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  Applying to College vs. Applying to Jobs yes you heard me, the application process NEVER ENDS

  

  internships during the school year is quite nearly a full-time job. And just ... internships that are available, and also the ones that are most relevant to me ... . Other MIT students who are more capable than me likely have a much easier

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 6, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Some people call me the space cowgirl

  

  the strong case I made for her. Why? Partially because she reminded me a ... of the case that was important for me to remember. Also, Jordan (from Monica's high school) "dared" me to talk about "how many real fluke

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s Not Me, It’s You How to kiss goodbye to a school that rejected you

  

  . That’s why I love Washington’s “It’s not me, it’s you” attitude towards ... offers you an environment where you can thrive. And that brings me to my

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 29, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  person isn’t nearly representative of “what you did in high school,” so it ... something about colleges, which confused me, because I was under the ... having to do community service, which confused me because our school didn

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  . My parents were pressuring me to be a premed and become a doctor (like them) so I guess I was trying to appease them. This all makes me a little ... in the worst imaginable case. Though it ended up taking me 5 years to

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  Head over to /r/confession and you'll find this post lurking near the ... truly the smartest in my class. However, this past year has shown me that ... me feel like I should take the time to produce a good response! I

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  If the Obama were a unit of measure . . . . . . what would it measure?

  

  came and visited. Scramble mode, if you'll let me draw another comparison ... (seriously) and tons of other invisible-to-me security measures were enacted ... before the big event. I made sure to bring my ticket with me: On my way

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  I hit him with a door. HIM: AAHH!! ME: OH! Oh. UH. SORRY. Sorry. I'm really sorry. Are you okay? HIM: Yeah. Sorry about that. ME: No no, I ... -100 like a gazelle in a WWF mask). Fortunately for me, he was already two

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

  25 Stories of Getting Accepted to MIT told by students and alums

  

  the math competition that actually know what they’re doing, not silly me ... she managed to half hug me while driving. I rolled down the window and ... family walked in while I was tearing up and hugging my dog, and it took me

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Long Road to Happiness Stuff no one likes to talk about...

  

  receptionist at the desk gave me some forms to fill out, so I busied myself with ... them, and asked me to follow her to a room. She became the therapist I ... , unless you had seen me sitting there fidgeting in the waiting room, I don

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 22, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to find your way around MIT mit building numbers are logical, but weirdly

  

  campus, and everything ot the north of the railroad tracks near Vassar ... makes no sense to me why it’s called the Infinite. Again, look at that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 11, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  you. K: MEET PEOPLE. It's awesome when people tell introduce me to ... thought about Greek Life, nearly every pledge I've met this year has said

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 18, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  smoke and spice my comfort meal

  

  often turned to pakaprow. To me, it brings a sense of comfort like no ... ’s the only dish that every adult in my immediate family has cooked for me ... and curt responses struck me. This glum experience made me all the more

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 9, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  told me that he had a problem. On Pi Day, he had been admitted to MIT ... different one. Sam told me that he was having trouble choosing what to do. He wanted me to help him decide. Over the last few weeks I've met, emailed

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Essay: Yogurt Edition! You like froyo? I like froyo! ^___^V

  

  rewrites and a final product that sounded nearly nothing like me. After ... friends made fun of me when I told them that I was going to start a swimming team. Laughing, they told me to return to my math problems. Today

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.

  

  teacher asked me to keep a journal as my assignment for missing school for ... much less coherent, and it has taken me three weeks to write this blog post. This time, I have a story. The story is not about me (well, not

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We Should Take This Final and Push It Somewhere Else you'll need a lot of mOXie

  

  one of the many things that hung over me as I came back to MIT, reminding me constantly of the time then and who I used to be. I wanted to get ... coordinated over email for weeks, deciding on a date, me frantically pushing it

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 14, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the bridges I’ve crossed in Cambridge, ranked my civil engineering hat is off

  

  civil engineering department interests me, because I love thinking about ... that somewhere in me is the power to analyze these bridges and tell you ... ’t come to expect, what with Kendall Square’s near constant state of

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science Out Loud! On teaching/making/producing educational videos and why it's so much fun

  

  hesitated mightily. But she convinced me to give it a shot because most ... and very nearly wanted to adopt a gecko and take her home), a trip back ... Digital Learning. For me, it was probably an 11 or 12 hour day, but my only

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Random Hall ‘13s Life plans, advice, and stories from last year’s Random Hall graduates.

  

  done with classes, which left me in an uncertain state for the future ... summer. When they offered me another chance to get involved in the program ... another job. That’s when a friend pointed me to a job at Akamai

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 20, 2014