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  No Chance Why "chance" sites like AdmissionSplash are Bad Things.

  

  lists. The app asks students for their basic information: test scores ... customized equations for about 1,500 schools that it developed using the ... ask for complete strangers on the Internet to assess their likelihood of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  “You are capable of more than you know.” Reflections from six MIT transfer students

  

  . Luana: I recently wrapped up my third semester at MIT. Opting for more ... of my work at MIT. Each year, we welcome a small group of transfer ... -traditional” route (for example, opting to put their education on pause to compete in

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 13, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s not fair! ... and why that's OK.

  

  special case for whom inconsistency can be excused. At a fourth institution ... for all the children in the world, but I will give you my take on the ... achieve those priorities vary just as much. At one institution, the sole

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] We’re Not in ~Kansas~ Missouri Anymore Going From a Small Town to Boston, by Claire S. '25

  

  -school-senior-me didn’t know how to answer. So I gave the only response I knew for sure ... everything at the wall and see what sticks” strategy, including small towns and ... for, well, MIT Admissions, things didn’t go the way I’d planned. I

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 17, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  New York Times about the college admissions process, it is hard for me ... admitted.  In my mind, it makes perfect sense.  It is, at least initially ... am not discouraging them from applying for admission, but rather making

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty people later ✈✈✈ (pronounced whoosh) ✈✈✈ (pronounced nyeowww)

  

  DEICIDE, cross-talk at five in the afternoon. If it weren't for people like ... for Sci-Ficisco. We unlocked the Sci-Ficisco meta at half past five, and ... This post has spoilers for the theme and structure of MIT Mystery

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Things (That MIT Made) LISTS

  

  costarring in it! I've been working all week rewriting some web content for ... this Guardian article about inventor culture at MIT, here is the Boston ... ; the Disposable Razor Wind tunnels (invented at MIT in 1896) Radar

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 27, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Riri Williams Pi Day Video Behind the scenes of an extraordinary three minutes!

  

  sat down in an office in MIT Admissions. “For the spring admissions video,” he said, “I basically want to make a two-minute trailer for the ... all saw posted on Tuesday. For those of you that aren’t Xtreme Nerds

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Move Fast And Break Things just make sure you have a net positive of unbreaks

  

  for its 'hackathons'. What exactly is a hackathon? "At Facebook, we ... last week, and it was a chance for each engineer to surface this idea and ... weeks old for me, but the least fresh interns have been here for over two

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 25, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the Deferred I feel your pain.

  

  training, stamina and passion for the climb. At the same time, we want each ... this entry. I've been biding my time, waiting for this day and the ... limbo of deferral. This entry is for the deferred. This entry is my story

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Entry About Snow ...Even though we don't have any

  

  'd rather they remember me for being that one girl who's really good at ... used as a metaphor for life, and that it's highly unoriginal to come up ... life, or at least life at MIT, is like snowboarding. You may or may not

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 11, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mostly Harmless Rifle. As in, the phys ed class. As in, I fired one.

  

  moments at MIT when I’ve felt really awesome and really, really badass (not ... very good at replica plating. The first time I replica plated, in 7.02, my professor was watching and she said, “Wow, you’re really good at

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 22, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My blogger bio over time what does it take to get to know someone?

  

  I have to make, and for a night, it'd feel like I can stay at MIT ... 's changed for posterity, maybe before I change it one last time before I ... I live in East Campus. I could tell you that CJ is short for Carl

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 26, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  first day of class at MIT--at least for now. Far from knowing everything ... lol) as a real-time reflection of four years at MIT.  Today is hectic ... lecture at 11, so I rush to get ready at 9:45, going through the motions of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  reality for her at least during her undergraduate career. But, when she ... her life beyond her years at college, so she looked for organizations ... group at church and as the Political Action Chair for the BSU this past

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Have Never Been to Beijing A (loose) translation of the previous post written in Chinese

  

  traveled together in China for a vacation (I was stuck at home interning :P ... Chinese-language post not mentioned here. The content is a bit different for ... when I was little (at 3 or 4 years old, my grandmother took care of me

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m not an imposter… I’m going to be featured on the MIT News homepage

  

  I got an email this morning from someone working for MIT News. Someone at the [annotation note="Office of Minority Education ... assigned advisor at the OME, and a week-long retreat to reconnect with the

  • by ana~
  • October 29, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tyrannosaurus REX the prefrosh are coming, the prefrosh are coming!

  

  kicks off "welcome week" for the Class of 2023. At some schools, maybe ... ? Well, for example, sleep: at CPW, going sleepless just meant a good nap ... through. Also, I think it's easy to feel that (for me at least) the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 20, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what work is bite-sized senior spring

  

  Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at MIT). one of the ... for me, but not in the conventional sense. i'm insanely comfortable working a lot, working hard, working with my head in a book, working late at

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Random Random Projects/Moving Out of Random Randomly zigzagging about until I find myself in the future, somehow no longer in Random.

  

  At the end of the semester I emailed Random Hall’s social mailing ... city above. Ia, Ia, Cthulhu fhtagn! Photos attached. Then, for 6.815, we ... IAP and am publishing my research at the Bridges Conference this summer

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 13, 2015