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  25 Stories of Getting Accepted to MIT told by students and alums

  

  minutes before I could get the page to load. Oh yeah, my mother screamed. I ... reasons similar to M.B. ‘17’s ice cream: if I got in, she'd get hugs. If I ... about a minute to get the words together to tell them the good news. My

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to Make Money at MIT for all of us who don't know how to make a startup :(

  

  decide you want to completely switch everything you're doing. Also, funding ... same thing just to get paid for it.   Library Desk Worker This is ... because there's not a lot to learn? You know you're way around, so the hard

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 4, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to decide which classes to take amazing classes and how to pick them

  

  . Go to a website like firehose.guide and look at your choices. Schedule ... you get to see the syllabi for all of the classes you're enrolled in ... in the first semester is good. First, you're in P/NR; second, you get a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dormspam-the-game (Part 3) parting remarks from no-longer-anonymous gamemasters

  

  accomplishment? Seeing your name on the leaderboard from week to week? There ... ways to make websites; many students make their own personal websites ... Cloud website builder to help us out. Additionally, the Drupal Cloud

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Praise Of Holistic Admissions not an admissions machine

  

  ? Well, I guess I could go home pretty early to get a full night's rest ... so far as much as we care about what you're going to do at MIT. As ... - broadly defined - for college to matter.   I hope that this quote is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  So Chance Me Maybe? Hey! I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my SAT...

  

  needed to get serious about applications very, very soon, so I hopped on ... getting admitted, then to actually dream of getting admitted. Like a cheesy ... certainly couldn't allow myself to get my hopes up, or my poor psyche would be

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.

  

  !!!) When I was applying to MIT, I got something in the mail. The website was ... ’m prone to tripping over myself), so I wasn’t getting a lot of encouragement ... and read some of my old MITblog entries from time to time when I get

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to use these blogs Scattered thoughts on the information age, plus some bonus snark.

  

  accurately be titled, "How to get the most out of reading the MITblogs," or maybe "How to not get a sarcastic reply to a question from me." I fixed ... identified as Lutheran?” I’m going to just google the MIT site, and while I don

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  of assignment you can do the night before," to which a student ... (yes, I might give you a campus tour!), I sometimes get asked about the ... considered a full course load (supposedly equivalent to 48 hours of work per

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choosing Your Own Adventure and other things you can do when you live off campus

  

  on what you're looking for. But first, where do we begin? How to Get ... you walk down the street, you get to a point where you're under ... buildings getting taller and taller as you go along. You're close to Kendall

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  remembers the three-factor authorisation procedure she had to follow to get ... your mailing list? To the student groups, the Midway is one of the ... again, in wide-eyed wonder that I get to choose which classes I can take

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj

  

  shot at the moon. You don't know what you're going to get. You just know you're going to get a shot. —Robo-CJ another Disney live action reboot ... spend your whole life doing what you love, but you also get to make a lot

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  get SLAPped! it doesn't hurt

  

  character to your room. get SLAPped! ... room or common area. if you're selected, you pick a time to visit the ... 's telling about gender. getting to look at this painting up close in my room

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 21, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?

  

  activities) and invite users to rate their chances of getting into certain ... . This is not to take away from the hard work that everyone puts in to get ... opportunities to invest in yourself and grow in your craft happen when you’re

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  shaky it took two tries to get the password right. And text suddenly ... specific essays. But getting to consciously choose to apply to UW-Madison, I ... of your life, I daresay it’s necessary to be invested. But at the same

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the blogs at twenty some reflections, plus an index of posts

  

  to blog, I genuinely wasn't sure of the response we'd get. It's a cold ... write something. My secret mental goal was to try and get at least seven ... godsend for those who might want to get a sense of what life was like at

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dear frosh: here are the things we want you to know a firehose of advice from upperclassmen: tips and tricks for freshman year

  

  obnoxious biker about being seen. It can save your life. Get out to the city ... ’ll never get anywhere. Just accept that you’re going to be in many pictures ... . Learn about MIT mailing lists. Make your own. Make time to get off campus

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ten reflections on mit

  

  ’ve changed. Then, I need to account for my own “MIT-tinted googles”: for the ... , I didn’t want to get my hopes up about getting in. In hindsight, I ... getting to watch current undergrads learn to appreciate the same things I

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 15, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  Add Date), you have to get both the instructor's signature and your ... archives to produce a strew of incisively insightful oldies for your perusal ... magical phenomenon called Reg Day, where you're required to physically go to

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Life is Improv say yes

  

  class of 2011, when you get to the rest of your life - there will be so ... you want to pull it in another direction. you're negating. This rule ... categorize. I thought it'd be cool to post them on a Google Map to visualize

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2011