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

  

  , 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 ... ’t understand. It took a bit of time for me to start working as hard as I did in

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / Advice

  You don’t have to be a founder move slow and fix things

  

  wouldn't win a science fair. When I went to a party in SF this summer ... consensus was, in the best-case, five years. The "upper limit" for how long it ... is to replace something so large, in both time and money. If I had to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 29, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Chose MIT On deciding where to go, now that you're in

  

  yourself how you spend your time and money. The school you choose in the next ... in your decision and prepared to give yourself to it fully. I think ... years. At Penn State I was at least a year younger than everyone in my

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 29, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Avatar and Desserts Exploring Food Art

  

  with bending and how they can work in harmony or clash, and I love the ... how I was going to represent those episodes on a plate. In the weeks it ... to figure out how to use it. In this project, I knew I wanted to focus

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • December 10, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The rise and fall of CPW all the cpw history, plus proof the weather machine is fake

  

  meetings with the faculty. Now, I know how easily gossip can get amplified ... like to live in the week everything was canceled. I can imagine that if I ... 't overstate how important I think housing is in making CPW work. During our

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2021
• 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

  Mind and hand

  

  classes I've taken, is what I can do. I can code, if not terribly well, in ... some of them. I can use wood and metal files. I can re-key the pins in a ... 't particularly meaningful. It's a slogan that sounds cute. In the case of MIT, I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 3, 2006
• 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 ... I said I'd do in a zombie apocalypse, and don't remember how I said I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Favorite Classes at MIT! survey says...

  

  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 ... in history. From colonial American traditions, to how food can initiate

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

  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

  I Miss the South Musings on a secret Instagram account

  

  , carefully revising every sentence so that I can communicate it in whatever ... lie and say that was me. In real life, I am an opinionated, fast ... in my reservedness is a rare and mythical thing. Most of the time I

  • by Ella T. '25
  • October 1, 2022
• 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 / Best of the Blogs

  demons on depression

  

  can draw a banana. In all respects, I can act like someone who is ... retrospect, I can understand why she'd reacted like this. How could I have felt ... pulling down the mental lever of how much I liked myself, and in the worst

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 28, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT, part deux The case study of someone else you wouldn't expect to have gotten in

  

  on how I got here is the most popular thing I've ever written ... physics... and a 450 in writing. (Note: Adam and I are always warring about ... , pictures of rockets on the wall -- and I can't imagine he hadn't dreamed of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m not an imposter… I’m going to be featured on the MIT News homepage

  

  how you compare to anyone else directly. I remember in high school ... list in my head of everyone who had done better than me to see how I ... of their classes in high school; I was worried about how horrible the

  • by ana~
  • October 29, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] We’re Not in ~Kansas~ Missouri Anymore Going From a Small Town to Boston, by Claire S. '25

  

  concentration of college students. There are more colleges than I can count in the ... -school-senior-me didn’t know how to answer. So I gave the only response I knew for sure: “Definitely not in a big city.” I’d spent my entire life in a small town in

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 17, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  10 Things I Learned 1st Semester Yeap.

  

  -yogurt-more-endearingly-“Froyo”. I can’t count how many “Ordering Indian in 10! Come to Room # if you want in!” emails I've gotten over these past few months. My family eats ... Central Jersey, I can’t help but reminisce about 1st semester and MIT. I can

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 24, 2009
• 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

  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