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  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 ... about as long as I was in college, which is an incredibly weird feeling ... themselves (and are all probably making way more money than I do, since I'm in

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• 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 ... compared to the classes in my major that i would take later on. but i saw a ... , crayon pictures of whatever scene i was imagining in my mind. i would “sell

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

  Application dreaming

  

  majoring in BME. I am a published poet in my country. Should I send my book ... "diverse" or "confused about goals"?   In the past week, I have read ... 're excited about. While I was in California in early October, I started to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  . PhD in hand, I thought I would drop in (hello!) and share some thoughts ... terms of how I learn best and what I want from life. In grad school I ... . I had been given permission to call in from my office on campus. Two

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  myself. Then I would go home to my apartment in Watertown and read, and ... indoor track, mentally planning what I would do in the case of a zombie ... would be like, how to solve hard problems, and how to care for myself, I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] You Have a 50/50 Chance a guest post from my mama

  

  . "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 ... competitive in the end). I tried to balance this stressful atmosphere by

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  at every turn. But, I knew how this would end, of course, because I ... rather not give it in such a zombie-like state. As I knew they would (few ... inevitably be done in the twenty-four hours before it's due. Procrastination, I

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the bridges I’ve crossed in Cambridge, ranked my civil engineering hat is off

  

  , not realizing just how quickly it would drive down Cambridge Street. I ... in structural engineering. I’ve taken many classes where we’ve pondered ... how modern science interacts with our current environment and I also

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?

  

  who had placed in the Intel Science Fair. I looked up how to win ... .   The disingenuity doesn’t end here. A couple of weeks later I would read ... partner in this start-up is just as disingenuous.  Personally, I think the

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Group Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Survivors three bloggers face the horrors of public transit

  

  excuse is that I forgot to sign up in the previous years. But that isn ... would make me change my mind. I’m also not that good at solving puzzles, especially when I’m under pressure. Getting jumpscared in front of friends is

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Pretender a message to both you and me.

  

  Student program, where I would follow around a student for a day to get a feel for MIT life. And I fell in love with it. I wanted to go to MIT more than anything else in the world. I had already submitted my EA

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  6. In this post, I reflect on previous Yultide posts, in a quasi ... rare that the piece felt too valuable to publish. I would’ve kept the ... in the works, but I might need another Yultide for motivation to finish

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ten reflections on mit

  

  -experiencing the awe of “how in the world did I get in”, the hope that I had for what ... because of, or in spite of, MIT)? How will MIT change? I guess we’ll see ... ’s campus — and I’ve spent the past week thinking about how it has been a

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 15, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Some people call me the space cowgirl

  

  , which would make some in the audience gasp ("She got into MIT with those ... whose application I just read was like Pink in many ways. She came from a ... admissions [I] have seen in [my] time, both as a student and as an admissions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  everything i made this year (mostly)

  

  , and often I find myself wondering how things would be if I had stepped ... Wow I haven’t blogged in one million years! I feel like I’ve written ... year, in order to 1) see what actually happened and 2) figure out what I

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 1, 2025
• 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 ... score number. Let me tell you how I ended up here. As a senior in high ... told them about how media has played such a huge role in shaping who I am

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
• 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 ... , in true form, what the term "bleary-eyed" really means. Mind you, I was ... sleep every 30 hours or so for a week. In other words, I've had my fair

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

  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  get in than people like us.” In order to fit in I would laugh and try to ... experiences.   I was waiting in line with my head more or less glued to my cellphone screen. I was moderately aware of how I looked, my 3M

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  past few weeks about how terribly hosed people are, I thought I'd bring ... environment!). (Btw, I find it funny that in Ben's original post, he wrote ... in fact I'm not sure I have anything to offer in comparison to the rest

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hard MIT Class ...or is that redundant? And yes, hiiiiii.

  

  light, or learned how to in bruised capacities. But even then, there was ... . It was fun. How could they say that? Am I really gonna take this class ... swimming. I detested it. It made my stomach roll in folds. Did MIT care

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015