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  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  to get help, I don’t know how my story would have ended. In the event ... struggling to do so in a way that’s pretty and poetic, that will stick in ... triggered the chemical switch in my brain to flip. There was the chemistry

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  To a lot of people, myself included, getting into MIT is the dream we ... me getting into MIT and why it meant so much to me. Enjoy!!!! Finally ... had long stopped feeling hunger, but the void in my stomach seemed to

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  , things have been crazy busy. (Perhaps at some point, I'll eventually get to ... was actually in response to an admitted student who was deciding whether ... 'll struggle to get good grades (I know grades aren't everything, but I'd like to

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • November 2, 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 ... to have adjusted some internal excit-o-meter. So in the days leading up ... . Every senior gets four tickets to give to friends or family for graduation

  • by Kim D. '09
  • June 7, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  each other. I finally discovered my passion in life, and now I get to put ... for referring  to other bloggers in a blog post)), getting dressed for a ... in the worst imaginable case. Though it ended up taking me 5 years to

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.

  

  for four hours to get to my father’s village in the countryside, and ... doodled in my journal everyday, and when I came back to our second grade ... in Kaffa. Yet, I never was able to tie it all together. But that was

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Reflections

  

  regularly to ask what the secret is to getting in. My answer hasn't changed ... celebration. The invitation is a complete honor. It's great to be back in my old ... push boundaries, to improve the world. There isn't a day that goes by in

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  's very easy to get caught up in the daily metronome of life, especially ... learned everything I needed to at MIT. But in these moments of reflection ... going to do. I was going to dive in head first, I was going to take the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m Still Standing after all this time at MIT

  

  tl;dr I made a music video to commemorate graduation happening in a ... he made the song Tiny Dancer, which I could belt out and get close to ... singing defiantly in the group session before cutting to clips from the

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] You Have a 50/50 Chance a guest post from my mama

  

  Camille was very nervous when she applied for EA to MIT in 2018. "What if I don't get in?" "Am I good enough?" (That is a question we all ... thoughts in these cute little hover sections because I want my mom to have

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Today I hit my TA with a door I didn't MEAN to.

  

  : being brilliant in a subject does, by no means, translate to being a good ... amount of knowledge on the subject they need to have in order to field your ... confused, because he was you not too long ago, and how to get you out of that

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 7, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Burton-Conner’s Renovation: A Saga on friendships that transcend shitty infrastructure

  

  . It also was scheduled to be taken offline in June 2020 for renovations and to be reopened in my senior year. Despite knowing this as a prefrosh ... participated in several traditions that allowed us to meet all the other members

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 6, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  What’s the big deal about 40^2?

  

  application, I just glance at the test scores to get a sense of them before ... recently. I come to the second to last piece in the folder, which is the ... "the spellbinding 1400." Scores are one tool we use to help us in

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

  No Chance Why "chance" sites like AdmissionSplash are Bad Things.

  

  to create a helpful tool.* However, this tool is unhelpful. In fact ... process. Because listing the school you go to or ECAs you are involved in ... address. In other words, they are getting a lot more private information

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  themselves. As I was getting my food to leave the man in front of me reached ... get in than people like us.” In order to fit in I would laugh and try to ... experiences.   I was waiting in line with my head more or less glued to

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )

  

  ) Get your 7 hours of sleep. You're not going to get more done in that ... to get me into medical schools, but also means that I always get a ... degrees). * To my credit, I was fluent in Python prior to entering MIT, so

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Super Blood Moon Eclipse bonnie tyler would be proud

  

  , really). In layman’s terms, it’s just a really huge moon that gets eclipsed ... boathouse to grab a sailboat (approximately a 5 minute walk in what felt like ... “Isn’t it crazy how we’re all a part of this?” my friend says to me

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Putting food on the table daily with Daily Table affordable, nutritious, and delicious groceries near MIT

  

  can come in every day, seven days a week, and get $10 worth of produce ... , like it has of mine. And it is wonderful to have a nutritional oasis in ... I have worked at MIT since 2009, and lived less than a mile away, in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Chose MIT On deciding where to go, now that you're in

  

  , or, in this blog post, your home for the next four years—it seems to me ... in your decision and prepared to give yourself to it fully. I think ... classes, and thanks to AP credits I could graduate in two and a half years

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 29, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Miss the South Musings on a secret Instagram account

  

  a lot to get down and little time to do it, I’ll write one long ... full sentences. If I really need to think about it, I’ll write in Spanish ... entered Kindergarten with. There isn’t a lot to do in a small town, so

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2022