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  The Pretender a message to both you and me.

  

  drove up to MIT for the first time. I had signed up for the Shadow a ... feel for MIT life. And I fell in love with it. I wanted to go to MIT more ... , and that if I did get into MIT, it would be against all odds. Even the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating The Tunnels…Of Freshman Academics You didn't actually expect me to write about hacking on the internet, did you?

  

  MIT has a lot of resources that could have made my freshman year a ... darkest hell weeks at MIT. In lieu of resummarizing the endless cycle of ... rough patches Chris on time management Sam on how MIT's difficulty is a

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011
• 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 ... my life. But once I arrived at MIT, it seems almost blasphemous if you ... Facebook statuses to the irritatingly unpredictable nature of MIT printers

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

  the blogs at twenty some reflections, plus an index of posts

  

  Last August, the MIT Admissions blogs turned twenty. Over the past ... I may have been accepted to MIT, but by Snively '11 That rings a bell by Elijah T. '11 14 years later by Yan Z. '12 MIT, Medicine, and

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tenets or, my only piece of advice for incoming first-years

  

  campus, eager to experience MIT and everything it has to offer. Many of ... -years. It may take a while to adapt to life at MIT—indeed, it took me three ... GIR, and, of course, the overall decision to pursue an MIT education in

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  about me, about MIT, and about why I haven’t talked to you in a month ... emotional instability. Two days later I had a procedure at MIT Medical to ... Tech, the Russian counterpart to MIT, he went out to Moscow on weekends just

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
• Blog / Advice

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

  

  One of this year’s admits asked me how MIT sets you up for grad ... why you want to Do The Thing MIT did not convince me to Do The Thing ... want to Do The Thing and to convince others you can Do The Thing (MIT

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paths there are so many

  

  We were deferred when we applied early to MIT, and remember how heartbreaking it felt. We obsessed over MIT unhealthily to the point where going to MIT was the only future we saw for ourselves. Looking at the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 19, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HNY from NYC for IAP, 2016 time passes so quickly, help

  

  crossword puzzles, seeing high school friends, and missing MIT. I had intended ... month of January on a finance internship in New York City. Both MIT and

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions of Travel a guest post by Spencer W. '15

  

  around with old car parts in his backyard, Spencer spent four years at MIT ... MIT'S Global Education office -- and then undergo a rigorous application ... other side of an MIT education. I have posted them, unedited, below

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some More Pi Day Facts and Advice You thought all that was over, didn't you?

  

  , not just for MIT. College is a weird place, so I hope you can gain some

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 23, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Different Voice some words about MIT, by someone who's not me

  

  we’re a strange bunch. the news articles ascribe to us an almost mythical legitimacy–we’re those kids. the ones that grow up to be new articles ourselves. but in between the…

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 24, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Halloween is the best day of the year. Yes, I recognize that it is now closer to Thanksgiving than to Halloween. Sorry.

  

  Halloween is awesome, for a bajillion reasons. Reason 1 of 1 bajillion: It’s my birthday. Reason 2 of 1 bajillion: Nerdiness and creativity and ridiculousness emerge in costume form. Reason…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  , whose first choice when applying to colleges was admittedly NOT MIT, but ... . But you…you're getting into MIT. I know it. How could they not take you ... the very same Colin who was accepted to MIT on the day I was deferred

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 8, 2006
• 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

  

  Missouri. She's one of MIT's small-town and rural student ambassadors – part ... for, well, MIT Admissions, things didn’t go the way I’d planned. I ... decided to sacrifice the comfort of a small town for all MIT had to offer

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 17, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thoughts for the New Year A semester's worth of thoughts, tbh

  

  because I’ve had to sheepishly check the MIT map saved on my phone more ... that if you’re bad at something at MIT, there will always be somewhere ... part of my MIT experience). Some things are not going according to those

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  moments at MIT when I’ve felt really awesome and really, really badass (not ... classes phys ed classes at MIT (the others are pistol and intermediate ... . MIT feels a lot better now that I have this kind of confidence in myself

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

  Guest Entry: Stephanie Lin Presenting MIT's most recent Rhodes Scholar!

  

  jumping from Biology at MIT to Physiology in medical school (I eventually ... MIT Distinguished Fellowships Office, which had interviews and chose a ... blogger Melis ’08), MIT faculty and friends. They’ve spent hours upon hours

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 12, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  No Chance Why "chance" sites like AdmissionSplash are Bad Things.

  

  Confidential, specifically the MIT forum. Every summer, as students begin the ... , not even me, can give you an accurate chance at MIT! What I said then ... forum, not even me, can give you a meaningful chance at MIT. Why

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Mischievous Anniversary Tonight Four score and ten years ago...

  

  people were unwilling to climb onto the rooftops. On October 6, 1916, MIT ... Tech (June 3, 1925), the MIT Museum Archives

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • June 1, 2015