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  So Chance Me Maybe? Hey! I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my SAT...

  

  Like most MIT students, I was aware when I applied that I was a highly competitive applicant. I had taken several AP classes, I had a perfect GPA, my interviewer loved me, I had founded a few clubs, and my test

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  17 Things I’ve Learned in the Past Year growing, growing, grown

  

  plan to not have spring break plans, but I feel like I have a lot of ... been pretty nice and relaxing to have a chunk of time to myself. Incidentally, there are a lot of great concerts happening in Boston this week, so

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Long Road to Happiness Stuff no one likes to talk about...

  

  I’ve been meaning to write this blog post for a while, maybe since ... about what I wanted to say. When I was a freshman, I wrote two posts about ... fullness. Now that I’m (fortunately!) doing a lot better, I remember only the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 22, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  An Open Letter to MIT Applicants Don’t Panic (and know where your towel is)

  

  Googled and used to customize my Tumblr theme, not a tiny piece of a huge ... of a sudden you imagine competing with these people for a spot in a university. There is a ridiculous amount of pressure from both adults and

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  For most of high school, the US was just a vague blip on the radar of ... could attend a university whose site I had stumbled onto from a friend’s Google search of “World’s Best Universities.” And then one morning

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An actual day in the lab Hectic is my middle name.

  

  bed and get ready for work. It takes a long time. I am not what one ... made out a detailed schedule for the week yesterday, so I already know ... waterbath and grab a bucket of ice. 9:10 AM. My postdoc and I discuss the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  .[/annotation] I’m going to do a lot of googling to understand how the circuits work ... not originally intended as a blog; I just wanted to get my thoughts out. Apparently I had a lot of thoughts. Now I’m curating them into something that

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to Make Money at MIT for all of us who don't know how to make a startup :(

  

  As someone who is notably not a millionaire, I started working in high school once I turned 16. And while a lot of students at other ... with the strength of a firehose, hydrant, or [annotation note

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 4, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  campus of a community college, forty-five minutes from my house. It was a ... suburban New Jersey county. I applied mostly because a friend was applying ... .” There is obviously a lot of your high school self that is conveyed when

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj

  

  -industrial complex. —a01 getting a job with Google. You're getting a lot of value from ... Wiesner: “Getting an education from MIT is like taking a drink from a ... subject of a famous hack in 1991, where hackers hooked up a fire hydrant to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• 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 different paths our lives can take. One of them was from a student whom we denied five years ago. He and I had emailed a bit when he was denied, but I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!

  

  .org (although that is highly recommended!) here’s a quick recap: I studied Course ... back to this, I promise. To give us a running start, let's look back at ... 'd even been assigned a dorm room, I announced that I was pretty confident

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )

  

  had a Google Calendar (and I still don't use any form of electronic ... After Graduation, I now have a lot of time to "reflect upon my MIT ... of the summer, so I hope to continue writing a few blogs discussing

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where the Free Things Are A List of Free Opportunities and Tools for Students

  

  Being able to experience new things is such a fundamental part of ... subjects.  So for a while now, many discussions have been going on within a number of communities for minorities here on campus about ways that we as a

  • by Richard O. '28
  • January 30, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  AOs write the “What do you do for fun?” essay Ever wondered what admissions officers do when they're not reading applications?

  

  [intro]We know you lead a busy life, full of activities, many of ... write a long “personal statement,” we prefer asking a few short essay questions intentionally designed to help us get to know the student as a real

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  I initially wrote this to my little brother. I debated for a while ... hope someone might be able to connect or learn something from a few of my ... ironed blue slacks, and a brown belt tucking in a semi-buttoned pink and

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  video (or 1.25 hours if you watch it all on 2x speed). I'd say it's a ... things have thankfully changed a lot, but a lot of things seem like they could have been taken just a few months ago. Check it out: Table of

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.08: Intro to EECS via Interconnected Embedded Systems aka: the class that convinced me i belong at mit

  

  then sends a request to the Google Speech To Text (STT) API, using the ... thoughts Introduction I entered MIT as a potential bioengineering major with ... , with my last final of my freshman year tomorrow, I am now a computer

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 21, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  Last December, I wrote Two thousand students walk into MIT, a blog post about Splash. And this'll be a post about Summer HSSP, which is a ... Why direct? Unprecedented Speaking with a director voice The

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  [annotation note="i mean...hopefully lol"]eventually emerge with a PhD in ... really excited about this, as it’s been a dream of mine for at least ... I want to do after grad school. I was a bit taken aback, because

  • by Alex M. '21
  • March 5, 2021