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  ten reflections on mit

  

  thrown my way in isolation. nothing can make one be like that."] I can do ... questions in education are to me. I’m still in a cappella. I still really like ... Graduate Resident Advisor (GRA) in a different dorm. I’ll be leaving my a

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 15, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dragons A blog post for deferred students (and everybody else waiting on decisions).

  

  seriously. In particular, I wish I’d had that attitude against the dragon that ... I got in and when I left for MIT. I wish I had. If I were you—which is to say, if I could go back in time to four years ago—I would try to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 14, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2) My take on the MIT short essays.

  

  Mandarin. Eventually, I hope I can work in the field of public health ... account on my.mit.edu so I can actually catch a glimpse at what the new ... ! Many people stress out about the "Department" essay, but I can tell you

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hard MIT Class ...or is that redundant? And yes, hiiiiii.

  

  seemed too tense, my muscles seemed to clench, each time I got in. I can ... swimming. I detested it. It made my stomach roll in folds. Did MIT care ... class where I was so unambiguously the single worst performing student in

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Upside Down Gnomes From Wisconsin Always look up.

  

  isn't always predictable in a class with more than 200 students. I fell ... realized I wasn't enjoying it anymore. In a past life I would have taken the ... and didn't recognize her. I realize that the class took up a shelf in my

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 26, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Into the Smoke In more ways than one.

  

  doing here? That was two years ago. In retrospect, that was just how I felt on my first night in Baker; if I recall correctly, neither of my ... state-mandated labour. And the apprehension I had in Tel Aviv – that too

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  amazing in ways I can’t even begin to count. It’s so easy to fall into the ... partner in this start-up is just as disingenuous.  Personally, I think the ... itself in different ways. I feel like I missed a critical period in my life

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  intense than any I can remember in the ~5 years I’ve been a part of it. The ... after a summer where I exercised regularly, sometimes jogging in the sun ... stopped making it to class at all. I also stopped socializing with people in

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  about me, about MIT, and about why I haven’t talked to you in a month ... said. I have a fantastic dean at S^3. Last year, I also came in feeling ... the sting felt tangible in a way I hadn’t felt in a while. “Why don

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  : "So where do you go to school?" ME: "Oh, I go to school in Boston ... in Boston.'" I never thought about it, but if you must press me for a ... story really short, I became interested in medicine after working with

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Academic Conference and also things I have learned about publishing research in the past few months

  

  now, and I can affirm that the only parts that I truly feel confident in ... that took up a lot of my spring and summer, but I made it! So in this ... research in general over the last few months. As a disclaimer, I don't speak

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  senioritis not to be confused with señoritis

  

  i never really had senioritis in high school—it was probably the ... off the effortlessly forget to turn in an assignment thing. so i had grand visions for senioritis in college. i would go out all the time! do

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 10, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a freshman year 🦴🧠🩸🖐️🫀 my first year at mit, told through the body

  

  difference in most people’s lives. i think that they can still be a good ... /classmates and that i can evaluate my performance in a subject by my own standards ... a tree. in my freshman year, i aimed to get my [annotation note

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Was Sitting Where You’re Sitting Quick! Click here. :D

  

  roof below—I know I must be in the right place. The first floor of ... Nothing,” Owl City’s “When Can I See You Again?” Toppings: hot fudge, gummy ... side chants “Bexley!” as the lawn empties. In the silence I notice that

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  , just like I did in high school. That bus will bring me, and a few dozen ... lines to strategize how last-minute I can rush to pee before the last ... third year since I graduated from MIT, in June of 2013. It is also the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Am I Smart Enough for MIT? On second thought...don't answer that.

  

  environment!). (Btw, I find it funny that in Ben's original post, he wrote ... in fact I'm not sure I have anything to offer in comparison to the rest ... . "MIT students are way smarter than me... I must've gotten in by accident

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fit or happiness made easy

  

  ask myself is "am I in the right place?" How do we know when we get ... you, it's much easier to be happy. In terms of colleges, I had no idea what the right fit felt like until I visited MIT in April for CPW. Long

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking the L On "failure" at a place like MIT.

  

  and back on again. So I go to the #1 tech school in the world but I can ... its true. I can sit in a room with [annotation note="heck, even a ... textbook a lot of Psets are done through. I did well in Calc BC in high

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python

  

  , Ward Melville. In my three years there, I changed intellectually and emotionally in ways I couldn't have predicted. I spent this past summer ... [/caption] Throughout high school I was often lost in confusion. I like to think about

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.

  

  that I did in my head to write the above statement, so I wrote it down ... a tear that I’m no longer young.) In 2004, the MIT admissions blogs ... . At the end of undergrad, I was deciding between going and working in

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014