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  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

  challenge me even more to raise my own expectations of what I can achieve ... community while being honest in what I do, believe, and want so that I can ... Senior Week events, I can tell I'm getting high off low-oxygen altitude

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 6, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  graduate from college, I can say now that failing out of MIT was one of the ... to say this now that I've already gotten into college, but I can still ... In my (high-school) senior spring, when I was almost sure I planned

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  the couch at home and hoping I'd be able to load the website before ... [z] enough for MIT". When the website loaded and I skimmed that page ... .  We had a snow day and when I called my grandmother to tell her, she

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  they want to write but can’t have the blog be associated with them. I ... has. The earliest post I can find that was centrally "about" LGBTQ+ life ... moment with the new and improved lexicon of this day and age, I can

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)

  

  . The family I had in our home of Simmons Hall was generous and I can ... , and try to level the playing field accordingly (I can't remember where I ... of what Mom and Dad can do to help. Maybe I just lived a very fortunate

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  . Actually, I'd modify that "can be" to a "should be", because I'd argue that ... On Thursday, I sat in front of a camera for an hour (along with ... international students. Near the end, someone asked: "Can you give an example of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Upside Down Gnomes From Wisconsin Always look up.

  

  eventually, eventually, we will sleep. I think the semester can be ... This semester has been different from anything else I've done. I ... sequel (or what I thought would be a sequel) to 6.046, design and analysis

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 26, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  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’t begin to know exactly what those feelings are. But what I can do is share

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 16, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  fencing takes up most of my extracurricular commitment, so I can’t join most ... I was reading through my old blog posts and realized that it’s been a while (read: the entire semester) since I’ve blogged about my thoughts and

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sibling dynamics at MIT yes lmao Nisha and I are related

  

  and classes and friends, and it’s wonderful. I can’t say I’ve become ... A little while ago, I got my first(?) mention on MIT Confessions, and exploded with laughter in the middle of my physics lecture as soon as i saw

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

  What I Did in High School in the actual sense of the phrase

  

  . Maybe I’ll write about my application some other day so we can like ... account was actually a terrible idea. I don’t know if I can think of any ... suburban New Jersey county. I applied mostly because a friend was applying

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / Advice

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

  

  strategies I do, however, think that you can have meaningful work and research ... I also can’t help but feel that the probability of doing so is just ... program can be great for one person but not another) and I honestly can

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  seemed too tense, my muscles seemed to clench, each time I got in. I can ... can swim? Well if you shoved me into a deep pool, I’d probably drown on ... ’t have to tell me about that. I knew it. Hours spent fixated on a problem

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  ," "I can't wait to meet you," and "I already feel a special love for all ... that can only be formed with some suffering. At some point - I think it ... impressive to your peers, I promise, and frankly anyone who disagrees can go

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a freshman year 🦴🧠🩸🖐️🫀 my first year at mit, told through the body

  

  featuring avocado, soy sauce, and a few other ingredients that i can no longer ... that i can never really change the color underneath. as i’ve stumbled ... difference in most people’s lives. i think that they can still be a good

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  that you can work with, and recently I just realized that EVERY ONE of ... I'll give you snippets of three actual conversations first. I. I ... : "So where do you go to school?" ME: "Oh, I go to school in Boston

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  moves to the back button, but before I can click, the page loads. To ... again, in wide-eyed wonder that I get to choose which classes I can take ... . If I had a plan, it ate the plan. …But I'm still me. So I can come up

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Guest Entry: Christina Bognet Supplemental materials to help you through the next few days.

  

  is quite possibly the funniest (and happiest) Baker biology genius I ... ! *** Precisely one year ago today I sat drinking coffee at a Dunkin Donuts with one ... respective first choice schools early decision. "I have a really good feeling

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 8, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  Senior Video.)[/caption] Five months ago, I bid farewell to my high school, Ward Melville. In my three years there, I changed intellectually and emotionally in ways I couldn't have predicted. I spent this past summer

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

  Advice From The Elderly My last blog entry, at least from this chapter.

  

  're being, and people can see you. I don't have 50 pieces of advice; Ben ... eventually. I have the worst time letting go of things, but you can't force ... with two of the most supportive parents a girl can ask for, and I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2012