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

  

  chick flick, I fell accidentally in love with something insanely out of ... an AP test in my life. My GPA wasn’t perfect (still isn’t). I was ... schools I should target. I did know that time was running out, and that I

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

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

  

  This post is the second in a series of Guide to MIT posts. Check out ... FIT: I cannot emphasize this point enough. No matter how (in ... cost of living (though you can purchase a meal plan while living in any

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 14, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  environment!). (Btw, I find it funny that in Ben's original post, he wrote ... . COME VISIT US BENNO!) You can just check out the link above, or read ... in fact I'm not sure I have anything to offer in comparison to the rest

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to use these blogs Scattered thoughts on the information age, plus some bonus snark.

  

  blogging for over 2 years now. Every once in awhile, I run out of ideas. So ... came across a collection of things that I had written which can most ... topics. In fact, I think I'll link random words in this entry to some

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  My College Essay Early Action / November 2005. ~500 words await.

  

  , that you’re applying to M.I.T. and yet you can’t fill out a form…” I don ... worldwide? Which topic shall be chosen, A or B? Can I impress those admissions staff? Is there such a thing as too personal? I can't recall precisely

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 11, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  seriously. In particular, I wish I’d had that attitude against the dragon that ... didn’t make it. Holding hands on the way to class. Falling in and out of ... I got in and when I left for MIT. I wish I had. If I were you—which is

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  stops later, I get out facing Harvard Hall. There, on the second floor, I ... , Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays. On Wednesdays, I may drop in for office ... “participate” in Harvard College now. What’s even more exciting is now I have

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.

  

  that I did in my head to write the above statement, so I wrote it down ... a tear that I’m no longer young.) In 2004, the MIT admissions blogs ... . At the end of undergrad, I was deciding between going and working in

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  if none of that works out, I know there is more than one path in life ... progress I always expected. I don’t feel like I’m in a position where I can ... road, but the start of a new journey. I know that those words can be

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

  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  when you're on a set schedule. Every day, I wake up, I work out, I go to ... learned everything I needed to at MIT. But in these moments of reflection ... going to do. I was going to dive in head first, I was going to take the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  10 Things I Learned 1st Semester Yeap.

  

  -yogurt-more-endearingly-“Froyo”. I can’t count how many “Ordering Indian in 10! Come to Room # if you ... rice every night and do not dine out much; I’ve never had Indian food in ... Central Jersey, I can’t help but reminisce about 1st semester and MIT. I can

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 24, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  of success, in things not working out. Rather, I’d say, there is great ... told me to chill and “be cool” in selection committee – I told her that ... lines in Harry Potter, I relate to this moment in Order of the Phoenix the

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • March 16, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thoughts for the New Year A semester's worth of thoughts, tbh

  

  feelings on things, so in honor of New Year’s Eve, I decided to reflect on ... few weeks ago, I made a trip to 7-11 in a shirt, a long jacket, and no pants in sub-freezing weather. In general, however, going out in single

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Advice From The Elderly My last blog entry, at least from this chapter.

  

  To the class of 2016 - My name is Jess, and I graduated in 2010 ... older brothers or sisters, with whom I am competing for a space in an ... even knew anyone who was in their 20s, but now you do, and I am here to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  thought in my head was “I volunteered in the ER at MGH, I can help, I need ... happened came up again and again. I am in my last year of college and I can ... most burning question I have in my mind is as an individual, what can I

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ten reflections on mit

  

  thrown my way in isolation. nothing can make one be like that."] I can do ... and out. I can navigate almost anywhere without needing to stop and ... questions in education are to me. I’m still in a cappella. I still really like

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 15, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  , Ward Melville. In my three years there, I changed intellectually and emotionally in ways I couldn't have predicted. I spent this past summer ... [/caption] Throughout high school I was often lost in confusion. I like to think about

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  (Bitter)sweet home meeting high school teachers again, and visiting my hometown for (probably) the last time

  

  much I can say before it gets drowned out in a pile of words. These are ... hometown in Alabama during the second week. I was staying in Georgia with my ... that this is probably going to be the last time I’ll be in Alabama for a

  • by Jenny B. '25
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye

  

  Have I Ever, in which I discovered I was missing out on a lot of life ... pictures of tasty-looking non-traditional meals. I’ll either seek them out in ... close. I graduate in June, if all goes well. A short while afterward, I

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear My Old Friend, This is quite possibly weirdest way to introduce myself

  

  actions were a reasonable response to the situation I was in. Can I claim to ... ? there's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I'm too tough for ... 's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I pour whiskey on him

  • by ana~
  • September 24, 2021