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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  actual conversations i have definitely had with freshmen during orientation

  

  what's up FROSH: just waiting for a burger ME: yeah those burgers are ... is my fifth ME: child FROSH: i felt bad for not eating vegetables ME ... * * * ME: [walking somewhere at night] GROUP OF FROSH: [whispering] ME

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 30, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Stove-Cook Your Oatmeal and Never Look Back To not-admitted applicants and anyone who knows anything about fuses.

  

  stove is on a different fuse, and for that we are very lucky. Here’s how ... had one. There are four TED talks I watched last night at 2:something ... , especially if you were just not accepted by MIT for undergraduate admissions or

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 19, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  descriptively incorrect. At its most basic form, it's a variant of post hoc ergo ... analytical theory for a moment and ground what I'm saying in some concrete ... 't. What we prefer are things which may coincide with higher SAT scores. For

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Robo-CJ writes haiku “didn’t you already make a blog post about this?”

  

  , so ready for CPW, because I didn’t get to go to CPW when I got admitted ... more for all of you admitted students. yeah i know, i can edit: oops i ... format for a haiku. Most of its poems are 2 to 5 lines long, and each line

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Merit When getting into MIT isn't convincing enough

  

  ?” He paused. “When I was at MIT,” said this man, who graduated a very ... ’t come back with a monologue about how admissions actually work at MIT, and ... point at all. Instead, I managed to deflect the conversation to things I

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • January 22, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The joys of web development or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the web

  

  isn’t for me. I’m not entirely excluding the possibility. […] But Java ... 'm working on? I looked at all my previous projects and started chucking them ... that there was hope for me yet. It's also pretty cool that my experiences

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 9, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  There Is No Formula A formula would take the human component out of our process, which is perhaps the…

  

  belongs here, then you obviously don’t know what MIT is about. (And for the ... people who wholly deserve to be at MIT – folks who are passionate, who love ... so few spots for so many qualified people, which means we can’t take

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 16, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  (Bitter)sweet home meeting high school teachers again, and visiting my hometown for (probably) the last time

  

  that this is probably going to be the last time I’ll be in Alabama for a ... last saw each other at graduation. But a lot had still changed. As we ... teachers who used to work as a therapist at a juvenile delinquent center

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to find your way around MIT mit building numbers are logical, but weirdly

  

  branches off in the end at Building 8. It’s a pretty important hallway for ... . Similarly, N for buildings in north campus and NW for buildings in northwest ... makes no sense to me why it’s called the Infinite. Again, look at that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 11, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s Not Me, It’s You How to kiss goodbye to a school that rejected you

  

  out pretty well for you, didn't it, Washington? The statue in the ... command was something he had long envisioned for himself and driven towards ... ’t control what traits an admissions committee is looking for, or what mood a

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 29, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Putting Diversity into Context The diverse ways that colleges and universities define diversity

  

  tests, long before I contemplated completing an application for college ... , once put it, “If you have to pause, for more than a second or two, to ... , they should be a viable candidate for admission to a highly selective

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the Bloggers’ Personalities! A post about personality tests, part 2!

  

  switched.” *(Here's the video, reference at 2:06, and here is the poster for ... for all those personality tests! None of this, the tests themselves nor ... bloggers) for yourself! Tests Included The structure of my survey was more or

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 12, 2018
• Blog / Advice

  parallel universe for those feeling dejected

  

  , except for the wet sheen of dejection, weighing upon you alone. But - look ... elsewhere, if only for a few hours; one where a weekend trip with friends

  • by Kai V. '25
  • December 19, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some More Pi Day Facts and Advice You thought all that was over, didn't you?

  

  , no matter where you are going. This is a video for pre-frosh in general, not just for MIT. College is a weird place, so I hope you can gain some

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 23, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  here comes a thought on decisions

  

  [annotation note="i debated with myself for such a long time on whether or not i ... [/annotation] came into my head, and i thought the words were really fitting for the ... would be, i felt sick to my stomach. a college's admission decision, for

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 13, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  To whom much is given… ...you know the rest!

  

  officers showed in you when they selected you for admission, it is not really ... it this far if you didn't have someone in your corner. For some it is a parent, sibling or other relative. For others it is a friend, teacher

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 13, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Admissions Excavation Chris gave me a box of stuff and this is what I found inside

  

  or noteworthy for the blogs. (Also to organize ... initially MASSIVE and incredibly high-resolution for a single image. Maybe it ... -lived time capsule, which was actually pretty fun to delve into for a couple

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Units of Measure A simple question with a lot of cool answers

  

  at MIT, and in the years since I graduated, I've continued to collect ... due to the double factorial) Eran Ergozy = "How fun it is to work at a

  • by Snively '11
  • January 7, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  snapshot of the last two weeks picture of my brain

  

  ALBUM: i like it when you sleep for you are so beautiful yet so ... bridge > memorial drive WORK: the mediacloud team @ the center for ... learning is like money laundering for tech - by maciej ceglowski "We should

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 1, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Into the Sunset [by Cadet Paul Estrada, '09] My fascination with color guard, and participation in a colonel's…

  

  Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a proud cadet at Air Force ROTC Det 365 ... his hand, the first thing that Col Wallen told the Det 365 Air Force ... leadership training is probably somewhere at the top of that list, but that's a

  • by ROTC
  • October 19, 2007