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

  

  four years here, which I hope would be of use to incoming freshmen ... degrees). * To my credit, I was fluent in Python prior to entering MIT, so ... need to study (it was for me). I also don't believe in books that

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

  Some Advice Sometimes I wish I could tell freshman-me that everything's going to be okay

  

  brother's starting college in a month and that makes me feel even older - I ... plane flight home, I was thinking about advice that I would have given ... person you would fall in love with. 25) Work on friendships as much as you

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An actual day in the lab Hectic is my middle name.

  

  would call low-maintenance, mmkay. 8:40 AM. I consider leaving, then check ShuttleTrack and decide that I would get to work faster if I wait for the ... exactly what needs to be done. I stick my cell culture media in the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I know you’re bad at something And here's what you should do about it. Hint: NOT "do something else"

  

  played it well when alone, but in class my hands shook and I pressed my ... humiliating, and every time I was convinced that Mr. L would take my solo away ... before the start of the solo, he would give me a smile and a nod. I would

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2011
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  A Day in the Life Liveblog of my Thursday complete with (not so great) pictures

  

  I really enjoyed Ana's recent post about a single day in her life, so ... would be interesting to document my Thursday because I usually end up ... into them in the hallways. Most of the time it's because I genuinely don

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 15, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The rise and fall of CPW all the cpw history, plus proof the weather machine is fake

  

  earliest thing I've seen in the Tech that could be considered an admitted ... documentation, at least not in the places I looked at. Only passing mentions in ... then back up to 415 in 1998. I also don't know where to fit this in, but

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  astrophysicist. Now something strange happened in that year, I would co ... out some time from my Jam-Packed schedule in third year (mostly I would ... tell me what he had been doing in the time since. I thought it was a

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

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

  

  .02 would give me some more time. The hours I’d spent catching up in 8 ... trajectory, I would actually learn more physics in 8.02. I think.  I wish I ... . 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

  17 Things I’ve Learned in the Past Year growing, growing, grown

  

  friend told me they were being treated in x way, I would tell them to get ... : explicit lyrics) a song I mentioned in my very first blog post. There may or may not have been tears in my eyes by the end :’) This past month, I

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2017
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  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  considering. In addition, she didn’t think D9 organizations would be available ... Side of Fraternities because I would not have described it any better ... sororities weren’t engaging with her in the way she would have wanted to

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  computer, opening up the MyMIT page that I hadn't visited in a few months. I ... took a few days/weeks to settle in. I got some congratulations at school - my best friend told me that some kids were betting on how long I would

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 17, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  In the Realm of Giants imposter syndrome with a senior year twist

  

  dashed. Now, I’m stuck in a limbo of trying to figure out [annotation note ... something very similar already once in my life, around the first time I ... for me even when I feel I don’t deserve it. In others, I see a jumbled

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  some warmth on a cold decisiony day "there have been times that I thought I couldn't last for long / but now…

  

  smoothly. BUT: I hadn't thought at all about how I would feel in the days ... answer to many more things in life than I would have expected: in your ... [/annotation]vividly, as though it's only been a month.   I knew I would be nervous

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  shallow. I would look at the time on my phone, then on my laptop, then on my ... before. I was hoping fasting would bring me some sort of ease about what ... ; however, it was all for naught the moment my efforts would matter most. I

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what am i doing great question.

  

  praying that seniority would work in my advantage helped. I also desperately ... in August. But #5 has been giving me nightmares--or it would, if I ... irrationally) fearing that I would be starving in June. The answer to that

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

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

  

  instructor. I hope - and think - that I never participated in a conversation ... semesters left, and there are at least fifteen or twenty classes that I would ... taste. If I had fully appreciated this as an incoming freshman, I would

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

  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