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• Blog / About Decisions

  Bleary-eyed Some thoughts and reflections on this year's admission cycle - particularly for those not admitted.

  

  a page and seeing cold numbers on a screen to getting attached to you ... 'd spent nearly every single day staring at a computer screen, reading or

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 16, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  absence in no way inhibited the spectacular course of his life. Washington’s ... reader is in when they peruse your essay, or what the rest of that year’s ... context of “I wasn’t good enough to get in.” That’s not the right way to

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

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

  

  hopes that they will be among the select few admitted. So let’s go back ... get the idea. If you don’t, there’s probably nothing else that I can say.

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Women’s Soccer Talking to the 2009 NEWMAC Champs after they returned from the NCAA National Championship Tournament

  

  other athletics at MIT; I'll do my best to find answers. P.S. I'm not ... because "it's a soccer bonding thing." P.P.S. Happy Thanksgiving!

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 25, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  This Is How I Read productivity hacks, but for reading applications

  

  extra screen space really helps when you're trying to make sense of a ... on the main screen and then login to our application system. As I open

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A (Belated) Letter to July In which I start blogging again with an angsty video

  

  brain and in my hands and on my paper and on my computer screen. That

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Random Hall ‘13s Life plans, advice, and stories from last year’s Random Hall graduates.

  

  Graduation The 2014s just graduated, but right now I want to take you back a year. This blog post is about and largely by last year’s Random ... Box CEO Drew Houston ‘05’s commencement speech, at 2:45:42, transcribed by

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 20, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  16 for the 16’s 16 Guidelines to Making the Most of your CPW

  

  time before graduation when a significant portion of the 2016s are in one

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 18, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Iron Man, MIT ‘87 (?) After 21 last month, another MIT movie.

  

  . According to the Wikipedia bio, this is Stark's background:   ... 2003's The Recruit, Colin Farell's character was said to have ... ." In the movie version of Carl Sagan's Contact, Ellie Arroway was

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice On The Essay The rules are simple: write your own.

  

  to measure the impact of the admissions essay on today's college ... applicant's true voice when we read his or her essay. Not some perfect ... therefore, a connection. We can always tell when an applicant's essay has

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  I’m surprised that no one’s written a blog post about this before ... going to go out just before CPW, but that got canceled, so… Anyway, here’s ... like. It’s mostly a long strip: There’s west campus on the west, which

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 11, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There is no such thing as a typical day on energy levels and productivity

  

  feeling? That’s another discussion.) On some days, I get almost nothing ... this pet theory. It’s not perfect, and I don’t really know how well it ... don’t really work that well immediately after a meal. So let’s add in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 25, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Let’s Go Fly A Kite Up to decision night!

  

  ’t a career catastrophe. There’s an entire world out there that doesn’t care whether you got into MIT or not. I loved Eric’s post last year: don ... ’t help myself sometimes. But no matter how much we tell you to relax - let’s

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  uncensored. I write about whatever I like, without having it "screened" by an

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The Room(s) Where It Happens You've hit submit. What Comes Next?

  

  use moments of confusion or disagreement to grow together. It’s a very ... work for committee. I was sitting in Dean Stu Schmill’s office, which has ... the Charles River. (You can catch glimpses of Stu’s office in some of

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • January 9, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Gee, my life’s a funny thing Remembering the bills I have to pay, or even yesterday.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The first person I met when I arrived at MIT for orientation was from Alaska. While in Paris this weekend, Ling ’07 and I went to the…

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s More Than A Job Thoughts On The Eve Of RA Decisions

  

  In response to an earlier entry of mine, this post appeared on College Confidential: You know, I get sick of college admissions officers saying how they couldn’t accept so many…

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ideate, Model, TEST! A long, behind-the-scenes look at 2.009 like, really long.

  

  , MIT’s senior capstone mechanical engineering product design class ... audience members from around the globe. It’s the closest thing you ... rappelling from the ceiling of the auditorium; my team's involved a real

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  concluding notes, including how catalogs have changed since the 2000s. This ... pattern to them. For example, the 20s are all math subjects: 20 Algebra, 21 ... calculators only became popular around the 1940s. « 1895 Subjects 1925

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

  Super Blood Moon Eclipse bonnie tyler would be proud

  

  the Earth’s shadow on the moon, and we’re all here, casting this shadow ... week’s lunar phenomenon on the Charles. The Super Blood Moon Eclipse (as it’s called in scary scientific terms), is a rare case in which a

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 3, 2015