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• Blog / About Decisions

  The Burning Question "Can you tell me why I didn't get in? Why was I not good enough?"

  

  The burning question in my in-box is "Can you tell me why I didn't ... applicant pool. So the simple answer is - you didn't do anything wrong, and ... app and tell you individually why you didn't get in? Unfortunately, no

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 16, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Everyday Is Like Sunday

  

  students during early action. While I don't have final numbers for this year ... were some applications I couldn't believe we had to defer. I fully expect ... deferred applications we'll admit during regular action, though, and we don't

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 12, 2004
• Blog / How to Human

  Anxiety Level: High A play-by-play of emotional diffusion

  

  don’t have housing yet! What if we don’t find housing? What if your ... essay isn’t bad, it just needs work. Anxiety: … Anxiety: You’re a ... an essay, I guess. Anxiety: You get picks for lots of things you aren’t

  • by Powers '23
  • July 30, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  short term / long term on growth and learning

  

  realized it didn't quite fall properly. So, I encourage everyone reading this ... exactly pinpoint my feelings, tired of repeating the same old "I don't feel ... so long I can't help but ask myself: Why do I still feel this way? I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 10, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Let me introduce myself. Alternatively titled: Whomst'd've?

  

  the past month I've been here. "I am smart and capable and ready." I don't ... Music"](8.01, 18.01A, 3.091, and 21M.011)[/annotation] but I didn't ... didn't enter MIT thinking I was going to immediately thrive or pass all

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 5, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Failing and perfectionism

  

  made the whole experience more bearable. But I wasn’t always a ... survival, whatever you’re trying to survive against. If you don’t hit that ... exaggeration of otherwise satisfactory results. I wasn't prepared for the amount

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 12, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  Feedback Works Warning: analogy ahead

  

  So, as I mentioned in my previous entry, my GEL classes don't have p ... I didn't say there wasn't any homework. Every week, several GEL ... track one's progress in a leadership program, when you can't really assign

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 14, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Summer School's out for it

  

  == Empty A lot of what makes MIT MIT is the people you'll find here. I didn't ... over now. I believe RSI is started up but I don't actually know how to ... isn't made any better by my work hours, the second thing that

  • by Snively '11
  • June 27, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  You’ve got questions… ...I've got answers strewn amidst an explosion of other stuff.

  

  , can we have dinner tomorrow night? i feel like i haven't seen you all in ... much, then how can we say no? So seven of us met at the T stop in Kendall ... at DDR. (Nicole was wearing an awesome shirt that said, "I can't dance

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 6, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  busy, busy, busy screaming into the void

  

  uk, for the first half of 2022. wouldn't that be exciting? except ... a normal mit, and i didn't want to spend one and a half more. it ... to study somewhere else, but this isn't it. in a stroke of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 12, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  FUN Form FAQs U is for Ukelele

  

  . that have happened after you submitted your application). Don’t feel ... ’re sitting there confused, about to call the Admissions office, don’t worry ... below first. If you can’t find an answer here, leave a comment or feel

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 16, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  To Those with Dreams Deferred in which Selam of Pi Day Past rants about how things are arbitrary

  

  Aquarius or Year of the Horse is Not Important and you don't need to base ... up being a student at X or Y school is also something you can't entirely control, and you shouldn't base your self worth on that either. Don't

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 17, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dear High School Senior I know you're stalking us

  

  numbers, I couldn't get this editor to bullet the nested lists :( ) Read ... things can be pretty good, especially when you don’t have to write a five ... accelerator? Build a particle accelerator! (Don’t know how to build a particle

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • November 17, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  But What Are They Really Looking For? My thoughts (advice) on navigating (surviving) the college application process.

  

  prospective students. The transition happened quickly and I didn’t have time to ... I don’t have to navigate the crush of people during passing time I also don’t get to randomly see students I know in the hall. I also miss

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • November 11, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Let the games begin! Last minute advice for your CPW.

  

  and get here, and if you are, you shouldn't waste too much time reading ... you aren't sure what to do yet with your CPW, here are some tips from my ... particular order, Don't spend too much time with your host! CPW is not "meet

  • by Cam T. '13
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Happy Things Yay!

  

  , though this isn't the first time this year - we've had nice days on and off ... snow tomorrow or something. At least we haven't gotten any earthquakes ... I've never tried in an earthquake) if my bike hadn't gotten stolen

  • by Karen F. '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  Sophomore Fall Goals So you can bully me when I write a post saying they didn't work out

  

  didn't have them in the earlier part of last year. I'm moving to a new ... attainable (it wasn't), then that was the goal. If landing a big-name internship for my first-year summer was attainable (it wasn't), then that was

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 11, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Other Side of Fraternities What if. . .

  

  ! He doesn't possess the self-control to write honestly about a sensitive ... freshmen guys are members of fraternities. The statistics don't say that ... . In fact, if you don't do any Rush as a freshman then YOU'RE DOING IT

  • by Snively '11
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Where are you going with this? The ponderings of an ex-frosh.

  

  ? also, just out of curiosity, and its totally okay i you don't feel ... 2nd semester, assuming there wasn't pass/no record)? and what was your ... nostalgic because you thought you were so cool now that you weren't at the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Choosing a Major I hope this is helpful to you at some point

  

  harder than others and omg my friend says this class is impossible and don't ... around, maybe 13 out of 50 for the course 8 folks. I don't have any idea of 8-B. I can't believe you do all of this?!?! How do sleep? Do you

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 18, 2007