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  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…

  

  of your essays to do this for you, but it doesn’t hurt to do it yourself, too. Take a step back, and while reading your essay, try to answer ... that it is not in my job description to deal with. 3) Read over your

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

  Save Point sleep wake hope

  

  me a while to get my thoughts down on paper (or motherboard, as the ... keep bubbling to the forefront of your mind when you least expect them ... than it should have, and it's taken on new shades of meaning over the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  of (my crush) Aubrey Plaza to “Make all your decisions based on how ... did in high school, they tend to mean “what went on their application ... impression that your college application was literally entirely based on your

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
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  An Admissions Excavation Chris gave me a box of stuff and this is what I found inside

  

  old iterations of the MIT Admissions website (back to pieces from 2000 ... graduates. Also on an unlabeled CD, there was this folder called “to tim” with ... Flashback to about a month ago, when Chris sent an email to all the

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  on more, I thrived. I felt I was doing the things I was supposed to, in ... masters degree. I’ve learned how to keep learning--how to adopt new skills ... , built on the idea that you shouldn't try to know, or at least shouldn

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
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  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 ... on out) that it’s going to be okay. Everyone likes to hear that. Some ... required. Laura exudes so much warmth that you know she’s on your side right

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Was Deferred And it was not the end of the world

  

  :24pm. I sluggishly made my way upstairs to my PC and log on to my ... do is to focus on things that are not MIT (or other college) admissions ... it's unfortunate because you're all really awesome. You made it to

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 17, 2014
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  Are people on the East Coast friendly? An entry especially for those from the Midwest.

  

  wasn't just to congratulate me. She said "... but... aren't people on the ... striking up conversations with people on the subway! She would talk to them ... you if you're nice to them first. What have other people's experiences

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 21, 2010
• 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?

  

  'm here to update you on the breathtaking life of a biology PhD student ... , along with my ability to boss people around and show up on time, qualifies ... hat on it. (EDIT: For real. I got him a Nintendo DS Lite, a new pocket

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 27, 2008
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  Ten days of live-action roleplaying no joke, there i was…

  

  you're in-game 24/7. On weekdays I usually entered game at around 7 or 8 ... forward to coming back and doing things. I'd guess that I was also on the ... game spaces, or to our archives on Athena. Then again, maybe I'm worrying

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab How to lose a phone in 90 seconds

  

  to some other large open clearing, but he did. He turned the drone on ... previously turned on Android Device Manager, which would allow me to locate my ... dawned on me that in order to use Android Device Manager, I'd have to log

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
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  REX at Random Hall Pancakes, LN2 ice cream, board games, game theory, math, raves, staying up entirely too late,…

  

  home on 2 am trips to Wal-Mart through empty dark streets in my pick ... baconstrips (and baconstrips and baconstrips) for you to shove down your food ... :47 Your Wibbly Wobbly Guide to Time Travel What happens in your future if

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 23, 2013
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  Views of Campus, the Charles River, and the First Snow with a snowman and a snow dalek

  

  this past Saturday, on the evening of the Old New Year’s Day. The ... My dorm, the 117-year-old Random Hall, is identical to the older ... to the lonely 3 am campus, soaking up the light reflecting off the snow

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 20, 2012
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  [Guest Post] You Have a 50/50 Chance a guest post from my mama

  

  allowing her to go to concerts. (Yes, even on a school night.) We would line ... started on BTS. We waited in line more than [annotation note="40 hours to be ... not to you.      You may give them your love but not your thoughts

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2021
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  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  how to study on your own in the absence of a teacher or curriculum ... . I was too busy celebrating the New Year. ;) I hope you're still ... your SAT scores (fun fact: the variable that correlates most strongly to

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012
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  In the Realm of Giants imposter syndrome with a senior year twist

  

  don’t break on a structure, more about what spices to put together in ... together. Whether you’ve decided to try to find a job, or apply for graduate school, or go to an extended retreat in the mountains of Italy, you most

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear My Old Friend, This is quite possibly weirdest way to introduce myself

  

  ’m glad you’re excited to get to work and dive into this new life ahead of ... , but you’ll grow to. And you’re going to be very satisfied that Mrs. J is ... journalist.  Second, you don’t talk to your friends from Minnesota anymore

  • by ana~
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  the other things I simply had to do. On April 5th, 2013, I presented on ... Tsarnaev brothers had used on Thursday, and down to Watertown Square, where ... Harvard and MIT to the Museum of Science and back again on the Boston side

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
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  Upside Down Gnomes From Wisconsin Always look up.

  

  tiles on the ceiling, your hair brushing the dirty carpet, your feet dangling in the air, wondering what it’d be like to walk on the ceiling ... to a tune, upside down gnomes from Wisconsin sneaking into your classes

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 26, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  “no”, wishing that something had gone differently, sad that you’re on ... of what cards you’ll be dealt, and to carry on from there. And that is ... victories and your shortcomings, to an admissions committee. The person who

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 16, 2021