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  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  , Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays. On Wednesdays, I may drop in for office ... “participate” in Harvard College now. What’s even more exciting is now I have ... different campus layout. I look forward to lounging in our non-mahogany rooms

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  If the Obama were a unit of measure . . . . . . what would it measure?

  

  . All of this was fine and good, and I kind of enjoyed watching how MIT ... route Obama was going to take based on how clean the sidewalk was), but I ... Admissions office. Hmmmmm, I write for a website that prospective students read

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Is My Home Looking back and saying goodbye

  

  ... ^^;) A group photo from ASA Senior night Despite how involved I was in so ... even in my final semester at MIT, I discovered new friends and new communities to love, and how quickly I have found the love returned. In DPhiE we

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 13, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  cracking. 1. Why and how I became an admissions blogger In eighth grade, I ... you *can* do it. When the application came out, I was in the middle of an internship in Albuquerque, New Mexico. I'm pretty sure I was on

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  What I Did in High School in the actual sense of the phrase

  

  suburban New Jersey county. I applied mostly because a friend was applying, but I got in, and he didn’t. When MIT hopefuls ask what an MIT student ... . Maybe I’ll write about my application some other day so we can like

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  i don’t want to say goodbye sorry sad blog incoming

  

  's window. I remember thinking that this can't be our last goodbye, but in a ... about Spinning Arts, a tailless cat I met in Wales, how I injection molded ... molding was littered with a lot of "um I don't know how to say this in

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 24, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Was Deferred And it was not the end of the world

  

  mentioned in his last post - "I actually do agree that the best thing you can ... computer, opening up the MyMIT page that I hadn't visited in a few months. I ... took a few days/weeks to settle in. I got some congratulations at school

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 17, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Day in the Life Liveblog of my Thursday complete with (not so great) pictures

  

  I really enjoyed Ana's recent post about a single day in her life, so ... into them in the hallways. Most of the time it's because I genuinely don ... pursuing a career in writing or the media industry. I'm hoping to interview

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 15, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  e) Other Some pretty important stuff, and then just some pretty stuff.

  

  knows exactly how to get what they want in life and I'll convert, but to ... me if I haven't written back to you in the past few weeks. This ... decisions that can be instrumental in the steps to what you're doing with your

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m back! (And what I carry on it) "You can tell a lot about a person by what they carry" - Atlas

  

  changed a LOT in the few years I’ve been gone. Registration is now online. There are tons of new professors. New shops in the student center. Online ... – it’s like a bizarro-version of the MIT I remember. There’s plenty new

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 11, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python

  

  , Ward Melville. In my three years there, I changed intellectually and emotionally in ways I couldn't have predicted. I spent this past summer reflecting on these changes. How did I change, and what changed me? How and why

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  So Chance Me Maybe? Hey! I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my SAT...

  

  . Starting in August, I studied prompts and scoured websites. September saw me ... an AP test in my life. My GPA wasn’t perfect (still isn’t). I was ... a good sense of how competitive of an applicant I was or what sort of

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I know you’re bad at something And here's what you should do about it. Hint: NOT "do something else"

  

  played it well when alone, but in class my hands shook and I pressed my ... ; they suggested naming the band "The Band Of People Who Can't Play Solos" in my ... I hid behind my music stand. Three years later, I was in high school

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On identity f(x) = x

  

  I know so many people in MIT only on the surface-level. Sure, I can ... being gay in contrast any more. I can’t define myself as being gay in ... gives me screenshots of how my MIT experience could go. I can see myself

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  , but about how I can rise above a letter of rejection, I’d have handled ... me and said I had a package awaiting me in the secretary’s office. I ... Penn. I checked out the university’s website and Wikipedia page. I found

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  .112 lecture in 10-250" or "I have three psets due every week this semester and it's really hosing" or even "I'm doing a UROP in Course 7" don't mean ... showcase this phenomenon of "speaking in MITese," because I personally feel

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
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  There is no such thing as a typical day on energy levels and productivity

  

  . How much effort I’m putting in, the time of day, the last time I ate ... Some days, I feel good. Some days, I feel like I can work for hours ... done. I try to work, I really do. I spend time sitting in front of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 25, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Favorite Classes at MIT! survey says...

  

  Studio: How to Design (2) I was able to explore a new field that I hadn ... approachable.  The labs tie-in the week’s lessons well, and you can see how each ... phenomena in neuroscience to computer science. I enjoyed how it was broken

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  came across a collection of things that I had written which can most ... maybe "How to not get a sarcastic reply to a question from me." I fixed ... topics. In fact, I think I'll link random words in this entry to some

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?

  

  could do it, then so can I.  I looked up how to conduct research at ... who had placed in the Intel Science Fair. I looked up how to win ... amazing in ways I can’t even begin to count. It’s so easy to fall into the

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020