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  Applying Sideways How to get in to MIT.

  

  and hawk their school. I recently returned from my travel, which took ... in between over the course of a few days. I visited big high schools ... to a thousand-person MIT revival in an Atlanta auditorium. Whenever I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / Advice

  Words of Advice for the Incoming Class you did it! now what?

  

  and I can only barely imagine what this excitement and feeling must feel ... . I get it. I know it. I was there. I thought I'd make something to ... opinion from there. I say this because current students develop over time a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  16 for the 16’s 16 Guidelines to Making the Most of your CPW

  

  friends that they met over CPW!! I wish I met more people over cpw :( N: Whenever I went to events it felt like EVERYONE already knew each other, but ... community for everyone! K: If you're thinking about going to MIT (which I

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 18, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  Over the last few weeks I've posted entries about diversity vs merit and the holistic admissions process. And while I hope that these entries ... to accompany and support the claims I had made. As one commenter put it

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Admissions Excavation Chris gave me a box of stuff and this is what I found inside

  

  , I trekked over to the admissions office to pick up this: And my ... things I found: This really pretty poster from 2011. I’m assuming it was ... ? (Edit: I've recieved confirmation from a couple of alums in the comments

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  likelihood of acceptance. I'm sure the AdmissionSplash people are only trying ... the college admissions process. I spend a lot of time on College ... admission. So last summer, I posted a thread on CC entitled Reminder: No one

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

  A Fireside Chat with President Sally Kornbluth get to know our president!

  

  friends, and political drama TV shows? I didn’t know any of this.  In fact, I knew next to nothing about our newly inducted president until I sat ... dozen people spring to mind, and I laugh and tell her, “A lot.” We share a

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  Almost every time I return home from MIT, I find myself mentally translating certain MIT concepts or words or course numbers when I'm talking to my parents or friends. Things like "I just got back from my 5

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Rain by any other name lagi na lang umuulan

  

  window, ampiyas, and the action is umaanggi. Where I'm from, the dry ... , not August or September. The rain I've experience back at home is quite ... rain, at least, not that I know of. I remember the first time I

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

  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  by a Q&A session) at MIT, in 26-100 (I sit through biology lecture in 26-100, three times a week!) It was impossible to pass up, so I ... Nobel thing) asked for a volunteer who had a watch. I had a watch. My

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reaffirming our commitment to diversity in uncertain times

  

  attention to the class of 2028 and beyond, I want to take a moment ... this blog post, I use “affirmative action” and “race-conscious admissions ... acknowledge the limitations of these ways we currently count people. However, I

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 7, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  dominating College Confidential and the blog comments makes me sad. I ... . Having bad grades or scores will certainly hurt you, but I’m sorry to say ... our applications. It’s not anything I can explain – you just know when

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 16, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Things Advice for the class of 2010.

  

  for you; beginning with the launch of our new site in early September, I'll begin focusing on the future class of 2011. I hope that you guys won't be ... college experience, and I prepare for my 10-year college reunion, I thought

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Brief History of Cars on Fire at MIT You didn't think I would miss an anniversary, did you?

  

  , who mentioned it in an email to me: I saw the car after it had been pulled up the side of the dorm where I lived during my sophomore year. It was later lowered and set on fire (I think) on the grass between the

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Happy 21st Birthday to the Random Hall Milk the Milk is now old enough to drink, but *please*, don't drink the Milk

  

  probably figured, "Hmm, definitely not mine. I’m lactose-intolerant."" Other ... didn’t buy it. Would be so good on my plate of Cheerios right now, but I ... Random Hall. I once asked a former resident of Random Hall why the milk had

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Views of Campus, the Charles River, and the First Snow with a snowman and a snow dalek

  

  ’s campus, especially Stata. I personally love the dissonance in the ... ’re walking in. I spent a few evenings last summer and this winter so far photographing campus and the Charles River to show you what I see. All of these

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 20, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ideate, Model, TEST! A long, behind-the-scenes look at 2.009 like, really long.

  

  end.  Instead, I'm essentially directing the presentation ... ;In fact, I'm aiming to not have our presenters use clickers to advance ... presentation spectrum of "conversational" to "showman", I'

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 10, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to choose your major putting people in boxes, feat. credit for reddit, social science, and lots of yarn.

  

   Credit For Reddit, when Alyssa and I baked a bajillion cookies and enticed ... prompts based on the interviews we did. 1. Once upon a time, I thought I would be [what major? undecided?]. 2. I will be graduating as [what major

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 6, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Diversity or Merit? false questions, false answers

  

  There's something I've been mulling over in my head for a long time ... and bad) that I've had with people on CollegeConfidential and elsewhere. When I'm on the road, or in an information session, or online in various

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

  Paths there are so many

  

  similarly barely-open-up-able door. "I should've re-taken the SAT like Sam ... feels awful. Instead, tell yourself: "In my circumstances, I tried my ... , whatever works). Let's do it together: In my circumstances, I tried my best

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 19, 2018