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  Flux and Flow Thermodynamics as therapeutic analogy; or, the longest way I've ever said, "I'm still figuring things…

  

  life. First, get comfortable and acclimated; try not to panic. Second, if ... difficult concepts and brutal tests. It represented the final hurdle to being med school ready, the last outstanding class I had to take if I ever

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tyrannosaurus REX the prefrosh are coming, the prefrosh are coming!

  

  easier to keep your momentum going than to try to get started partway ... .[annotation note= "And then some of them will leave again! To everyone heading to ... student IDs, looking around with their parents, hauling boxes up to their

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 20, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  self-confidence in my ability to get into such a well-known and ... Flash back to four years ago from this upcoming March 14th. I ... laureates. I get home exhausted, and I suddenly remember that the time was 6

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 17, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Policies, Principles, and Protests thinking about responsible citizenship in a time of student protests

  

  , advocating for policies to prevent such a shooting from happening again. They ... across the country to join them in protests, including several school ... may in turn be reported to universities to which they applied. Indeed

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • February 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Best Advice I Ever Got Take it or leave it.

  

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 30, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Do I have a story for you… *SPOILER* I do

  

  macgyver were an idiot) hack with cardboard and batteries to get around a ... much and get off this train only to see those lines behind me and myself ... . I attribute a statistically significant portion of this to a mismatch

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  suggesting to potential applicants that they should avoid trying to get ... match. Trying to get admitted, on the other hand, is essentially the exact ... to deny just how much of a curmudgeon I have become. I’m pretty sure

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011
• 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.

  

  before you get to have any fun. Truth is I didn't enjoy my engineering ... still pretty psyched to get these. This is the moon: And lastly, the ... There are going to be a lot of people eager to give you advice on how

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Subtle Black MIT Traits A few things I have experienced as a black person at MIT

  

  people having strong feelings about how ‘easy’ it was for me to get into ... students getting into big schools because I have to realize discussion about ... . Affirmative action is just a way for black people to get in college easier

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Axes of Confusion ????

  

  in. We initially chose 21E to get a taste of both CMS and 6 to try to ... dedicate all our efforts into trying to get a storyboarding job, or another ... , and to use the extra time we'll have to try getting an artistic job

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 21, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Bleary-eyed Some thoughts and reflections on this year's admission cycle - particularly for those not admitted.

  

  a page and seeing cold numbers on a screen to getting attached to you ... read about you, care about you, and get to know you - almost as if I ... getting to read every story, learn about every person, and feel as though I

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 16, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The Great Wifi Outage of 2007 Burton-Conner's wifi went out two days ago; Evan will tell you more by the end…

  

  how it occurred later on this week.) It's hard to get time to yourself ... to get to know everyone who falls out of bed and into 10-250. The ... class website or announce in class, they'll eventually get to know you. If

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  College Shopping List Everybody do the shopping cart!

  

  extra-long. And as far as comforters go, try to get something that'll be ... won't be doing laundry for a few weeks, though, so you can wait to get ... guaranteed to be safe. Moreover, if you get a MacBook Pro, you can have all the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 26, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  the end of the semester I found it hard to get myself out of bed in the ... question of which futures I would like to leave on the table. Before we get ... or be able to get into graduate school, if I end up wanting to go that

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  an admissions blogger I only have 23 minutes left, so time to get ... , if not as, excited about that as I was to initially get into MIT. I had ... (MIT '17!!) is sitting to my right, underlining passages from her AP US

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  My College Essay Early Action / November 2005. ~500 words await.

  

  when I decided to apply to MIT Early Action. Or precisely why. It was ... named Steve. I always get really nervous at interviews. I remember nothing ... impressed by my response to my upbringing and family situation. Like, about to

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  IHTFParadise – A Journey of Depression at MIT Guest entry by Angelina G.

  

  or research; I didn't care to eat; I didn't care to get off my bed. I ... who is depressed. In my experience, I have only been able to get to know ... A good friend of mine, Angelina G., wanted to write a guest blog post

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  . Inevitably, this means that my parents have tried to get involved in every facet of my career - trying to get me interviews with different labs ... to get us where we need to go, and I quickly learned at MIT, a few

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

  I know you’re bad at something And here's what you should do about it. Hint: NOT "do something else"

  

  section. All eyes are on you, as you lift your instrument to your mouth ... measures and symbols telling you what key you're supposed to be soloing in. It's your chance to play whatever you want! Maybe this sounds

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• 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