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• Blog / Admissions

  Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2) My take on the MIT short essays.

  

  narrative -> point -> how it connects to me. In fact, this is what I use ... Mandarin. Eventually, I hope I can work in the field of public health ... account on my.mit.edu so I can actually catch a glimpse at what the new

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Life is Improv say yes

  

  summer camps and in high school. Though I like to think I'm a kind person ... orientation for the class of 2015, in late August. You can see why these ... you make, or strive to make the smartest decisions you can in any

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

  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  (which I mention in my blogger intro). I’ve always thought Jenny was too ... least three other Asian Jenny’s in the class of 2013. Ultimately, I wasn ... diversity of people and options here made me confront the person I was in high

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  An Open Letter to MIT Applicants Don’t Panic (and know where your towel is)

  

  score number. Let me tell you how I ended up here. As a senior in high ... told them about how media has played such a huge role in shaping who I am ... Today on social media, I was greeted with an article about how one

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes, by the Group Chats and their potential replacement, Interstellar!

  

  . Reaccs I didn't send that many messages in most of these chats. However, I ... much between chats. I was a lot more active in some chats than others. However, the proportion of positive to negative reacts didn't reflect how I

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Love In the Time of Corona lots of evidence that the people are the best part of MIT

  

  this sense of nervousness and uncertainty in the air. I had woken up to ... came out, I was sitting in the McCormick lobby, with our Head of House ... did feel joyful. I could have been in a lot of different places when the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me

  

  . *There are some structural causes of burnout in grad school that I am all ... figured out what I wanted out of a career, based on working in the science ... in society as an ethically-minded (at least I hope) science advocate

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later what happened after pi day 2011

  

  the years. You might want to know how I fared in past five years (wow ... tell me what he had been doing in the time since. I thought it was a ... blog it, and he said I could. I've reproduced it in its entirety and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Midsemester Night’s Dream Technically an All-Nighter's Dream, but hey, close enough

  

  to write this post at 5:38 AM. In front of me is an empty Pringles can ... stressed I am, or how much work MIT is, or how to handle it, because I ... ’ll do some data mining and see if I can find updated numbers. Now, anyone

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Back in Time I change my clock back three hours and read headlines on the magazine of the…

  

  The last time I was on an airplane, I was in an aisle seat getting my ... terrorist," they said in my mind the last time I was on an airplane. "She's hiding the goods in her breakfast burrito." The last time I was on an

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Snively’s Cross Stitch Corner I really enjoy cross stitching

  

  I graduated from MIT in 2011. Upon graduating, and while living alone in a city where I knew nobody, I filled my time with new hobbies and ... "things alums do in their free time." In late 2011 I taught myself to cross

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  6. In this post, I reflect on previous Yultide posts, in a quasi ... in the works, but I might need another Yultide for motivation to finish ... . Also in this post, I showed my face for the first time without hiding

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hard MIT Class ...or is that redundant? And yes, hiiiiii.

  

  seemed too tense, my muscles seemed to clench, each time I got in. I can ... light, or learned how to in bruised capacities. But even then, there was ... . It was fun. How could they say that? Am I really gonna take this class

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Entry About Snow ...Even though we don't have any

  

  Over the years, I have discovered that just about anything can be ... was alright and jokingly asked me how many fingers he was holding up. I panicked for a split second when I actually didn't know how many - but then I

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  .   Hey little bro. I wrote this in hopes that you can learn from some ... experiences.   I was waiting in line with my head more or less glued to my cellphone screen. I was moderately aware of how I looked, my 3M

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  sea glass turbulent waves in these parts

  

  ."]Last week[/annotation] I got back [annotation note="how the process for the ... olivia rodrigo"]brutal.[/annotation] Which in part I’ve been expecting. I ... conference due in a month.  I chose… none of them. I chose to withdraw and to

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 5, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  ” or “tenet”). In response to “how’s it going”, I sometimes respond with ... progress I always expected. I don’t feel like I’m in a position where I can ... road, but the start of a new journey. I know that those words can be

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 16, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  knew how it would've ended, I wouldn't have joined in the first place ... again, in wide-eyed wonder that I get to choose which classes I can take ... , 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 / Best of the Blogs

  There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.

  

  December 30th and got in my first fight with my mom about how I was ... that I did in my head to write the above statement, so I wrote it down ... a tear that I’m no longer young.) In 2004, the MIT admissions blogs

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Was Sitting Where You’re Sitting Quick! Click here. :D

  

  planning and editing it and by how many people (also lots). I worked on it in ... blending is seamless. I’m in love with how the piece evolved and ended up ... roof below—I know I must be in the right place. The first floor of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 12, 2015