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• Blog / Admissions

  Many Ways To Define “The Best” A long response to a CC thread in which I offer my opinions on AP…

  

  to death in other threads, so I won't do so here. (*Match = mission ... /grades/AP's. So we admit those kids - what other choice do we have? But then ... 's?" I reply "Why do you put so much emphasis on HYPSM?" When a parent says

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I am a hapless klutz Stories about Nobel laureates.

  

  whispered to me, "Do you know who that was? That was Phil Sharp!" Oops. I ... do for getting into mit?i am from turkey and 15 , want to study undergraduate in mit. i am taking SAT this february - what should i do next

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  On schools & context

  

  about private vs. public high schools. Why do some schools send so many ... /character oriented, which I agree with, but why do so many of the kids at certain ... attended MIT in many, many years. Not many apply, but when they do, even if

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 23, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  telling the tale some thoughts on acting, change, and meaning

  

  ’d never get to do"]a cappella[/annotation] later, and alan z. ‘23 and ... myself into doing it"]sucker me[/annotation] into auditioning for Next Act ... to do it (when would i get the chance to do this again?), and then

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • August 3, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  on happiness and well-being Coursera attempts to cure our depression

  

  doing them and felt that they were the most helpful part of the course ... relationships can be attributed to me moving from doing classes on [annotation ... things that make me unhappy, so I'm really glad I decided to do this! Week

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 11, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making the hard decision a couple of brutally honest stories from friends here that had originally wanted to study…

  

  narrative. On the visual arts side, I spent a lot of time doing Blender (a 3D ... for incoming freshman that love literature or visual arts is "How do I ... worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and health, until death do us

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 17, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice for the Incoming Froshies You've accepted your offer to MIT! Now what?

  

  what will be required of you as a frosh. Do a Freshman Pre ... from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than ... picture for you - FPOPs are a great opportunity for you to do things outside

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 13, 2014
• Blog / Announcements

  We are reinstating our SAT/ACT requirement for future admissions cycles in order to help us continue to build a diverse and talented MIT

  

  education and culture. Everything we do in our process is grounded by our goal ... they help us make better decisions for our students, which they do. We ... also shows that good grades in high school do not themselves necessarily

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 28, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  confronting the self i am the captain of my soul

  

  . dan: why are we doing this? this is such an awful idea. why'd you think ... , like you do in your normal posts? alan: if this is how cj wants to ... 's part of the job description. if he doesn't do it, then he's not doing his

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 30, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Two households, totally unalike in dignity…” On picking majors and following your dreams, Romeo and Juliet, Twitter, Sherlock, and the future…

  

  Sherlock). Lydia: Okay. Who are you and what are you doing in my house ... adaptive Internet stuff. We are doing group projects that adapt some kind of ... making it into a Twitter, uh, thing. One group is doing the first season of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 21, 2014
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [joint post] blogston commons with Allison E. ‘27, Ellie F. ‘28, Jebby ‘25, and Sara N. ‘28

  

  all day and do nothing but studying fact: we work hard, but we do a lot ... BLOGSTON COMMONS EP. 1 EVERYONE!!! 🎉🎉🎉 it began, as many MIT things do ... Kendall square to do our scheduled hangout idea. honestly this is probably a

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 11, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  lookin’ at the blur of this semester and ahead at the next one!

  

  do next semester! This blog is a sine wave of academic and personal ... readings in the future, since although doing so may mean taking fewer classes ... concept for a new story! I’m not sure I’ll be able to do this every semester

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 30, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  everything is actually going okay and i think that's pretty cool

  

  doing history research or whatever. but right now blogging isn't doing ... you lose some, or something like that. on the outside i'm doing less ... -ever "yeah this is all the things i'm doing this semester" post, mostly

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Lived, I Learned, I Got Burnt not necessarily in that order

  

  will not be able to do any of this justice.  But here it goes anyway. A ... progression of life. People certainly do come and go, but it especially hurts ... live with it. In the meantime, all I can do is hold on to the people that

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 26, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  girls just wanna have fun when u gonna live ur life right?

  

  My father yells "What you gonna do with your life?" Oh daddy dear ... in my career and what I'm doing with my life. As a kid, I never really knew what I wanted to do. In elementary school, I'd write short stories

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 24, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT CodeIt or: the best decision i've made this semester

  

  "Why do you want to be apart of CodeIt?" and other things. For the ... section was where we were asked hypotheticals like "What do you do if one of ... missing something?" or "What do you think our next step should be?" I wasn

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 25, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  After Graduating From beyond the veil :O

  

  suffocated by the name “MIT”--shouldn’t I be doing something more, being more ... about what I really want to do with my life (and to write this blog post ... do writing just because I love it, and for truly no other reason. But

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 10, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A World of Pure Curation an interview with holly h. 18'

  

  an MIT Arts Scholar. So, what do you get when you combine these all ... do matter but… not so much. Unless you want them to. Holly: It ... this, and also analyze how it all fits together. If I knew how to do that

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 5, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Checking in with EA Applicants because I just saw Chris' post, and you probably did, too

  

  —you do. MIT’s nuclear reactor will not give you special powers ... ’re going to get in (relevant fun fact: MIT doesn’t do legacy admissions ... ;Why College Rankings Are a Joke," the external proof that you can do

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lost in the Pages of the Institute are we out of the woods yet, are we in the clear yet

  

  . There were a thousand more things I could be doing—homework, playing video ... I didn’t do so well on, after which I convinced myself to work harder ... somehow, I was always doing it. Often times, the stress hit hard and I

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 25, 2014