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  WHY? for people who don't like "no"

  

  waitlist for Columbia! She ended up going to MIT! I told my dad about the ... 'm in my third year here at MIT, and I've grown up a lot. One of ... up with our own WHYs that often just make us feel terrible. It

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  0.125 not a course 0 class, but a fraction complete

  

  back up without me pressing start. I replied to emails,[annotation note ... eighth day, my self-reflection woke up. Since then, I've been thinking a ... should remember not to beat myself up if I'm not exactly where I want to be

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 4, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  morning milking and was setting up some electric fence for the cows when ... family walked in while I was tearing up and hugging my dog, and it took me ... . Went to bed super late so I didn't have to wait once I woke up. Woke up

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  weeks ago, I joined an a cappella group, and I did wind up living in East ... fencing takes up most of my extracurricular commitment, so I can’t join most ... , and I was often tempted to just give up and let the river wash me back

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

  Grey and Other Colors

  

  life that shock you into the reality of the situation, and you wake up at ... was never something I felt like I missed at MIT. I’d stay up late ... will always impose constraints which are beyond your control. It’s up to

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 8, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  3 weeks in northern Italy Global Teaching Labs and MISTI-Italy

  

  wood, and I woke up every morning to the voices of my family and the ... for the early waking. There was a snowstorm. There was the walk up ... fluffs up its breast with its paws, and at the same time a paler rat

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  senioritis not to be confused with señoritis

  

  my homework never! stay up forever! walk around in my bathrobe all day

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Merit When getting into MIT isn't convincing enough

  

  really well—sometimes people just stop picking up their phones. When I ... said, "don’t you think you had a leg up getting into MIT because you ... to hold my tongue if a higher-up at a future workplace said something

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • January 22, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  This Is How I Read productivity hacks, but for reading applications

  

  I really love the "day in the life" posts that have gone up recently ... understanding or control. Generally speaking, during reading season I wake up at ... AM-9AM: wake up, work out, answer email 9AM-12PM: read cases 12PM-2

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Boomeranging The day before classes start is Registration Day. It’s also the day we welcome readmitted…

  

  among all of the others you pick up here (course numbers, building numbers ... the side. Maybe fifty students show up to the Luncheon. That’s more than ... arrive early to help Laura set up. We spread out, settle in at different

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  sitting in the library, studying for a Geography exam when someone ran up to ... most of the academic things I’d been up to, including taking the SAT. Mrs ... sessions were out of the question. I toured CC, read up several college

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An actual day in the lab Hectic is my middle name.

  

  vacation since finals ended due to moving and setting up the apartment)... my body is not pleased that I'm getting up so early. 7:54 AM. I roll out of ... little bite-sized pellets of DNA which my cells will want to eat up. 30 min

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dormspam-the-game (Part 3) parting remarks from no-longer-anonymous gamemasters

  

  games. I ended up running 5 more of these games, including “Hide and Seek ... add some variety. setting things up We knew that we wanted to have ... had closed, but de Florez was still offering up to [annotation note

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  “You are capable of more than you know.” Reflections from six MIT transfer students

  

  were you, and what were you up to? Gaurab: I lived most of my life in ... , but I ended up going to Purdue because my family moved to the US. I ... surreal). During COVID, while waiting for the New Zealand borders to open up

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 13, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  The Adventures of Flat Tim And his admissions officer friend!

  

  "]highway.[/annotation] I grew up in Nashville, TN, a driving city, but I somehow avoided ... for the ‘Gram? Yes, he would.” Then I muster up the energy to go to see

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • June 6, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Feeling Many Feelings :) and :( and everything in between about decisions

  

  gets me every single time, and I regularly tear up watching World of ... all have," said Hermione nastily, picking up her quill again. So as you

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • March 16, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  suddenly fell over campus. We looked up from our computers and out the window ... it. Stu excitedly stood up from the committee table. “Is everyone else

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

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

  

  computer, opening up the MyMIT page that I hadn't visited in a few months. I ... didn't match up to MIT standards, my grades were not the best, I had not

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

  Pre-Med @ MIT The title says it all.

  

  Greggor Crowley. (Best advisor ever?? Yup, I think so!) Together, we've come up with ... ended up at great schools. I guess my point is: don't let the idea of a B

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s not fair! ... and why that's OK.

  

  for all. I grew up in Florida. The state is flat. There are no mountains ... only drummers, or an orchestra made up solely of tubas? Hopefully, you

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 25, 2011