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  Note To Self Please don't forget this.

  

  smile, then say: "I learned a lot." I remember how I felt when I first ... on less, and if it had, I would always wonder whether I could have done ... : "How was your first year at MIT?" After a billion failed attempts (most

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

  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  while. In short, I would not be quite so quickly alone at the end of the ... to know that I would see them again in the fall. I felt happy that ... : What comes next? How do I prioritize the people and activities in my life

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

  16 for the 16’s 16 Guidelines to Making the Most of your CPW

  

  here. N: I can't tell you how many parents were on dorm tours and at ...   N = Nat, K = Kirsten 1. Don't buy ANY food! N: One of the best ... friends that they met over CPW!! I wish I met more people over cpw :( N

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 18, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  would be like, how to solve hard problems, and how to care for myself, I ... lines to strategize how last-minute I can rush to pee before the last ... subjects, I would shrug and figure I just wasn't ‘naturally' good at e

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advisor vs. Advisee a '07 and a '21 answer a series of questions

  

  -19 vaccine recently and to be completely honest did not think I would ... you’re struggling with right now?  Bryan: I struggle with how to be an ... thinking. Afeefah: Recently, I've been struggling with understanding how to

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thank you for reading A rigorous study of 26-year-olds (n=1) showed that getting older is positively correlated to the…

  

  confidence in my writing, and allowed me so many opportunities that I would ... never a question of whether I would write it or not. The true update on my ... that I would never have reached otherwise. It is the worst, most soul

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Some people call me the space cowgirl

  

  horchata (yummy Mexican drink). I wanted to tell you a little about the last file I read. Yes, she had a sub-1400 SAT score, but you should have seen the strong case I made for her. Why? Partially because she reminded me a

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

  Fit or happiness made easy

  

  Nearly nine months after getting into MIT, one question I continue to ask myself is "am I in the right place?" How do we know when we get ... right place would be the one with the right "fit". I know by September

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a freshman year 🦴🧠🩸🖐️🫀 my first year at mit, told through the body

  

  for how i did in a class, and that i would never be forced to share a ... bones there would be no body without the bones. just how there would ... compared to the classes in my major that i would take later on. but i saw a

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Bleary-eyed Some thoughts and reflections on this year's admission cycle - particularly for those not admitted.

  

  would be times I'd take a step back, and just reflect upon how everything ... them, I thought back upon the months of January and February, and how I ... - wake up, committee, dinner, email, (attempted) sleep. I knew there would

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 16, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  smoke and spice my comfort meal

  

  their own take and I enjoyed all of them. I love my Thai culture and how ... they could have a little bit, to which I would enthusiastically respond ... how to make it. As I did, they jotted down notes and prodded with

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 9, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  about how I was faster. 80wpm!!! Throughout middle school, I was a proud ... ’ people, knowing that I would win. But as I moved up in the hierarchy of ... the doubt left that I was smart. Maybe this would’ve been fine, except

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  the kind of person I would become, a risk on how much I'd enjoy work I ... . But I didn’t expect that when it came time to write that blog, I would ... don’t know exactly how well I’ll like the work I do, what projects I

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • April 20, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An actual day in the life It's not the most exciting day... but it's a day!

  

  (This seemed like a really good idea for an entry when I was on my bike coming home from cheerleading. If you disagree... don't tell me. I ... prospectives to a day in the life of an MIT student, I have rather uncreatively

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 27, 2005
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  A Comprehensive Guide to My Favorite Places on Campus can't leave without making one more post of this format

  

  amazing view at night. My parents would always comment on how lucky I was to ... and peaceful at night. There would be lots of bunnies. I'd be surrounded ... here much, but when I did, it was mostly just to admire how aesthetic it

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  rare that the piece felt too valuable to publish. I would’ve kept the ... have to do it all over again. Would I do it again? Yes, and I have two ... This week, I am fulfilling my dream of taking over the Admissions

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
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  All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)

  

  need to know about how to live, and what to do, and how to be, I learned ... the very least, I learned how to be a better friend. Play fair. Five ... Street more than I ever thought I would. People are more than the little

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  ’t imagine how much it would terrify me if I read this sort of thing before ... Today on social media, I was greeted with an article about how one ... score number. Let me tell you how I ended up here. As a senior in high

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
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  [Guest Post] You Have a 50/50 Chance a guest post from my mama

  

  . I told myself whatever happens I would be there for her with a smile ... -not-so-inside joke about how I got into MIT on merit of being /extremely/ quirky ... . "What if I don't get in?" "Am I good enough?" (That is a question we all

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  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 ... Over the years, I have discovered that just about anything can be

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 11, 2008