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  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  -harm. I’ve been trying, for months, to find a way to write about what it was ... end, as I said, is that I left. The means to that end are worth talking ... is what happened to me: I started out as the girl who got a reasonable

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

  A Typical Day on the Road Having grown up in NYC, I love coming back.

  

  with the students: with the web, it is much easier for students to learn ... fair bit about MIT. It is for this reason that we tend to visit fewer ... a bit this week was how possible is it to balance the tough academic

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “So what are you majoring in?” *sweats nervously*

  

  definitely still want to help people, but I’m not finding it all quite as ... . I started having thoughts to the effect of “everyone else is already ... people, and the gist of what I would optimally do is to convert the

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  (MIT '17!!) is sitting to my right, underlining passages from her AP US ... asked him whether "Cloudy Apple" is good, and Davie's response was "it ... write a blog post, but was struggling with writer's block (it's easier to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  silly. The truth is, and maybe you can't see this yet, it's going to be ... ," moments. It was difficult to decide whether optimism or pessimism was the ... how it ever got to the point where I put so much emphasis on a place

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 8, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  it is really like to spend your days here. Linked below are a few ... life may take after coming to this curious place. 1. What is it like ... a lot. But it's also comforting; it is possible to have a fulfilling

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Burton 1 Social Club This Thanksgiving, I'm thankful for my ridiculous, hilarious, amazing floor.

  

  culture, and while there is clearly no objective way for one to claim one ... course - there is no substitute to visiting MIT and checking out the ... people competing to see who stayed up the longest (though whoever wins is

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  senioritis not to be confused with señoritis

  

  for someone. there is enough positive work for you to do until you find ... ; double checked if snow is cold (it is)   made cake pops for my ... out, mumbling that it would be worth it compared to the other work i had

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  learned how painful it is to be sleep deprived for weeks on end; how sad it is to stay indoors nearly all the time; how lonely it is to barely see ... MIT has brought its own set of failures. It's hard not to get hung up on

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  doing it — “just be more rational”. but it is human for us to value these kinds of things, and it is better for us to be aware of them, rather than ... half an hour, eating my lunch, and the wind is getting to me. I could

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • April 20, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Blogural Inaugural I just wanted to use this title.

  

  Hello, world! (Sorry, I had to. It's the classic "first program" for any new language, and ... ok, fine, it doesn't apply to admissions blogs ... that it's my job to tell you about MIT, the things I do here (or don't do

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  universe as we try to wrap our tiny minds around it. Our world is messed up ... you are, when you go out into the world, it is best to hold hands and ... school because of its arbitrarily bureaucratic hoops. To give you an idea

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

  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  MIT. People told me that it was going to be hard, that there would be ... admission. People called this "committing" to MIT, and I remember finding it ... yourself when I was deciding. Part of its thesis is that we are changed by

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hard MIT Class ...or is that redundant? And yes, hiiiiii.

  

  ’t have to tell me about that. I knew it. Hours spent fixated on a problem ... nagging, awful feeling that the clever trick is going to be forever beyond ... Requirements. I needed it to graduate. Another funny thing about classes at MIT

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  150 years of MIT course catalogs the mit history you want to know

  

  I am when it comes to history, is that 1865 is towards the end of the ... department of science". It still strikes me how recent biology is compared to ... hours of exercise add up to 485. It's unclear whether this is supposed to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Brief History of Cars on Fire at MIT You didn't think I would miss an anniversary, did you?

  

  "kapow!", as some have apparently taken to start calling it) is ... while, it's not that uncommon to wander MIT's campus and find ... belonged to Ralph J. Slutz '38, was painted with the phrase "TECH IS

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Stove-Cook Your Oatmeal and Never Look Back To not-admitted applicants and anyone who knows anything about fuses.

  

  guess, didn’t do anything about it, that I want to share with you ... might not think knowing how to stove-cook oatmeal is a useful skill. I ... probably not that useful, not really. What is useful is being able to swap

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 19, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] We’re Not in ~Kansas~ Missouri Anymore Going From a Small Town to Boston, by Claire S. '25

  

  to go to college?” There it was again, the dreaded question high ... it. Comparing that to my experiences in places such as New York City ... missing out on the friend groups forming because it was taking me longer to

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 17, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  think about my future and what I want to do with it. My biggest fear is ... ’ve beat it (and to some extent, I don’t think I ever will), I’ve learned ... very near by who is extremely good at it and will, in the vast majority

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions of Travel a guest post by Spencer W. '15

  

  . It’s less my decision than it is the Institute's. I chose to leave, and ... Scholarship is the most selective graduate fellowship available to American ... . It's a long way from Moultrie, GA, to Cambridge, MA, and an even longer

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015