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

  

  intimidated by my judge's shirt to borrow her phone because I couldn't get mine ... 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

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

  Applying to College vs. Applying to Jobs yes you heard me, the application process NEVER ENDS

  

  college apps, you would be sadly mistaken. Once you get to college, you ... , and I was even contacted by a company to have a coffee chat about 2020 ... hosted by various student groups and companies that have come around to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 6, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  week, we (belatedly) celebrated by asking a bunch of former bloggers to ... their entries from most to least crufty: It’s been a long road… by ... I may have been accepted to MIT, but by Snively '11 That rings a

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

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

  

  ways to make websites; many students make their own personal websites ... Cloud website builder to help us out. Additionally, the Drupal Cloud website builder allowed for webforms that require MIT Certificates to access

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

  Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later what happened after pi day 2011

  

  life style. As I moved further into my college years, things begun to get ... I've gotten a number of email responses to my blog post about the ... hadn't heard from him since Pi Day 2011; he revived the old thread to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Praise Of Holistic Admissions not an admissions machine

  

  system around "merit", defined, as it always seems to be, by test scores ... this: create an index by multiplying SAT score and GPA. Rank-order the ... ? Well, I guess I could go home pretty early to get a full night's rest

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Long Road to Happiness Stuff no one likes to talk about...

  

  was getting chipped away at, bit by bit. Here is an excerpt from ... there were steps I was taking, that we were going to get somewhere ... laundry, and this helps you get back to a place where you can work on

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 22, 2017
• 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 ... were all grey, everyone was sad, and you were going to feel by yourself ... ’m prone to tripping over myself), so I wasn’t getting a lot of encouragement

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

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

  

  same thing just to get paid for it.   Library Desk Worker This is ... Breakerspaces that are run by students for students to, bluntly, make or break ... gets leaked and to my knowledge nothing dangerous is tested on volunteers

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

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  by taking all of an hour to take two cards out of envelopes... I had a ... 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

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010
• 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 ... Class of 2018 to the Class of 2026, and by the time I leave, the incoming

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 15, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  get SLAPped! it doesn't hurt

  

  quickly. i left with a painting by ria brodell that seemed to be part of a ... 's telling about gender. getting to look at this painting up close in my room ... character to your room. get SLAPped!

  • 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?

  

  own website and foundation, emphasize the narrative of homelessness by ... disingenuous claims about the magnitude of her success. To clarify, by magnitude ... activities) and invite users to rate their chances of getting into certain

  • 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 ... “getting in” to the point that it somehow became the center of my daily

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

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

  

  firehose.” The earliest reference I could find is from the 1972 How to Get ... on How to Get Around MIT. And now that I’ve cited How to Get Around MIT twice, I’m obligated to mention that it stopped getting published 2011

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• 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

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

  

  good chance to meet other first-years; and third, you get a requirement ... . Go to a website like firehose.guide and look at your choices. Schedule ... . There's also OfCourse, a website that uses algorithms™ to recommend which

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

  The Thong I Should Be Wearing [UPDATE] Sexy sexy undies.

  

  over to their website and vote for us! We can do it! ... in the comic strip, Alex, had to decide which college to go to. She was accepted to several tech schools and the comic strip writer decided that he

  • by Snively '11
  • November 1, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  with all 183 teachers to get them background checked, as required by MIT ... felt terrified by the idea. I was scared. "I think something I have to ... were talking to. I understood what was meant by delegation and you can

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020