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• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  ), that PDF application gets seen by many, many eyes, from the time it gets ... a page and seeing cold numbers on a screen to getting attached to you ... Probably one of the most linked-to/referred-to posts on this site is

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 16, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Love In the Time of Corona lots of evidence that the people are the best part of MIT

  

  this sense of nervousness and uncertainty in the air. I had woken up to ... . If Harvard was closing down, MIT was probably going to do the same ... our email was coming too. MIT was going to follow suit. When the email

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 2020
• 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 ... of being on MTV." (Thanks!) The film, contrary to the web bios I

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

  How Wrestling With Snapping Turtles Can Get You Into MIT A student profile of an aspiring limnologist.

  

  suburb outside of Madison, WI, and I was actually the first person to get ... -Madison. What inspired you to get into limnology? It's like the (awesomer ... willing to get mauled in pursuit of our interests, she by vicious animals

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Cozy Hobbit Times, Cozy Hobbit Food

  

  out into the world and get lost someplace new, and it’s just as nice to ... garbage disposal or a shower that gets hot right away, but it’s on the ... that I can’t always control the things that matter to me. This year I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hard MIT Class ...or is that redundant? And yes, hiiiiii.

  

  , when I had to spend the first night reading twenty dense pages of Plato ... one end of the pool to the other, by now for the others without fins ... to the solution, the climax, the moment of insight, breakthrough. That

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Really Just Cannot Write Anymore of My Thesis I wish I can bang out essays like blog entries.

  

  thesis mode. Now I have 60+ pages of it finished, and trying to get words ... you feel worse with each step that gets you closer to the finish line ... the Boston skyline; figure out the best way to get to your dorm to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Diversity or Merit? false questions, false answers

  

  succeeded somewhere else. Everybody loses. And I hate to lose. By the same ... , even though they are *unqualified* Let's cut to the core of the matter ... vast majority of applicants, is closer to the idea of qualified or

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

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who

  

  ."]plot points,[/annotation] the 2003 Hunt was the first to have many pages of ... 's the only time a year I get to see many of my friends in-person, and I ... getting wider. To the casual music listener, most of Mozart's contemporaries

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 29, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  universities might continue to work off-campus jobs, this is very much not the culture at MIT. Considering that the workload here is commonly referred to ... I used to. The good news is you don't have to be an OnlyFans model

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 4, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  an admissions blogger I only have 23 minutes left, so time to get ... that the Maryland Institute of Technology? Sameer had moved to London ... 's...pretty famous. Eighth grade Anna: Oh...okay. Sameer promptly sent me the link to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My blogger bio over time what does it take to get to know someone?

  

  reading mine. June 2022 What does it take to get to know someone? One of the ... can go to a library and get one of the rooms. And we'll talk, quietly ... get to know someone. We can talk about institutional change and the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 26, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Axes of Confusion ????

  

  , and to use the extra time we'll have to try getting an artistic job ... a double major because, well, it equates to the units of one major, and it achieves this by cutting requirements from both the Humanities

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 21, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  The Great Wifi Outage of 2007 Burton-Conner's wifi went out two days ago; Evan will tell you more by the end…

  

  air, as freshmen were trampled by upperclassmen rioting to reset the ... to get to know everyone who falls out of bed and into 10-250. The ... possible to get good grades at MIT if someone enrolls at the institute from a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Gothic You are reading an admissions blog post. You are reading tumblr.

  

  opinion piece in The Tech to complain. You get your Brass Rat. You joke ... . The GetFit maps on the walls continue to appear every so often, but they ... , especially around this time of the semester. The rest of this blog post is by

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the bridges I’ve crossed in Cambridge, ranked my civil engineering hat is off

  

  crosses the river. The museum (which MIT students get free admission to!) is ... Bronx’s elevated subways to watch the buildings rush by me, but being too ... yearly by members of his fraternity. As the closest bridge to MIT’s campus

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take a Load Off Quoting The Band's "The Weight" should make the wait bearable

  

  . And it's still true of everyone who wants to get in to MIT. And I ... nicely when he said you don't have to build, say, a nuclear reactor to get ... 's kind of a big deal. To illustrate that, I invite you to go to Google and

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  3 weeks in northern Italy Global Teaching Labs and MISTI-Italy

  

  the writing ends because I used the next page and a half to draw the ... wood, and I woke up every morning to the voices of my family and the ... industrial town in the north, I taught debate to high schoolers ranging in age

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  —a time for high school seniors to visit campus to see if MIT is really the place they want to spend their college years. The “weekend” itself starts ... self arrives to campus, you’re given a booklet with pages and pages of

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015
• 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

  

  ranked, and by the time he was accepted, he had been to Junior Olympics ... NASA shuttle launch) was presented to him by one of the aero ... According to my hit counter as well as by raw comment count, my entry

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005