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  Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me

  

  One of this year’s admits asked me how MIT sets you up for grad ... why you want to Do The Thing MIT did not convince me to Do The Thing ... problematic. 2. MIT did not convince me to Do The Thing—here are the things that

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Gothic You are reading an admissions blog post. You are reading tumblr.

  

  move around when you aren’t looking, especially the ones near the course

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  one twenty") - lecture hall located near the end of the Infinite

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
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  All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)

  

  [Disclaimer: Not my last post! I've still got one more in me after ... 'd regard both equally, because while 22-year-old me has the diploma, the 18-year-old me that he knew had the drive and tenacity that would've figured

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advisor vs. Advisee a '07 and a '21 answer a series of questions

  

  knows me that I prioritize my sleep. I vehemently opposed all nighters in ... them to make that a reality takes a lot of energy and thinking for me ... remember?    Bryan: Honestly, it was probably me dreaming up an

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 22, 2021
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  A Few of my Favorite Things (Counting Blessings) Maybe the most sentimental blog post I’ve written.

  

  animals on top of me where I had fallen asleep on the couch and, on a post ... my grandmother made me yesterday, with cucumber slices and bread ... they’re rocks on a riverbed. The memory of my dad teaching me how to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 6, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Guest Entry: Christina Bognet Supplemental materials to help you through the next few days.

  

  for you, Christina," he told me. "Ahhhh, I don't know. Probably not ... 'm getting in! I'm getting in!" moments, followed by, "they'll never take me ... they wanted to be somewhere else. As for me, I love MIT. I really do. I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 8, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Merit When getting into MIT isn't convincing enough

  

  are excited to tell me about how they relate to MIT. Believe it or not ... ’m not interested in giving to MIT,” he told me. “I’m sorry to hear that ... replies. My MIT education has put me through my paces. After a miserable

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • January 22, 2015
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  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  everything else happening around me was kind of a blur. Then I heard two loud ... told me to come down. So I put all my things in the locker and ran to the ... didn’t have my ID with me, I couldn’t enter the ER. Instead I helped out

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2013
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  The end of a chapter

  

  focus on biochemistry, molecular and cell biology. Physiology to me, acts ... me gain a very balanced and complete picture of biology as a whole. It ... friends/hosts. Mathilde, a fellow student from Cambridge, shows me the

  • by Linh V. '13
  • July 8, 2012
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  Life is Improv say yes

  

  was also one of the toughest for me to master, when I did improv at ... , I'm also deeply sarcastic; it's naturally easier for me to play the ... character traits made it difficult for me not to negate. It's easy, and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2011
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  (Bitter)sweet home meeting high school teachers again, and visiting my hometown for (probably) the last time

  

  teachers pretty quickly. I was nervous that they wouldn’t even recognize me ... 's moved on without me. I'm just upset that some parts that I was familiar ... raised. To be humble towards the people back home who wanted to see me

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 12, 2023
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  10 reasons why MIT is beautiful if I do say so myself.

  

  a day.  Let me know in the comments if there's anything in particular that you want to see me shoot!

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 22, 2014
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  Computers and their Programs Anecdotes and advice about owning a laptop at MIT

  

  to hide from me. I put them back where I thought they might belong and ... . My parents gave me my MacBook Pro as a gift before I left for MIT. It follows me everywhere. It’s pretty. It’s light. It might even be beautiful

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 15, 2012
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  Guest Entry: Stephanie Lin Presenting MIT's most recent Rhodes Scholar!

  

  next year via the Rhodes Scholarship, and Hamsika asked me to write some ... parts of the process - because it forced me to think critically about my ... friendly, and genuinely interested in learning more about me. The cocktail

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 12, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  e) Other Some pretty important stuff, and then just some pretty stuff.

  

  About a month ago, a parent asked me: "What do all these majors ... have to go through. e) Other (please specify)." It took me a while to respond to this question - it's taken me a while to answer a lot of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I put on my robe and graduation hat It's sortof hard to believe it's time for this already.

  

  keeping me from getting too excited about ceremonies in general. After four ... is class of '08) couldn't come see me graduate in person. I did the ... Credit: Tiffany Tseng Roary is the stuffed tiger that my boyfriend gave me

  • by Kim D. '09
  • June 7, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to use these blogs Scattered thoughts on the information age, plus some bonus snark.

  

  maybe "How to not get a sarcastic reply to a question from me." I fixed ... give me some of yours. =) 3. Ask good questions. If you ask me “does MIT ... , if you ask me “Is there a group for students who are religiously

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2008
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  An Entry About Snow ...Even though we don't have any

  

  doesn't stop me from starting this entry explaining why I decided that ... couldn't be that hard. Alas, it turns out that Disney gave me unrealistic ... back of my head slammed on the ground. The ski patroller asked me if I

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 11, 2008
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  Ten days of live-action roleplaying no joke, there i was…

  

  ="335"] it's a me[/caption] You can also see me holding a wand in this ... I wanted all of it. Then Charlie hit me with a flee packet. I ran away. The flee spell made me run until I reached another building or

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2023