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  Admissions advice from someone who’s been there

  

  applicants. I can't speak for other schools, but if you are making a pure ... -academic risk-taking). You can demonstrate risk-taking with a difficult high ... get it because you listed the activity. There are a lot of other

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 17, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Some Advice Sometimes I wish I could tell freshman-me that everything's going to be okay

  

  's life a little better when (and because) you can. 17) Dating is weird and ... exploring. That being said, sleep is a wonderful thing that you shouldn ... your head is important. Once you make something, you can start fixing it

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” and other ways to improve your test scores

  

  There is empirical evidence to support the idea that males have a ... .53… wait a second, what? As it turns out, there is zero statistically ... ’s, uh, not great. There is something of a solution to all of this: one

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Reflecting on 10 Years and Lessons Learned Happy Birthday, MIT Blogs!

  

  where you can vent, cry, or just take a break. For me, Home was BMF Floor ... , Year 2: You Can Always Learn and Improve This is a tricky lesson to ... application processes – this is about the worst thing you can do when applying

  • by Kim D. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Mark Zuckerberg Visits MIT NBD.

  

  00b. So, sorry Mark. Can't help you out, but Rachel can! There are ... ?! And my response is yes, there was definitely some degree of novelty to ... might regret later on, it's - and this is a direct quote - "Making the

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself on choosing a college, and realizing one of many possible futures

  

  how any college will shape you, you can often infer a general sense of ... Sam, because that is not his name. As we sat on a bench in Lobby 7, Sam ... him, is that there is no right answer, only different ones. His two

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends

  

  Kiyoe."]where I can find a gym.[/annotation] In March, when everything ... room. However, there is a narrow, uneven, paved parking spot next to the ... This is a long belated blog post; it's been a busy summer. But I didn

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
• 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…

  

  there is this life, the life without my sister. My sister died in a car ... . It has now been almost been a year, and while there is no happy ending ... is a gift that I can either view in one of two ways: one that I will

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fig. 6: Eigenverantwortung The time of my life. What responsibilities?

  

  person and realise there is a $40 or something fee, but what else are you ... clogged for a few days and you freak out but luckily there is this lovely ... homeless in a new country.  When you get your ETH email, forward your

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • August 28, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  There Is No Formula A formula would take the human component out of our process, which is perhaps the…

  

  you read an application and a “perfect match” is there. Please don ... This whole “is there a formula to get into MIT” thing that’s been ... everyone, even if they belong here. The best we can do is try to build a

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 16, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.

  

  totally different experience at MIT. You’re a little more independent; there’s ... MIT or is there now: give yourself a break to LIVE. Take stretch ... . The TV show in fact is older than many of you applying to MIT right now

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  10 Things I Learned 1st Semester Yeap.

  

  deliver so you can still have froyo in a warm comfy room." Crap. 2 ... America, which is a HASS history class, and there were many papers to write ... . There are times during the endless p-setting night when you just neeeeed a

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 24, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  College Shopping List Everybody do the shopping cart!

  

  want to cook is up to you. I suggest learning how because it can be a lot ... need, and where you should buy it, and what you should bring from home or ... , which is a lot more efficient. But here are things you SHOULD bring: 1

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 26, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  against MIT's Premed Data stats, we can talk a bit more freely: My MCAT is ... History major is in this category). This probably gives you a sense of my ... you can get a good grade in the course, not so that you can beat out

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Defying That Sinking Feeling On learning to swim and envisioning success

  

  defense: growing and improving is a gradual, human process where you ... . Money can't buy a pivotal moment to crush to smithereens your bad habits and rebuild new ones. Money can't purge your fears out of you. That's a

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 29, 2010
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  You Are Here a list of things i can't make myself do, and a few i can

  

  to continue learning and studying like nothing is wrong.  There are a ... leading me down a place where I can never recover from? It’s extreme to ... , there are a lot of things I can do, even if they feel much more

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 19, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [joint post] we visited every station on the MBTA and the Logan Airport Rental Car Center

  

  ought to begin this post with a motivation. CJ: Motivation? There was motivation for what we did? Alan: …not really. But there is, at the very least ... Line’s SL3 route, which,[annotation note="there is so, so much MBTA lore

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  As We Approach Decision Day On getting in and on not getting in

  

  magic didn’t happen. MIT is not a magic wonderland. There are grades. There’s a lot of work. There are times when you are happy, and then there ... know you’ve put in a lot. Here is my deep life advice, for the next week

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 8, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The Great Wifi Outage of 2007 Burton-Conner's wifi went out two days ago; Evan will tell you more by the end…

  

  undergraduate programs, and your GPA is just a number. It puts you in a category ... colleges. Otherwise, you can just get a letter written by your school ... someone whipped their shirt around their head and declared, "YOU CAN TAKE

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Queer at MIT, but not on the blogs the map is not the territory, but it's getting closer

  

  anything you take away from this story, it’s that shame is really not a fun ... putting work and time and care into yourself is worth it. There is a lot ... about it   Also because Jamaica is a real very homophobic country

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018