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  Feeling Many Feelings :) and :( and everything in between about decisions

  

  seen, really seen. There is no shame in allowing yourself to be seen, in ... I have a lot of feelings. It doesn’t take much to make me cry ... told me to chill and “be cool” in selection committee – I told her that

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • March 16, 2019
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  Upside Down Gnomes From Wisconsin Always look up.

  

  I need to be, something I need to be doing, but there's no way to get ... academic career, which is tough because there are empty spaces in more than ... dangling in the air, wondering what it’d be like to walk on the ceiling

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 26, 2014
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  Into the Smoke In more ways than one.

  

  getting into New York is so much harder; my Spanish flatmate is trying to ... , being abroad is my comfort zone. Since then, I have travelled to around ... to go to Norway, depicted in one of the photos above; in the photo, I

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 2, 2010
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  Blogural Inaugural I just wanted to use this title.

  

  to college is an important process for many people, and I'm not quite sure how to represent the enormous beast that is MIT, I figured I'd start ... quite the case. (And of course, the jab above is all in good fun -- I have

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 8, 2009
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  Classes I Won’t Be Able to Take also "What Is Pre-Registration?"

  

  classes I wanted to take in the fall. Then, as has happened the last few ... went from this:to this: ...which is quite the leap. (The pictures are ... .72 Vision in Art and Neuroscience. The last one is sort of the reason why I

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 23, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  extraordinary things about a small subset of people is that they have the power to ... . My goal is not to scare or put down or invalidate anyone who has ... wanted to study in college, and all of a sudden it was all very REAL. I

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
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  101 Things To Do Before You Graduate! 102. Read this blog entry.

  

  of this list, which is actually different from year to year - if you ... cannolis, haha =p 51. Go to Ring Premiere - read about ours!. Back in our ... one of the good things about going to med school is that we don't have

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 15, 2011
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  Choice and the MIT lifestyle ...because "MIT" and "student life" aren't mutually exclusive.

  

  . (Note that most people at MIT like to do psets in groups -- it's faster ... in the dorms. I think that's probably something that varies dorm-to ... semester (as in, every Tuesday/Thursday is like that), my Mondays, Wednesdays

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 30, 2005
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  Views of Campus, the Charles River, and the First Snow with a snowman and a snow dalek

  

  My dorm, the 117-year-old Random Hall, is identical to the older buildings lining Newbury Street two miles away in Boston. Much of campus ... student. In this image Boston is on the right and MIT is on the other side

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 20, 2012
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  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  launch ceremony, in which the book is presented to an audience and sales ... in any case, I was far too busy to contemplate what it meant. I met up with my dad in New York. He had traveled to the US for a program called

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

  Pre-Med @ MIT The title says it all.

  

  'm about to dive head-first into the craziness that is medical school ... spirit of MIT. People here want to change the world - in whatever way they ... medical school in Fall '12 were asked to answer a series of questions to

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s More Than A Job Thoughts On The Eve Of RA Decisions

  

  In response to an earlier entry of mine, this post appeared on ... to be a teacher in the first place, that they're better people for ... come across in person to someone you've just met - how your face lights

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fit or happiness made easy

  

  you, it's much easier to be happy. In terms of colleges, I had no idea ... ask myself is "am I in the right place?" How do we know when we get ... part of it to maintaining something you are not. The idea of fit is

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later what happened after pi day 2011

  

  the years. You might want to know how I fared in past five years (wow ... guys who were in this were expected to make a small java software which would to track Planetary orbits and pinpoint a planet's location in sky

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  25 Stories of Getting Accepted to MIT told by students and alums

  

  . Apparently, my face was a sight to see. So yes I'm screaming and in much ... home because I was crying so much, and when I got to my house my parents were waiting to ask if I got in or not, and then they were crying, too

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  To a lot of people, myself included, getting into MIT is the dream we have worked for years to finally reach. This is just a little excerpt on me getting into MIT and why it meant so much to me. Enjoy!!!! Finally

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016
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  “Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” and other ways to improve your test scores

  

  girl’s math performance is empirically shown to decrease in proportion to ... There is empirical evidence to support the idea that males have a ... to spatial ability by nearly a full standard deviation, and in attempt

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
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  A Brief History of Cars on Fire at MIT You didn't think I would miss an anniversary, did you?

  

  If you're the kind of person who remembers to look up once in a ... belonged to Ralph J. Slutz '38, was painted with the phrase "TECH IS ... , who mentioned it in an email to me: I saw the car after it had been

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 5, 2016
• 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 afford to relax. I read an interesting article in the New York Times a few ... ’t help myself sometimes. But no matter how much we tell you to relax - let

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice On The Essay The rules are simple: write your own.

  

  I recently opened my in-box to find an email from someone who " ... enough, so without thinking too much about it, I wrote the following in ... 's the best advice anyone can give to you. Your application is full

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 25, 2007