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  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  . Where it all began. I will not describe this one much. No need to commute ... be exhausting. I’m used to different college ways and interactions, a ... teenagers of ages fourteen to eighteen. This destination is a high school

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

  50 Reflections

  

  celebration. The invitation is a complete honor. It's great to be back in my old ... push boundaries, to improve the world. There isn't a day that goes by in ... culture at a critical moment in my career. It taught me so much about the

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  0.125 not a course 0 class, but a fraction complete

  

  , I can't even seem to get through a day on seven and a half. Knowing ... floor, and I've noticed that there's definitely a cycle: from 2ish to 7 pm ... company, it's a good time to eat. Afterwards, people hang around and talk

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 4, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the Deferred I feel your pain.

  

  choreographed a dance of my own, and how it felt to grow up in New Zealand. My dad ... page and this paragraph: When we admit a class of students to MIT, it's as if we're choosing a 1,000-person team to climb a very interesting

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  In the Realm of Giants imposter syndrome with a senior year twist

  

  together. Whether you’ve decided to try to find a job, or apply for graduate ... dashed. Now, I’m stuck in a limbo of trying to figure out [annotation note ... line of progress from point A to B. In some angles, it looks like an

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  , because I thought I had to. I thought I needed a pair of sperrys if anyone ... I initially wrote this to my little brother. I debated for a while ... hope someone might be able to connect or learn something from a few of my

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The joys of web development or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the web

  

  the projects I liked. I like to think of myself as a reflective person ... filling out a form every day, there's probably some way to solve it with ... example of this. My motivation on the project was pure: I need to make this

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

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  being meta. And now double meta. Now I just need to take a screenshot of ... Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences a Chance I have wanted to advertise the ... a large folder of drafts, so I had to publish the most polished piece

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Painting by number The anti-formula

  

  , generally the best that it can aspire to be is a convincing counterfeit, which ... probably need to keep looking. Try new things. Keep investigating and ... simply sufficient.  Don’t limit yourself by asking what do I need to do

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 2, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Challenge You Pi day approaches.

  

  ) – was not the fear of being unable to succeed without MIT, but rather a ... to unique resources and unique opportunities. A close friend of mine ... is the only path to success, which is a topic for another post.) I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Applying Sideways How to get in to MIT.

  

  me from Raleigh, North Carolina to Atlanta, Georgia and a dozen places ... to a thousand-person MIT revival in an Atlanta auditorium. Whenever I speak to students or their families, be it on travel or during a campus

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 1, 2010
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  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  Great Gatsby, “the Great American Novel”, is a book most of us have to go through to graduate high school. It’s also a book that has left me with a ... ” does not succeed in that one goal. For me, MIT was a golden opportunity

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  much to people who've never been exposed to MIT. To MIT students, those ... some extent, to my parents, it's like I'm talking a foreign language ... from putting a firetruck on the Great Dome to subtly sabotaging the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  non-stop / walang hinto what a mess

  

  to our math olympiad summer camp, back at home, in a week. i made a ... my day into a single statistic, which is how much work i got done, how ... wrong, now that i’m conscious of it. as much as i want to blame capitalism

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 8, 2020
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  “You know what would be cool?” some pizza would be a start...

  

  's like to be here (as a sidenote, I recently learned that going for 35 ... with a severe mental disorder in an MRI. This makes me want to wear a ... trivial things, like "Does orange plaid match with a floral green print?" or

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 8, 2009
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  If the Obama were a unit of measure . . . . . . what would it measure?

  

  Obama's address. Needless to say, the MechE student who doesn't have a ... , and now all of a sudden I was going to see the President! On Thursday ... to campus I noticed that it was a little more difficult this morning

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  smoke and spice my comfort meal

  

  , which comes out to around once a month. In times when things were tough, I often turned to pakaprow. To me, it brings a sense of comfort like no ... fascinating! here is a great article, if you wanted to learn more']spread around

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • May 9, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Fireside Chat with President Sally Kornbluth get to know our president!

  

  Chorallaries? Did you know that she is a foodie and loves to try new restaurants ... dozen people spring to mind, and I laugh and tell her, “A lot.” We share a ... Kornbluth tells me. I have to agree, that does sound pretty funny. She then

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  here comes a thought on decisions

  

  relate to a different thing from college admissions. but there are points ... would be, i felt sick to my stomach. a college's admission decision, for ... these little things seem to matter so much that they confuse you in the

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 13, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  reject modern web design return to 2006

  

  does anyone else remember when the internet looked like this? sorry can’t come out tonight i gotta sit alone in front of a muted tv opening ... decent person the last time i went to urgent care i checked off “excessive

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2021