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  Feeling Many Feelings :) and :( and everything in between about decisions

  

  I have a lot of feelings. It doesn’t take much to make me cry ... mid-conversation that I’ve been animatedly [annotation note="If I had a ... told me to chill and “be cool” in selection committee – I told her that

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • March 16, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  the problem in a way that took 20x longer than it should have and said ... ... what about the academics?? I graduated with a 4.8 GPA (out of 5.0) - and ... should have a disclaimer that I studied biology while I was here

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / Featured Blogs

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

  

  :45am my advisor texted me saying I should come back in. The chair tried ... and went to grad school I thought I had figured a lot of things out, in terms of how I learn best and what I want from life. In grad school I

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

  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  up and check in. Nikayah and AudreyRose were friends before joining ... A few weeks ago, I called three friends, AudreyRose ‘21, Nikayah ‘19 ... decide whether or not they’d like to live in a fraternity. It’s also a

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  I Really Just Cannot Write Anymore of My Thesis I wish I can bang out essays like blog entries.

  

  's nothing else to throw up, so maybe I should take a mini-break? All the ... thesis first ;) so I'll just provide a brief update of what I've been up to ... where I will ultimately end up for med school (that comes in a few weeks

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  How To Make Mediocre Furniture well, maybe i'll let you be the quality judge

  

  in this closet just a couple miles away. After the loft, I learned my ... roommates are involved in ESP, so of course, I hear a lot about it. "Hey, you ... . I picked what we were going to make: a replacement for a makeshift

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 17, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  A Half-Century Retrospective Revisiting the MIT Application from the 1972–1973 admissions cycle

  

  again in person. I didn’t make it quick, after all. After spending a few ... a VHS player handy? I’d love to see what’s on this tape."]VHS tape ... self-reliance are central in M.I.T.’s educational philosophy. A strong

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Let’s Go Fly A Kite Up to decision night!

  

  afford to relax. I read an interesting article in the New York Times a few weeks ago. You all should check it out, and rejoice at the number near the ... myself that I do, in fact, have free will. For example, on a whim, I

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  The end of a chapter

  

  studying abroad, I thought I should do a little reflection on my experience ... a disease, in my mind I think of the mechanisms of infection ... said, I did think about MIT a lot during my stay in Cambridge. At the

  • by Linh V. '13
  • July 8, 2012
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  College Shopping List Everybody do the shopping cart!

  

  need, and where you should buy it, and what you should bring from home or what you should wait to buy in Cambridge? Who comes from far away and ... refrigerators, so you should check on that, but living in Next House we needed to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 26, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Note To Self Please don't forget this.

  

  smile, then say: "I learned a lot." I remember how I felt when I first arrived here: like I had no limit to what I could take on. That if I just ... realized that learning where one's limits are can be a very good thing. I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Africans@MIT: Cassava Connection Part 1 of a series, starring a man, a plan, and a root vegetable.

  

  meet back in 5 years. I propose a semi-joking plan to export organic rice to China (“guys, I’m telling you, I have a relative in this business ... go to execute projects in very difficult situations. I realized a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  Express, I'm in short sleeves. A few minutes ago, I got up to stretch my ... someone who happened to live here—this is what I'm going to be like in the ... to grow and proliferate in a way it could not have before. The bulk of

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  . I sat down in our room for a couple minutes, staring at his empty bed ... months, I knew this room was a place I was guaranteed to stay in for a ... in the student center closed. I went on a stream with the admitted

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  I Miss the South Musings on a secret Instagram account

  

  different. I am of the opinion that there should be a latency between what we ... in my reservedness is a rare and mythical thing. Most of the time I ... one could experience together in a single day. I miss the tornados and

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

  A Day in the Life Liveblog of my Thursday complete with (not so great) pictures

  

  to have another reason to visit.   Every Thursday I have a check-in ... I really enjoyed Ana's recent post about a single day in her life, so ... pursuing a career in writing or the media industry. I'm hoping to interview

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 15, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  the sound of a wake-up phone call. I checked in at the Bush Room and ... from what it was just a few hours ago. By the time I arrive in East ... I get it. There have been posts about Splash before. There have, in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  time before graduation when a significant portion of the 2016s are in one ... , "I never thought I'd be in a fraternity/sorority." K: You might think ... the dining halls, now's a good time to check them out :) Especially

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

  A Night at the Office A bit longer than I expected.

  

  sounds like there are a lot of people there! Maybe, I should stop by later ... Verde's – come in. 11:29pm: I discover that our slightly eccentric John '98 has a ... As a news editor for The Tech, every couple weeks, I have the

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the Deferred I feel your pain.

  

  should have expected it, that I probably wasn't a good fit for MIT anyway ... . ~*~ I started tossing essay ideas around in my mind soon after the 2009 ... choreographed a dance of my own, and how it felt to grow up in New Zealand. My dad

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 16, 2009