Fiona Foo | March 18, 2009
"Reflections on Life After MIT (RoLAMit)"
I must be the last one to update, I know, but I've been spending time trying to decide what I feel. Right after the rejection, I was solemnly receptive--I wasn't angry or outraged or even frustrated! It just felt surreal, because I've imagined life at MIT, learning alongside intensely motivated students like Miriam '09 (shout-out!), popping into Anna's Taqueria, living in iHouse. And that imagination had been extinguished.
But after having had the weekend and some to think it over, I'm inclined to attribute it to destiny. I'm not going to MIT, but I have several excellent options. With MIT, my dream school being possible, everything else didn't stand a chance. Now, without MIT in my vision, I'm truly exploring those opportunities.
I'm grateful, really am, to be rejected from MIT. Life is dully satisfactory when everything goes swimmingly, and if you'll excuse my rhetoric, I've been liberated of living the life I had dreamed of. I can feel happy in my ultimate choice, be it Princeton, Harvey Mudd or the Technion. I can feel happy taking a gap year in Peru (Princeton's bridge-year program), taking humanities courses at the Claremont colleges (Harvey Mudd) or studying abroad at the global leader in water technology (Technion).
So thank you MyMIT team, MITadmissions team, and everyone else for taking me on this ride.
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beautiful post.
Posted by: Amy on June 23, 2009 01:06 PM
