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  MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )

  

  ) Get your 7 hours of sleep. You're not going to get more done in that ... to get me into medical schools, but also means that I always get a ... degrees). * To my credit, I was fluent in Python prior to entering MIT, so

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [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
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  Beacon Hill in the Fall More door.

  

  ’s favorite place to go when we need an escape, especially in the late evening ... Longfellow Bridge, which connects MIT to Boston from the Stata Center side of ... is behind us, the Charles River is below us, and Boston is in front of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 17, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Reading aka inhaling all the books i can before school starts

  

  float in and out of your list of movies to watch, but you never quite get ... writing phase in middle and high school. I eventually moved on to RPG video ... didn’t spend slaving over psets was dedicated to getting up to all sorts

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Making Connections we live in a society (affectionate)

  

  A few hours ago, I was on my way to my room in the[annotation note ... ) rainy today, instead of going outside to get from one parallel to the ... such a small thing to notice, but it triggered a cascade of thoughts in

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 26, 2021
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  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  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 ... school, that I'd wake up in a dorm in this school, I'd go to class and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear My Old Friend, This is quite possibly weirdest way to introduce myself

  

  ? there's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I'm too tough for ... 's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I pour whiskey on him ... body will get old eventually. Our sister’s in Chicago working as a

  • by ana~
  • September 24, 2021
• 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 ... own opinion of which ques was more important, and how to answer in viva ... guys who were in this were expected to make a small java software which

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

  Upside Down Gnomes From Wisconsin Always look up.

  

  I need to be, something I need to be doing, but there's no way to get ... dangling in the air, wondering what it’d be like to walk on the ceiling ... chalk. (If only to finally get some sleep.) We all sometimes wish we could

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 26, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab How to lose a phone in 90 seconds

  

  in the Media Lab like to have fun. And now the story gets exciting ... island in an ocean, but it’s going to start with me at a desk in an office ... . It turned out to be for my grad student (I say “my”, but in reality I

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This Bathroom Ceiling Some science, some fiction: traverse the space and time of our bathroom ceiling.

  

  for things if I want to make any headway in what for the sake of what I ... , can’t I? Wow! Wow! That feels great! Doesn’t seem to achieve very much ... a vacation to the moon in a homemade rocket in A Grand Day Out with

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  always judge harsher in hindsight, just because it’s easier to; we know how ... ” or “tenet”). In response to “how’s it going”, I sometimes respond with ... I wanted to do earlier in college? What if I had taken those harder

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

  tyrannosaurus REX the prefrosh are coming, the prefrosh are coming!

  

  !"]sophomore[/annotation]and as I drive to MIT for Year 2 (I'm writing this in the car :D), I can't help but be viscerally reminded of how it all felt to me last year ... , could well be applied to life in general): Do it your way, not anyone

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 20, 2019
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  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  told me to come down. So I put all my things in the locker and ran to the ... somewhat lightened up as I witnessed how many people stopped by to ask where ... first arrived in the US from Vietnam, I literally didn’t understand how

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

  Diversity or Merit? false questions, false answers

  

  get in or will / will not be accepted because they are a woman / a ... is one thing that all students admitted to MIT have in common. And that ... . On our What To Do In High School page, we say this of our application

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

  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  the end of the semester I found it hard to get myself out of bed in the ... see this word in academic memes so who knows"]how to bring that broad ... to be [annotation note="in Greek, eudaimonia. this is the standard

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021
• 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 ... which you are used to seeing in print. (ii) Never use a long word where ... in the merits of the first blog in regards to a long college admissions

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
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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 / Academics & Research

  HNY from NYC for IAP, 2016 time passes so quickly, help

  

  to get ahead on coursework--but the flesh is so, so weak. My family rang in the new year at home with a power outage. I’ve since relocated to ... Happy 2016! (By the way: 2016 = 2^5*3^2*7, in case you need the

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 3, 2016
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  An actual day in the life It's not the most exciting day... but it's a day!

  

  , I manage to discombobulate the tiny bones in my wrist, and we all get ... prospectives to a day in the life of an MIT student, I have rather uncreatively decided to present An Actual Day in My Life, Fall 2005 Version. 8:15 -- The

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 27, 2005