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• Blog / About Decisions

  In Search of Answers Seeking recommendations, rather than providing them...

  

  parents face. For me to weigh in on the merits of an individual applicant ... admitted to the class. Even though they are certainly right, I am quick to ... figure out how to organize all that information, or even determine the

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Cozy Hobbit Times, Cozy Hobbit Food

  

  Cook barley in a pot on the stove. Make according to store directions. As ... garbage disposal or a shower that gets hot right away, but it’s on the ... that I can’t always control the things that matter to me. This year I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  This Is How I Read productivity hacks, but for reading applications

  

  usually either running around the Charles, on my way to the MIT gym, or running around the Charles on my way to the gym. Ethan Zuckerman, who was my ... on the main screen and then login to our application system. As I open

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science Out Loud! On teaching/making/producing educational videos and why it's so much fun

  

  I think I've accidentally begun a quest to be involved with ALL THE (VIDEO) THINGS on campus, from MITx to TAing the ESG educational video ... are the things that I want to learn, but MIT will never offer a class on

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  ’m definitely nerdy. I like to read books on anything. Also over the pandemic, I ... was everything you’d expect the President of MIT’s office to be – dark ... recognize her face and her title, but what is the President of MIT like on a

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

  Do I have a story for you… *SPOILER* I do

  

  .009 classrooms in the fall to help teach the class that set me on this path. I ... myself it's been 3 years since I failed to follow through on this mysterious mention of a "thing I'm working on this term, and it's the biggest

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a sad sad toaster made of glass. Do you like your toast with tears? Because I'm sad.

  

  go to the Concert in Bad Taste. Or go on the Burton-Conner boat cruise ... sleep. On the floor. Because I had to go to German in 40 minutes, and ... how well I did on it. I really couldn't motivate myself to look at the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Snively’s Cross Stitch Corner I really enjoy cross stitching

  

  listening to books. People seem to enjoy what I make and the joy of others ... ; I usually worked on the big mural in my apartment just because of the ... stitched the more and more I tried to figure out a way to monetize cross

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Stove-Cook Your Oatmeal and Never Look Back To not-admitted applicants and anyone who knows anything about fuses.

  

  ’d imagine belongs to two MIT grads and a master’s student:   Here, on the ... Oatmeal cooked on the stove is so good. I wouldn’t know this, but a ... you cook oatmeal on the stove. You boil a cup of milk. You can hear it

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 19, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  compared to the classes in my major that i would take later on. but i saw a ... to get in a class sometimes got in the way of me focusing on the ... the binary label of “happy” or “sad”, or even to rate it on a one

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My blogger bio over time what does it take to get to know someone?

  

  could go to a party and dance until two in the morning. Or we could go on ... camera at it. We can take the T to Faneuil Hall, cram ourselves into the ... blues painted on the Boston skyline. And sometimes it gets quiet enough

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 26, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Application dreaming

  

  perspective on the reading, go on over and visit Ben. Shahab commented with ... as part of the application to be reviewed? Will it be interpreted as ... technology, about the possibilities for research to improve society, make the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Grown Up Well, not quite.

  

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 26, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s not fair! ... and why that's OK.

  

  virtually anyone trying to make sense of the college admissions process. In ... situation is probably not going to change. I can't speak to the situations for all the children in the world, but I will give you my take on the

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  on track to great things in the astronomy world. I think that coming to ... success to success to success from the day they were born (I'm pretty sure ... feel low on self-confidence. I'm glad that I learned by the end of Year 1

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

  The Muti Water Project ...is finished!!!

  

  on since my sophomore year. I worked to design and build a longer ... . Several months of delays occurred due to the state of emergency announcement ... children are not sent to fetch water from wells) During the rainy season

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  from putting a firetruck on the Great Dome to subtly sabotaging the ... of January at MIT, and one of the best times to be on campus. IHTFP ... virtually everything, from the buildings to the academic buildings, is

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

  MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )

  

  students try to outcompete each other on the number of units they're taking ... put down an answer to every question on the test, but I had almost all ... % translated to a D+ (the C cutoff was a 52%). Since this was taken on Pass

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] You Have a 50/50 Chance a guest post from my mama

  

  competitive in the end). I tried to balance this stressful atmosphere by allowing her to go to concerts. (Yes, even on a school night.) We would line up at 0400 in the morning on the streets of LA or San Diego for a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dragons A blog post for deferred students (and everybody else waiting on decisions).

  

  didn’t make it. Holding hands on the way to class. Falling in and out of ... to drive with my dad on a two-lane highway, stick shift, farms on ... listening to Taylor Swift and burning strawberries into our guitar the night

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 14, 2014