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  The Room(s) Where It Happens You've hit submit. What Comes Next?

  

  You’ve done it. You’ve hit submit. Now what? You might imagine that your application goes spiraling into a dark, anonymous vortex, and after 2.5 months of chewing, a faceless algorithm…

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • January 9, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  0.125 not a course 0 class, but a fraction complete

  

  Well, I’m 45.6 smoots of the way across this bridge we call MIT. The end of this first semester aligned perfectly with the holiday break and the upcoming new year,…

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 4, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Subtle Black MIT Traits A few things I have experienced as a black person at MIT

  

  So quite recently I made a post on Facebook about a few things I had experienced as a black person at MIT, and I put it in the form of…

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  An Astrological Guide to the College App Process We all know astrology isn't real...or is it?

  Anyone in the admissions office knows that I have an unhealthy obsession with astrology. Scientifically speaking, there are tons of reasons why we shouldn’t believe in astrology (anyone in the…

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 20, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paths there are so many

  

  We were deferred when we applied early to MIT, and remember how heartbreaking it felt. We obsessed over MIT unhealthily to the point where going to MIT was the only…

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 19, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HERE LIES P/NR September 2018-December 2018

  

  The alarming rate at which the semester flew by shocked me, and I had to sit down and recap: August holds sad memories, saying goodbye, and the heady ecstasy of…

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 16, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  some warmth on a cold decisiony day "there have been times that I thought I couldn't last for long / but now…

  

  As I’m sure those of you to whom this post is relevant will not need to be reminded, it is that time of year: the time when tensions run high,…

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python

  

  (Credit: Drone footage by Matt Carney, taken from Henry DaCosta’s 2016 Senior Video.) Five months ago, I bid farewell to my high school, Ward Melville. In my three years there,…

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  Last Saturday night, I was in my kitchen, looking down at two Pyrex containers on my counter. On the left was slow-cooked chicken thighs; on the right was grilled chicken…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 21, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, by the Calories free food is everywhere

  

  A few weeks ago, I attended a meeting for one of MIT’s many clubs. It was a lively meeting, full of introductions, discussions, and sandwiches. When the meeting ended, all…

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / Advice

  Enjoy Life Farewells and New Beginnings

  

  Today is my first day of school as a PhD student at MIT. Today is also Dr. Abe’s memorial service. Today would have been his 99th birthday. Dr. Abe was…

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 5, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fig. 6: Eigenverantwortung The time of my life. What responsibilities?

  

  They're not kidding when they say the Swiss are some of the most On-Top-Of-It people in the World.   During the exchange orientation session at ETH, the word Eigenverantwortung popped…

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • August 28, 2018
• Blog / Advice

  Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me

  

  One of this year’s admits asked me how MIT sets you up for grad school admissions. Now, you do NOT need to be worrying about grad school as a teenager.…

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  (Preface: This post is essentially a tribute/continuation of Selam’s posts from past summers – as she wrote, “sometimes MIT students like to do things other than science, technology, or engineering”,…

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Axes of Confusion ????

  

  We are confused about what we want to do with our lives and thus what we should be majoring in. Currently, we are majoring in Course 21E, or Humanities and…

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 21, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to MIT: Choosing a Dorm the good and not-so-good reasons

  

  This post is the second in a series of Guide to MIT posts. Check out Guide to MIT: Academics here. GOOD REASONS TO CHOOSE A DORM CULTURAL FIT: I cannot…

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 14, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Is My Home Looking back and saying goodbye

  

  Every time I look at the faces of younger MIT students, especially those that are just entering leadership positions in clubs or really starting to take on new and exciting…

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

    In two days, I will be officially graduating this place. I will be part of the first graduating class of 6–14’s. (Computer Science, Economics, and Data Science) But the…

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 6, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Reflections on 50 Things thinking back on The Blogfather's wisdom in my senior year

  

  Dear Class of 2022, 12 years ago, Ben Jones, aka The Blogfather, shared 50 pieces of wisdom with the Class of 2010, which became 50 Things, the most-read blog on…

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Queer at MIT, but not on the blogs the map is not the territory, but it's getting closer

  

  As you may know, this summer we are redesigning MITAdmissions.org. As part of that process, I polled the bloggers on blogging features and blogging processes that would improve their blogging…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018