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  A Night at the Office A bit longer than I expected.

  

  content), I finally get around to completing it. With everything in place in ... for quite some time, so people know when to show up in the office, no ... ) asks, “When's the latest I can get my article to you?", to which I

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Gothic You are reading an admissions blog post. You are reading tumblr.

  

  . You don’t know how to get back down. You finish a problem set. There ... opinion piece in The Tech to complain. You get your Brass Rat. You joke ... delete it a new one gets sent out. When asked about how much sleep you

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Figuring out what I want to do with my life personal essay time :)

  

  After I graduate in June, I’m planning to attend grad school and ... interested in airplanes than spacecraft. Three years ago, I planned to graduate ... -year-old high school senior planning to graduate and major in computer science at

  • by Alex M. '21
  • March 5, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  each other. I finally discovered my passion in life, and now I get to put ... for referring  to other bloggers in a blog post)), getting dressed for a ... in the worst imaginable case. Though it ended up taking me 5 years to

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
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  Note To Self Please don't forget this.

  

  tendencies – liking to play a role in deciding how things progress, and are run ... would have preferred to sleep, and had a mini emotional breakdown in my ... think: all the advice in the world couldn't persuade stubborn me to take

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  has become painfully clear that I stand next to no chance of getting in ... how to study on your own in the absence of a teacher or curriculum ... somehow managed not to get them. Recently I took the SATs as well, which I

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012
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  Sunrise, Sunset An MIT-Israel student shares his day

  

  I’m not going to be in a Jewish wedding anytime soon, so far all I can ... here in Israel) is something that forces you to stop. It can be ... want to do when they get out. It means that the MISTI kids are precisely

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  , or that I have grown from it. That will take time to see though, and in ... becoming the person that I want to be? Is the pain on the way to getting ... , in March of 2020, I was the last person to leave my wing of Next House

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 31, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Essay: Yogurt Edition! You like froyo? I like froyo! ^___^V

  

  of flavors, you get to customize it, and experimenting with new flavors ... money in application fees, counselors get mad at you for making them work so much =p, and you have to narrow your list down after you get the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 11, 2008
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  Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who

  

  's the only time a year I get to see many of my friends in-person, and I ... 'll explain this in analogy to how movies are made. We can divide the Hunt into ... with your hobbies to understand them. Every instructor I've met in CMS

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 29, 2023
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  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  's supposed to start getting actually warm in a few days, which I hope comes ... event: any student majoring in EECS can line up to get free food. Usually ... about making it to my 1 pm on time, but I get in line. Luckily, it moves

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Guest Entry: Christina Bognet Supplemental materials to help you through the next few days.

  

  . But you…you're getting into MIT. I know it. How could they not take you?" We agonized and fantasized over getting The Big Envelope (or in Colin ... 'm getting in! I'm getting in!" moments, followed by, "they'll never take me

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 8, 2006
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  Favorite Classes at MIT! survey says...

  

  Studio: How to Design (2) I was able to explore a new field that I hadn ... phenomena in neuroscience to computer science. I enjoyed how it was broken ... , you get to see the night sky in a different way. Through the telescope

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 7, 2020
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  Save Point sleep wake hope

  

  me a while to get my thoughts down on paper (or motherboard, as the ... the meaning of the hack. Hacks, in their purest form, are designed to ... understand what makes them who they are, and why. Getting to know their

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2008
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  [Guest Post] You Have a 50/50 Chance a guest post from my mama

  

  Camille was very nervous when she applied for EA to MIT in 2018. "What if I don't get in?" "Am I good enough?" (That is a question we all ... thoughts in these cute little hover sections because I want my mom to have

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  , things have been crazy busy. (Perhaps at some point, I'll eventually get to ... was actually in response to an admitted student who was deciding whether ... 'll struggle to get good grades (I know grades aren't everything, but I'd like to

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • November 2, 2008
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  The leftmost station on your dial WMBR = awesome campus radio

  

  getting back into bed to watch actors in their mid-twenties pretend to be ... clearly have no idea how to properly manage my time anymore, I decided to ... pretend that's how I've spent the last six weeks. We now return to our super

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  students how likely it is that they will be admitted to each school on their ... selective colleges, is really tough. It's hard to know how to gauge your ... to create a helpful tool.* However, this tool is unhelpful. In fact

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 8, 2011
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  IHTFParadise – A Journey of Depression at MIT Guest entry by Angelina G.

  

  who is depressed. In my experience, I have only been able to get to know ... beautiful Thursday in the New England fall. I walked out of the Convention ... or research; I didn't care to eat; I didn't care to get off my bed. I

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2015
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  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  this particular topic. She is going to guide me in how to make circuits ... not originally intended as a blog; I just wanted to get my thoughts out ... , and on Tuesday the professor emailed me to “check in,” which has never

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021