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  This Is How I Read productivity hacks, but for reading applications

  

  one, but it's a bit different for me right now, because we've started to ... least if, like me, you're a fan of both productivity hacks and science ... 6 AM. I've come to rely on a natural light alarm clock to help me get

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  doing this, but, regardless, it left me with what should have been a ... any day of the week. This left me more time to work on graduate ... -coherent content and an intro paragraph beginning with Lorem ipsum to make me think I

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  law and policy”. When a friend first told me about this, my initial ... for its ‘Chance Me’ threads, where people list their ‘stats’ (numbers ... "]America,[/annotation] but my mom tells me she always thought about it. She says she knew she

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what work is bite-sized senior spring

  

  for me, but not in the conventional sense. i'm insanely comfortable ... with joy and curiosity and energy, which, for me, is so much harder than ... to notice and to contemplate. it's hard for me to really wrap my head

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting for Decision Day In which I give a pep talk of sorts (with a little help from my…

  

  ’re anything like me you’re imagining total embarrassment and an apocalyptic ... limits. Now, you’re probably sick of hearing me ramble. “She’s just one person. She’s a blogger. She’s SUPPOSED to be making me feel better.” So I

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Applying Sideways How to get in to MIT.

  

  me from Raleigh, North Carolina to Atlanta, Georgia and a dozen places ... : Apply sideways. Let me unpack that. When folks ask me this question, it is generally because they want to come to MIT, and they want me to tell

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Women’s Soccer Talking to the 2009 NEWMAC Champs after they returned from the NCAA National Championship Tournament

  

  -management skills and gives them a strong focus. Meghan told me that having such a ... told me about winning the NEWMAC Conference -- but first they told me ... athletes out there. Let me know what other questions you have about soccer or

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 25, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT, part deux The case study of someone else you wouldn't expect to have gotten in

  

  today, and I was planning to write about tests. But Laura beat me to it ... , it was me). He's had a UROP in the Aerospace Controls Laboratory since ... his writing score, since I got a 790 on the writing SAT II. Me: "Does

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  dominating College Confidential and the blog comments makes me sad. I ... . Reading through this thread doesn’t make me think of SAT scores or grades. It makes me think of the guy who fell in love with trains as a kid and

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 16, 2004
• Blog / About Decisions

  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  half an hour, eating my lunch, and the wind is getting to me. I could ... wasn’t right for me. In the 5 minutes since I started writing this post ... , opportunities afterward, location, weather, “fit”, and so on. For me, facets like

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • April 20, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  AOs write the “What do you do for fun?” essay Ever wondered what admissions officers do when they're not reading applications?

  

  ’ve never met, a person who technically doesn’t exist. Let me explain. When I ... June, and each time, something new resonates with me—the nerve ... the purest, most authentic ways for me to express my emotions. There

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Pictures from a Semester of Classes The Sequel Society Didn't Know It Needed

  

  of people crowd the halls to get photos of it...including me ... method really helped me draw the line between what I did and didn't know in ... ; So the weekend flew by with me reviewing pretty much everything except

  • by Richard O. '28
  • December 29, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Home Under the Dome sorority recruitment, tips, and my experience

  

  helped me appreciate the Panhel community as a whole – it’s cool that, when ... , and while it does take effort, trust me, it’s worth it. The PRCs will ... bit more about the recruitment process, let me give you a quick run

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • August 14, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  sea glass turbulent waves in these parts

  

  , it probably would’ve affected me less to just power through with a ... advisor about this, who were so kind to me as I melted into a puddle of ... and life stories, they reassured me that the choice to stop had been a

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 5, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  “what could be” always gets me. Imagining pasts that never were, futures ... how past-me decided to act, a function of my choices and values. We ... want to be now. But I know that past-me made the best decisions that he

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 16, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to Crying on Campus It’s right about that time of year.

  

  working on any of them, and it’s already around 9:45 PM. If you’re like me ... ’d like to cry with me, feel free - I’ll bring tissues. The East Campus music room, where you can probably find me crying/angrily singing: The

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 16, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  17 Things I’ve Learned in the Past Year growing, growing, grown

  

  particularly dark and volatile period of my life, I am grateful that it shaped me ... understand how much the onus is on me to look out for and take care of myself ... friend told me they were being treated in x way, I would tell them to get

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “You know what would be cool?” some pizza would be a start...

  

  with a severe mental disorder in an MRI. This makes me want to wear a ... cool that is. That's nothing short of exhilarating to me, to know that the people eating lunch at Subway next to me are future Nobel Laureates

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Iron Man, MIT ‘87 (?) After 21 last month, another MIT movie.

  

  , a.k.a. Tony Stark, be an MIT alum got me interested in the movie ... spoil it). If you do stay through the credits, do me a favor -- watch ... (Google has failed me on this one). It's towards the end of the credits

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  existence was me just being an invested ally reeeeaaaalllllllllyyy interested ... 's possible and it may take work and time and care, but trust me when I say that ... more to my coming out journey than this - the me coming out to people

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