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  Paths there are so many

  

  to MIT was the only future we saw for ourselves. Looking at the statistics of how many deferred students get admitted, it was painful to think ... 't feel pleasant. Not at all. But negative *college* decisions were

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 19, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  sky. And so my college application season began. My interview was at the Cosi at 13th Street and 6th Avenue with a young recent graduate named Steve. I always get really nervous at interviews. I remember nothing

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Some Advice Sometimes I wish I could tell freshman-me that everything's going to be okay

  

  climbing trees and bake dozens of cookies at 3am. 27) Changing majors is not ... instead of a confused freshman. It will feel incredibly strange at first ... I've been doing a lot of reflecting lately, maybe because: - I feel

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  to measure the impact of the admissions essay on today's college applicant." The email included a bunch of questions. Seemed harmless ... committee on a human level, i.e. beyond all of the test scores, grades, etc

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

  Making Connections we live in a society (affectionate)

  

  ="EC has two buildings; one is to the west of the other"]west parallel[/annotation]of ... ) rainy today, instead of going outside to get from one parallel to the ... the names and emails of EC's Medlinks (students who are trained to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  , that at the end of the day I didn't win one, so I was not as smart as my ... whether to share it with the rest of you guys, but I thought that this letter may be of benefit to some current student, or some future student. I

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

  Why My 5.13 Problem Set Took All Day Moral of the story: Don't procrastinate, or I'll never talk to you again.

  

  walking later," to my second-grade phase of "Why learn to tie my shoes now ... before it's due. I'm well aware that this is one of my greatest flaws, and ... soooo much effort." At MIT, though, I've tried to remedy this countless

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Robo-CJ writes haiku “didn’t you already make a blog post about this?”

  

  Poetry Day! It's not very much of a leap to think that I could be bisexual the end result of this is that i now have far too many haikus Also i ... old blog posts, and then used gpt-2-simple to retrain it on a bunch of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My blogger bio over time what does it take to get to know someone?

  

  summer? At once, it's all of these, and none of these. We could talk about ... Museum. Or I can give you a tour of the office I'm interning at, which ... Joshua, or that I have two first names, because a lot of Filipinos have two

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 26, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Flying Close to the Sun a semester of fire

  

  writing yet at that point, but I ended up throwing together a slideshow of ... down” “Pants on fire” There are so many figures of speech involving ... considered using a fire idiom in the title of this post, but decided to go with

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  'm doomed to work at mcdonald's for the rest of my life what should I do ... came across a collection of things that I had written which can most accurately be titled, "How to get the most out of reading the MITblogs," or

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  with my friend Tom to meet some of our former teachers. It’s been a while since we’ve talked. Our group chat of nerd friends eventually fell quiet ... last saw each other at graduation. But a lot had still changed. As we

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, by the Calories free food is everywhere

  

  is one of four first-year learning communities at MIT. MAS explores the ... A few weeks ago, I attended a meeting for one of MIT’s many clubs. It was a lively meeting, full of introductions, discussions, and sandwiches

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Back in Time I change my clock back three hours and read headlines on the magazine of the…

  

  'm mentally and physically spent by my first semester at MIT; this time, part of ... from my MIT education just because of my breakfast condiments. "She's a ... of bed simply to switch out of a class that was too early before

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Pretender a message to both you and me.

  

  Student Center, and marveled at the Great Dome while standing in Killian ... most generous of "chance me" scorers would only give me a 50% chance of ... listened to a small playlist of songs I had thrown together for the ride. As

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  halloween down the infinite

  

  with 30+ photos at 11:30pm is a good way to get a blog out on time is STUPID and BAD AT TIME MANAGEMENT, and no one comment on when this blog was ... post some of them here. My day started off by running to lecture because

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 1, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  As We Approach Decision Day On getting in and on not getting in

  

  . There’s a lot of work. There are times when you are happy, and then there ... like. I cried. I ate an entire box of mandarin oranges. I arranged the ... it does work out, it will take years of love and dedication and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 8, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Putting Diversity into Context The diverse ways that colleges and universities define diversity

  

  the dilemma of racial identification on college application forms, with great interest. In my role as the Director of Minority Recruitment, I ... complete the race and ethnicity section of the MIT admission application

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  " was code for "depressingly early sunset." After a lot of writing and ... hypnophobia—fear of sleep. In particularly bad bouts, I'd freak myself out about ... that scale in years: the bottom of my gut would drop out, I'd hallow out

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Are people on the East Coast friendly? An entry especially for those from the Midwest.

  

  work to do) at MIT that I haven't spent a whole lot of time in Boston ... When I applied to MIT, I didn't consider whether the people of Boston would be as friendly as the people of Wisconsin. I probably wouldn't have

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 21, 2010