<p>Okay guys this is my last post before I leave here I guess I just need some wise words of encouragement or inspiration that my Dream for MIT could somehow become a reality so here it is my story...</p>
<p>Science to me is like the air we breathe
. I honestly love it so much I constantly immerse myself in it whenever and however I can and ever since I was little I always knew in my heart that I was going to do something in the science field
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<p>So about the summer before eighth grade started my parents took a lovely trip to show me the amazing college that is MIT. Now of course upon hearing this I was immediately excited but a soon as I had gotten there It was like love at first sight. I immediately felt at home and I wanted to indulge myself as far as possible in that school.</p>
<p>But something significant happened that summer MIT helped me find my passion something that I always knew was there but never explored it into I stepped foot onto that campus and that is engineering.</p>
<p>As soon as I got back from the trip I immersed myself in all that I could in engineering I ordered various engineering kits offline. I joined a vast number of robotics and technology clubs. I applied to an engineering based high school and got in. I even applied for a program that would help me get an engineering degree faster. I was a part of the google science fair and the google makers project and I am currently doing bioengineering research because that is how passionate and deeply in love with engineering I am. I live and breathe it and I am in no way ashamed of that.</p>
<p>Needless to say atop of all that I worked my butt off in school and still am I am working on SATs and I applied for a few MIT summer programs that I am hoping I get accepted into. Ever single summer since then I have visited MIT and I still am.</p>
<p>The point of writing this I that I am applying to MIT for college some day and I am hoping I get in because MIT helped me discover my passion it helped me realize who I am. Its like a home to me and the thought of being able to collaborate with such great minds and take an idea turn that idea into a discovery and from a discovery build something that can change peoples lives motivates me. And engineering is my true calling my passion so why not further the knowledge of my passion at the amazing place that helped me discover it.</p>
<p>I know its a long shot to get in but I am hoping that they realize and see me as a person and see how beyond dedicated and passionate I am about this. It never hurts to try! Wish me luck
◦ANY ADVICE OR INSPIRATION OR WISE WORDS WILL BE HIGHLY APPRECIATED</p>
<p>Did you read the links I put in your thread from yesterday?</p>
<p>Besides all that, I have one more piece of advice. MIT won’t be terribly interested in what they can do for you: how much you may feel “at home” there, or how big a dream it is of yours to go to MIT. They hear that so much that they can’t really afford to be moved by it; if they admitted everyone who said stuff like that, they’d run out of room in the dorms, dining halls, lecture halls, laboratories and libraries. </p>
<p>MIT will be more interested in what *you *can do for them. Will you be an achiever who stands out even among MIT’s alumni? Will you be the sort of person who, as Chris Peterson says in his blog, would make MIT a wildly better place with you than without you? And here’s the really hard part: is that truer of you than it is of 90% of the other applicants who apply for admission your year?</p>
<p>You simply can’t control all that stuff. There is, as Chris Peterson said, quite literally nothing you can do to assure yourself of admission to MIT.</p>
<p>So you need to control the stuff you can control. Don’t fixate on a few insanely selective universities. Spend your energy developing a varied list of colleges and universities where you could be happy, fulfilled and successful (and that your family can afford for you to attend!). America is a big country; there must be scores of those universities and colleges, if not hundreds. Aim for MIT, sure; make it a goal. But do yourself a favor, and don’t allow yourself to fall crazy-in-love with a university that dashes the hopes of 90% of the people who apply.</p>
<p>Listen to Sikorsky.</p>
<p>Enthusiasm for science is good, but sounding like an MIT fanboy will not make a positive impression on admissions.</p>
<p>Also, in the opinion of someone who has been in science for awhile, filling up your time with technical activities isn’t necessarily the best way to go even for a technical career.
Now is the time to improve your fundamentals: math, science, critical reading skills. Actually working in a scientific field at this point is not as important to long term success in science. For example, to me getting a 5 on AP chemistry test is more indicative of success in chemistry or chemical engineering than working in a chemistry lab for 4 years. </p>
<p>Try to ask yourself what you are trying to accomplish. It’s ok to do things for pure enjoyment, but it sounds like you are really overloaded and part of your motivation is to do work toward your future engineering career.</p>
<p>As a recent MIT alum, I think Sikorsky’s advice is probably your best bet. It’s easy to dream a dream, but it’s harder to live it. Mainly because there are so many obstacles that you don’t foresee.</p>
<p>That being said, in time nothing is really impossible. If it’s meant to be then it will work out. The only thing you can do in the mean time is focus on what you can control and do that to the best of your abilities. Usually you’ll find that if you do that, you’ll most likely be happy with the outcome. Whatever it may be. </p>
<p>Also, MIT doesn’t really care too much about what you can do for them, they care more about what you want and dream of doing for the larger community/world at large. I’ve gotten to know a decent amount of people in the admissions office and what I can tell you is that they care more about your passion more than anything else. Because 10-15 years from now your SAT scores, grades, and other numeric values that quantify your intelligence won’t mean anything if you don’t have the passion and drive to actually make a difference in society. </p>
<p>So to keep this short, keep doing what you’re doing. Apply to summer programs. Do your best to show your interest in school. Do random things on the side that your interested in and keep growing as individual. If you get in, then you’ve already established a routine to be successful here at MIT and after. If you don’t, you’ve still established the mindset and drive to be successful in life. Hence, you’ll be happy with the final outcome. Regardless tho, best of luck.</p>