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• Blog / About Decisions

  To the Deferred I feel your pain.

  

  choreographed a dance of my own, and how it felt to grow up in New Zealand. My dad ... page and this paragraph: When we admit a class of students to MIT, it ... was a bit different from this year's. There were two short answer

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  An Open Letter to MIT Applicants Don’t Panic (and know where your towel is)

  

  get in (‘Reach,’ ‘Comfort,’ and ‘Safety’) with a breakdown of ... wanted to study in college, and all of a sudden it was all very REAL. I ... towards the college search process. I hoped to get in somewhere, but I

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  to present-day commentary of what i can remember)—metaphorical pages in ... ="I participated in a writing contest, submitting a short Percy Jackson fanfic. It ... for a STEM camp. I wanted a way to keep in touch with these people that

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  self arrives to campus, you’re given a booklet with pages and pages of ... , they come with a price tag of your time and an expectation for them to be ... . You get an empty, sinking feeling in your stomach, and you wonder if you

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Axes of Confusion ????

  

  in. We initially chose 21E to get a taste of both CMS and 6 to try to ... everything in between! Here is a diagram to slightly better (but definitely not ... dedicate all our efforts into trying to get a storyboarding job, or another

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 21, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  What I Did in High School in the actual sense of the phrase

  

  bit silly; to always go out of your way. A lot has changed in my life ... one way to be a living human person in high school and end up at MIT ... ’t understand. It took a bit of time for me to start working as hard as I did in

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj

  

  you're going to get a shot. —Robo-CJ another Disney live action reboot ... spend your whole life doing what you love, but you also get to make a lot ... -industrial complex. —a01 getting a job with Google. You're getting a lot of value from

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  So Chance Me Maybe? Hey! I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my SAT...

  

  was a competition, in which the applicants strove to cast themselves in ... getting admitted, then to actually dream of getting admitted. Like a cheesy ... needed to get serious about applications very, very soon, so I hopped on

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choosing Your Own Adventure and other things you can do when you live off campus

  

  's nice to get a break in the middle of the school day where I can truly ... tuning back out every once in a while to make sure I don't get hit by a car ... you walk down the street, you get to a point where you're under

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab How to lose a phone in 90 seconds

  

  island in an ocean, but it’s going to start with me at a desk in an office ... , so I asked [our group director] to get a couple.” And thus I learned ... is never in short supply. My group catered lunches to our group

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Advice

  Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me

  

  think you’re supposed to. A PhD, in particular, does not always lead to a career in academia, a higher salary, an ability to better help people, a ... contributing to your 401K; a fire that’ll help you answer the existential “what

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  other words, to become cognitively exhausted, in the way that when I was a ... because it's initially hard to detect, because, in a corollary of the ... too much choice, so I set it aside until I could get to a point of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  not originally intended as a blog; I just wanted to get my thoughts out ... that I could afford to fuck up in math, I could relax for a whole year of ... it because I want to learn as much as I can in a limited period of time

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  The Great Wifi Outage of 2007 Burton-Conner's wifi went out two days ago; Evan will tell you more by the end…

  

  caught the fever and engaged in a vicious and terrible battle to the death ... video. Caution! Mild condiment violence to follow. In case you're ... like to be in a class where I don't know everyone's name, and not

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer…” wherein Neil Armstrong's legacy kicks off a year of Unified Engineering, and I reflect on…

  

  pointed out to me, while many students develop a tangible interest in math ... maybe a dog ironically named Kitty. 6. If I wanted to, I was in a good ... out to fulfill what I could. I found a UROP in the Space Systems Lab and

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 9, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?

  

  would get a job offer in America that would move the whole family. It was ... there was a girl who went to my high school and lived in my neighborhood ... came in to argue a similar thing and they allowed it. The student didn

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to Freshman Days composed in the wee hours of morning

  

  , unreasonable psets. The fight to rise will start in your subconscious. Without ... need to lift a pen and know your name to join a 100 clubs that will send ... . They try to remember their students’ names and passions. We get a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 29, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  Design Services—this copy of the 1973 application to MIT is a 30-page ... to see so many aspects of contemporary MIT reflected in these pages ... making an effort to shine a light on its esteemed programs in the

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Was Sitting Where You’re Sitting Quick! Click here. :D

  

  -height octagonal prism that is soon to be a waterfall of wooden blocks. Meanwhile in ... .” Behind the caution tape two people are having a heart-to-heart in the dip ... : you climb up to the platform like you’re climbing up to a diving board

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Avatar and Desserts Exploring Food Art

  

  to let the reader include a part of themselves in their reading of your ... childhood shows like SpongeBob or Dora. A lot of channels I had access to in ... a conclusion became. In the end, I decided to list all my favorite

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • December 10, 2020