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• Blog / About Decisions

  Being “qualified” for MIT Let me show you how it's done.

  

  " or "Leadership" that you get to put on your transcript. I'm not an ... ." List your skills for us. How many programming languages do you know? I ... " to come here. I'd like to take that back, because of what happened on

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What I wish I’d known, and what I’m glad I knew Before coming to MIT.

  

  never worried about how I compared to my fellow incoming MIT students. I ... "make sure I had a solid foundation" before moving on. It's obvious to me ... speaker to ask questions is ultimately how I got my first UROP. Since then

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  demons on depression

  

  yours? To be truly happy, then. How would I know what that felt like ... voice to be like. What if I'd get rebuked for not actually having heard ... was when I thought about how much I complained to my friends about how

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 28, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Policies, Principles, and Protests thinking about responsible citizenship in a time of student protests

  

  disciplinary or other action that occurs after your admission to MIT. We have the right to revoke or defer your offer of admission if your conduct does not ... integrity on its face. The purpose of this blog post is to communicate that

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • February 22, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Diversity or Merit? false questions, false answers

  

  prepared. Based on a bevy of data in your application - your scores, your ... , and to capitalize on, their admission. Now, more than half the students ... . On our What To Do In High School page, we say this of our application

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mostly Harmless Rifle. As in, the phys ed class. As in, I fired one.

  

  , get it done, let it go, and move on to the next one. I try to carry it ... technique used to reproduce the layout of colonies on one petri plate on a ... gun move with the body and the breath. You control your breath to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 22, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fit or happiness made easy

  

  Nearly nine months after getting into MIT, one question I continue to ask myself is "am I in the right place?" How do we know when we get ... natural, where you can focus your efforts on achieving instead of diverting

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  0.125 not a course 0 class, but a fraction complete

  

  , I can't even seem to get through a day on seven and a half. Knowing ... lot about what I learned this semester and what I'd like to work on for ... how to cook! Or it might be more accurate to say I learned how to learn

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 4, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  how to study on your own in the absence of a teacher or curriculum ... somehow managed not to get them. Recently I took the SATs as well, which I ... has become painfully clear that I stand next to no chance of getting in

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear My Old Friend, This is quite possibly weirdest way to introduce myself

  

  you want to know: you get into MIT when you’re seventeen.  Maybe this ... ’m glad you’re excited to get to work and dive into this new life ahead of ... 's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I pour whiskey on him

  • by ana~
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Underwater Dreams (from a distance) A reflection on immigration, student activism, and civic engagement at MIT.

  

  that. How did we let it get to that point? It’s not just the corporations ... ourselves these questions, trying to figure out how to live. We go on living ... have so many opportunities. You can hand them off to your children. I’m a

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Burton 1 Social Club This Thanksgiving, I'm thankful for my ridiculous, hilarious, amazing floor.

  

  MIT, you get to make the choice not only where you live but who you live ... name and number painted on their chests. They'll fill your entire room ... 'm passing 18.03..") Another point to how we're the best floor ever - we

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  instructions on page 27. 4. Give the SECONDARY SCHOOL REPORT FORM to your high ... location on the Infinite Corridor to its new home in the MIT Welcome Center ... grew, so did our footprint on the Infinite. We eventually went on to

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

  Putting Diversity into Context The diverse ways that colleges and universities define diversity

  

  have fielded numerous calls and emails soliciting advice on how to ... having to identify my race on all kinds of forms, including standardized ... identification.  In reality, most of the confusion is about how to best leverage a

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Entry About Snow ...Even though we don't have any

  

  snowboarding lesson that would often be able to do things on the first or second ... supposed to, and there are even some people that already *know* how to ski or ... you'll fall as soon as you try to get up and it'll hurt, and other times

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 11, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hard MIT Class ...or is that redundant? And yes, hiiiiii.

  

  . I learned how to float, on my chest and on my back, with the floater ... Picture this. You’re trying to shuffle past a gaggle of camera ... ’t have to tell me about that. I knew it. Hours spent fixated on a problem

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes I Won’t Be Able to Take also "What Is Pre-Registration?"

  

  ="NASA pls hire me to do experiments on your astronauts"]16.423/HST.515/IDS.337 ... to take and helping the administrators figure out how popular classes ... you don't get to take the HASS you want to take that semester. I

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 23, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Guest Entry: Stephanie Lin Presenting MIT's most recent Rhodes Scholar!

  

  range from challenges to weaknesses to baseball, poets from your ethnicity ... flew to California. The actual interviews take place on Saturday, but all Finalists attend the cocktail party on Friday night in order to meet each

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 12, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  ’s ring that they had been working tirelessly to create. It’s a time to get together with your fellow sophomores on your dorm hall ... wear our Danger Third Rail (how 3E is affectionately referred to) t

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  Climate Project at MIT. The goal of this project is to figure out how to get ... with her face-to-face in her office to get to know her better. Her office ... endeavors. She is proud of MIT and how it can provide real solutions to

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 13, 2024