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  Fit or happiness made easy

  

  ask myself is "am I in the right place?" How do we know when we get ... you, it's much easier to be happy. In terms of colleges, I had no idea what the right fit felt like until I visited MIT in April for CPW. Long

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking the L On "failure" at a place like MIT.

  

  and back on again. So I go to the #1 tech school in the world but I can ... its true. I can sit in a room with [annotation note="heck, even a ... textbook a lot of Psets are done through. I did well in Calc BC in high

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  , Ward Melville. In my three years there, I changed intellectually and emotionally in ways I couldn't have predicted. I spent this past summer ... [/caption] Throughout high school I was often lost in confusion. I like to think about

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

  There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.

  

  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 ... . At the end of undergrad, I was deciding between going and working in

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

  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  learned everything I needed to at MIT. But in these moments of reflection ... going to do. I was going to dive in head first, I was going to take the ... that with me into college. I wasn't particularly well liked in high

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Institute of Smashing What do you think MIT and a garbage compactor have in common?

  

  fact in studying here, no matter what major you choose I can almost ... the things I can do as a result. It may be a work in progress, but my ... :   It's good for you   You see, in the many conversations I

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  inevitably be done in the twenty-four hours before it's due. Procrastination, I ... procrastination. I could claim I had seven hours of writer's block, but in reality ... -sleep around 1am, I set every alarm in my room to an arbitrary time between 2

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  0.125 not a course 0 class, but a fraction complete

  

  can fall down my priorities list. In the spring semester, I want to ... combine them for tasty results. With this revelation in hand, I've gotten ... , I can't even seem to get through a day on seven and a half. Knowing

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 4, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  tell me what he had been doing in the time since. I thought it was a ... blog it, and he said I could. I've reproduced it in its entirety and ... the years. You might want to know how I fared in past five years (wow

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

  non-stop / walang hinto what a mess

  

  spring semesters. the only time i can think of that’s comparable was during ... , this entire quarantine has been a blur, and i remember almost nothing in ... the things i’ve been doing this summer: i am in a urop. i talked

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 8, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Merit When getting into MIT isn't convincing enough

  

  crawled closer and closer. I had been sitting in my little call station ... ’m not interested in giving to MIT,” he told me. “I’m sorry to hear that ... is; firsthand information from students can change minds.) “Well, I

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • January 22, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  (which I mention in my blogger intro). I’ve always thought Jenny was too ... least three other Asian Jenny’s in the class of 2013. Ultimately, I wasn ... diversity of people and options here made me confront the person I was in high

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  'm interested in science. It's probably why I'm at MIT. I have tremendous ... then there are my professors, who have, as far as I can tell, been ... continued to disturb me: how can I be so different from my fellow physicists

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thoughts for the New Year A semester's worth of thoughts, tbh

  

  feelings on things, so in honor of New Year’s Eve, I decided to reflect on ... few weeks ago, I made a trip to 7-11 in a shirt, a long jacket, and no ... live in, what clubs I wanted to join. Some things are going according to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  semester, I have already taken a final exam. In the midst of sitting down for ... forward a few days, I dropped the class in question, thinking it would make ... point where I wasn’t fully engaged in my other classes. One particular

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 14, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Being “qualified” for MIT Let me show you how it's done.

  

  On Thursday, I sat in front of a camera for an hour (along with ... story. I said, in effect, there there's no such thing as being "qualified ... Friday. I had an icky week. I had four exams in four days, one of which

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Some people call me the space cowgirl

  

  whose application I just read was like Pink in many ways. She came from a ... admissions [I] have seen in [my] time, both as a student and as an admissions ... to work for a school where I can honestly say that. There's a lot more

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2004
• Blog / Advice

  Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me

  

  . *There are some structural causes of burnout in grad school that I am all ... figured out what I wanted out of a career, based on working in the science ... in society as an ethically-minded (at least I hope) science advocate

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Note To Self Please don't forget this.

  

  realized that learning where one's limits are can be a very good thing. I ... thin that you can no longer contribute in a significant way to any group ... unsuccessful one: "It was great!"), I finally converged on this: I laugh, then

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear My Old Friend, This is quite possibly weirdest way to introduce myself

  

  actions were a reasonable response to the situation I was in. Can I claim to ... reading your blog. Write her or him a letter.” I wrote elsewhere in the ... , I guess. God, why is this so difficult? I’m just talking in circles

  • by ana~
  • September 24, 2021