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  Merit When getting into MIT isn't convincing enough

  

  I’m spending this IAP doing, among other things, five shifts a week as a Tech Caller, which means I call alumni, talk to them, and ask them ... separate post about why it’s rewarding. This isn’t that post. I’ve had a lot

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • January 22, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  In my blogging folder, I had a draft post that sums up my senior year experience, with many exciting things that I had the opportunity to experience, my thoughts about the future, plans, worry, all that. But I scratched

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye

  

  It’s been 3.5 years since I came to the United States from Nigeria ... close. I graduate in June, if all goes well. A short while afterward, I celebrate my 21st birthday. Just a week ago, I imagined one version of what

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Figuring out what I want to do with my life personal essay time :)

  

  After I graduate in June, I’m planning to attend grad school and [annotation note="i mean...hopefully lol"]eventually emerge with a PhD in aerospace engineering sometime in the mid-2020s.[/annotation] I’m genuinely

  • by Alex M. '21
  • March 5, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Advice From The Elderly My last blog entry, at least from this chapter.

  

  To the class of 2016 - My name is Jess, and I graduated in 2010. That makes me twenty-three whole years old. I am impossibly old. I am improbably old. According to science (and by science I am obviously referring

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)

  

  [Disclaimer: Not my last post! I've still got one more in me after this one. :)] The other day I was hanging out with one of my best ... of an undergraduate college degree. My friend, who I love very dearly

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  mostly I go by stephlin, steph or “yoooo.” I’m currently finishing up my ... Spanish. I was a beekeeper/researcher for a summer in high school ... (as you will soon see…). I’m incredibly excited to be going to Oxford

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 12, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  going?[/caption] One I remember the dozens of things people told me about ... too many things to do and that I had to live with not doing them all, that I would need to pare down my focus or I'd drown in the torrent of

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

  All the Bloggers’ Personalities! A post about personality tests, part 2!

  

  (n embarrassingly long) while ago, I wrote a post about personality tests, in particular, the scientific invalidity of the Myers-Briggs test. Well, I also ... . Mainly, I just thought this would be fun to read (since you all want to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 12, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Feeling Many Feelings :) and :( and everything in between about decisions

  

  I have a lot of feelings. It doesn’t take much to make me cry, whether I’m moved, frustrated, or sad. There’s one Google Search Story that gets me every single time, and I regularly tear up watching World of

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • March 16, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-Med @ MIT The title says it all.

  

  The most frequent question I received during CPW was: "You're pre-med? Wait, so why did you pick MIT?" It makes sense that I received this ... I thought it'd be worth it to add my own thoughts into the mix

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  neighborhoods we move into and come to love. What do pregnant mice, cheerleaders, and four-foot light-up tinsel giraffes have in common?

  

  entries page before, I'm Mollie. I graduated in 2006 with degrees in biology and brain and cognitive sciences, which means that I'm going to have my pi reunion this summer. (Yay!) I'm currently a third-year PhD student

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 27, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  Enjoy Life Farewells and New Beginnings

  

  . Dr. Abe was my “American grandfather” since I was 16, without whom I ... bioengineer. I am grateful to have had wonderful mentors and scientists and ... most profound. Ever since I officially left the Admissions office this

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

  senioritis not to be confused with señoritis

  

  i never really had senioritis in high school—it was probably the surprising amount of momentum behind me, but i don't think i managed to pull off the effortlessly forget to turn in an assignment thing. so i had

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

  Being “qualified” for MIT Let me show you how it's done.

  

  On Thursday, I sat in front of a camera for an hour (along with ... for MIT?" My mind went blank. Qualified? What a strange word. I thought ... ." List your skills for us. How many programming languages do you know? I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2011
• Blog / Advice

  You don’t have to be a founder move slow and fix things

  

  Thanks to Petey, whose ideas I am stealing to write this post. Thanks ... wouldn't win a science fair. When I went to a party in SF this summer, lots of people I talked to asked me about what startup I was a cofounder

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 29, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  This is a long belated blog post; it's been a busy summer. But I didn't want to wait for the next cycle to begin before I told this collaborative tale from last April.  Longtime readers of the blogs may know that I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The Adventures of Flat Tim And his admissions officer friend!

  

  Before I started working at MIT, I had never driven on the ... "]highway.[/annotation] I grew up in Nashville, TN, a driving city, but I somehow avoided driving on the highway while I was in high school. Living in the Boston area

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • June 6, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the Deferred I feel your pain.

  

  From the moment I became an MIT Admissions Blogger, I knew I'd write this entry. I've been biding my time, waiting for this day and the ... . ~*~ I started tossing essay ideas around in my mind soon after the 2009

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mind and hand

  

  't particularly meaningful. It's a slogan that sounds cute. In the case of MIT, I ... . It reflects something I consider to be an important component of MIT ... , as a science major, I felt overshadowed by MIT's engineers. And I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 3, 2006