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  How to look over your application and advice about breathing. My older younger brother is your age. I am fully aware of how much you’re…

  

  of your essays to do this for you, but it doesn’t hurt to do it ... vouch for you, but your application is your only real chance to speak to ... , this is not important, and you guys can probably stand to wait another

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Upside Down Gnomes From Wisconsin Always look up.

  

  person I want to be and the people I've been over the past two years; I ... be a good week. I’m going to bed. No, really. Really, for real this ... to my room. For several weeks I kept getting emails about the leaky

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 26, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  waitlist for Columbia! She ended up going to MIT! I told my dad about the ... to college, but he was sure that I was a great candidate for whatever ... can hurt a lot more for people with technical brains, because we tend to

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Pretender a message to both you and me.

  

  drove up to MIT for the first time. I had signed up for the Shadow a Student program, where I would follow around a student for a day to get a feel for MIT life. And I fell in love with it. I wanted to go to MIT more

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  [joint post] a guide to mit gyms big brains, big gains 😤

  

  convenient for those living in [annotation note='now referring to the dorm ... unfortunately least[/caption] our gym preferences Gloria: As for our personal gym ... available, and it’s harder for me to make excuses to not go. At night, when

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • September 4, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  An Astrological Guide to the College App Process We all know astrology isn't real...or is it?

  post apply to all applicants, so have fun reading and don't come for me ... process is tough for everyone and its hard for anyone to get through it ... think they want to hear - just put as much of your personality as possible

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Future Is Grim check it out

  

  the Friday lab. This meant he personally had to open the class archives ... just for the day. After that, he had to move me back to my original ... easier for him to say "Sorry Charlie", but hassle he suffered for my sleep

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 28, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  get SLAPped! it doesn't hurt

  

  center offers a lottery to all students (grad or undergrad) for a chance to ... live, and I wanted to find out how they did so. [...] For this project, I was looking for people in history with whom I can personally

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 21, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to MIT: Choosing a Dorm the good and not-so-good reasons

  

  skates, or hoverboard for an easy commute, and wait to get used to the ... closest dorm to classes for four years, but I would not recommend it to ... talked to for this post mentioned location as a not-so-good reason as well

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 14, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  personalities. How to customize my practice for each trainee requires a lot of ... them to make that a reality takes a lot of energy and thinking for me ... . Personal- Easily the worst piece of advice I ever received was to date

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  with my dad in New York. He had traveled to the US for a program called ... wanting to create words and stories. So I imagine that for the both of us ... simply typing up words whenever an idea for a story comes to mind, but

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 17, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  like the perfect opportunity to change yourself and become the person you ... is also a good time to explore who you really are. For several weeks ... , I chose to maximize bonding activities especially helpful for me

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Flying Close to the Sun a semester of fire

  

  David and Ali, but I’m especially grateful to them for taking me under ... experiments, and make sure the paper is completed for submission. To uphold the ... on campus, but student clubs were not allowed to meet in person. So

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Life is Improv say yes

  

  was also one of the toughest for me to master, when I did improv at summer camps and in high school. Though I like to think I'm a kind person, I'm also deeply sarcastic; it's naturally easier for me to play the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  major is more of a personal journey, and these blogs are supposed to apply ... it's a little tricky to know what to do with it. Especially since for ... major, you haven't found it. c) College education adds to your confusion

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hilbert’s Third Problem (A Story of Threes) Holy mathematics, Batman! Math at MIT, and why we need calculus to define volume.

  

  stood in front of the bathroom mirror similing to myself for 20 seconds in ... a translator between fields, to be an avenue for the ideas, tools, and ... and wanted him to study law. He was homeschooled for two years and began

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Let’s Go Fly A Kite Up to decision night!

  

  ’t. After Saturday, you’ll still be the same person you are today, so cling to ... Jeff ‘18: you're great roommates. To be fair, I’ve had this coming for a ... limbo for an eternity before inevitably executed. Or you’re not accepted

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  post will be a way for you to start processing all of those thoughts, a ... the turns we should have taken to make present-us the person that we ... out good. Hoping for the chance for dreams to be a reality. Sometimes

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 16, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  one way to be a living human person in high school and end up at MIT ... was to get service hours to qualify for National Honor Society come our ... ’t understand. It took a bit of time for me to start working as hard as I did in

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

  17 Things I’ve Learned in the Past Year growing, growing, grown

  

  )—on Tuesday night, I went to see Vince Staples for the second time, which was ... ’s like to start studying for a Friday 8AM exam (for a class you’ve attended ... understand how much the onus is on me to look out for and take care of myself

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2017