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• Blog / About Decisions

  Diversity or Merit? false questions, false answers

  

  principle from which to derive a conclusion: Oh, [that student] did / did not get in or will / will not be accepted because they are a woman / a ... , even though they are *unqualified* Let's cut to the core of the matter

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dragons A blog post for deferred students (and everybody else waiting on decisions).

  

  of his finals. If you would like to spread happiness with your every ... , bring a giant stuffed animal to your exams. Everyone’s week was way better ... , and try to really get to know the people I loved before all of us

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

  The future isn’t the answer reflecting on anxiety

  

  . Perfectionism + the urge to get everything done right on the first try. I first ... near emotional meltdown in front of Logan International Airport to get me ... -in-stomach feelings I get when it gets bad in response to these imaginary threats my

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  selective colleges, is really tough. It's hard to know how to gauge your ... to selective schools - or, at the very least, if you're thinking of ... different social network sites, and been syndicated to CNN among a bunch of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  lecture at 11, so I rush to get ready at 9:45, going through the motions of ... struck with the feeling that I might never get the chance to, again. When ... no way I would ever want to do more school, and I was ready to get out

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

  Why I wasn’t sad to leave MIT On shedding.

  

  and then I’ll swing by to give an update on life from the other side. It ... not belong on the MIT admissions website” post. At least, that's what I'm saying to comfort myself.☺ Since graduating, I’ve been thinking a lot

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Merit When getting into MIT isn't convincing enough

  

  ; usually you don’t get old men saying things like this to your face. Usually ... , some alumni actually look forward to getting calls from us because they ... said, "don’t you think you had a leg up getting into MIT because you’re

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • January 22, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  somehow managed not to get them. Recently I took the SATs as well, which I ... has become painfully clear that I stand next to no chance of getting in ... your SAT scores (fun fact: the variable that correlates most strongly to

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  student do you need to be to get one? Those types of articles feel like a ... ’ll get to it. Here’s one tricky thing about being at MIT: you never know ... ’d the test go?” instead of “what’d you get?” and you never have to give a

  • by ana~
  • October 29, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  an admissions blogger I only have 23 minutes left, so time to get ... , if not as, excited about that as I was to initially get into MIT. I had ... (MIT '17!!) is sitting to my right, underlining passages from her AP US

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

  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  half an hour, eating my lunch, and the wind is getting to me. I could choose to get up and move to a different bench 20 feet away, one that is in ... advice (implicit and explicit) if you’re trying to make choices about your

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • April 20, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  gun move with the body and the breath. You control your breath to ... , get it done, let it go, and move on to the next one. I try to carry it ...        “Oh yes, well I managed to transmit a new entry off to the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 22, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice you’ve heard before and a story you haven’t you can just skip to the pictures if you want to, I wont be offended.

  

  all your MIT classes, eventually, you will have to fall into a pattern ... in your room- except to sneak out late at night in a trenchcoat to turn in your problem sets- and not say a single word of english to anyone

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Dissecting emotion what is feeling

  

  wanting to get up. Of looking at your to-do list, seeing only three items in ... something, you need to be open to the possibility of getting cut. When you sit on your hand for a few minutes and then pull your hand out, you get

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 3, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Random Ceiling Tiles The ceilings of Random Hall and a friendly message.

  

  Some of you have to make a decision to come here (or not) by 23:59 tomorrow. If you're on the fence, I have one small bid to make you fall in ... the path you choose gets difficult, it will be very helpful to rekindle

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 30, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advisor vs. Advisee a '07 and a '21 answer a series of questions

  

  ;   Afeefah: 100% good health. I’ve been trying to get into a ... you’re struggling with right now?  Bryan: I struggle with how to be an ... ’ve been able to get through rejection after rejection and pure uncertainty

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hacking A performance art that lets students remind the teachers who's smarter.

  

  . There are times when I get asked, out of the blue, what made me decide to ... explaining this I then get asked “So why does your biography say that you came ... were they supposed to get a car off the dome? Helicopters flew by all day

  • by Snively '11
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Am I Smart Enough for MIT? On second thought...don't answer that.

  

  , things have been crazy busy. (Perhaps at some point, I'll eventually get to ... 'll struggle to get good grades (I know grades aren't everything, but I'd like to get decent enough grades to apply for graduate school) or find research

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  REX at Random Hall Pancakes, LN2 ice cream, board games, game theory, math, raves, staying up entirely too late,…

  

  missed. We’re furiously unpacking the dorm and getting excited to see you ... International House of Pancakes, and you don't have to drive to get here. See how ... baconstrips (and baconstrips and baconstrips) for you to shove down your food

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 23, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “So what are you majoring in?” *sweats nervously*

  

  different life paths to get a more solid picture of where each of them could ... ’s adorable. And your enthusiasm is great. P.S. - I wanted to clarify that I ... , if I was successful enough at the former. I would get a UROP at the

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015