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• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  saying how they couldn't accept so many wonderful people. While it's supposed to be comforting, obviously, I just find it really insincere. I mean ... ... And then the committee does its work, however brutal. It's not pretty

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  [Guest Post] The Southbound Train by Kylee C. '23

  

  passenger train receives woefully little love in the US of A, but it’s ... train near Danville, Virginia. Johnny Cash’s “Folsom Prison Blues” tells ... . Atlanta, with its booming growth, is a distinctly southern metropolis, whose

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 10, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  e) Other Some pretty important stuff, and then just some pretty stuff.

  

  think it's often overlooked how easy it is to graduate high school without ... explain to you how much it was not. I could tell you that I enjoyed my ... 's resolution was to try and blog every week - we'll see how long that one lasts

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Midsemester Night’s Dream Technically an All-Nighter's Dream, but hey, close enough

  

  stressed I am, or how much work MIT is, or how to handle it, because I ... 3, my floor, seems to like movies. It’s how we relax. Our floor lounge ... I’ve decided to continue a long chain of poor decisions by starting

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT, part deux The case study of someone else you wouldn't expect to have gotten in

  

  on how I got here is the most popular thing I've ever written ... today, and I was planning to write about tests. But Laura beat me to it ... , it was me). He's had a UROP in the Aerospace Controls Laboratory since

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  a class. It's been a hard few weeks for my friends too, with the long ... experience as long as YOU make it happen. Best of luck for wherever you go ... - it may be a blessing that you didn't get accepted - no matter how

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to get a UROP A lesson on stalking.

  

  you're willing to learn, than it is to show off how much you already ... 'skills' section of my resume, so it doesn't look so empty?" Other Freshman ... hear a knock at your bedroom door. You open it to find a Nobel Prize

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Miss the South Musings on a secret Instagram account

  

  but does not eliminate planned, long-form posts that require a ... a lot to get down and little time to do it, I’ll write one long ... it is cold, so long as it isn’t extraordinarily windy. I like the river

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  wanted that job for a long time. 2. How I blog - the writing and posting ... asked him whether "Cloudy Apple" is good, and Davie's response was "it ... write a blog post, but was struggling with writer's block (it's easier to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  There are no imposters in the Class of 2018 Strength in networks

  

  when it emerged over the next few weeks just how many MIT undergraduates ... how hard you work, you can always be better, and as long as you can be ... . Posts include "It's an honor and a privilege to be in here with you all

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

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

  

  ’ll learn how to, I dunno, become a person. And it’s like religion, it’s like ... . I do it because I like the idea of being someone who does that. I like ... doing less. # Then I slept. # A final long and dramatic epiphany. # It’s 4

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On identity f(x) = x

  

  One What does it take to get to know someone? I hate the feeling that ... ’ve experienced these for so long, and so often, that I can’t ignore it any more. I ... threaded through the narrow keyholes of exactly how I wanted it to end up. If

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating The Tunnels…Of Freshman Academics You didn't actually expect me to write about hacking on the internet, did you?

  

  professional blogging career. How can I... ...get sophomore standing? The ... metaphors for energy Me on my best (work-related) all-nighter ever Paul on how ... rough patches Chris on time management Sam on how MIT's difficulty is a

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  - my best friend told me that some kids were betting on how long I would ... MIT, and I know how it feels to be sort of "rejected," because even ... replied "Yay!! What does that mean?" because it's an odd term and people don

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  -and-such happened, at how common it was that important milestones seemed to be incited ... successfully, and I am in awe at his diligence. He does not recommend it: I ... it is really like to spend your days here. Linked below are a few

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m not an imposter… I’m going to be featured on the MIT News homepage

  

  like competition isn’t a part of MIT, but it’s different to how it was ... communicate just how distressing it was to realize I couldn’t wake up, no matter ... , did the upperclassmen struggle like I’ve been? How did I not notice it

  • by ana~
  • October 29, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  objectivity or was it she? Sometimes pre-frosh ask how hard MIT actually is. But what does the sentence “MIT is hard” even mean? It means that come ... how our situations had reversed. I finally understood that day. It didn

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  How to look over your application and advice about breathing. My older younger brother is your age. I am fully aware of how much you’re…

  

  entire application as the you-who-isn’t-you-from-number-2- What does it say ... Oh man, it has been a while and a half since I’ve blogged. However ... UChicago the night it was due, I figure a few of you might need this reminder

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  , and it had been a long day. We still had cases to review, when a hush ... You’ve done it. You’ve hit submit. Now what? You might imagine that ... about how our process works, but I’ll share a little bit about how our

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • January 9, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ideate, Model, TEST! A long, behind-the-scenes look at 2.009 like, really long.

  

  audience members from around the globe. It’s the closest thing you ... this year’s presentation was “magic,” but it wasn’t magic that created these products – it was engineering, design, and

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 10, 2015