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  what am i doing great question.

  

  by the way passive mechanisms allow us to move about. For example, this ... actually works in the lab where I’m doing my thesis--we’ll get to that later ... : Reading and Writing Short Stories is an incredibly difficult class to get

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

  The Pretender a message to both you and me.

  

  song) but listen deeply. Close your eyes and let it move you. Then get to ... Student program, where I would follow around a student for a day to get a ... getting in, reducing getting into MIT to a coin flip. On the ride home, I

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

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

  

  recommendation would be to get a UROP or two and see what you're more interested in ... major (Course 5), you're going to learn about molecules. What they look ... to work on a double major, pursue other interests, or, if you're like

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

  Stove-Cook Your Oatmeal and Never Look Back To not-admitted applicants and anyone who knows anything about fuses.

  

  everything seems to be telling me that I’ll get farther, wherever I’m going, if ... ’d imagine belongs to two MIT grads and a master’s student:   Here, on the ... mostly gone you have oats. The cooked oats stick to the pot, but they come

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 19, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  full class). You get graded according to MIT policies and receive credit ... , interesting. I get to stand in people jams in stairwells and shudder at the ... . Forever. I get to stride proudly down the well-polished hallways with my

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  “You are capable of more than you know.” Reflections from six MIT transfer students

  

  follow the same path to MIT. Colored by the patina of life experience ... students hail from every corner of the globe: New Zealand to New York City ... , trying to get a clear picture of what I wanted career-wise. I was involved

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 13, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  night/weekend work is expected from October to April. In return, your job ... 6 AM. I've come to rely on a natural light alarm clock to help me get ... extra screen space really helps when you're trying to make sense of a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Joy of Building a chronicle of my failed attempts to create things that work

  

  . They want you to apply your knowledge to problems that take hours and ... smartphones from Google, I tried to build something, anything, that would work ... medium was so new for most people that they just wanted a chance to explore

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 3, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  . It’s so easy to get FOMO - fear of missing out - nowadays because our ... position for rich, new experiences that could somehow shape your identity ... where your time goes. -- To return to the question of "“be yourself or

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Is My Home Looking back and saying goodbye

  

  starting to take on new and exciting coursework, I smile and think of all the ... community of writers that you have gotten to know through your screens. These ... or were just cool and awesome people, and in getting to know them and

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

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

  

  to a place enough times, all your visits start to blur together. This ... semester or two to finish her degree. Others take that extra time not by ... or academic issues forced your hand, well, that’s hard enough to admit

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

  Dissecting emotion what is feeling

  

  wanting to get up. Of looking at your to-do list, seeing only three items in ... , there's just lots of people. But if you're surrounded by people who are ... walk, when I run, bouncing, being blown by the wind. When I get my hair

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 3, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice you’ve heard before and a story you haven’t you can just skip to the pictures if you want to, I wont be offended.

  

  all your MIT classes, eventually, you will have to fall into a pattern ... differently. If you learn best by going to every lecture, taking meticulous ... in your room- except to sneak out late at night in a trenchcoat to turn

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  Picture this. You’re trying to shuffle past a gaggle of camera ... problem your friend figured out in the time it took him to pee. You sit in ... and nodded and gave me a thumbs up and said, “You’re getting it! You’re

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

  Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2) My take on the MIT short essays.

  

  essay (500-1000 words), it definitely doesn't apply completely to the new ... won't get brownie points by putting down "programming," "building robots ... essays on end, you need to stand out. Ideally, your essay should pack

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  competitive in the end). I tried to balance this stressful atmosphere by ... concert that was not going to start until 8 PM that night. (Don't get me ... .)[/annotation] I try to keep the passage in my mind from The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s Not Me, It’s You How to kiss goodbye to a school that rejected you

  

  army is a lot like getting rejected from your favorite college. That ... about your college applications. You can study like Hermione Granger to get good grades and SAT scores, you can pour your heart into your

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 29, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Snively’s Cross Stitch Corner I really enjoy cross stitching

  

  size and infrastructure required. When I needed to get out and actually ... stitching. What's better than getting paid for a hobby you're doing in your ... ! And that gets us to today! I’m just finishing up the cross stitch for

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice On The Essay The rules are simple: write your own.

  

  ;would love to interview an admissions officer from your prestigious university ... students to write from the heart and to not have their essays edited by any ... be helpful to you. The rules are simple: write your own essays. That

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a freshman year 🦴🧠🩸🖐️🫀 my first year at mit, told through the body

  

  a tree. in my freshman year, i aimed to get my [annotation note ... , attending office hours, and getting outside help, i somehow managed to scrape ... that i wanted to get into but never really put a lot of time into. here

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025