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  tyrannosaurus REX the prefrosh are coming, the prefrosh are coming!

  

  !"]sophomore[/annotation]and as I drive to MIT for Year 2 (I'm writing this in the car :D), I can ... up to the event. Our group chat was exploding with people asking for ... through. Also, I think it's easy to feel that (for me at least) the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 20, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s Not Me, It’s You How to kiss goodbye to a school that rejected you

  

  university, for some reason or another, is not recognizing what you have to ... ambition was to be an officer in the British army. Despite his repeated ... foolish to recognize his potential. Washington rebounded from this

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 29, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what work is bite-sized senior spring

  

  work that i do not expect to get paid for or graded on; it's work that i ... to notice and to contemplate. it's hard for me to really wrap my head ... for so long, and i'm excited and terrified to see where the chips will

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  speak to an actual admissions counselor in person. It made me love MIT ... I really really really wanted to go to MIT. The love for that place I ... 's it. That's my deferral post, that I've personally deferred for three

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what am i doing great question.

  

  by the way passive mechanisms allow us to move about. For example, this ... privileges to stay in the course. I actually wasn’t sure what to expect for ... enjoyed. I was even convinced to take 6.832 by another person in my lab, and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  November 1st is my January 1st each november is a new direction

  

  heartbreaking. Takes a lot of courage to put yourself out there for a school with ... to catch up on work became a weekend of shambling around grasping for ... . That same Monday was my next exam for 6.005 so I didn't have time to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On identity f(x) = x

  

  for being good at math, and it felt good to be good at math. High ... up to called the IMO, which you can think of as the Olympics for high ... , but I was still pretty good for making it to the top twenty. Good

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  , you get the point. Freshman fall is meant to be a reality check for ... school for my prickly personality among other things and I was struggling a ... and hidden to make it harder for people, they are not impossible. They

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Institute of Smashing What do you think MIT and a garbage compactor have in common?

  

  's only pay attention to the dominant traits. For students who are ... , being able to just switch your brain on for a few minutes and crank out ... work until the next time you have to kick your brain on for some project

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Flux and Flow Thermodynamics as therapeutic analogy; or, the longest way I've ever said, "I'm still figuring things…

  

  likening my next four years to learning to swim: You can cling for dear life ... 're the kind of person that would gladly subject yourself to judgment in ... difficult concepts and brutal tests. It represented the final hurdle to being

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later what happened after pi day 2011

  

  unedited (except for where I removed personally identifiable information at ... said no to anyone who asked for help, even though it would mean taking ... college when I actually felt like saying no to people who would ask for help

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  . I love MIT, but but there was no good reason for me to want to be anywhere ... are for getting to where you are now. MIT is a pretty cool sword, but it ... referring to how long waiting for decisions feels. Because I was fairly sure I

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

  Applying Sideways How to get in to MIT.

  

  to a thousand-person MIT revival in an Atlanta auditorium. Whenever I ... in and of itself will get you in to MIT. For example: A few years ago ... officers follow the winds to the corners of the country to talk to students

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 1, 2010
• 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.

  

  for graduation. Classes were over, and the most stressful thing I had to ... 've known, because I'm staying for another year to finish my Master's degree (through the MEng/VI-A programs). Since I am going to around for another

  • by Kim D. '09
  • June 7, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  you if they do happen to be things that you do for fun). Just be honest ... 't worry too much. For the "Creativity" essay, I would encourage you to look ... out of the prompts for the 15 colleges that I applied to (number one was

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Riri Williams Pi Day Video Behind the scenes of an extraordinary three minutes!

  

  video,” he said, “I basically want to make a two-minute trailer for the ... he’d already contacted him again to ask him to come aboard for this ... for me and Ayomide because we were supposed to kind of keep this project

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  many "failures" served as catalysts for personal growth. In the wake of ... maintenance on the text. My agenda created plenty of opportunities for me to ... for nap time To make this plot, I had to “jitter” the dots a bit over

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

  Super Blood Moon Eclipse bonnie tyler would be proud

  

  moment was something for the books, for the memories you recount to your ... “Isn’t it crazy how we’re all a part of this?” my friend says to me ... supermoon and a lunar eclipse are scheduled to happen on the same day (night

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  How Wrestling With Snapping Turtles Can Get You Into MIT A student profile of an aspiring limnologist.

  

  kind enough to do a Q&A for my blog, so enjoy! ---------- Did other ... suburb outside of Madison, WI, and I was actually the first person to get ... "Deadliest Catch," so I think I am going to settle for going to vet school

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brief Wondrous Lives A little too much thinking brought to you by four in the morning.

  

  fact that I've been at MIT for four years and have never thought to take ... to sit around and wait for someone to write it for us. We are more than ... senses of the word. For one, my floor is playing Assassins, or

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009