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  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  intense than any I can remember in the ~5 years I’ve been a part of it. The ... -harm. I’ve been trying, for months, to find a way to write about what it was like for me to go on medical leave for mental health reasons. I’ve been

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Some people call me the space cowgirl

  

  to work for a school where I can honestly say that. There's a lot more ... horchata (yummy Mexican drink). I wanted to tell you a little about the last file I read. Yes, she had a sub-1400 SAT score, but you should have seen

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

  challenge me even more to raise my own expectations of what I can achieve ... community while being honest in what I do, believe, and want so that I can ... Senior Week events, I can tell I'm getting high off low-oxygen altitude

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 6, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  more than I can express - the precarious chain of events that happened to ... 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

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Being “qualified” for MIT Let me show you how it's done.

  

  . Actually, I'd modify that "can be" to a "should be", because I'd argue that ... On Thursday, I sat in front of a camera for an hour (along with ... international students. Near the end, someone asked: "Can you give an example of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Upside Down Gnomes From Wisconsin Always look up.

  

  eventually, eventually, we will sleep. I think the semester can be ... This semester has been different from anything else I've done. I ... sequel (or what I thought would be a sequel) to 6.046, design and analysis

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 26, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  . The family I had in our home of Simmons Hall was generous and I can ... , and try to level the playing field accordingly (I can't remember where I ... of what Mom and Dad can do to help. Maybe I just lived a very fortunate

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  road, but the start of a new journey. I know that those words can be ... what.  There’s a lot of things that you might be feeling. And I can’t begin to know exactly what those feelings are. But what I can do is share

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 16, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sibling dynamics at MIT yes lmao Nisha and I are related

  

  and classes and friends, and it’s wonderful. I can’t say I’ve become ... A little while ago, I got my first(?) mention on MIT Confessions, and exploded with laughter in the middle of my physics lecture as soon as i saw

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  that you can work with, and recently I just realized that EVERY ONE of ... I'll give you snippets of three actual conversations first. I. I ... : "So where do you go to school?" ME: "Oh, I go to school in Boston

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Guest Entry: Christina Bognet Supplemental materials to help you through the next few days.

  

  is quite possibly the funniest (and happiest) Baker biology genius I ... ! *** Precisely one year ago today I sat drinking coffee at a Dunkin Donuts with one ... respective first choice schools early decision. "I have a really good feeling

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 8, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python

  

  Senior Video.)[/caption] Five months ago, I bid farewell to my high school, Ward Melville. In my three years there, I changed intellectually and emotionally in ways I couldn't have predicted. I spent this past summer

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  I recently saw a comic where a professor says "This is not the type of assignment you can do the night before," to which a student ... (yes, I might give you a campus tour!), I sometimes get asked about the

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We Should Take This Final and Push It Somewhere Else you'll need a lot of mOXie

  

  this. At the same time, I can’t help but wonder If I could do it now, why ... semester, I have already taken a final exam. In the midst of sitting down for first-days of classes and reading through new syllabi, I also frantically

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 14, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Dissecting emotion what is feeling

  

  is not real, because I can sit in front of my text editor for an hour without writing. Time is not real, because I can close my eyes and listen to ... , but I can start with the ones I do know the names of. There's the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 3, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  finding place

  

  experiences finding place at MIT. I reflected back on the patterns and evolutions, but in the moment I mostly don't think about this stuff consciously. I haven't posted in a while. Too long. It's been one of the semesters

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • April 7, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Is My Home Looking back and saying goodbye

  

  hope I can become a sort of liaison for that. I gave a talk earlier this ... Every time I look at the faces of younger MIT students, especially ... starting to take on new and exciting coursework, I smile and think of all the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 13, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to MIT: Choosing a Dorm the good and not-so-good reasons

  

  different accommodations. You can do this, I promise! [note to parents ... that can be quite demoralizing—I have personally heard freshmen say that ... FIT: I cannot emphasize this point enough. No matter how (in

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 14, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Life is Improv say yes

  

  was also one of the toughest for me to master, when I did improv at summer camps and in high school. Though I like to think I'm a kind person, I'm also deeply sarcastic; it's naturally easier for me to play the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2011
• Blog / Advice

  Enjoy Life Farewells and New Beginnings

  

  . Dr. Abe was my “American grandfather” since I was 16, without whom I ... bioengineer. I am grateful to have had wonderful mentors and scientists and ... most profound. Ever since I officially left the Admissions office this

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 5, 2018