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• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics If you want to come to MIT, you'd better learn a thing or two about…

  

  I do understand that human beings are not intuitively good at ... showing, among other things, that people in general are terrible at ... bad at statistics doesn't mean I'll accept that as an excuse from you as

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 1, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Andi and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week :(

  

  severe enough that I decided to get it checked out at MIT Urgent Care. I ... doctor took one look at me and diagnosed me with [annotation note="This isn ... best idea I’ve had at MIT"]I even went to all my classes on Tuesday

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 3, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Red Bull Gives You (Paper) Wings airplanes, astronauts, and austria: a monday night boston qualiflyer

  

  professional Mean Girl, and I have come to be at peace with that. I have been ... the categories at each qualiflyer. Distance and hangtime are measured by ... finalists earn a spot in the Global Finals at Hanger-7, in Salzburg, Austria

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 8, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  *witty title here* (Guest Entry) You want awesome? I'll show you awesome!

  

  , I glance at the clock and wonder how I managed to waste so much time ... night reading and looking at pictures of the most amazing place I'm going ... landing at Logan. The guy sitting next to us asked me what I was doing

  • by Snively '11
  • April 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10,000 Ways That Won’t Work

  

  publication in a peer-reviewed journal? Or at least a patent? I know MIT kids ... didn’t shake out that way. “Come on, at least tell me you presented at a conference or to the EECS department at large.” What would I have told them

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 27, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a ranking of building 68 thesis defense posters graphic design is our passion

  

  —they radiate heavy grad student energy. I imagine hunched over adults sitting at ... biologists are usually pretty good at. It might be all the figures and ... the murky figures at the top which remind me of [annotation note

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 15, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  AHHH CPW!! Goal: Do ALL the things!

  

  instead of only one weekend. But try your best to go to CPW or to at least ... experiences ever. My favorite events at CPW included smashing things at East Campus, laser mazes at Epsilon Theta, sword fighting at Simmons, and liquid

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 9, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  Learning more than just math MIT will help you discover other decidedly non-academic passions too.

  

  academic opportunities at school when you're, well, at school; it's decidedly ... much different than the sort of thing you'd find at your local YMCA ... . Thankfully though, I had just enough exposure at home to find myself not

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 3, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  love letter to the ‘tute miss miss miss

  

  this spring, i am doing a study abroad semester at Imperial College ... felt like this was sort of my last real semester at MIT. this is ... requirements. i did a [annotation note="everyone at MIT has to take two

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 21, 2024
• Blog / Residential Life

  Don’t Stop Believing you can take the east camper out of east campus but...

  

  Don't Stop Believing, the last song played at every EC party. Many of my ... dancing for two hours. At midnight, the band said goodnight, but the crowd ... some equipment finagling, they gave in. And someone at the front of the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 6, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  avatar a weird metaphor for careers

  

  said something along the lines of:  look at the sandwich you’re eating ... ’s what i see every time i look at the world. everywhere i look, i see the ... look at all the previous avatars and say “nope, sorry, this line of work

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Things I Know to Be True Introductions and peanut butter Oreos

  

  hard. Unequivocally. That's harder to stomach. These are certain. Or at ... . Today, I am eighteen years old. I've been at MIT for a month. I don't know ... what one believes to be true is the key to understanding at all. So, in

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • September 29, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Starting Over it feels like this every time but this time it's different

  

  Every fall at MIT has felt like a new beginning. My freshman fall ... requirements to mostly [annotation note="these were course 6 classes at the time ... “new” people at either meeting"]old,[/annotation]but everything felt new

  • by Alex M. '21
  • August 30, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Leadership @ MIT (from a froshy perspective)

  

  students I met through those clubs, I'm barely involved at all with their ... offer. But at the same time, there were downsides. By the end of senior ... the world than I thought there was.[/annotation] At MIT, or at least in

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 3, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Hello Blogosphere! My dirty little secret...(I've never taken calculus)

  work at MIT Admissions!? The kid who used to complain about how much you hated science at the back of every one of my classes?" And, well... he ... group pointed and laughed at him for having to work with me. Needless to

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 8, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Advice from Graduating Seniors to incoming freshmen

  

  address. At that time, the Class of 2021 will officially be freshmen.   ... myself to a lot of things at MIT I wouldn't have found otherwise! However, at the same time, never do something just because it fills your resume

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 28, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Hi, Applicant to the Class of 2021! here, i try to convince you that it's ok to be dazed and confused right…

  

  state college the next. And I got lots of work here now, but at least I ... . And don’t look at those “50 Best Admissions Essays from Top ... now, on display at the front of the Harvard COOP. Gross! I urge you to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s Pi Day, Pi Day the infinite is alive with the buzz of drones, and the 2020s bake pies

  

  It's Pi Day. I woke up at 5:38AM (a nod to Nate Silver) and walked to ... decisions. We hope to finish by 3:14PM today, at which point we plan to break ... ), admitted by two (both local state schools), and waitlisted at one. I got off

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2016
• Blog / Community Projects

  We Are All Slaves to the Wind it gets pretty windy here in Kansas. Day 3 at the 2014 Design/Build/Fly competition.

  

  Today was the major flight day for most of the teams at the Design ... designed to fly at 20 mph and the wind is 30 mph, your plane will take off ... few extra seconds short from setting the high score at 8 laps. When it

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 12, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Small Victories The view from a month into MIT

  

  fact that people say an education at MIT is like drinking from a fire ... into a routine at MIT. Psets due every week on Tuesday and Thursday ... different interesting events happening at all hours of the day that I want to

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 8, 2011