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

  

  to say, if I could go back in time to four years ago—I would try to ... , which they would have done if they were sure I wouldn’t fit in or survive ... would love to attend MIT. I didn’t beat myself up that I hadn’t gotten in

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 14, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  would decorate my scraper bike. I DO remember that I sent in a copy of the ... I'm sitting at the kitchen table in my London flat; my sister Lisa ... cracking. 1. Why and how I became an admissions blogger In eighth grade, I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  senioritis not to be confused with señoritis

  

  off the effortlessly forget to turn in an assignment thing. so i had grand visions for senioritis in college. i would go out all the time! do ... i never really had senioritis in high school—it was probably the

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Favorite Classes at MIT! survey says...

  

  would come away inspired. I felt like I genuinely learned useful skills in ... based on around 100 responses. In addition, I tried to rank the top 5 ... first, I was a little surprised that great teaching would outrank

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Upside Down Gnomes From Wisconsin Always look up.

  

  realized I wasn't enjoying it anymore. In a past life I would have taken the ... sequel (or what I thought would be a sequel) to 6.046, design and analysis ... isn't always predictable in a class with more than 200 students. I fell

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 26, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  i dissected a roach *cronch* *slurp*

  

  food or drink water, I would catch a bit of hair in my mouth. Even when I ... exception of half a leg and an antenna. I figured it would be a waste of a ... with the tweezers. I still ended up accidentally poking a hole in the

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 28, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Challenge You Pi day approaches.

  

  failing at life. Rather, I thought that getting in would mean having access ... . “Who will get in? What happens to the people who don’t? Who will I become if I get in? Who will I be, who will I become, if I don’t?” First, I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hacking A performance art that lets students remind the teachers who's smarter.

  

  should make a point of getting on that train.* I get asked about hacking at MIT a lot, which is natural; I talk about it in my biography after all. There are times when I get asked, out of the blue, what made me decide to

  • by Snively '11
  • June 7, 2008
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  Why I wasn’t sad to leave MIT On shedding.

  

  agonized over choosing a major. I was worried that making decisions would ... hours in the day. To my surprise, I felt lighter and more free to pursue ... don’t think I could have done that while I remained in Boston. I love

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Reading aka inhaling all the books i can before school starts

  

  some of the side characters, and I would have read both books in three ... things other than science, technology, or engineering”, and I would like ... partners in crime, my enemies, my friends. I had a wild imagination as a kid

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On identity f(x) = x

  

  to have a tumblr blog back in 2015 or 2016, and I would always write ... I know so many people in MIT only on the surface-level. Sure, I can ... ’s in, but before that conversation, I viewed him as just that—someone who

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

  I Miss the South Musings on a secret Instagram account

  

  that are relatively unprocessed. I would be doing readers a disservice to lie and say that was me. In real life, I am an opinionated, fast ... in my reservedness is a rare and mythical thing. Most of the time I

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2022
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  MIT Is My Home Looking back and saying goodbye

  

  things I would do if I could do MIT all over again. In my four years at ... college in Colorado, I still would have felt that displacement of "home ... been able to take a photo with truly everyone in it ^^; And of course, I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 13, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Long Road to Happiness Stuff no one likes to talk about...

  

  immediately. I would go home in the middle of the day because I was on the verge ... ;   Sometime in early November, I found myself in the waiting room at ... , unless you had seen me sitting there fidgeting in the waiting room, I don

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 22, 2017
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  I’m not an imposter… I’m going to be featured on the MIT News homepage

  

  —metaphorically. Readings in my philosophy classes that I would have spent hours pouring over ... how you compare to anyone else directly. I remember in high school, after every exam, people would be sharing point scores. I would keep a

  • by ana~
  • October 29, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  in your decision and prepared to give yourself to it fully. I think ... years. At Penn State I was at least a year younger than everyone in my classes, and thanks to AP credits I could graduate in two and a half years

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 29, 2012
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  demons on depression

  

  can draw a banana. In all respects, I can act like someone who is ... was asexual, in the sense that I've shared a lot of experiences that ... hours a week. I spent a lot of time in prayer, in meditation, in worship

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 28, 2021
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  There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.

  

  I would have fun or fit in or fail miserably. I would learn that I ... that I did in my head to write the above statement, so I wrote it down ... a tear that I’m no longer young.) In 2004, the MIT admissions blogs

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thank you for reading A rigorous study of 26-year-olds (n=1) showed that getting older is positively correlated to the…

  

  confidence in my writing, and allowed me so many opportunities that I would ... about as long as I was in college, which is an incredibly weird feeling ... themselves (and are all probably making way more money than I do, since I'm in

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• 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 ... roared in wintry fury outside. I got to brag about not going to class and

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007