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  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

  

  year of high school, when he placed at the Massachusetts State Science ... in the case of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II -- wait, are you all too ... beginning of this summer -- and he's been told by one of the professors in the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  school when she began to think about college, specifically HBCUs. On top of ... -affiliated individuals.  During her senior year of high school, AudreyRose, who lives in ... educational events or lectures on finances, healthcare, business, etc. Most of

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020
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  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  five-year grad school experience! Then I walked out of the empty building ... 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 / About Decisions

  As We Approach Decision Day On getting in and on not getting in

  

  school, to de-stress and distract you: A City on the Edge of Forever ... . There’s a lot of work. There are times when you are happy, and then there ... like. I cried. I ate an entire box of mandarin oranges. I arranged the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 8, 2012
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  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  looming sense of vertigo—like something inside me was always cycling, pushing forward, and in the absence of motion, it was simply falling. This ... in any case, I was far too busy to contemplate what it meant. I met up

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 17, 2014
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  In the Realm of Giants imposter syndrome with a senior year twist

  

  school, or go to an extended retreat in the mountains of Italy, you most ... senior year of high school feels like a completely different person than ... plagues all seniors at the end of their undergraduate career: getting my act

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  For most of high school, the US was just a vague blip on the radar of ... , towards the end of the first trimester of high school senior year, I was ... progressed however, what was left of school took over my mind. Writing stories

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 things I love about MIT and hopefully you'll learn to love them too.

  

  classes offered through the Sloan school and some of the pre-med lab ... I’d offer a list of 10 things that I love about MIT (in no particular ... school (MIT, Harvard, Museum of Fine Arts, Wellesley.) There are a few

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  was chatting with this guy at one of my med school interviews - HIM ... applicants). I am attending Mount Sinai School of Medicine. IV. In April, I ... biotechnology. I have yet to hear about a school that offers such a comprehensive

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Gee, my life’s a funny thing Remembering the bills I have to pay, or even yesterday.

  

  fallen into disrepair, and yet probably ninety percent of its visitors just ... Morrison will probably also be forgotten in a hundred years, but it's kind of ... ashes sprinkled into the soup of someone I don't like. On our way back on

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  some warmth on a cold decisiony day "there have been times that I thought I couldn't last for long / but now…

  

  day of school; afterwards, I had planned to split my time between two ... As I'm sure those of you to whom this post is relevant will not need to be reminded, it is that time of year: the time when tensions run

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  What’s the big deal about 40^2?

  

  Okay, so I'm in the middle (towards the end) of a long day of reading ... application, I just glance at the test scores to get a sense of them before moving on to the more important parts of the application -- that is, who

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 20, 2004
• Blog / About Decisions

  To whom much is given… ...you know the rest!

  

  offer of admission from MIT or any of the other excellent schools that you ... , thought or uttered some portion of that phrase over the course of the past few weeks. I can tell you with a fair level of certainty that it is just

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 13, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Was Deferred And it was not the end of the world

  

  the president of the United States and pulled an all nighter chilling with my new best friends and a bunch of current and future nobel ... took a few days/weeks to settle in. I got some congratulations at school

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 17, 2014
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  A Different Voice some words about MIT, by someone who's not me

  

  kids. kids who start their own businesses at nineteen, twenty years old ... ’re just kids. our jokes are a mix of violence and bathroom humor and we ... making stone-cold mistakes about all of them. we’re still growing up

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 24, 2014
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  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  dollar bills. “How’s school going?” Her voice formed the shape of ... could hear of the room. "Um, school is good," I said. After a few more ... job offer in Auckland and took a year off to work instead of coming back

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mind and hand

  

  As some of you probably know, MIT's motto is "Mens et manus", which is Latin for "Mind and hand". Now, in most cases, a school motto isn't particularly meaningful. It's a slogan that sounds cute. In the case of MIT, I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Reflecting on 10 Years and Lessons Learned Happy Birthday, MIT Blogs!

  

  senior year of high school, and everything that came with it - classes ... , and have success in college and beyond. 1. Senior Year of High School ... find them! School will inevitably become busy, and difficult, and

  • by Kim D. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Early History of International Students at MIT studying the people MIT made, and the people who made MIT

  

  business of his father. At the time, the sugar industry in Puerto Rico was ... a total of 984 students were international. Three times more students ... efforts, the number of international students doubled in just ten years. 1

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  to one of my favorite high school teachers who had graduated from the ... school, I knew what I would get: four more years of living near home, with people I knew, people like me. Four more years of high school, he called it

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016