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  There Is No Formula A formula would take the human component out of our process, which is perhaps the…

  

  This whole “is there a formula to get into MIT” thing that’s been ... define admissions with a formula is like trying to define life with a ... . It makes me think of the guy who fell in love with trains as a kid and

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 16, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Reflections on 50 Things thinking back on The Blogfather's wisdom in my senior year

  

  , the most-read blog on MIT Admissions. As a member of the Class of 2018 ... Jones' 50 Things as a student. I recommend you keep his post open while ... , some “friend turnover” is unavoidable. We’re all here for a limited

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Have Never Been to Beijing A (loose) translation of the previous post written in Chinese

  

  在这里可以看中文版。 Note: This is a loose translation. Since of course I am ... Chinese-language post not mentioned here. The content is a bit different for ... , my auntie wanted me to take a nap. She said, “if you don’t go to sleep

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  Logic Unit for a 6.004 lab, after registers and stack pointers and opcodes began to blur together into hexadecimal soup, I decided I needed a break ... ’t make it on the first Wednesday, but… -- ONE WEEK AGO -- A week later I

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Flux and Flow Thermodynamics as therapeutic analogy; or, the longest way I've ever said, "I'm still figuring things…

  

  wanted to be a doctor -- which, at the time, was no longer a settled matter ... health after lots of research, a stint in therapy to maintain my self ... . Basically, 5.60 was a hedged bet, and as I hedged, time passed, others grew

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  Mashable is running a story today called New Facebook App Tells College Applicants What Their Chances Are. It's created quite a buzz on different social network sites, and been syndicated to CNN among a bunch of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  , white and round like an ancient temple, while a thought crossed his mind ... a temple of science.” Ending of First Light by Richard Preston My thesis defense was at 9:30am over Zoom, with a committee of six professors

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Distraction News Your internet connection is unstable

  

  barking if Dog 1 or 2 starts barking. Dog 4 is a puppy that cannot be left ... she is no longer the puppy of the house and hisses (like a cat) at Dog 4, who has taken her place. Dog 2 sheds a lot, so it's best not to keep him

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 31, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Early History of International Students at MIT studying the people MIT made, and the people who made MIT

  

  after its first classes were held in a storage warehouse. By 1895, 39 from a total of 984 students were international. Three times more students ... tenure at MIT with a vision to build a more diverse and inclusive Institute

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Advice From The Elderly My last blog entry, at least from this chapter.

  

  to Science Magazine, who published a study on my expected lifespan in ... older brothers or sisters, with whom I am competing for a space in an ... elderly-person advice. (Although I am not as old as a postdoc in my lab who

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  On the second last day of classes my freshman spring, I wrote a blog ... classes! That day, dear readers, was today. So here's a post all about ... chillier than May feels like it should be. I walked a little further this day

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tyrannosaurus REX the prefrosh are coming, the prefrosh are coming!

  

  Right now campus is quiet. A lone grad student moves slowly across the[annotation note="Terrain being a word which here means: the view outside my window."]terrain,[/annotation]like a deer across the savannah

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 20, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  An Astrological Guide to the College App Process We all know astrology isn't real...or is it?

  procrastinate if you haven't submitted a Regular Action application by January 1st ... everything I say with a grain of salt. However, whether you agree with what I ... be great! You aren't afraid to throw in an application to a school that

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 20, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bye (for now)

  

  i graduated! *confetti noises* i took a semester off back in 2015, so i'm doing things a little out of order. instead of walking last ... last few weeks of my last semester at mit were more of a slow burn than a

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 12, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thoughts for the New Year A semester's worth of thoughts, tbh

  

  I was reading through my old blog posts and realized that it’s been a ... than getting a Pirate Certificate (at least, that’s what I tell myself). Sidequest 3: Collect 60 free t-shirts. I have a bare minimum of 10 free t

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 2 The median of an introductory trilogy

  

  Things took a turn for the worse. Quickly. Very quickly. -- August 17th was a Saturday, and it started out as a good one. I was awoken by ... food. Not wanting a fight this morning, I ran to the kitchen, and dug

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  students' MIT acceptance moments, prompted by a pre-Pi Day email thread.  We had a snow day and when I called my grandmother to tell her, she ... a large quantity of ice cream the night before. If I got in, I would

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

  The rise and fall of CPW all the cpw history, plus proof the weather machine is fake

  

  held virtually this year, and there's a large CPW Discord server where ... , sent a message asking about historical CPW weather patterns. Petey tagged ... together—a story that starts in the 1980s and ends today. There'll be actual

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  , before my phone rang and jerked me out of my stupor. A friend was in the ... off several local options. I paused for a beat, then a few more. "Uhh..." A solid minute of silence, broken only by more interjections of my own

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Units of Measure A simple question with a lot of cool answers

  

  units of my floormates but I remember a few. A Tang measured orthogonality to conversation. A Graybill is a unit of harem. The Itani is a unit of negative tact.  A Snively is equal to 1 byte wasted on the internet. Friends

  • by Snively '11
  • January 7, 2017