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  Am I Smart Enough for MIT? On second thought...don't answer that.

  

  applying to MIT. I thought I'd post it again (recycling is good for the ... publish their correspondence. Here it is: So, mainly at this point I am very ... ... I'll be like the dumbest one there" is what I seriously told myself

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  get SLAPped! it doesn't hurt

  

  , and i've unfortunately since [annotation note="this is a tangent, but i ... for our living spaces, and 2. the free art is REALLY GOOD. the program is called SLAP, which stands for the student lending art program, and i

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 21, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  finding place

  

  being frosh (first sem is hard!) and a challenging math class. So I spent ... spontaneous but fun. Throwing a good party is really exhilarating and in general ... turn into a group is nice. Now, I live in Pika. Pika is very fun, and I

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • April 7, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, by the Calories free food is everywhere

  

  ] Toscanini’s is one of Boston’s best ice cream stores. We managed to get five ... hallway to the Compton Lounge, where there is a seemingly unlimited supply ... is one of four first-year learning communities at MIT. MAS explores the

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Let’s Go Fly A Kite Up to decision night!

  

  happen. Better news: everything is going to be OK. Best news: you can ... ? Now is your chance! Better yet, alternate movies (or even scenes) with ... makes sense?), and is a great segue to my last procrastination tip, which

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  's insane. Equal in insanity magnitude is I became a blogger in 2008, which ... ....very soon..." One of many lessons I've learned is that waiting for things to get perfect is an excercise in frustration. If you wait until you know

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 10, 2014
• 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"

  

  . This is improvisation: there is no script, no written notes - just blank ... , Fear Level is inversely proportional to The Number Of Seconds I Think I ... my time on stage - at saying "yes, this is terrifying, and therefore I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Perkus Nonacademia MIT will give you more than just an engineering degree.

  

  .But to me MIT is like a T800's mission: It's about the people. I've met ... friends I meet more great friends and so on and so forth. In fact, this is ... , and after whitewater kayaking and wakeboarding, I ask how the server is

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT, part deux The case study of someone else you wouldn't expect to have gotten in

  

  on how I got here is the most popular thing I've ever written ... .) Adam is what we like to call an airplane nerd. He likes to design them ... Admissions Office is staffed with wise, kind people who only consider scores

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My blogger bio over time what does it take to get to know someone?

  

  I live in East Campus. I could tell you that CJ is short for Carl ... expensive everything is. We could cross Harvard Bridge at two in the morning ... Campus. I could tell you that CJ is short for Carl Joshua, because I have

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 26, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m not an imposter… I’m going to be featured on the MIT News homepage

  

  applied to do Interphase EDGE, which is a 2-year enrichment program. The ... during my summer of Interphase is that this isn’t the case. People ask “how ... during high school. Competition here is more difficult for me to spot

  • by ana~
  • October 29, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  and consider my own flesh and blood, is very bright but has always hated ... of what he is like, he taught my little brother (who was four at the ... from my kindergarten graduation. Evidently my mom is equally sentimental

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

  A Different Voice some words about MIT, by someone who's not me

  

  , you land that job, your project works and your research is published and you change your mind about yourself, again. success here is so hard to ... this. procrastination is like hard drugs–comforting, if only for the

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 24, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dragons A blog post for deferred students (and everybody else waiting on decisions).

  

  precursor snow from my Gmail background is falling outside my window. I got ... is my friend David K. ‘16. He brought a giant teddy bear friend to all ... than it would have been otherwise. This is the way I would

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 14, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  101 Things To Do Before You Graduate! 102. Read this blog entry.

  

  of the intervening years. (basically, the backstory is that at ... of this list, which is actually different from year to year - if you ... drink coffee though - CAFFEINE IS BAD GUYS. QUIT WHILE YOU CAN. <

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Snively’s Cross Stitch Corner I really enjoy cross stitching

  

  life. For those unfamiliar, cross stitching is basically textile pixel ... . This is when I began incorporating some video game art into my repertoire ... official DMC Cross Stitching Mentor. DMC is the organization/company that

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  am more his than he is mine), so I intercepted it for him. When he ... that our lab does is really related to anything the Echo can do, and they ... is never in short supply. My group catered lunches to our group

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  Stephanie Lin. Read on! <3, Hamsika --- My name is Stephanie, but ... senior year in Course 7 (which is awesome! Everyone should study biology ... . But this is what happened: Fun, right? The other applicants and

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 12, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  Probably one of the most linked-to/referred-to posts on this site is ... .g., the admit rate is now 9.6% instead of 13%). This post will not be as eloquent as Ben's, but is certainly in the same vein - and is every bit as

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 16, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the blogs at twenty some reflections, plus an index of posts

  

  Everything is different now by Mimi S. '22 Thoughts from the Dungeon by ... B. '24 College—and particularly undergrad—is a liminal space, or at ... other bloggers and myself this past week—is that they are

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 29, 2025