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  A Half-Century Retrospective Revisiting the MIT Application from the 1972–1973 admissions cycle

  

  attracted your attention. Our basic approach to the purposes and goals of ... . The Admissions Office looks forward to receiving your application, and ... instructions on page 27. 4. Give the SECONDARY SCHOOL REPORT FORM to your high

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  field, but not enough speed to load my decision before the server timed ... . When I saw those magical words, I immediately read them three times to ... . Went to bed super late so I didn't have to wait once I woke up. Woke up

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

  non-stop / walang hinto what a mess

  

  , to think that you have no ceiling in your power! yes, i am feeling it ... have to choose between them, and i have time. and i feel privileged, and ... summer camp i went to for two years back in high school, and each time i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 8, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a freshman year 🦴🧠🩸🖐️🫀 my first year at mit, told through the body

  

  to commit to, knowing that it will take a lot of time to achieve your ... mentally knowing that you have not used your time in the best way possible ... ="general institute requirements, classes we have to take to graduate. in this case, i

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice On The Essay The rules are simple: write your own.

  

  . It's always nice to have someone look over your writing and fix the ... ;would love to interview an admissions officer from your prestigious university ... students to write from the heart and to not have their essays edited by any

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Queer at MIT, but not on the blogs the map is not the territory, but it's getting closer

  

  . Fortunately, you only have to ask once in your life.) Thank you, whoever you ... they want to write but can’t have the blog be associated with them. I ... present, have identified as LGBTQ+, and were able to be open about their

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tell your friends you love them for we are but blips in a timeline

  

  • by Anika H. '26
  • May 9, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  study spots at MIT not exactly places to cry, but they'll do

  

  since it's my last semester, I've been trying to spend more time ... 'll probably have to share during the day when it's busy Ida Green Room (9th ... . but every time I've tried to go this year, there's been some event going

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  friends of yours have started companies?” she asks me. Immediately, half a ... . I tell her this, and she says, “You have to be curious. If not, things ... Kornbluth tells me. I have to agree, that does sound pretty funny. She then

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

  Rain by any other name lagi na lang umuulan

  

  rain cloud above your head persists. It's never enough to be unbearable ... all the time becomes foreign, becomes hard to believe. But there are ... you, you're stuck in a Catch-22. Because no one wants to help when you're

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

  smoke and spice my comfort meal

  

  , which comes out to around once a month. In times when things were tough, I ... other. It’s neat having things in life that you can always count on to ... have prompted me to learn how to make this dish in incrementally more

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 9, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Decade in Online Posting looking back: from the forums to the blogs

  

  the time—though it seems to have disappeared from the face of the earth ... to go anywhere else. i know its bad to have your heart set on one ... without thinking about the cartoon ogre At the same time, I started to have

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Shiny Circuits Shiny, in some subcultures at MIT, means REALLY AWESOME

  

  the year in 6.131, students have just finished working late nights to ... ask, does a fluorescent light need to be controlled? You have likely ... Hey guys! I know it's been a little while since I have blogged. The

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HERE LIES P/NR September 2018-December 2018

  

  drop the right one. The feeling of failure that comes when you’re used to ... this time, at eight o’clock, I still had a ton of things to do and I ... , because I have seven more chances to take (and pass) it, the only difference

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 16, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  voting four times a second. MIT, which used to be at 300,000 votes was soon ... . --------------------------------------------------------------- That means we have to overtake Drexler before the PINK server melts ... improvements to this area. Check back soon to nominate your school

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

  “Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” and other ways to improve your test scores

  

  might assume that he’s going to have an easier time than a woman of ... impair performance. I don’t think we have time to recount every one in ... have nothing to do with your actual ability to do well on the test.” The

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sibling dynamics at MIT yes lmao Nisha and I are related

  

  ’t have time for high school-esque drama or petty judgments of others’ success. Hell, I definitely don’t have time for sibling trauma anymore ... —you’d probably realize that we’re related. More than a few people have approached

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 20, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  -turning Rush shirts for a while. I don't want to make the Admissions Blogs all-East-Campus-all-the-time ... , but over time that was changed to align with the social cohesion on each ... for construction in 1923, and opened to students for the first time in

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [joint post] we visited every station on the MBTA and the Logan Airport Rental Car Center

  

  are also in 24-hour time, I’m just writing this way in opposition to CJ ... ’ve been a better idea to do it at a warmer time of the year, but well… Alan ... ten do not recommend. Alan: I, fortunately, did not have to move at all

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions of Travel a guest post by Spencer W. '15

  

  drive to Cambridge if admitted.   I still have the first email I ... have a fun time, laddie.” “Why’s that?” I asked, staring into the ... now I have to prove myself worthy to return. Seems fair to me. I find

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015