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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
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  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
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  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
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  year and moved to Bangalore. I wonder how much these things would have ... studying amateur Astronomy. I always wanted to come to MIT and be an ... would to track Planetary orbits and pinpoint a planet's location in sky

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  study spots at MIT not exactly places to cry, but they'll do

  

  polling my friends to find out where they like to study on campus and what ... from Joonho's blog "places at mit," which has much prettier pictures and ... couches and tables scattered through the floors Cons hard to find an

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  We’ve been there, too. It feels like the calm before the storm. Please don't forget to breathe.

  

  rewriting and fretting around my application to MIT, I managed to have it ... , my teeth would chatter, and this dread of just wanting the panic to end ... characteristically as I read it. And oddly, I don't really remember much else of that

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  the internet and dived into research. It didn’t take long to come ... feverishly right up to the deadline date - and submitted, confident in my ... to work, and continued to do an even worse job. It slowly sunk in: it

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

  It’s Not Me, It’s You How to kiss goodbye to a school that rejected you

  

  up against British anti-American prejudice, and there wasn’t much he ... . Too many other factors come into play. And that’s important to recognize ... it to yourself to go somewhere that recognizes your potential and

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 29, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  i dissected a roach *cronch* *slurp*

  

  sturdy carapace, unparalleled scavenging prowess, and ability to fly. In ... to kill, and being one of the most annoying household pests to get rid ... to get by with just the knife and the tweezers, but when I went to cut

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 28, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] You Have a 50/50 Chance a guest post from my mama

  

  was difficult to see her struggle and cry and be sad. As much as I want ... sings at the top of her lungs, and, yes, my daughter's happy going to ... like them, but seek not to make them like you. Family and friends say

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  the way back from Harvard, I look forward to seeing familiar faces and ... be exhausting. I’m used to different college ways and interactions, a ... Harvard, I’m learning to approach philosophy texts with high rigor and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fit or happiness made easy

  

  you, it's much easier to be happy. In terms of colleges, I had no idea ... conversation and then go back to talking about Jersey Shore in the same minute. I ... as facets we would like to have from sisters we could look up to and

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  i made furry art for Caltech i have art powers and choose to use them for chaos

  

  and ready to vectorize it. By the time I slid open the door and was ... . So when mystery hunt rolled around this year and Caltech was flying over to stay with us, we decided to give them a warm welcome by trying to

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 6, 2023