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• Blog / About Decisions

  The Burning Question "Can you tell me why I didn't get in? Why was I not good enough?"

  

  applicant pool. So the simple answer is - you didn't do anything wrong, and ... of spots for roughly 8x qualified people, and decisions are made. We do

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 16, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Scholarships

  

  It might seem like you've been doing nothing but filling out forms for the past few months. First, for some students, there are early ... . But I also wanted to do this post so that you could, in the comments

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 1, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A ditch on the side of the New Jersey Turnpike

  

  filing to be done. Doing all that filing reminded me of Being John ... say that we're still doing lots of filing of application components. The

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 7, 2005
• Blog / Events

  How about an eπ Reunion?

  

  commemorate the 7.4-year mark of our graduation, and we're doing it in grand ... gambling, you might ask? Well, I didn't do any, but many of my classmates

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 27, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection Day 2

  

  them. We do selection in subcommittees, usually of three people -- I ... administrative stuff to do before we can put the decision letters in the mail. We

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 4, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  P(Happy Chanukah)

  

  essay still entirely optional? By that I mean do you see a trend where you favor the applicants that did the optional essay? I personally did not do

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 17, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Green Monsters

  

  should you do if you missed it? Well, obviously, you first need to know who ... may want to consider doing the "completely optional" essay (really, it

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 21, 2004
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  gesturing around MIT drawing sights and sites around MIT

  

  make sense to say what I have been doing and what exactly has been ... enjoy lying to myself and made a brash decision to do so. I wound up dropping a class. Not cause I was doing terribly bad, but because I hated it

  • by Waly N. '24
  • March 6, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  it is okay to not know a note for hs seniors (and others, too <3)

  

  people something meaningful? Not-infrequently I get asked “what should I do ... trying to figure out the big-picture questions of what major/career do I want, or what do I want out of life, sometimes you aren’t ready to answer

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  On Genshin Impact and a better introduction to me

  

  an introduction to my vibes and what I do on campus! Part 1: What exactly is Genshin? / How do you play Genshin? I’m glad you asked! Genshin ... favourite character. In my defense, he is beautiful. So how do you play

  • by ana~
  • October 7, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  if only I cad more time… Diving into software, ft. a bad pun

  

  . The second one was my desire to do anything and everything that ... clubs or doing extracurriculars. It wouldn’t be the same as on campus, so ... ,[/annotation] doing a[annotation note="research project"]UROP,[/annotation]and have 4

  • by Waly N. '24
  • October 30, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Straight from the Dean’s mouth Time magazine readers chat with the MIT Dean of Admissions, Marilee Jones.

  

  in teenage life, and what parents and educators can do to defuse them ... , Conn., where public schools are doing very poorly(poor test scores, many ... /sports/etc., how differently do college admissions boards look at prep school

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  what we mean when we say the people why we like “the people”

  

  "the people". What do we mean by this? I ask around. who who are "the ... community that i found. and yes i do think i could form this anywhere. but ... personality like mine ( like board games/kpop/asian stuff(boba)), do homework

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 25, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  What We Did In High School pls don't be as stressed as we were

  

  some variation of “What did you do in high school to get into MIT ... 've liked to, so that’s what we are writing this blog to do! We remember ... what you actually do in high school, and we agree that this distinction

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • July 11, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Autumn Questions Omnibus Answers to questions asked in my blog's comments. And there have been a lot of…

  

  , I apologize! You've asked many questions, I'll do my best to answer ... . How do I change my address? Thanks!" Don't worry! You can either email ... Shanghai China, I really wonder if there is anything I can do right now to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 3, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  January Questions Omnibus 1 Some questions answered.

  

  !). ------------------------------------- abstract wrote, "ummm... to break the long debate on percentages, do you know ... you school does not follow the US school system do you need to hand in a ... Report. Do not worry. ------------------------------------- Emi wrote, "I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 24, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  How I Made the MIT Orientation Trading Card Game The Insatiable Urge to Collect Continues...

  

  scale of hundreds of concurrent players. But what do I need to consider ... game, I wanted to think carefully about what I was doing: The goal of the ... be a GAME.  Do I create a game to play with the cards like with

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • November 30, 2025
• Blog / Summer

  feelings from the summer I wish I could describe more accurately partially inspired by ducks, newburyport

  

  whether you know anything, actually, about what you're doing; the toxic ... that other people can do with their body that you will still probably never be able to do; the excitement of having a friend to go with who can

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 5, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  Happier Than Ever on quitting and long-ish distance biking

  

  the one.  June.  Do you read my interviews? Or do you skip my avenue? I ... convince management that I do know what I’m doing, that I don’t need my ... when all you have to do is pedal.  Now that I’m Funemployed, I get to do

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • August 10, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Monologuing a mock-up for the MITMonologues

  

  who were going through the same. Calling friends while I do my ... I do not have a Vagina. Now granted, The Vagina Monologues were named ... year later, and [annotation note="because of course, when do the emails

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 13, 2022