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

  

  to leave, not realizing just how deeply my roots had been planted ... not learn how to refinance a house, fix a flat tire, enjoy eating dinner ... need to know about how to live, and what to do, and how to be, I learned

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

  My College Essay Early Action / November 2005. ~500 words await.

  

  Friday, November 4th 11:59pm. WIN! (Also known as, do you know how to ... , AP exams fees are reduced but not obliterated, and I’d love to meet the ... apply to. “M.I.T.,” I replied. “Oh, M.I.T.?” she mused. “How ironic

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 11, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2) My take on the MIT short essays.

  

  challenge now, however, is how to condense all the things you want to convey ... this is not intended to be a "model essay" (I think the ending can use ... narrative -> point -> how it connects to me. In fact, this is what I use

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  loneliness, homesickness, not knowing how to live day-to-day independently ... asked for. i talked to the professor about whether or not i should drop to ... riskily, i decided not to. through a combination of psetting with friends

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

  neighborhoods we move into and come to love. What do pregnant mice, cheerleaders, and four-foot light-up tinsel giraffes have in common?

  

  For anybody too young to have seen my name at the top of the recent ... and brain and cognitive sciences, which means that I'm going to have my ... rabbit (who did not attend MIT) in an apartment just north of Boston. I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 27, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

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

  

  about our successful regular season. Which leaves me to tell you about how ... kind of hard. It’s only been a few days, and it’s hard to process how I ... . Saturdays are spent on Roberts field, friends and family in the stands. Not to

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

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

  

  engineering to pursue a PhD in biological engineering at MIT. (It’s not as crazy ... protein engineering and computational biology to try to understand how a ... especially how it would affect my experience after MIT but going back to read

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

  Gee, my life’s a funny thing Remembering the bills I have to pay, or even yesterday.

  

  of pictures of the Stata Center to show how innovative we are. Now, as ... is "Don't stress out too much about numbers; you're not going to go to ... , but you really need to realize how cool it is. Talking to some of my

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Hello, Goodbye, Hello!

  

  exciting to look at)... I looked at the empty i3 DVD slot on the inside ... had I decided …not… to put myself forward (e.g. HEY DO YOU WANT TO HAVE ... ’re all getting ready to go back to school… Returning students are probably

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 17, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Challenge You Pi day approaches.

  

  ) – was not the fear of being unable to succeed without MIT, but rather a ... admitted, and those who are not - to concentrate on what you wanted out of an ... well as for those of you who do not. I challenge you to bring your plans

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I know you’re bad at something And here's what you should do about it. Hint: NOT "do something else"

  

  are still not quite clear to me, I raised my hand almost every time. I ... was soloing whether I wanted to or not. And boy, was it good for me. I ... section. All eyes are on you, as you lift your instrument to your mouth

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.

  

  before heading in to work, I'm not even stinkier! Now, I know what you ... . There are great regional bike maps - not to mention Google Maps Biking ... you how to fix something or just hang out. The rear rack on my bike

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  sometimes ask students to imagine who reads their applications and to tell me ... “cold-hearted,” “robotic,” or “judgmental.” Not only do they think that we ... . That we are there to judge them and find flaws in them. The truth is, we

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • January 9, 2019
• 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…

  

  reaction, though it may not necessarily be strong enough to prevent the ... life. First, get comfortable and acclimated; try not to panic. Second, if ... forward or backward at a particular moment. But that tends not to happen in

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

  MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )

  

  loops on a highway of rainbows. There is no way to uniformly describe how ... /organization habits. You are not expected to know the answer now, and this almost ... "teaches" you how to study, because techniques and tricks vary by person

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “You know what would be cool?” some pizza would be a start...

  

  universities that you can go to for your education. It's not like MIT teaches ... occurence that it's not until I'm away from campus that it really sinks in how ... 's 0400 Saturday morning, and my roommate and I sit listening to whatever

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 8, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  There Is No Formula A formula would take the human component out of our process, which is perhaps the…

  

  deluding yourself. So please stop harassing Matt; you’re not going to get the ... you come to MIT or not. I know it’s not a consolation, but it’s still ... This whole “is there a formula to get into MIT” thing that’s been

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 16, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 things I love about MIT and hopefully you'll learn to love them too.

  

  always bond over how much work that they have to do. It’s an instant ... president of your dorm as a junior. This is a beautiful thing, and not one to ... just a day away. I’ve never taken the time to count up how many emails I

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes I Won’t Be Able to Take also "What Is Pre-Registration?"

  

  to take and helping the administrators figure out how popular classes ... freshmen do not have to pre-register. I panicked a little about this after an ... : The History of Now[/annotation] 21H.001: How to Stage a Revolution

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 23, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  not knowing how to look for help or how to go about wrestling those ... somehow managed not to get them. Recently I took the SATs as well, which I ... tools, but what I really ended up learning was how to go about finding

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012