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  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  In that moment, I felt that my conception of [Next House] finally ... junior year, and I am twenty. There is something frighteningly final about these two statements. I will never be a junior again. I will never be a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 31, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  My College Essay Early Action / November 2005. ~500 words await.

  

  worldwide? Which topic shall be chosen, A or B? Can I impress those admissions staff? Is there such a thing as too personal? I can't recall precisely when I decided to apply to MIT Early Action. Or precisely why. It was

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 11, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  In my (high-school) senior spring, when I was almost sure I planned to enroll at MIT, I read obsessively about student life at MIT--the research and academics are, of course, first-rate, but I wanted to know what

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Guest Entry: Christina Bognet Supplemental materials to help you through the next few days.

  

  is quite possibly the funniest (and happiest) Baker biology genius I ... ! *** Precisely one year ago today I sat drinking coffee at a Dunkin Donuts with one ... respective first choice schools early decision. "I have a really good feeling

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 8, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] You Have a 50/50 Chance a guest post from my mama

  

  . "What if I don't get in?" "Am I good enough?" (That is a question we all ask ourselves). "The acceptance rate is only a 5% or 6%" I've always tried to be a supportive parent, so I answered her concerns with "It

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.

  

  . collectively remove grey hairs (disclaimer: I actually didn’t believe the math that I did in my head to write the above statement, so I wrote it down, subtracted, and then I had to walk down the hall and back as I started to shed

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  suburban New Jersey county. I applied mostly because a friend was applying, but I got in, and he didn’t. When MIT hopefuls ask what an MIT student ... ’s not what I wanted to write about. Instead, here’s a genuine account of

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• 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 ... quite 1,000 googol pages. All I can offer you by way of reconciliation is

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My blogger bio over time what does it take to get to know someone?

  

  I've changed my bio, which you can view on my author page, once every few months since I started blogging. I thought I'd record how it's changed for posterity, maybe before I change it one last time before I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 26, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  Two years ago, I wrote a blog post saying Web development probably isn’t for me. I’m not entirely excluding the possibility. […] But Java ... is kind of annoying, and I enjoyed programming more when I’m not doing

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

  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  Sometimes I went to recruiting events just to remember why I avoided ... Pods. I wondered at this approximation of Maslow’s. Who needed self-actualization when one could listen to podcasts wirelessly? A few minutes later, I was

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking the L On "failure" at a place like MIT.

  

  I never wrote a blog recapping last semester. I thought about it quite a bit this summer and I think I wrote a few drafts but none of them ... that important to share with applying students: taking the L. Y'all, I

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  demons on depression

  

  visualize things, or who have aphantasia. I didn't realize I had aphantasia ... aphantasia became a popular concept. I'd just always assumed that when people ... could be so vivid as to touch it. When I "visualize" a banana, well, I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 28, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  This week, I am fulfilling my dream of taking over the Admissions page with a series of six consecutive posts. I am calling the takeover ... 6. In this post, I reflect on previous Yultide posts, in a quasi

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Robo-CJ writes haiku “didn’t you already make a blog post about this?”

  

  I retrained Robo-CJ to write haiku. This is coincidentally very ... Poetry Day! It's not very much of a leap to think that I could be bisexual the end result of this is that i now have far too many haikus Also i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend

  

  I've been reading popular science for a long time. It's why I'm interested in science. It's probably why I'm at MIT. I have tremendous ... you've never read anything by Quammen or Preston, you must. I recommend

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later what happened after pi day 2011

  

  I've gotten a number of email responses to my blog post about the ... denied five years ago. He and I had emailed a bit when he was denied, but I ... tell me what he had been doing in the time since. I thought it was a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  . I sat on my bed silently. My fingers were numb and my breaths were shallow. I would look at the time on my phone, then on my laptop, then on my ... thought to speak. I checked my phone. 2 minutes left. Not yet. I was

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  10 Things I Learned 1st Semester Yeap.

  

  Central Jersey, I can’t help but reminisce about 1st semester and MIT. I can’t say I truly miss the Lagrange multipliers or the gyroscopes (No – never ... epiphanies that I keep thinking of… Or that I keep recounting whenever someone

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 24, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Do I have a story for you… *SPOILER* I do

  

  's insane. Equal in insanity magnitude is I became a blogger in 2008, which ... . I attribute a statistically significant portion of this to a mismatch ... wasn't THAT long ago....was it? So imagine my surprise when I convince

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 10, 2014