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  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  had long stopped feeling hunger, but the void in my stomach seemed to ... deprived wasteland in my head. I checked my laptop again. 2 minutes. I ... dancing along my back in its high heels, stabbing my skin with its piercing

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  about me, about MIT, and about why I haven’t talked to you in a month ... culminated in an hour-long cry session after a benign meeting with my biology ... said. I have a fantastic dean at S^3. Last year, I also came in feeling

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s not fair! ... and why that's OK.

  

  virtually anyone trying to make sense of the college admissions process. In ... for all the children in the world, but I will give you my take on the ... admissions staff thinks that you can hack it, you're in. How can they do that

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  What’s the big deal about 40^2?

  

  Okay, so I'm in the middle (towards the end) of a long day of reading ... recently. I come to the second to last piece in the folder, which is the ... highlighter for, circle in big red pen, make it the focus of your case. In fact

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 20, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  theme song on the piano in the middle of the room. Nearby, an ... grasping. I soaked it all in and confirmed that MIT was for me. I was ... times were probably in their rooms behind closed doors, waiting for the

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  'll reproduce the post here: I'm a senior in high school this year, and will be ... truly the smartest in my class. However, this past year has shown me that ... I should have gotten B's in several other classes as well, but I

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  taken from Your Last First Day in There Is No Antimemetics Division. There ... 's your chance. (There are five parts in the series; Your Last First Day is ... , that I would need to pare down my focus or I'd drown in the torrent of

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

  Writing I don’t have time for hosed into my core

  

  respectively. And that was really reflected this weekend in the difference ... , and instead put in earplugs to focus. I didn’t just read recitation ... reflected in this. And right after I finished at 9:30 tonight, I was hit by

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 25, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  In 1st grade, there were these 1-sided sheets of simple math problems ... pencil down announcing that I had finished first. In 4th grade, in ... ’ people, knowing that I would win. But as I moved up in the hierarchy of

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

  Words of Advice for the Incoming Class you did it! now what?

  

  we are trying something new! if you'd like to consume this blog in ... in reality, you were admitted because you are already prepared. If you ... school -- why not take a break and relax knowing that MIT is in your pocket

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  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 ... Committee on the Undergraduate Program (CUP) in the 2020–2021 school year

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 28, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  finding place

  

  evolutions, but in the moment I mostly don't think about this stuff consciously. I haven't posted in a while. Too long. It's been one of the semesters. MIT has taught me a lot of things about community. I was in a small high

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • April 7, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Flying Close to the Sun a semester of fire

  

  “Going up in flames” “Trial by fire” “Burning out” “Burn it all ... considered using a fire idiom in the title of this post, but decided to go with ... a lab in CSAIL. I could say a million great things about my mentors

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2021
• 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 ... lot lately (all quotes taken from the top posts in /r/2meirl4meirl)

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2021
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  ATHack A day well spent helping others

  

  , I took part in my first hackathon- The Assistive Technologies ... students with people living with disabilities to solve a problem in the home ... team and I met at 8:30 AM in this cool lab space called Beaver Works. I

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Life is like a Game Elaborate metaphors from an amateur comic artist

  

  video game metaphor was easiest to conceptualize in comic form, so enjoy ... amongst the autobiographical brainbarf in which the monsters are classes and

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 7, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  There Is No Formula A formula would take the human component out of our process, which is perhaps the…

  

  . It makes me think of the guy who fell in love with trains as a kid and worked so hard to include the world in that passion that Amtrak noticed and ... is very self-selecting in that regard. It’s who you are that really

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 16, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Merit When getting into MIT isn't convincing enough

  

  crawled closer and closer. I had been sitting in my little call station ... ’m not interested in giving to MIT,” he told me. “I’m sorry to hear that ... ,” he said. I may have actually leaned back in my chair. “What do you

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • January 22, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  travels this Fall. With the Early Action season starting in full swing ... post about the rest of my trips.) But with several blog posts in the ... was actually in response to an admitted student who was deciding whether

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

  Painting by number The anti-formula

  

  generated by pbnify.com[/caption] In a rant post many years ago, I referenced ... .  In those situations, a new interpretation, spawned either by creative ... be the creators and innovators of tomorrow engage in pursuits today

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 2, 2024