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  Merit When getting into MIT isn't convincing enough

  

  how they definitely don't work like that. In fact, I didn’t belabor the ... 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

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

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

  

  On Thursday, I sat in front of a camera for an hour (along with ... ." List your skills for us. How many programming languages do you know? I ... . I thought about how the MIT application was nothing like a job

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice you’ve heard before and a story you haven’t you can just skip to the pictures if you want to, I wont be offended.

  

  mandatory-attendance HASS class. The advantages? I got to sleep in later. I got to "save time" that would otherwise have been spent in class. I got ... roared in wintry fury outside. I got to brag about not going to class and

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the bridges I’ve crossed in Cambridge, ranked my civil engineering hat is off

  

  ’m including cambridge here but not the other cities, because i can. i love to be ... in structural engineering. I’ve taken many classes where we’ve pondered ... how modern science interacts with our current environment and I also

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to Crying on Campus It’s right about that time of year.

  

  this: I imagine everybody here has felt like this some time in the ... pictures in the comments! I personally haven’t had a good cry yet, but when I do, it will probably be in one of the lounges on my floor at East

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 16, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a freshman year 🦴🧠🩸🖐️🫀 my first year at mit, told through the body

  

  for how i did in a class, and that i would never be forced to share a ... difference in most people’s lives. i think that they can still be a good ... /classmates and that i can evaluate my performance in a subject by my own standards

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  0.125 not a course 0 class, but a fraction complete

  

  healthy, I can start figuring out how to help myself achieve it every night ... can fall down my priorities list. In the spring semester, I want to ... how to cook! Or it might be more accurate to say I learned how to learn

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 4, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thank you for reading A rigorous study of 26-year-olds (n=1) showed that getting older is positively correlated to the…

  

  got to hang out with Beyonce in the time since I was that age. I can ... thankful to have them. To realize that as an adult, I can choose how I ... is a gift that I can either view in one of two ways: one that I will

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing is Magic And 15 minutes is all you need

  

  already know how valuable it can be to learn to write and express yourself ... already know why he isn’t getting to them. He isn’t sure how to start. I ... I have a personal blog that I write about my teenagers and I haven

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  In my (high-school) senior spring, when I was almost sure I planned ... becoming less and less invested in classes during her time at MIT. I'm not even sure why I took organic chemistry, since I was interested in math

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  : "So where do you go to school?" ME: "Oh, I go to school in Boston ... in Boston.'" I never thought about it, but if you must press me for a ... harsh though, but considering how there are so many premeds in that class

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Academic Conference and also things I have learned about publishing research in the past few months

  

  now, and I can affirm that the only parts that I truly feel confident in ... that took up a lot of my spring and summer, but I made it! So in this ... research in general over the last few months. As a disclaimer, I don't speak

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  how to change policies at mit [joint post with Rona W.] our CUP of tea

  

  wonderful experience, and I wanted to continue in a broader capacity. Paolo ... , how subject evaluations should work in the pandemic, the mission of the ... , including through UROPs, clubs, and just by being around new people. How can

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 28, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We Should Take This Final and Push It Somewhere Else you'll need a lot of mOXie

  

  ’t even know how I was doing in the class beforehand. I emailed my TA from ... semester, I have already taken a final exam. In the midst of sitting down for ... forward a few days, I dropped the class in question, thinking it would make

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 14, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fit or happiness made easy

  

  ask myself is "am I in the right place?" How do we know when we get ... your life--how well you fit in at school, at work or at home affects more ... you, it's much easier to be happy. In terms of colleges, I had no idea

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 15, 2011
• 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
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m Still Standing after all this time at MIT

  

  tl;dr I made a music video to commemorate graduation happening in a ... ://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qo9elE7Ij-c One night, in the middle of my time away from MIT, I ... bed like I was a character in a movie. I watched the original music

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  past few weeks about how terribly hosed people are, I thought I'd bring ... environment!). (Btw, I find it funny that in Ben's original post, he wrote ... in fact I'm not sure I have anything to offer in comparison to the rest

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  thought in my head was “I volunteered in the ER at MGH, I can help, I need ... and how they can donate blood. “I am O-, and donating blood is the first ... happened came up again and again. I am in my last year of college and I can

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  The Room(s) Where It Happens You've hit submit. What Comes Next?

  

  about how our process works, but I’ll share a little bit about how our ... applications all day, everyday in physical isolation for weeks on end can be ... in need of a second opinion. When I’m really desperate for human

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • January 9, 2019