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  I Have Never Been to Beijing A (loose) translation of the previous post written in Chinese

  

  , my auntie wanted me to take a nap. She said, “if you don’t go to sleep ... classroom or the television or the world I lived in, I didn’t feel American. I didn’t feel like I was like other Americans, though I had an American

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Merit When getting into MIT isn't convincing enough

  

  separate post about why it’s rewarding. This isn’t that post. I’ve had a lot ... like the opportunity to talk to current students. Some alumni don’t want ... don’t like that they admit students based on factors other than merit

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • January 22, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On identity f(x) = x

  

  don’t make an identity, right? Yet I find it so, so hard to view other ... college. After the conversation, I realized that I didn’t really know him ... ’s problems aren’t really real in the same way that my problems are real, and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There is no such thing as a typical day on energy levels and productivity

  

  . I can’t spend more than fifteen minutes without opening Discord or ... this pet theory. It’s not perfect, and I don’t really know how well it ... don’t immediately start the day at 100%, nor am I able to do work up to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 25, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  So Chance Me Maybe? Hey! I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my SAT...

  

  an AP test in my life. My GPA wasn’t perfect (still isn’t). I was ... math SAT was 40 points below MIT’s lower 25th percentile, and I wasn’t ... colleges and had drafted a handful of generic essays, but really didn’t have

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear My Old Friend, This is quite possibly weirdest way to introduce myself

  

  ’m studying math and philosophy. You don’t like either of those subjects yet ... wrong: you still can’t do minute math properly but you are good at math. I’m sure you have a lot of questions, but I can’t remember what they

  • by ana~
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  16 for the 16’s 16 Guidelines to Making the Most of your CPW

  

  , but don't worry! We're here to help. And you may be wondering who WE ...   N = Nat, K = Kirsten 1. Don't buy ANY food! N: One of the best ... since you guys will have a meal card! 2. Don't be afraid to randomly talk

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 18, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Defying That Sinking Feeling On learning to swim and envisioning success

  

  On my application for MIT, I made it a point to mention that I couldn't ... AP classes and participated in extracurriculars but still didn't know ... return on your investment. That's great. But money can't just buy integrity

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  The Great Wifi Outage of 2007 Burton-Conner's wifi went out two days ago; Evan will tell you more by the end…

  

  OUR WIFI, BUT YOU CAN'T TAKE OUR FREEDOM!!" Entire monitors from Athena ... 're wondering, these kinds of things don't often happen here (the internet outage ... with a class of 200 each. That worries me - I don't know what it'll be

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Stove-Cook Your Oatmeal and Never Look Back To not-admitted applicants and anyone who knows anything about fuses.

  

  Oatmeal cooked on the stove is so good. I wouldn’t know this, but a ... did not know about fuses. I still don’t. You might notice that the ... sometimes. I haven’t figured out if stirring is important. When the milk is

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 19, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  people were better than me.  By the time I got to MIT, I didn’t have the problem of “was valedictorian and suddenly isn’t the baddest fish in the sea”. I already knew I wasn’t that good, I just wanted to survive. I didn’t

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Train Coming on navigating

  

  freshman fall was during COVID so I wasn't moving to campus, but I still ... ?t=5756 -- When I got to the airport for my first ever flight, I watched what the people did, and I followed suit. And just like that, I wasn't

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 15, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Reading aka inhaling all the books i can before school starts

  

  weren’t shy and introverted as kids, this may sound really sad, but those ... didn’t spend slaving over psets was dedicated to getting up to all sorts ... another HASS class to take and landed on CMS.840, which I initially didn’t

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Long Road to Happiness Stuff no one likes to talk about...

  

  --sometimes just because there wasn’t time to write about them. I think being happy ... , sometimes I think I won’t ever eat again for three days (which is obviously not true) and I just don’t even really remember what it feels like to be

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 22, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  These past few weeks haven't been easy. I've had to stay up really ... hope you know that I fully support you. I don't believe all of you can ... an anecdote about how your dreams can't be taken away from you onto two

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  , “Don’t interfere.” When my Dean at Student Support Services first talked to my freshman advisor (or maybe my parents, I don’t recall; I still ... said, while I wondered who I had become if I wasn’t that old me, the one

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  one week and a year since the 2022s got in or didn't; two years and a ... . The time has gone by so quickly that I can't even think of a good ... school I applied to so the rejection didn't make sense. "I want to know why

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Some people call me the space cowgirl

  

  that SAT scores can't account for all kinds of intelligence. The student ... Aero/Astro. And, while she didn't have big SAT scores, she was clearly a ... that things don't get skewed too much, I should probably also report that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2004
• 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 ... though I wasn't rejected the first time I applied, I was deferred, and it ... . It was a strange feeling. I don't remember the date, but I do remember

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

  The Institute of Smashing What do you think MIT and a garbage compactor have in common?

  

  . You're an elite. You can't help but pat yourself on the back a little ... 's how I was in high school. I procrastinated like you wouldn't believe, I ... thoughts. I wouldn't even reread or edit my papers, just turn them in and

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2010