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• Blog / About Decisions

  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  top of the first page. The first paper sat within a mangled page ... of thoughts, those that were for me and those that were against me. The ... damage and small stains from various foods. Neither of the two books were

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  A Half-Century Retrospective Revisiting the MIT Application from the 1972–1973 admissions cycle

  

  engineering and science—still the dominant “majors” here. The discussion of the ... of legendary designers Cooper and Casey who led the MIT Office of Design Services—this copy of the 1973 application to MIT is a 30-page

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  's fragments and, in the context of the story, are able to piece together what ... the end of orientation week, the student groups put on a show. The first ... precious few opportunities to extend the lifespan of their club. To the first

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  page with a series of six consecutive posts. I am calling the takeover ... clubbing, queer stand-up comedy, and my new hobby. These are the kinds of ... , and discarded some of the darker paragraphs—not because I need to censor

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  majority of my free time (as it does), and during the year, the time that I ... some of the side characters, and I would have read both books in three ... Japanese, and I wound up finishing about half of The Kids are Alright before

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

  Navigating The Tunnels…Of Freshman Academics You didn't actually expect me to write about hacking on the internet, did you?

  

  first semester: one CI-H/HW at least half of the science GIRs ... ) ...balance extracurriculars and schoolwork? As is only inevitable, all of the ... strategy. For the first week of classes, you're allowed to add classes as

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Academic Conference and also things I have learned about publishing research in the past few months

  

  blog post, I thought I'd document the process of my first research submission, and talk about some of the things I've learned about publishing ... the virtual version of the robot, and an embodied version of the robot

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  I wrote this on my first day of classes this past Tuesday, and ... ’t control, everything. In 6.832: Underactuated Robotics, the whole purpose of ... 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 / Academics & Research

  I am a sad sad toaster made of glass. Do you like your toast with tears? Because I'm sad.

  

  . And the whole world. I think the point was that I'm taking so few units ... the concepts of work, education, and happiness. But in my busiest term ... out of 6 problem sets in 10.494: ICE-T3 and the professor was basically

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT, part deux The case study of someone else you wouldn't expect to have gotten in

  

  beginning of this summer -- and he's been told by one of the professors in the ... school class, and the first male valedictorian in 10 years -- he's not a ... , and was captain of the cross-country team his senior year. He was also a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The rise and fall of CPW all the cpw history, plus proof the weather machine is fake

  

  five whole pages of Daily Confusion. And that was only for the first day ... The first weekend It worked, so do it again Slow and steady growth ... women and minority students entered the first-year classes. [carousel

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  basement. The first few years of the ’93 dormitory and East Campus as a whole ... TeX-based CAPTCHA, and the super PAC Why Not ZoidPAC?, of which he is President and ... MIT’s second dorm, East Campus, and the inauguration of the hacking

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Was Sitting Where You’re Sitting Quick! Click here. :D

  

  , setting the flat panel of the track, and a fifth, with dyed red hair ... roof below—I know I must be in the right place. The first floor of Burton-Conner: potted plants on windowsills and a Dalek at the end of the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what am i doing great question.

  

  like the first 60 pages, but it got more coherent and I do now!) I ... ’ve been able to really be a part of the lab. I attend meetings and reading ... want to work first) I was left with a feeling of real panic and (somewhat

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

  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  ’s already left, that feeling of powerlessness about the whole thing. But it ... having all my stuff, and the other half of the room slowly becoming empty ... faculty lunches that the Office of the First Year was doing were canceled. I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  150 years of MIT course catalogs the mit history you want to know

  

  of the GIRs, or historical admissions videos. And it turns out there ... . MIT's first classes were held in 1865, and with the first classes came the first course catalog. Note the British spellings catalogue and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  now and then, I’d stare out the window -- of my car, of a plane, of a ... , the fun and stupid anecdotes of road tripping up the west coast, working ... 2019 The Tucson sun is sweltering, and the rubber of your shoes will

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  In 1965, the U.S. government awarded George (MIT Class of ~1923) and ... University in Toronto ("The social life of donuts: Commodity and community in postwar Canada") The Kansas and Colorado State Boards of Education ("for

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Group Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Survivors three bloggers face the horrors of public transit

  

  it up and be a big girl. I enlisted the help of my fellow bloggers so ... gather a group and sign up. So when Jebby did all the hard work of securing ... playing in the background was also a part of the puzzle. At first, I tried

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to trick yourself into thinking that you’re writing a report The most productive procrastination technique revealed at last!

  

  was the first technical communications class I took at MIT, and it has ... procrastination, but work of the utmost and immediate importance. It may seem ... the related literature. ALL of it. Read it in depth and pay attention to

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 17, 2015