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  An Open Letter to MIT Applicants Don’t Panic (and know where your towel is)

  

  ’t imagine how much it would terrify me if I read this sort of thing before ... score number. Let me tell you how I ended up here. As a senior in high ... me to have "a list of no more than 12 schools" ranked by difficulty to

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
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  I Miss the South Musings on a secret Instagram account

  

  account is themed around the proteins in gluten, which make me irreparably ... lie and say that was me. In real life, I am an opinionated, fast ... telling me to give my hand a rest. As a response, I created an Instagram

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2022
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  i don’t want to say goodbye sorry sad blog incoming

  

  pushed back a year, letting me enjoy two and a half years at East Campus ... taught me how to stand up for myself, hold others accountable, and take ... me into adventures that would make for great stories in front of a

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 24, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  WHY? for people who don't like "no"

  

  waiting on me to come home.   I have mostly avoided going into detail ... ," he said, before telling me to call the Johns Hopkins admissions office and ask them why they rejected me. I didn't. I had already gotten into

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing I don’t have time for hosed into my core

  

  , which regrettably distracts me from being able to process what I’m reading ... grade. I’ve stepped back from literally everything that makes me feel ... , making me feel terrible about how much I have to face with no energy or

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 25, 2018
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  senioritis not to be confused with señoritis

  

  surprising amount of momentum behind me, but i don't think i managed to pull ... less about me and more about helping others. a friend recently shared the ... last semester to not be about me, the more i was able to do. so in no

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 10, 2015
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  Do I have a story for you… *SPOILER* I do

  

  deciding to let graduation happen without me and start a company based off of ... of great stories HelmetHub has given me: that one macgyver'd (if ... in the sand about what would break me, where I'd decide enough is too

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 10, 2014
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  Making Connections we live in a society (affectionate)

  

  buildings and an hour turns me from a genius into a fool: when I show up at 6 ... 't understand the answer. The TAs seem like geniuses to me. But those TAs are me ... creatures"]Nisha waved me over.[/annotation]Then, it just so happened that we

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 26, 2021
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  On Escaping An introspective vlog about MIT and getting ready to leave

  

  that it takes me a couple tries to even get in the right mindset to make ... being a senior at MIT, and I think that was enough for me to finally

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 2, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  My College Essay Early Action / November 2005. ~500 words await.

  

  the new essay, and MIT gave me admission. For those beginning their ... essay is like, I share mine with you. You'll learn more about me in the ... School’s done a first-rate job on making me feel like an outcast for it

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 11, 2008
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  Gee, my life’s a funny thing Remembering the bills I have to pay, or even yesterday.

  

  kill before picking up Kendall '07 at the train station. It struck me as ... little bit easier for you." But this one got me thinking... regarless of ... the past three months of blog entries, MISTI rocks and found me a summer

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 21, 2006
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  A Fireside Chat with President Sally Kornbluth get to know our president!

  

  the windows, and the President herself smiled warmly at me behind a pair ... friends of yours have started companies?” she asks me. Immediately, half a ... seems to me that she is kind of like an anthropologist of new people and

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 13, 2024
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  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  of a counter were those that looked like me were running around trying ... midafternoon lunch rush. "wassgood?" A familiar question snapped me out of the monotony of my day and brought me face to face with the cashier. "you good

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019
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  Back in Time I change my clock back three hours and read headlines on the magazine of the…

  

  chair kicked by the screaming kid beside me (a stereotype for bad flights everywhere, but for some reason, for me, it always seems to hold true). The ... getting my ketchup taken away and them dragging me kicking and screaming

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 22, 2006
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  How To Make Mediocre Furniture well, maybe i'll let you be the quality judge

  

  , and that kept me up for at least two weeks in advance worrying about it ... months for me in a closet on campus; now it would wait another six months ... high enough to allow me to slide my laundry baskets underneath it, to put

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 17, 2021
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  In the Realm of Giants imposter syndrome with a senior year twist

  

  for me even when I feel I don’t deserve it. In others, I see a jumbled ... too hard out of fear the lines will drag me down with them, I see a clear decline; I see a before, and I see an after, and it just makes me

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2020
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  On Teaching and Learning Minimum requirement: read the last few sentences of this post. They're important.

  

  When you last heard from me, I had just arrived at The Middle Of ... .” He stared at me. I grabbed the bag, and dumped out about thirty coins ... . “Sixteen.” “Exactly.” Success! Moments like that are what keep me going

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  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 ... gets me every single time, and I regularly tear up watching World of ... dollar for every time my mother told me to lower my voice, I could probably

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • March 16, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-Med @ MIT The title says it all.

  

  weeks *cough*) when MIT makes me feel like this: But mostly, it makes me feel like this: (p.s. you should all go waste some time on this ... spot at Baylor Med School), but my four days at MIT convinced me that MIT

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  What’s the big deal about 40^2?

  

  . No one seems to believe me when I tell them that when I'm reading an ... impact on me that the student had "the magic 1600." Yes, scoring a 1600 is ... scores. We admit people. Let me tell you one more story that I often relay

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 20, 2004