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• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting for Decision Day In which I give a pep talk of sorts (with a little help from my…

  

  't stick exactly to all of the words, but you'll get the gist of it. Best of ... ’s no chance of getting in when secretly your heart/brain/stomach is ... confidence in yourself and your abilities and your passions to throw your name

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Application dreaming

  

  're excited about. While I was in California in early October, I started to ... . You get the point) The best candidates to MIT bring much more to the ... score. MIT students are three-dimensional, are good people in addition to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m not an imposter… I’m going to be featured on the MIT News homepage

  

  student do you need to be to get one? Those types of articles feel like a ... ’ll get to it. Here’s one tricky thing about being at MIT: you never know how you compare to anyone else directly. I remember in high school

  • by ana~
  • October 29, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes, by the Group Chats and their potential replacement, Interstellar!

  

  Canvas, so Stellar might be in the procss of getting phased out. Regardless ... Messenger group chats to do a little analysis and see if I could get any ... percent of the class in the chat! This makes sense to me; the easier the

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  an admissions blogger I only have 23 minutes left, so time to get ... because I liked to read the blogs. A few years later, I spent a summer in ... other words: you do not need to have had a blog for a zillion years in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Feeling Many Feelings :) and :( and everything in between about decisions

  

  told me to chill and “be cool” in selection committee – I told her that ... lines in Harry Potter, I relate to this moment in Order of the Phoenix the ... young person. I get the sense from the essays that he has had to fight

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • March 16, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Things Advice for the class of 2010.

  

  half of your class at some point in the next four years. Get used to it ... journal in taking you back to your favorite moments. Take naps in the ... from you too - in fact, that's part of the reason they chose to be

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  a tree. in my freshman year, i aimed to get my [annotation note ... grad students in research projects. with urop, we get to learn more about ... where my mom had me wash my hair in vinegar to get rid of lice. to me

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Bleary-eyed Some thoughts and reflections on this year's admission cycle - particularly for those not admitted.

  

  side, this meant that in addition to the ~12 hours a day I already spend ... a page and seeing cold numbers on a screen to getting attached to you ... ) that I got home, laid down in bed, and tears just started to flow. They

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 16, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  Light) almost exactly the size of the Pantheon in Rome. To get there from ... . I had been given permission to call in from my office on campus. Two ... had to turn off his video etc -- ahh, PhD defenses in the Zoom era

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We Should Take This Final and Push It Somewhere Else you'll need a lot of mOXie

  

  Actual Problems. Now, in May, as things started to get progressively worse ... you get something like this to happen? Final exams and projects are ... control can make getting out of bed to complete your final really hard, or

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 14, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  's supposed to start getting actually warm in a few days, which I hope comes ... event: any student majoring in EECS can line up to get free food. Usually ... about making it to my 1 pm on time, but I get in line. Luckily, it moves

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  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…

  

  trying to get across, then you need to fix something. If you don’t like the ... that it is not in my job description to deal with. 3) Read over your ... ’re trying to get across? Would you want to admit yourself? Do you have typos

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

  Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!

  

  ! In celebration of the 10 year anniversary of the blogs, I'm back to tell you about my life after MIT.  But in order for me to properly tell ... moved back in with my parents and went back to my old summer job as a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  weaknesses. As freshmen get used to being in this environment, many (including ... . Bryson used to do back in the day: Q&A. In our many conversations, I ... therapeutic and it was nice to check in with myself, so I encourage you to ask

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend

  

  off the TINIEST sliver at a time, in order to drag out the eating ... interests you - FOR A LIVING! You get to make connections with renowned ... that they want to go to graduate school in X, or have been doing a UROP

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  College Shopping List Everybody do the shopping cart!

  

  what you should wait to buy in Cambridge? Who comes from far away and ... extra-long. And as far as comforters go, try to get something that'll be sure to keep you warm in the winter, because here is something I knew but

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 26, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Happy 21st Birthday to the Random Hall Milk the Milk is now old enough to drink, but *please*, don't drink the Milk

  

  realize a grievous error. He had forgotten to get any macaroni! Ultimately ... across to his finders in some way. Maybe MIT students just like to have fun ... admission to MIT in the Class of 2019, despite its impressive achievements

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There is no such thing as a typical day on energy levels and productivity

  

  . On those days, I get a lot done. I find myself able to work for like ... done. I try to work, I really do. I spend time sitting in front of ... , trying to write a blog post. And on these days, I get constantly distracted

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 25, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice you’ve heard before and a story you haven’t you can just skip to the pictures if you want to, I wont be offended.

  

  mandatory-attendance HASS class. The advantages? I got to sleep in later. I got to "save time" that would otherwise have been spent in class. I got to stay warm and cozy in my (over)heated room while it whistled and

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007