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  Dragons A blog post for deferred students (and everybody else waiting on decisions).

  

  to say, if I could go back in time to four years ago—I would try to ... application in, and how I felt about each activity. For example, I was musical ... , which they would have done if they were sure I wouldn’t fit in or survive

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

  Why I Chose MIT On deciding where to go, now that you're in

  

  yourself how you spend your time and money. The school you choose in the next ... in your decision and prepared to give yourself to it fully. I think ... years. At Penn State I was at least a year younger than everyone in my

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 29, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  took a few days/weeks to settle in. I got some congratulations at school - my best friend told me that some kids were betting on how long I would ... computer, opening up the MyMIT page that I hadn't visited in a few months. I

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 17, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  some warmth on a cold decisiony day "there have been times that I thought I couldn't last for long / but now…

  

  smoothly. BUT: I hadn't thought at all about how I would feel in the days ... answer to many more things in life than I would have expected: in your ... [/annotation]vividly, as though it's only been a month.   I knew I would be nervous

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 13, 2018
• 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 ... wonderfully exhilarating all at the same time. There would be hopeful, "I'm getting in! I'm getting in!" moments, followed by, "they'll never take me

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 8, 2006
• 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 / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Is My Home Looking back and saying goodbye

  

  things I would do if I could do MIT all over again. In my four years at ... ... ^^;) A group photo from ASA Senior night Despite how involved I was in so ... communities to love, and how quickly I have found the love returned. In DPhiE we

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what am i doing great question.

  

  praying that seniority would work in my advantage helped. I also desperately ... in August. But #5 has been giving me nightmares--or it would, if I ... irrationally) fearing that I would be starving in June. The answer to that

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  How to look over your application and advice about breathing. My older younger brother is your age. I am fully aware of how much you’re…

  

  I was back in the day, or my younger brother is right now, or like ... the question: If I didn’t know myself, what would I think of the person ... Oh man, it has been a while and a half since I’ve blogged. However

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  In the Realm of Giants imposter syndrome with a senior year twist

  

  dashed. Now, I’m stuck in a limbo of trying to figure out [annotation note="though i have some ideas"]what to do,[/annotation] and how to do it as ... something very similar already once in my life, around the first time I

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  . How much effort I’m putting in, the time of day, the last time I ate ... done. I try to work, I really do. I spend time sitting in front of ... . Sometimes I feel like lightning strikes me and I get a project done in three

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 25, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  years ago when I was applying to college, perhaps I would have felt the same way. I've written before about how the class is selected, but I ... library, find a quiet corner, and immerse myself in your lives. I read

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Miss the South Musings on a secret Instagram account

  

  that are relatively unprocessed. I would be doing readers a disservice to lie and say that was me. In real life, I am an opinionated, fast ... in my reservedness is a rare and mythical thing. Most of the time I

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  There are no imposters in the Class of 2018 Strength in networks

  

  excitement and bubbliness, there's insecurity in comments like "I…have NO idea why I was accepted." Of the 80-ish responses to the poll question "How ... as a senior who knows what's ahead, I'm sad. In the fall of 2012, The

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  This story has to do with professor accessibility. And something awesome that I got in the mail.

  

  got in touch with him: “Dear Anna, I would be delighted to talk ... a package slip in my mailbox earlier this week; I passed it to the desk worker, who put a big squishy brown envelope in my hands. I read the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  to get help, I don’t know how my story would have ended. In the event ... channels, about what was going on. How I had an essay due in one of my ... that I didn’t feel anything, not fear, not panic, in response. How

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  shallow. I would look at the time on my phone, then on my laptop, then on my ... before. I was hoping fasting would bring me some sort of ease about what ... ; however, it was all for naught the moment my efforts would matter most. I

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice you’ve heard before and a story you haven’t you can just skip to the pictures if you want to, I wont be offended.

  

  mandatory-attendance HASS class. The advantages? I got to sleep in later. I got to "save time" that would otherwise have been spent in class. I got ... roared in wintry fury outside. I got to brag about not going to class and

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  some of the side characters, and I would have read both books in three ... things other than science, technology, or engineering”, and I would like ... partners in crime, my enemies, my friends. I had a wild imagination as a kid

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

  Do I have a story for you… *SPOILER* I do

  

  in the sand about what would break me, where I'd decide enough is too ... 's senior class is the group that came in right as I left. How I am now that ... 's insane. Equal in insanity magnitude is I became a blogger in 2008, which

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 10, 2014