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

  

  you. I know you also feel tired.  It’s difficult for me to know how I ... favourite phrases to use lately has been “I don't know how to explain that ... ? there's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I'm too tough for

  • by ana~
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Being “qualified” for MIT Let me show you how it's done.

  

  enough, all kinds of plants seem to adopt tree form. I talked about how ... handed me a complete horse chestnut, and showed me how to open it. As I ... " or "Leadership" that you get to put on your transcript. I'm not an

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  What I Did in High School in the actual sense of the phrase

  

  asked if I knew how to play Connect Four, to which I responded with a ... , but I ended up getting to know her because Robby would always bring me ... ’s not what I wanted to write about. Instead, here’s a genuine account of

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ten reflections on mit

  

  to MIT for a science research camp, and I remember hearing about how ... , I didn’t want to get my hopes up about getting in. In hindsight, I ... -experiencing the awe of “how in the world did I get in”, the hope that I had for what

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 15, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  with and still acknowledge how important they are to me. I don’t feel ... haven’t learned how to walk. --- Recently I played Typeracer again. I ... about how I was faster. 80wpm!!! Throughout middle school, I was a proud

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  . I learned how to float, on my chest and on my back, with the floater ... ’t have to tell me about that. I knew it. Hours spent fixated on a problem ... , when I had to spend the first night reading twenty dense pages of Plato

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  ’m prone to tripping over myself), so I wasn’t getting a lot of encouragement ... and read some of my old MITblog entries from time to time when I get ... that I did in my head to write the above statement, so I wrote it down

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

  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  what that word means to me) and we chat a little bit. 10.10 am: I get ... . 10.25 am: I gather up my stuff and walk back to my room to get dressed ... 's supposed to start getting actually warm in a few days, which I hope comes

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  again, in wide-eyed wonder that I get to choose which classes I can take ... come up with the advice when I need to. But if this was true, then how do ... development, and how to shoot things and hit them. I've learned how to use a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  everything i made this year (mostly)

  

  .. I need to get back on the grind 🏃 5 - a ceramic fountain that melted ... paper, this sounds really cool, and I was super excited to get started ... posters. As we round out 2024, I wanted to audit my creative output this

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 1, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Today I hit my TA with a door I didn't MEAN to.

  

  advertising how sweet it is that I get to pick my instructor). And it ... confused, because he was you not too long ago, and how to get you out of that ... particularly difficult problem sets that you have no idea how to start. I also

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 7, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions advice from someone who’s been there

  

  was a middle-school cross country and road runner, I used to get ... and the Internet. One of the things I was doing to fill the time was ... , which is why I'm going to reprint my first-ever College Confidential post

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

  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 ... , but we are all like that. "I can't wait to get out of here. I am willing

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  señoritis navigating work/life balance - and spring break photos

  

  great to send out warm fuzzy greetings, but i received one question ... ? what if there is too much work? what if i want to just be a crazy college ... into MIT. but i think the trick is to define what the "life" part of

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 28, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes I Won’t Be Able to Take also "What Is Pre-Registration?"

  

  you don't get to take the HASS you want to take that semester. I ... only have a year left at MIT, and there's no way I'm going to get to take ... serve as the repository of courses that I likely won't get to fit into my

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 23, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  So Chance Me Maybe? Hey! I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my SAT...

  

  needed to get serious about applications very, very soon, so I hopped on ... Confidential had the answers to all of my questions - about how I should approach ... that I was getting rejected. That’s the truth. Last September, I was

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Grown Up Well, not quite.

  

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 26, 2012
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  [Guest Post] We’re Not in ~Kansas~ Missouri Anymore Going From a Small Town to Boston, by Claire S. '25

  

  -school-senior-me didn’t know how to answer. So I gave the only response I knew for sure ... of people roaming Boston together, while I was still trying to get my bearings and figure out how to use public transportation (the “T”). I started

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 17, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  how to change policies at mit [joint post with Rona W.] our CUP of tea

  

  enrolls next year (and for years to come). How did these changes come about ... . Ultimately, the faculty members on CUP chose the four of us! Rona: I chose to ... , Arts, and Social Sciences) Requirement the previous year. Getting to

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 28, 2021
• 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 other, I went down to the basement to walk through the tunnel that

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 26, 2021