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• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s More Than A Job Thoughts On The Eve Of RA Decisions

  

  library, find a quiet corner, and immerse myself in your lives. I read ... application wouldn't be on my pile in the first place.) By now I'm fully invested in you so I write a gazillion nice things about you in your summary

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Muti Water Project ...is finished!!!

  

  in Ethiopia in 2016. (You can get the full story in those two blog ... Solutions In “Why is There No Water”, I’d highlighted some key qualitative ... I mentioned, can easily be replaced) then I will consider the project

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  The Room(s) Where It Happens You've hit submit. What Comes Next?

  

  applications all day, everyday in physical isolation for weeks on end can be ... in need of a second opinion. When I’m really desperate for human ... work for committee. I was sitting in Dean Stu Schmill’s office, which has

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • January 9, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  We’ve been there, too. It feels like the calm before the storm. Please don't forget to breathe.

  

  submitted in time for the EA deadline. Somehow, I managed to distract myself ... talked about this yet in my blog posts, but I have had a longish ... hypnophobia—fear of sleep. In particularly bad bouts, I'd freak myself out about

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  here comes a thought on decisions

  

  find negative emotions during this time in your life. i remember decisions day when i applied early action. i could barely concentrate in class ... i've been thinking about pi day and decisions lately and the song

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 13, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Guest Entry: Stephanie Lin Presenting MIT's most recent Rhodes Scholar!

  

  Spanish. I was a beekeeper/researcher for a summer in high school ... jumping from Biology at MIT to Physiology in medical school (I eventually want to work in public health and infectious disease. See, I told you

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 12, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  progress I always expected. I don’t feel like I’m in a position where I can ... road, but the start of a new journey. I know that those words can be ... what.  There’s a lot of things that you might be feeling. And I can

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 16, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  partners in crime, my enemies, my friends. I had a wild imagination as a kid ... writing phase in middle and high school. I eventually moved on to RPG video ... /minor/major, so I wound up not getting in. I spent a few days scrambling around for

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Stove-Cook Your Oatmeal and Never Look Back To not-admitted applicants and anyone who knows anything about fuses.

  

  obvious mountains to climb. I can walk in any direction, or switch directions, for any amount of time, toward horizons whose features I can’t see ... in the world can have breakfast or building cities or improving

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 19, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Are people on the East Coast friendly? An entry especially for those from the Midwest.

  

  East Coast a bit... unfriendly?" Now, to be fair, I still can't answer ... work to do) at MIT that I haven't spent a whole lot of time in Boston ... me back in for free since I had already paid once. Anecdote 5

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 21, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s Not Me, It’s You How to kiss goodbye to a school that rejected you

  

  am the one thing in life I can control.” The single most formative ... a school you love is crushing, and it can often be framed in the context of “I wasn’t good enough to get in.” That’s not the right way to

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 29, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  An Open Letter to MIT Applicants Don’t Panic (and know where your towel is)

  

  highlight some of the awesome things that MIT students are working on, I can ... score number. Let me tell you how I ended up here. As a senior in high school, I knew college applications were coming up and that everyone in my

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sibling dynamics at MIT yes lmao Nisha and I are related

  

  exploded with laughter in the middle of my physics lecture as soon as i saw ... barely overlap. In fact, our lives don’t overlap much; I’ve bumped into ... desperately wanted to distinguish myself in some way, but I always felt that she

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 20, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Dissecting emotion what is feeling

  

  is not real, because I can sit in front of my text editor for an hour without writing. Time is not real, because I can close my eyes and listen to ... One. Time is not real, because the other day I woke up at ten in the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 3, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to use these blogs Scattered thoughts on the information age, plus some bonus snark.

  

  came across a collection of things that I had written which can most ... topics. In fact, I think I'll link random words in this entry to some ... blogging for over 2 years now. Every once in awhile, I run out of ideas. So

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  made this video without you all ♥ I included my script below, in case you aren't in a place where you can watch the video with sound. I didn ... bloggers, but I can't link to all the posts here. They're just a quick search

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

  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  support can go a long way. I've been very lucky to have the amazing support ... hope you know that I fully support you. I don't believe all of you can ... pennies and published them in my post My Two Cents. I got a lot of responses

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  Over the years, I have discovered that just about anything can be ... realized I had just lost my glasses in the fall. It's okay, I found them, and ... , but just in case I run out). HOWEVER, (and this is where my advice goes

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

  And the Whistle Blows soccer post-season & my last competitive soccer game

  

  like I just stepped on campus to begin preseason, and now I’m handing in ... exactly did the rest of our season go? In my last update, I regaled you ... competitive soccer career. When I was in seventh grade, [annotation note

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 21, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  again, in wide-eyed wonder that I get to choose which classes I can take ... , that I would need to pare down my focus or I'd drown in the torrent of ... grief. I remember that in my first year my whole life revolved around this

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022