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  [Guest Post] You Have a 50/50 Chance a guest post from my mama

  

  . "What if I don't get in?" "Am I good enough?" (That is a question we all ... concert that was not going to start until 8 PM that night. (Don't get me ... concerts. I can't go to school for her. I can't study for her or take the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Cozy Hobbit Times, Cozy Hobbit Food

  

  Random Hall friend Devin. It doesn’t have frills, like a dishwasher or a ... that I can’t always control the things that matter to me. This year I ... potato or yams garlic cloves Quantities: I don't know, Lydia decides

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  institute of numbers-loving folk recognize that numbers don't tell the whole ... didn't go well at all. On Thursday night, after my last exam was over, I ... was in the mood to do. I don't need to tell you that everything seems

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Bleary-eyed Some thoughts and reflections on this year's admission cycle - particularly for those not admitted.

  

  can't stop raving about you. And sometimes - as hard as we often try not ... weren't tears of sadness, or happiness (at first). My eyes were just ... were still sore. Several more blinks, and my vision wouldn't come into

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 16, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Burton 1 Social Club This Thanksgiving, I'm thankful for my ridiculous, hilarious, amazing floor.

  

  don't have an 14.01 pset, you'll wake up to at least ten emails between ... the tagline of the Burton-Conner t-shirt, featuring Peter Griffin from ... didn't eat because I'm (thankfully) a vegetarian.. basically, there was a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  ’s not acute. I haven’t shouted in the courtyard in frustration. I haven’t ... your foot, as if you don’t really believe there’s solid ground that ... was running out of groceries, and I didn’t want to buy much more

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-Med @ MIT The title says it all.

  

  /engineering school and has the reputation of being incredibly difficult. This isn't the ... program (where I wouldn't have to take the MCAT and would be guaranteed a ... that a B at MIT wasn't the be-all-end-all of their med school ambitions

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

  As We Approach Decision Day On getting in and on not getting in

  

  I didn’t have a rebellious streak beyond my accidental goth ... seventh grade. I didn’t imagine life past college admissions. All I knew was ... magic didn’t happen. MIT is not a magic wonderland. There are grades

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 8, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  either case, it generally doesn't matter if it's true, because the situation is probably not going to change. I can't speak to the situations ... the courtroom, and you can argue your way in. It doesn’t. In fact, the

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 25, 2011
• 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

  

  through the department in the past decade. That doesn't mean he was one of ... that he didn't get those two scores together -- the time he got a 710 in ... 're definitely not twice as good at math!") During his summers, Adam didn't have

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

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

  

  . Reading through this thread doesn’t make me think of SAT scores or grades ... that having great grades and scores doesn’t really help you – it just ... you read an application and a “perfect match” is there. Please don’t

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 16, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choosing Your Own Adventure and other things you can do when you live off campus

  

  about it. If you're an incoming freshman or thinking of applying, this won't ... . I haven't used these resources to find housing to be fair, but you can ... surrounded by school, and other students who are constantly working. I don't

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 8, 2019
• 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 ... isn't to attach an "oughtness" to "outness," but to identify a ... stopped thinking about the girls I wanted to like but didn’t and continued

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

  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  to them that I was worth something. If it wasn't enough for them, at least I could say to myself, internally: "they just don't like you because ... that there were people miles and miles ahead of me. This didn't faze me

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Robo-CJ writes haiku “didn’t you already make a blog post about this?”

  

  focusing on making haikus, but I have a lot going on and I can't keep up. i ... three minutes darn i can't save the world if i don't then i will starve ... , so ready for CPW, because I didn’t get to go to CPW when I got admitted

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  17 Things I’ve Learned in the Past Year growing, growing, grown

  

  It’s spring break and I’m catching up on alone time. I didn’t exactly ... of the material was really interesting. I don’t think I acknowledged ... after year, even when I haven’t been there for them and even after we fall

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  and we should be friends. The point is, MIT classes being hard, you don’t ... , then registered for again, then considered dropping. I just couldn’t do ... couldn’t escape it, you see. It was one of the General Institute

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

  Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend

  

  Quammen and Richard Preston, who aren't scientists by training but have a ... physics prodigies since birth. I've talked to a number of them, and it doesn't ... , become a physicist, profit. I, on the other hand, was certain that I WASN'T

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  year when I got my first B. If it weren't for that B, I would have been ... have are videogames and Reddit. No extracurriculars at all. Hell, I don't ... and available in its original form here.  I won't attempt to dilute his

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  from home will change, but don’t let the excitement of college ... non-vampire schedule. Don’t be like us. It is only ok to be nocturnal ... of me. It’s a risky technique, so I won’t advise it here, but if it

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018