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

  

  about as long as I was in college, which is an incredibly weird feeling ... med school and make negative $30,000 a year). While it doesn't seem like that long ago that I was 17 and applying to college, the truth is that in

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing I don’t have time for hosed into my core

  

  them. They asked how I was, how'd it go, congrats, you survived! but I ... career. But it doesn’t feel like anything worth celebrating about. I spent ... strong negative memories of. But it's a requirement for the new 6–14 major

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 25, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fit or happiness made easy

  

  ask myself is "am I in the right place?" How do we know when we get ... along with a big helping of the word "fit". At this point, it's a buzzword ... part of it to maintaining something you are not. The idea of fit is

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

  Shiny Circuits Shiny, in some subcultures at MIT, means REALLY AWESOME

  

  seen a demonstration of how easy it is to wire up an incandescent bulb ... Hey guys! I know it's been a little while since I have blogged. The ... student (they tend to be about how neat trees look right after rain in the

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 31, 2009
• 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 ... written to you long ago on Pi Day 2011, when I had received an admission

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

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

  

  struggles, academically and professionally, and many know what it's like to ... hear freshmen doing that sometimes, and it makes me sad. I wish I had never worried about how I compared to my fellow incoming MIT students. I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Flux and Flow Thermodynamics as therapeutic analogy; or, the longest way I've ever said, "I'm still figuring things…

  

  , both will occur, and it's fine if that happens so long as I always try to ... took the class twice and dropped it twice. It wasn't just because it had difficult concepts and brutal tests. It represented the final hurdle to being

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  meet again, but under what circumstances? How long will we be able to ... hard." How lucky am I to have people who make saying goodbye so hard. It ... filled with memories too large to contain any of us. It is the end of my

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 31, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  You Are Here a list of things i can't make myself do, and a few i can

  

  daily routine, it takes me so long to actually finish things that I ... ’s enough to get me to think about it endlessly. I know I’m not alone in how ... It’s a Wednesday afternoon, and I sit in my dining room and stare at

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 19, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parents, Please Read Prefrosh and students, read this too, and make sure to have a discussion with your…

  

  I have finally made it home for the holidays. Let me tell you, there's nothing quite like being at home, even if it is just for two weeks, and even if it's so snowy that nobody can leave/come to my house for anything

  • by Snively '11
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “So what are you majoring in?” *sweats nervously*

  

  - although a bit tangential - I feel like it’s the most core perspective on how ... 3 seems pretty cool.” I guess for most people, it’s not such a hard ... definitely still want to help people, but I’m not finding it all quite as

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Night at the Office A bit longer than I expected.

  

  little bit of face, part of the reason it took so long to edit it – aside ... don't even know how this came up, but somewhere it was noted that there ... piece just went through so many iterations, and it was so long! But Issue

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hard MIT Class ...or is that redundant? And yes, hiiiiii.

  

  . It was fun. How could they say that? Am I really gonna take this class ... class. And at the end of it all, I got the swim credit. Does that mean I ... start a novel with the lines, ‘It was a dark and stormy night’.” And you

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Solar Catsby Turning my little ray of sunshine into a solar cell

  

  , so I had a vague notion of how it would work. The main idea was to use ... of 2018, it houses the most sophisticated nanofabrication facilities of any university in the world. At the heart of it is a cleanroom with a

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 2, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Pretender a message to both you and me.

  

  depressed, angry, and saddened at myself, this failure, and how it could ... feel for MIT life. And I fell in love with it. I wanted to go to MIT more ... , and that if I did get into MIT, it would be against all odds. Even the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  heart-breaking reality. And it’s important to remember just how much ... your sheets and your comforters and blankets. It’s a long process, but do ... . As I get ready to graduate, I wanted to share how I experienced Ben

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

  Reflecting on 10 Years and Lessons Learned Happy Birthday, MIT Blogs!

  

  yours – leave it! Find ways to go explore and to find out how other ... investigate or how long I would need to trace down different routes. My advisor ... a long time, and it held me back without me being aware. I finally

  • by Kim D. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take a Load Off Quoting The Band's "The Weight" should make the wait bearable

  

  . And it's still true of everyone who wants to get in to MIT. And I ... , albeit reasonable expectations of its applicants. Chris Peterson put it ... is visible from my awesome double.As much as I would've liked for it to

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions advice from someone who’s been there

  

  ...but this post is getting long, and I bet you get my point, which is that it ... here. The powers that be over there liked this post so much that it ... they should retake to raise them by 30 points. I hope that it gives you

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 17, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  -Madison, having grown deeply attached to it, and she assured me that as long as I ... says, it really won’t matter in the long run. If it’s a yes ... happen. It felt too long and the question of where I would end up seemed

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014