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  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  not originally intended as a blog; I just wanted to get my thoughts out ... , and on Tuesday the professor emailed me to “check in,” which has never ... . Then I soliloquized alone in my pod lounge, ate lunch on the way to lab

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  it very easy to get lost in a sea of exams and to forget why I came ... semester. Usually I know better than to take six classes in a semester. But ... ’t come to MIT to relax or even to hang out. I came here to learn, and in

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Merit When getting into MIT isn't convincing enough

  

  , some alumni actually look forward to getting calls from us because they ... ’m not interested in giving to MIT,” he told me. “I’m sorry to hear that ... , innate cleverness. I know that I did not get in by some fluke. The truth

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • January 22, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Diversity or Merit? false questions, false answers

  

  get in or will / will not be accepted because they are a woman / a ... is one thing that all students admitted to MIT have in common. And that ... . On our What To Do In High School page, we say this of our application

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

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

  

  MIT has brought its own set of failures. It's hard not to get hung up on ... [/caption] Throughout high school I was often lost in confusion. I like to think about ... thing. In my senior year, I used a Google Doc as an agenda to keep track

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

  A Fireside Chat with President Sally Kornbluth get to know our president!

  

  with her face-to-face in her office to get to know her better. Her office ... to immerse herself in completely new cultures and environments. It ... Climate Project at MIT. The goal of this project is to figure out how to get

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  which you are used to seeing in print. (ii) Never use a long word where ... in the merits of the first blog in regards to a long college admissions ... just to go ahead and be honest with them (well, you should be honest in

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  going to be ducks, and the poster was to get people in the MIT community ... I get it. There have been posts about Splash before. There have, in ... things I didn’t know I was interested in. I wanted to learn about all of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions of Travel a guest post by Spencer W. '15

  

  around in an oversized fish tank: ‘I can’t wait to get out here.’ When the ... . After receiving the Marshall Scholarship to attend postgrad in the UK for two years, I faced a number of questions. This was due in part to my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  i dissected a roach *cronch* *slurp*

  

  sturdy carapace, unparalleled scavenging prowess, and ability to fly. In ... ’s ability to thrive in all its squirming, leg-wiggling glory is terrifying ... to kill, and being one of the most annoying household pests to get rid

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 28, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What I wish I’d known, and what I’m glad I knew Before coming to MIT.

  

  MIT students - but we all go to MIT. Being in touch with friends with ... . I had close friends who didn't get in - people I knew were just as ... on track to great things in the astronomy world. I think that coming to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  the years. You might want to know how I fared in past five years (wow ... guys who were in this were expected to make a small java software which would to track Planetary orbits and pinpoint a planet's location in sky

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the blogs at twenty some reflections, plus an index of posts

  

  ways—which, as I get older, I think is the key to changing The World in ... remain by Celena C. '12 Don’t forget to check in with yourself by Jenny X ... intergenerational in a way that the day-to-day blogs can never be, by the very nature

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  -height octagonal prism that is soon to be a waterfall of wooden blocks. Meanwhile in ... .” Behind the caution tape two people are having a heart-to-heart in the dip ... convert’s hair. I get to ride the Big Flipper at Next House and sharpie my

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Burton 1 Social Club This Thanksgiving, I'm thankful for my ridiculous, hilarious, amazing floor.

  

  MIT, you get to make the choice not only where you live but who you live ... most popular floors in Burton-Conner floor rush (which is similar to dorm rush, in which freshmen traverse the floors to see where they'd like to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On identity f(x) = x

  

  One What does it take to get to know someone? I hate the feeling that ... questions about what they wanted to do in life and had as many doubts and ... ’m from, or what I’m interested in. I’ve done it so much I find it hard to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  weekend to be over. Back in 2011, my host’s neighbor was an aerospace engineering major. Given my interest in the major I was curious to hear about ... 's possible and common to be so deep in piles of work that you will NOT be able

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  , or that I have grown from it. That will take time to see though, and in ... becoming the person that I want to be? Is the pain on the way to getting ... , in March of 2020, I was the last person to leave my wing of Next House

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 31, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  10 Things I Learned 1st Semester Yeap.

  

  Meet-Up. Just this week, I used it to set up a get-together in New York ... Say hello to the holidays and winter break!!! Now, sitting at home in ... -yogurt-more-endearingly-“Froyo”. I can’t count how many “Ordering Indian in 10! Come to Room # if you

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 24, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  years, compete well in three different forms of debate, and go to Worlds ... a big fish in a small pond. I'd been to national-level events; I knew ... in a kind of fear you didn't even notice, it's hard to let things go. I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022