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  25 Stories of Getting Accepted to MIT told by students and alums

  

  studying for a final the next day with a friend who also applied. We both ... a large quantity of ice cream the night before. If I got in, I would ... morning milking and was setting up some electric fence for the cows when

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  date. We were standing outside, staring into the surroundings. “It’s a ... the top of a building. We’re surrounded by the city, but isolated from ... , which you take to earn credit for an MIT subject without taking the class

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  College Shopping List Everybody do the shopping cart!

  

  . I bought all of this ahead of time except for the pillows just because ... only a sleeping bag (good for retreats or sleepovers) and had their ... recommend getting a mattress pad i.e. the egg carton ones, or memory foam

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 26, 2007
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  sibling dynamics at MIT yes lmao Nisha and I are related

  

  plagued my thoughts for a while, but when I thrust myself into the world of ... it:   I thought OP probably was a reader of the blogs, because ... state, and having the same damn last name isn’t enough—at a blogger

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 20, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  could be a little bit warmer. I’ve been sitting outside the Stud for about ... be a risk for myself. In the end, I chose the place that I connected ... how I could do good for the world. It is a choice between two different

  • by Phi A. '21
  • April 20, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Have Never Been to Beijing A (loose) translation of the previous post written in Chinese

  

  Chinese-language post not mentioned here. The content is a bit different for ... are Habesha”. “Habesha” is a term that refers to the ethnic group of ... traveled together in China for a vacation (I was stuck at home interning :P

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2016
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Back in Time I change my clock back three hours and read headlines on the magazine of the…

  

  chair kicked by the screaming kid beside me (a stereotype for bad flights everywhere, but for some reason, for me, it always seems to hold true). The ... . Things change. Except for the screaming child. He's still here, ensuring

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  All the Bloggers’ Personalities! A post about personality tests, part 2!

  

  hungry during the race, promptly stopped for a feast and then fell asleep ... sent out a survey to the bloggers, asking them what their results were for all those personality tests! None of this, the tests themselves nor

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 12, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  So Chance Me Maybe? Hey! I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my SAT...

  

  I just said is a horrible lie. Here’s the truth: I have never taken ... applying, about which colleges would be a good fit for me, and about which ... was a competition, in which the applicants strove to cast themselves in

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  0.125 not a course 0 class, but a fraction complete

  

  the upcoming new year, a time when I'm even more reflective than usual ... ="Which I got!! More on this later, I'm sure :)"]applied for a UROP ... then waiting 40-55 minutes for your final product. It is about knowing a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 4, 2019
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  An Entry About Snow ...Even though we don't have any

  

  used as a metaphor for life, and that it's highly unoriginal to come up ... that a snowboarding PE course existed over IAP, I jumped at the chance to ... panicked for a split second when I actually didn't know how many - but then I

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 11, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  out good. Hoping for the chance for dreams to be a reality. Sometimes ... will continue to grow and become yourself, that this is not the end of a road, but the start of a new journey. I know that those words can be

  • by Phi A. '21
  • March 16, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  entire language for a regional accent. The language we learned didn ... full of ambition and looking to make a name for yourself in the world ... I initially wrote this to my little brother. I debated for a while

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Reflections on 50 Things thinking back on The Blogfather's wisdom in my senior year

  

  , the most-read blog on MIT Admissions. As a member of the Class of 2018 ... , some “friend turnover” is unavoidable. We’re all here for a limited ... , for example, 10am biology lectures with Erik Lander, the Biology God

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018
• Blog / Advice

  Enjoy Life Farewells and New Beginnings

  

  is a long one and remember that life is meant to be enjoyed. Thanks for ... Today is my first day of school as a PhD student at MIT. Today is ... never would have ended up at MIT and probably wouldn’t have ended up as a

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 5, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  ten reflections on mit

  

  for me, and I am glad. I grew a lot here, in many ways. At the same time ... fun of the architecture a lot here, but sometimes, MIT really does look ... ’s campus — and I’ve spent the past week thinking about how it has been a

  • by Phi A. '21
  • February 15, 2023
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Semester 1 fantastic dishes and how to cook them

  

  Fahrenheit for 15 minutes. Making the sauce: Bring some the stock to a ... "][/annotation] open for the summer. The food there was, in my opinion, unsatisfactory ... “cultural shock” that the [annotation note="Short for International Student

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 8, 2020
• Blog / Classes

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

  

  grown, or so I damn well hope.  # I went to a Q&A for the 2025s, and ... out for a bit, but understood most of the reactions our prof showed ... timeline: every week has been a hellscape marginally more desolate than the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Queer at MIT, but not on the blogs the map is not the territory, but it's getting closer

  

  in more depth in one of my essays for a CI-H I took, but the gist is ... really would be a more welcoming place for me, the future so full of ... is from 2009, when Laura published a guide to the MIT Rainbow Lounge. A

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  retire early."]yelling[/annotation] the entire time. A colleague recently ... ." "Just because you've got the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we ... fit for MIT, and I think the program she started is cool. I like her

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • March 16, 2019