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  “You are capable of more than you know.” Reflections from six MIT transfer students

  

  -traditional” route (for example, opting to put their education on pause to compete in ... engineering exam. I thought I would go to a school in India for the longest time ... strong interest in and love for economics. Janet: Before I decided to

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 13, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Essay: Yogurt Edition! You like froyo? I like froyo! ^___^V

  

  ...but for all additional essays I tried to tailor them individually). okok ... reader to think about. For example, classics in world literature rarely ... in your intro, for example - I tend to utilize this pretty often

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  Enjoy Life Farewells and New Beginnings

  

  summer, I’ve been thinking about what to do for my last blog post. I ... is a long one and remember that life is meant to be enjoyed. Thanks for ... bioengineer. I am grateful to have had wonderful mentors and scientists and

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 5, 2018
• Blog / Advice

  finding place

  

  same time, it was a hard semester for me due to all the life changes of ... trying to bring people together to do fun stuff. For example, a few days ago, a friend and I decided we wanted to drive down for the eclipse so

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • April 7, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  dollar for every time my mother told me to lower my voice, I could probably ... your journey. To all of you, thank you for trusting us with your ... , in order for connection to happen, we have to allow ourselves to be

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

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  awake for the next 18 hours?” or “Can I spare enough time to go scream ... midterms on three consecutive school days. I have to go study for a 6 ... Logic Unit for a 6.004 lab, after registers and stack pointers and opcodes

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Classes

  Making Connections we live in a society (affectionate)

  

  Mondays. Then, I walk two buildings over and I go to office hours for ... with the student and prepared to leave for 806, I could hear her saying ... took until November for us to start hanging out after class. By the time

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Shiny Circuits Shiny, in some subcultures at MIT, means REALLY AWESOME

  

  like Tungsten is, it's spread out as a gas. For electric current to flow ... general. And thanks to Noah S. '10 for showing me his circuitry and giving ... problem is that people like pictures. And people like to know about the

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s Not Me, It’s You How to kiss goodbye to a school that rejected you

  

  university, for some reason or another, is not recognizing what you have to ... ambition was to be an officer in the British army. Despite his repeated ... foolish to recognize his potential. Washington rebounded from this

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 29, 2016
• 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 ... ’re looking for! We encourage you to seriously consider applying to Penn.” It ... registered for the SAT Subject Tests. I could barely wait the three months to

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  I initially wrote this to my little brother. I debated for a while ... full of ambition and looking to make a name for yourself in the world ... would hear statements like “it is so much easier for people like you to

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  On Teaching and Learning Minimum requirement: read the last few sentences of this post. They're important.

  

  neither, in all honesty, do I. To recap, I’m here for MIT’s Four Weeks For ... shy away from participating for the rest of the semester. Fail to ... know for the NMSBA. Don’t take the time to do it, and they struggle to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  , you get the point. Freshman fall is meant to be a reality check for ... and hidden to make it harder for people, they are not impossible. They ... place to get some (training wheels) life experience and I'm grateful for

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  get SLAPped! it doesn't hurt

  

  center offers a lottery to all students (grad or undergrad) for a chance to ... live, and I wanted to find out how they did so. [...] For this project ... campus. my tenure as a physical resident of ec had just ended due to the

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 21, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s More Than A Job Thoughts On The Eve Of RA Decisions

  

  probably don't say to your face for fear of inflating your ego: that you ... to be a teacher in the first place, that they're better people for ... In response to an earlier entry of mine, this post appeared on

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Adventures of Flat Tim And his admissions officer friend!

  

  happily relied on public transportation to get around. Recruiting for MIT ... learn how to drive on the highway. I took a couple driving lessons for ... for the ‘Gram? Yes, he would.” Then I muster up the energy to go to see

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • June 6, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  trouble and for the past three and a half years, I missed opportunities to ... more for having gone through this journey and brought myself to this ... nose to the paper, pencil poised, ready to race across the page as if

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT, part deux The case study of someone else you wouldn't expect to have gotten in

  

  young for TMNT?), I decided to profile my endlessly put-upon boyfriend ... any fancy research internships or go to any summer camps; he worked for ... According to my hit counter as well as by raw comment count, my entry

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  post will be a way for you to start processing all of those thoughts, a ... out good. Hoping for the chance for dreams to be a reality. Sometimes ... lives not loving things, not wishing for something to happen, well, we

  • by Phi A. '21
  • March 16, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Bumps, slumps, trips, and … Breaking out of a slump, now with more Cleveland!

  

  you don't blog for a long time, you lose your ability to rhyme. Not that ... the Charles for the 4th of July, and argued endlessly about how to prove ... fall full of travel, I came back to MIT for a master's, but it didn't sit

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 13, 2014