another week before I update you on the last 5 months of my life. Right now, this ... . You need to actually do the essays first before you can edit them. Just

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Merit When getting into MIT isn't convincing enough

  

  .   I am very, very grateful to have the friends that I do, and to be ... and steady, because my job is to be pleasant and polite and help people ... freshman year that unmoored me, the year I spent away in therapy and taking

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • January 22, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself on choosing a college, and realizing one of many possible futures

  

  street — can have the largest impact, should I be hit by a bus, or meet the ... impenetrable crystalline wall. Like I could tap on the glass and wave hello to ... are other worlds, now, and this is the one we've got. We can travel, if

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  senioritis not to be confused with señoritis

  

  less about me and more about helping others. a friend recently shared the ... the cosmic fabric of the universe, you certainly can do positive work ... last semester to not be about me, the more i was able to do. so in no

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 10, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  This Is How I Read productivity hacks, but for reading applications

  

  applications, how bleary-eyed we get from reading them, and so on. But the ... on the main screen and then login to our application system. As I open ... , transcript, supplemental materials, and so on) in a separate window on the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 3, 2014