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  It’s More Than A Job Thoughts On The Eve Of RA Decisions

  

  having known you. If you've had an interview, I get to read about how you come across in person to someone you've just met - how your face lights ... a few who really got to me, and when they didn't get in, the tears

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  so much at MIT just to get a B in our premed classes that we are forced ... have in the comments about being premed and I will get back to you. :) ... : "So where do you go to school?" ME: "Oh, I go to school in Boston

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Blogural Inaugural I just wanted to use this title.

  

  sure how to represent the enormous beast that is MIT, I figured I'd start ... : Boring 101 Honors Boring How to Be Pretentious Polo Shirts (Intro ... night, I get to put on pants*, step back from a crazy work-filled day, and

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  MIT has brought its own set of failures. It's hard not to get hung up on ... [/caption] Throughout high school I was often lost in confusion. I like to think about ... thing. In my senior year, I used a Google Doc as an agenda to keep track

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

  To whom much is given… ...you know the rest!

  

  opportunities and has made choices about how to use those opportunities. I won ... benefit from and contribute to this community, so to have the people in your ... have done to help you get to where you are, not only by telling them so

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 13, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  towards the college search process. I hoped to get in somewhere, but I ... score number. Let me tell you how I ended up here. As a senior in high ... get in (‘Reach,’ ‘Comfort,’ and ‘Safety’) with a breakdown of

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

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

  

  molding was littered with a lot of "um I don't know how to say this in ... taught me how to stand up for myself, hold others accountable, and take ... creative community, decided to take me in. I'm excited for what's in store

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 24, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There is no such thing as a typical day on energy levels and productivity

  

  . On those days, I get a lot done. I find myself able to work for like ... done. I try to work, I really do. I spend time sitting in front of ... , trying to write a blog post. And on these days, I get constantly distracted

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 25, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why My 5.13 Problem Set Took All Day Moral of the story: Don't procrastinate, or I'll never talk to you again.

  

  to wear velcro." I have never, ever been one to get anything done ... myself that if I get it done now I won't have to worry about it later, and ... possible way for me to get done before 4 AM. Here's exactly why it took me so

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hacking A performance art that lets students remind the teachers who's smarter.

  

  Facilities stared at it in awe, not quite sure what to think. How, erm, how ... . There are times when I get asked, out of the blue, what made me decide to ... that have happened at MIT. In a nut shell, a hack is an addition to the

  • by Snively '11
  • June 7, 2008
• 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 ... really engaged in my education during high school. Yet you get to college ... me if I haven't written back to you in the past few weeks. This

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

  The future isn’t the answer reflecting on anxiety

  

  near emotional meltdown in front of Logan International Airport to get me ... -stomach feelings I get when it gets bad in response to these imaginary threats my ... going to go wrong, no matter how unlikely or disproportionate to the

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  an admissions blogger I only have 23 minutes left, so time to get cracking. 1. Why and how I became an admissions blogger In eighth grade, I ... because I liked to read the blogs. A few years later, I spent a summer in

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

  Applying Sideways How to get in to MIT.

  

  , which is this: How do I get in to MIT? And here is what I tell them ... them something they can do that will get them in. Maybe they need to be ... in and of itself will get you in to MIT. For example: A few years ago

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  Canvas, so Stellar might be in the procss of getting phased out. Regardless ... about how it feels to run out of extensions for 6.009 (Fundamentals of ... Messenger group chats to do a little analysis and see if I could get any

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  self-confidence in my ability to get into such a well-known and ... took a few days/weeks to settle in. I got some congratulations at school ... MIT, and I know how it feels to be sort of "rejected," because even

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

  50 Things Advice for the class of 2010.

  

  half of your class at some point in the next four years. Get used to it ... journal in taking you back to your favorite moments. Take naps in the ... from you too - in fact, that's part of the reason they chose to be

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Some people call me the space cowgirl

  

  lot of a student who used to work in our office, who we'll call "Pink ... Monica's high school) "dared" me to talk about "how many real fluke ... Jones: There's only one way to get into MIT, and it's the hard way. What

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2004
• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  to deny just how much of a curmudgeon I have become. I’m pretty sure ... difference in perspective relating to what applying to college is supposed to ... journalists appreciate. I have the luxury of being able to be a purist in this

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the exclusion of everything else on making decisions, and how i chose mit

  

  how they manipulated me into believing I have to get everyone’s approval ... fourth post in a four-part series, so here’s some context. I went to the ... Boston. It got delayed, so I had to stay in Boston for another night

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020