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  Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend

  

  perfect to me: my favorite activities are writing and teaching, I love all areas of science and deeply resent the idea of having to specialize, and have a penchant for running around, introducing myself to professors, and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  out a way to succeed. At that point I had to stop yelling at him and ... piece of paper, society saw me as somehow qualified to be a grown up and ... looking for pictures to use in a Father's Day card) and came across pictures

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

  sibling dynamics at MIT yes lmao Nisha and I are related

  

  Be Named came to the realization that Nisha and I are, indeed, sisters ... everyone was comparing me to my sister and pointing out my inadequacies. When I finally applied to MIT, I told myself not to expect too much since I

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 20, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  Head over to /r/confession and you'll find this post lurking near the ... . I now realize that I am probably going to go a lame local college and stick with my family. Ugh. Oh, and to top it all off, the only hobbies I

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  and write their own summaries. Then it will go to selection committee ... ... And then the committee does its work, however brutal. It's not pretty ... a few who really got to me, and when they didn't get in, the tears

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  students to write from the heart and to not have their essays edited by any ... . It's always nice to have someone look over your writing and fix the ... things and the act of someone else rewriting your essay for you to the

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Day in the Life Liveblog of my Thursday complete with (not so great) pictures

  

  hot chocolate excursion was to meet up and chat with Marjorie Liu (who ... into something I love (CMS) and am trying to push myself to do things ... 's super approachable, kind, and down-to-earth and it turns out we have a lot

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 15, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what am i doing great question.

  

  about when she would turn 21 and be able to purchase alcohol, whilst ... : Reading and Writing Short Stories is an incredibly difficult class to get ... ) and so I’m glad that I’m in this class, both because I really wanted to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-Med @ MIT The title says it all.

  

  intimidating (so much to do!) and very helpful. I've visited the pre ... program (where I wouldn't have to take the MCAT and would be guaranteed a ... has streamlined the medical school process and made everything easy to

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What I wish I’d known, and what I’m glad I knew Before coming to MIT.

  

  struggles, academically and professionally, and many know what it's like to ... . I held back because I was nervous, and thought it would be better to ... from Day 1 to attend talks and ask questions. Freshman year, I was a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 17, 2013
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  An Admissions Excavation Chris gave me a box of stuff and this is what I found inside

  

  to help out with a side project. A couple back-and-forth emails later, I trekked over to the admissions office to pick up this: And my ... names ranging from “2.007” and “Hockfield Speech” to “Liver Chip” and

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  -day Thanksgiving weekend doing a problem set for 1.00 (Intro to Computers and Engineering Problem Solving -- essentially Intro to Java) -- and it wasn't even ... -coherent content and an intro paragraph beginning with Lorem ipsum to make me think I

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This Bathroom Ceiling Some science, some fiction: traverse the space and time of our bathroom ceiling.

  

  new life and new civilizations; to boldly go where no man has gone ... William Anders on the Apollo 8 mission to the moon with Frank Borman and ... , can’t I? Wow! Wow! That feels great! Doesn’t seem to achieve very much

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  : Mikey received an email from a student who had been admitted to MIT and ... . But now I'm worried that I won't be able to catch up to these kids and ... for that test). And I felt exactly like you even before I applied to MIT

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • November 2, 2008
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  Sunrise, Sunset An MIT-Israel student shares his day

  

  starting a weekly film club, and of course, there’s so much Facebook to keep ... my cells. It's nice to not be juggling classes and lab and everything ... drop out of my time either. The summer is a great opportunity to rest and

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
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  An MIT wedding Paper airplanes instead of rice and a reception at a science museum... what's not to…

  

  the best man, and Carl '07, who introduced us to each other, was another ... foldability and distance. The planes were a little bit pointy, I'm not going to ... to take pictures in the museum, and we got this great picture of us

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  :10, Davie was back in German class, and I, feeling much better, went to the ... double back, at around 4pm on Friday, and make the trek to the third floor ... literature department (hoping to find my lit professor) and came face-to

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

  Mark Zuckerberg Visits MIT NBD.

  

  , we got to add Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder and current CEO of Facebook ... had been drawn for the lottery to see him and Mike Schroepfer (VP of ... FlipCam, skipped my Monday afternoon class, and biked on over to the

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s not fair! ... and why that's OK.

  

  topic of MIT admissions, much has been said by me, and others, about our values and priorities. Maybe we share too much, or are trying too hard to ... ? Beyond that, having the opportunity to spend four years living and learning

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Into the Smoke In more ways than one.

  

  bus. And along the route, when I'm not doing my best to avoid double-decker buses and inattentive taxi drivers, I'm treated to a tranquil route ... being abroad is the milieu of people you meet and get to know. Most of my

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 2, 2010