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  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  : "So where do you go to school?" ME: "Oh, I go to school in Boston." HIM: "Do you go to Harvard?" ME: "No!" HIM: "MIT?" ME: "Yes..." HIM ... reason, I do feel like sometimes saying "oh, yeah, I go to MIT" sounds

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Being “qualified” for MIT Let me show you how it's done.

  

  ." List your skills for us. How many programming languages do you know? I ... application. "Tell us about something you do for fun." McGreggor and I ... stayed up until a totally unreasonable hour doing my 8.03 pset, which I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  No Chance Why "chance" sites like AdmissionSplash are Bad Things.

  

  chancing may be fun, or a way to blow off steam, or just something to do ... prepared to do the work at MIT, you will not be admitted, because we don ... demonstrated academic preparedness - as the majority of MIT applicants can and do

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what work is bite-sized senior spring

  

  night, working, working, working. i'm trying to challenge myself to do a ... work that i do not expect to get paid for or graded on; it's work that i'm doing so i can get back to the place where i approach the days of my life

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Why I wasn’t sad to leave MIT On shedding.

  

  ’s more of an “I now live a post-MIT life and therefore my weekly updates do ... why do I have this thing, anyway? Throughout the process, I reflected on what I was doing with family, friends and professors out loud, and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  keep doing it for the next four years. In fact, you want to keep doing it ... to. Keep the future in mind, but live in the present. Enjoy what you do ... all into everything you do. You’ll probably miss at least as often as

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

  How to look over your application and advice about breathing. My older younger brother is your age. I am fully aware of how much you’re…

  

  you should do this week in 3 easy steps (results not guaranteed, though ... . You need to actually do the essays first before you can edit them. Just ... of your essays to do this for you, but it doesn’t hurt to do it

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty people later ✈✈✈ (pronounced whoosh) ✈✈✈ (pronounced nyeowww)

  

  do something together, and so puzzlehunts have a special place in my ... living now? and What's it like working for AoPS? and What do you feel about ... sofa in front of the TV, and do another COVID test, as agreed upon

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend

  

  process as long as possible. You can do that without losing flavor because ... that they want to go to graduate school in X, or have been doing a UROP ... 't seem like there was ever a big identity WHAT SHOULD I DO WITH MY LIFE

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parents, Please Read Prefrosh and students, read this too, and make sure to have a discussion with your…

  

  they get here, and I like sharing with everybody the types of things I do ... often discuss the current "admissions gossip." The one thing he'll do that ... 's fine. Do you ever see such and such? No not really. I really like Yan

  • by Snively '11
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thoughts for the New Year A semester's worth of thoughts, tbh

  

  . I’d say I’m doing pretty well on this. Sidequest 4: Get a cool ... winter without a winter coat. I’m doing better at this than I expected - a ... something I genuinely love to do. Incomplete, with the following addendum

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Merit When getting into MIT isn't convincing enough

  

  I’m spending this IAP doing, among other things, five shifts a week ... ,” I said. “Do you mind if I ask why?” (Sometimes we are able assure ... ,” he said. I may have actually leaned back in my chair. “What do you

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

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  have contributed some insight into how and why we do the things we do ... do we measure and how do we measure it? Is the trait thus measured ... admit rate? Aha! Clearly we DO prefer higher SAT scores! Well no, we don

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Life is Improv say yes

  

  sense of control over things. I'm not a "control freak." But I like to do ... were doing. She and I started talking (actually we began viciously ... situation. He always has to say yes when anyone asks him to do whatever weird

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Things Advice for the class of 2010.

  

  do your best work late at night, embrace that. It may be the only time ... college career, do something fun and irresponsible when you should be ... 't do so well on the final, but I haven't thought about psych since 1993

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  we should meet, because he was concerned about my ability to do well in ... my thesis. I kept doing that, a few hours at a time, every day that I ... .951, the prospect of teaching myself enough Python to do so, despite

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to date at an American college Things we never talk about

  

  casual relationships right for them. Many people entering college do not ... sure what you're doing (or will do) either. I will provide you first ... " There are some things that we see in movies that we do not believe exist

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  ="though i have some ideas"]what to do,[/annotation] and how to do it as ... "] AAAAAAAAAAAHHHH[/caption] To some extent, this is stuff I’ve been doing for the ... portfolio without actually doing it, I find myself turning inwards and looking

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Diversity or Merit? false questions, false answers

  

  students at MIT are sufficiently prepared to succeed at MIT. We do not admit ... token, we do not admit students who are unqualified for admission to MIT ... mean the majority of applicants are sufficiently prepared to do the work

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hacking A performance art that lets students remind the teachers who's smarter.

  

  on hacking at MIT. Hacking at MIT has nothing to do with breaking into ... smiling variety, GoSox! a good example of the "how did they do that!?" while ... ! How do I get into hacking!? Is it a club or something? Well thought out

  • by Snively '11
  • June 7, 2008