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

  

  staff? Is there such a thing as too personal? I can't recall precisely ... only a few hours before the deadline (maybe the site won't crash again ... . Wouldn't it have been safer to submit the overly-edited essay? I gave MIT

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Happy 21st Birthday to the Random Hall Milk the Milk is now old enough to drink, but *please*, don't drink the Milk

  

  Macaroni and Cheese for dinner. Deciding that a little carton of milk couldn’t ... , he decided that Mac and Cheese wouldn't help him complete his p-sets or ... didn’t buy it. Would be so good on my plate of Cheerios right now, but I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m not an imposter… I’m going to be featured on the MIT News homepage

  

  pretty late and it wasn’t my best work. Still, I’m going to be featured ... measured up.  These days, I don’t share my exam scores with anyone, but also ... during my summer of Interphase is that this isn’t the case. People ask “how

  • by ana~
  • October 29, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking the L On "failure" at a place like MIT.

  

  school, so I didn't study for it. I already know the material, right? I can make up excuses like that I didn't know the syntax of MITx, but the short ... or just REALLY love math, like an obsessive amount, don't take this

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  An Open Letter to MIT Applicants Don’t Panic (and know where your towel is)

  

  against major news platforms and don’t want to belittle stories that highlight some of the awesome things that MIT students are working on, I can’t ... perfection doesn’t even exist. The problem with articles that hype the

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  purchases. During the first week of Spring HSSP, there weren't any huge ... , we didn't really know what was going to happen. We had a lot of ... directors and Cascade directors in the list of positions, but we didn't even

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Life is Improv say yes

  

  The first and most important rule of improv is this: don't negate ... future graduates: Life is improv. ***** This doesn't mean that life is random, or farcical, or shouldn't be taken seriously. It also doesn't mean

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  heard her (she was not on speaker). N.T. ‘21 (Early Action) I bought ... didn't. R.M. ‘19   I just got off from McDonald's and sat by myself in ... . E.T. '20 I had just gotten rejected from Caltech earlier that week

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s Not Me, It’s You How to kiss goodbye to a school that rejected you

  

  out pretty well for you, didn't it, Washington? The statue in the ... up against British anti-American prejudice, and there wasn’t much he ... million things you can’t control. You can’t control where you went to high

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 29, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to choose your major putting people in boxes, feat. credit for reddit, social science, and lots of yarn.

  

  So you don't know what to major in. You have no idea what to do with ... people know what course 2 is (mechanical engineering), but most people don't ... choosing between two majors, and eliminated one because they "don't like

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 6, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Are people on the East Coast friendly? An entry especially for those from the Midwest.

  

  When I applied to MIT, I didn't consider whether the people of Boston would be as friendly as the people of Wisconsin. I probably wouldn't have ... wasn't just to congratulate me. She said "... but... aren't people on the

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 21, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  How to look over your application and advice about breathing. My older younger brother is your age. I am fully aware of how much you’re…

  

  . Ideally, you have someone else who doesn’t mind reading over multiple drafts of your essays to do this for you, but it doesn’t hurt to do it ... the question: If I didn’t know myself, what would I think of the person

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to use these blogs Scattered thoughts on the information age, plus some bonus snark.

  

  campus machine shops, awkwardly taking pictures of random people I didn't ... have a major in economics?” I’m going to be like “dude, why didn’t you ... identified as Lutheran?” I’m going to just google the MIT site, and while I don’t

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  There are no imposters in the Class of 2018 Strength in networks

  

  ," "I can't wait to meet you," and "I already feel a special love for all ... they didn't belong here. I have friends who are graduate students and post-docs -- and from them, I hear that it doesn't get better. It's not

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  No Chance Why "chance" sites like AdmissionSplash are Bad Things.

  

  because we haven't made the app available yet. However, from my own time ... -esteem of others), and so forth. I don't want anyone who isn't aware of this ... in any way (they aren't and could never be!).   Programs like

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  demons on depression

  

  visualize things, or who have aphantasia. I didn't realize I had aphantasia ... understanding how sex felt different than masturbation. And these weren't ... ? It wasn't until I read descriptions of what sexual attraction felt like

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 28, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Some Advice Sometimes I wish I could tell freshman-me that everything's going to be okay

  

  you haven't already. Yuliya, Selam, and Erick have posted some great ... don't have to become your closest (or only) friends. Keep exploring ... make you smile on your worst days. 3) College isn't a magical place

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Gothic You are reading an admissions blog post. You are reading tumblr.

  

  all day. You haven’t slept in weeks. You arrive late to lecture. The ... equations. They don’t look familiar. You try to find your professor’s office ... . You don’t know how to get back down. You finish a problem set. There

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dragons A blog post for deferred students (and everybody else waiting on decisions).

  

  didn’t make it. Holding hands on the way to class. Falling in and out of love, again and again and again. I don’t know why I thought, when I had ... up all night alone and ate an entire box of clementines. I don’t think

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 14, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Miss the South Musings on a secret Instagram account

  

  ’ll notice and change the subject. I should also say that I don’t believe I am ... in my right hand.  Sometimes, I don’t even write in English. If I have ... intermediate grasp of the language I have.  I don’t think this is an unhealthy

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2022