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• Blog / About Decisions

  Bleary-eyed Some thoughts and reflections on this year's admission cycle - particularly for those not admitted.

  

  Probably one of the most linked-to/referred-to posts on this site is ... eloquent as Ben's, but is certainly in the same vein - and is every bit as ... side, this meant that in addition to the ~12 hours a day I already spend

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 16, 2011
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  how to change policies at mit [joint post with Rona W.] our CUP of tea

  

  -year student to take five 12-unit classes in the spring; however, there is also an explicit reminder in the motion that “[60 units] is an upper limit ... and discovery subjects in the past. To facilitate student engagement, we

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 28, 2021
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  There is no such thing as a typical day on energy levels and productivity

  

  like this: In the moment, all I see is this: I have to tell myself ... is impossible; I’m lucky enough to have never experienced this. In ... always hours when it is impossible for me to work. And these are the hours

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 25, 2020
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  Masquerading as a Liberal Arts Student The life of an MIT student abroad

  

  International Honors Program: Cities in the 21st Century. It is a comparative ... the campus surrounding 77 Mass Ave, but instead immersed in the organized chaos that is Hanoi, Vietnam, the last stop on my semester long

  • by Becca H. '12
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  applying to MIT. I thought I'd post it again (recycling is good for the ... in fact I'm not sure I have anything to offer in comparison to the rest ... travels this Fall. With the Early Action season starting in full swing

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  from what I thought was my dream school. I have grown so much in the ... how it ever got to the point where I put so much emphasis on a place ... silly. The truth is, and maybe you can't see this yet, it's going to be

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 8, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  sitting in the library, studying for a Geography exam when someone ran up to ... had qualified to the AIME. I was pretty excited, and after a while, in a ... imagining that I could study in the US. I decided to face my local exams and

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
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  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  rocket, How to be very smart (like us), and Gayness Is Defiance. In the ... -long classes, to lots of students, in MIT's campus. The differences are when ... then, it's expanded to include middle schoolers, and be held in the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  November 1st is my January 1st each november is a new direction

  

  to rest, 6.002 lab was due Friday. I spent Thursday in the lab, having ... , simpler dream. To just do the absolute best I can do in whatever I end up ... someone who's not even the valedictorian or has never been in a science fair

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 3, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  25 Stories of Getting Accepted to MIT told by students and alums

  

  a lot of fun. In the car on the way home I pulled out my phone to ... , and most of the other schools I applied to were art schools anyway. My ... downstairs to tell everyone. They were all gathered in the living room

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
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  What I wish I’d known, and what I’m glad I knew Before coming to MIT.

  

  that the deadline for MISTI-France, to give an example, is BEFORE THE END ... on track to great things in the astronomy world. I think that coming to ... lessons to sink in. ...except putting off the swim test. Seriously. Take

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 17, 2013
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  sibling dynamics at MIT yes lmao Nisha and I are related

  

  ’ve been going to the same school for most of our lives, so I wanted to ... exploded with laughter in the middle of my physics lecture as soon as i saw ... Be Named came to the realization that Nisha and I are, indeed, sisters

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 20, 2020
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  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  this is magic. These are things that all the adults in my life had to sit ... 's very easy to get caught up in the daily metronome of life, especially ... tend to do a lot more thinking. The weather is colder, usually snowy (it

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Painting by number The anti-formula

  

  (which can also be read “what is the minimum that I need to do”) in order ... , generally the best that it can aspire to be is a convincing counterfeit, which ... seek ways to unlock the secret formula to secure admission. For starters

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 2, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An actual day in the lab Hectic is my middle name.

  

  the answer is no -- even if you wanted to move in, everybody in the dorm ... exactly what needs to be done. I stick my cell culture media in the ... everybody in the lab is at the annual Picower Institute retreat on Cape Cod

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 7, 2006
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  VEDA In which I try to vlog every day in April

  

  VEDA (Vlog Every Day in April) is a thing in some parts of the You ... , I've kept to the daily video filming/editing/posting without too much ... completely lost in the Internet void. Hopefully nobody minds too much. It was

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 24, 2015
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  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  prefrosh temped on the same floor he was living in. Malingap is the feeling ... . Malingap is someone giving me an impromptu tour of East Campus in the middle ... different. This is waking up at eleven in the morning, and already feeling

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019
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  Views of Campus, the Charles River, and the First Snow with a snowman and a snow dalek

  

  My dorm, the 117-year-old Random Hall, is identical to the older ... student. In this image Boston is on the right and MIT is on the other side ... entrance to Killian Court is visible to the left of the Green Building. The

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 20, 2012
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  If the Obama were a unit of measure . . . . . . what would it measure?

  

  expected that to be the most of my Obama-Visit-Experience. Word on the street ... , undergraduates, and graduate students had to share 200 tickets. In the end, 50 of ... get in line. The ticket told me to get in line at 10:30AM. I got there

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2009
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  All the Bloggers’ Personalities! A post about personality tests, part 2!

  

  enneagram results, which I found hard to graph meaningfully. The zodiac is ... 't really matter if the personality is a match. I want to own a real live pig ... SIGN but I don't really relate to most of the personality traits” “I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 12, 2018