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  Upside Down Gnomes From Wisconsin Always look up.

  

  isn't always predictable in a class with more than 200 students. I fell ... think, slowly, but it wasn't ever enough. Being sick was a good break ... realized I wasn't enjoying it anymore. In a past life I would have taken the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 26, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Am I Smart Enough for MIT? On second thought...don't answer that.

  

  . But now I'm worried that I won't be able to catch up to these kids and ... 'll struggle to get good grades (I know grades aren't everything, but I'd like to ... stoichiometry problems and math problems... they're fun for me, but I don't have

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  To whom much is given… ...you know the rest!

  

  Much is expected. I can't tell you how many times I have heard ... opportunities and has made choices about how to use those opportunities. I won't ... inevitable armchair quarterbacking will begin. I don't begrudge the post

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 13, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Search of Answers Seeking recommendations, rather than providing them...

  

  enrollment of each outstanding new class. While I don't want to minimize my ... , I don't need to be introspective or do any soul searching to figure out who I am. I don't need to assimilate tons of information accumulated

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing is Magic And 15 minutes is all you need

  

  I have a personal blog that I write about my teenagers and I haven’t ... certainly isn’t because of a lack of material. I have more material than ever ... already know why he isn’t getting to them. He isn’t sure how to start. I

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parents, Please Read Prefrosh and students, read this too, and make sure to have a discussion with your…

  

  , philosophical talks with parents that simply aren't possible over the phone. The ... I normally won't is explore the bowels of College Confidential (if I ... , and the prospect of A's is almost heart-attack-inducing. I don't think

  • by Snively '11
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Back in Time I change my clock back three hours and read headlines on the magazine of the…

  

  airplane, it was almost exactly three months ago. I didn't know that 5 meant chemistry and 7 meant biology; I didn't know where building 4 was and that you had to go through it to get to building 2 but in this case 2 didn't mean

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?

  

  .   The disingenuity doesn’t end here. A couple of weeks later I would read ... careless stunt with no expectation of admittance as he didn’t want his parent ... response was “I wish my head was big enough to do this”. It didn’t take long

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  (Bitter)sweet home meeting high school teachers again, and visiting my hometown for (probably) the last time

  

  classroom doors with teachers’ names that I didn’t recognize. The school ... . The best part is that Tom and I didn’t have to follow the dress code ... teachers pretty quickly. I was nervous that they wouldn’t even recognize me

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Making Connections we live in a society (affectionate)

  

  delivering dinner to a friend who wasn't feeling well. Because it's (very ... feel incredibly basic, and then ask them again because I didn't ... was 031).[/annotation]We both lived in EC but didn't know each other at

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  blogs didn't exist, I would probably not be here. I graduated from High ... (though don't really remember) that I told Chris Peterson that I wanted to ... Medlinks, and wanted to live in French House. I don't remember what You

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Beyond the Stop Light it's been a ride, MIT

  

  P.S. Even though we won't be posting on the MIT blogs anymore (at least, not regularly or consistently), we will still have online presences! If you would like to see our content beyond these blogs, we will be

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 26, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A (Belated) Letter to July In which I start blogging again with an angsty video

  

  words over and over again until they seemed right-ish): Dear July, I won't ... ? Even though I don't feel right blaming you, July, you have left me more ... wouldn't be surprised if you didn't recognize me. I barely recognize myself

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  senioritis not to be confused with señoritis

  

  surprising amount of momentum behind me, but i don't think i managed to pull ... ! i didn't really think senioritis this semester would turn out to be ... idea of positive work—even if you feel like you aren't making a stitch in

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 10, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Let’s Go Fly A Kite Up to decision night!

  

  off-by-one error on your application: But even if you didn’t discover ... still remains. Getting rejected from a top school, particularly MIT, isn’t a career catastrophe. There’s an entire world out there that doesn’t

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Mark Zuckerberg Visits MIT NBD.

  

  Zuckerberg's Talk:  Why he was here in the first place - I actually didn't ... recruit people to work for Facebook. I guess that'd be cool if I wasn't a n00b. So, sorry Mark. Can't help you out, but Rachel can! There are

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  This story has to do with professor accessibility. And something awesome that I got in the mail.

  

  name of the sender; it was vaguely familiar, but I couldn’t place it ... : Oh, wow! Thank you. Dumbledore: Don’t lose it. Me: I won’t. I’ll give it back within a week. Dumbledore: Good. If you don’t, I will find out

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Blogural Inaugural I just wanted to use this title.

  

  any new language, and ... ok, fine, it doesn't apply to admissions blogs ... that it's my job to tell you about MIT, the things I do here (or don't do here), and generally what my life's like (so that you can, I don't know

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Entry About Snow ...Even though we don't have any

  

  doesn't stop me from starting this entry explaining why I decided that ... acronyms. I even love it more than Paul loves hacks (though I don't love it ... couldn't be that hard. Alas, it turns out that Disney gave me unrealistic

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 11, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the exclusion of everything else on making decisions, and how i chose mit

  

  of course they came through. I take the T to Kendall, and sitting on ... , the production of which apparently didn’t go well. We discussed a novel ... of us. It turns out that David and Jason haven’t seen each other in a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020