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• Blog / About Decisions

  As We Approach Decision Day On getting in and on not getting in

  

  . You’ve found something you love. You’ve nerded out on it. You want to keep doing it for the next four years. In fact, you want to keep doing it ... exceed your losses. If you go to MIT, it will take you apart and put you

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 8, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Mark Zuckerberg Visits MIT NBD.

  

  , to that weird, weird group of people. After finding out that my name ... . Zuckmeister seems to fall into the latter category. How Elizabeth Felt After ... we rely on technology despite its gaping holes. I don't mean to take

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  How to look over your application and advice about breathing. My older younger brother is your age. I am fully aware of how much you’re…

  

  of your essays to do this for you, but it doesn’t hurt to do it ... that it is not in my job description to deal with. 3) Read over your ... each part building upon the next. You don’t want it to get repetitive

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the bridges I’ve crossed in Cambridge, ranked my civil engineering hat is off

  

  to Fenway’s House of Blues to catch a concert, a return home after ... enjoy using math and science to construct new things. It is safe to say ... what kind of bridge it is to flex my [annotation note="read: googling

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Why I wasn’t sad to leave MIT On shedding.

  

  and then I’ll swing by to give an update on life from the other side. It’s ... a zillion clubs (it would be indecent to say just how many) and ... lead to becoming narrow-minded. Wasn’t it good to be interested in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bumps, slumps, trips, and … Breaking out of a slump, now with more Cleveland!

  

  going to! I'll start with a picture. It is 2014, and an embarrassment to ... it to you to decide whether that's a subtle or profound change. This ... and I calculated what it'd take to build a raft to ride our couch down

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Masquerading as a Liberal Arts Student The life of an MIT student abroad

  

  environment and it has been immensely beneficial for me to understand the ‘other ... fulfill my wanderlust. While it is great to do MISTI for a summer (they just ... to the realization that I had undertaken more than just an

  • by Becca H. '12
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Gothic You are reading an admissions blog post. You are reading tumblr.

  

  are two more to take its place. Each one has more problems than the last ... help take down a hack. It’s back the next morning. It wasn’t ready to ... a different number on it, but the only companies that will talk to you

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  — making a difference. I’m starting to doubt that it’s possible. You would ... much it used to bother you when people would say that you’re young, but ... .  Maybe, this is a better way to explain it: I am still trying to live up to

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

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

  

  -ish October, each District emails or calls its Finalists to let us know that we ... parts of the process - because it forced me to think critically about my ... (obligatory fun fact), really love parentheses and tend to write/talk too much

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 12, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ten reflections on mit

  

  time to sit back and reflect and then put it all into words in a way that ... -dramatic “senior” solo to end my time in the group. It’s sometimes hard to notice ... . Mandana Sassanfar organized it all. Thanks, Mandana!) To be honest, I don

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 15, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  IHTFParadise – A Journey of Depression at MIT Guest entry by Angelina G.

  

  -nighters. The worst part of it all—I didn’t even know what had happened to me ... 1 am to 5 am every night to work on it. I couldn’t find any other time ... space and time to heal over the cause of my depression. It was Lauren and

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Blogural Inaugural I just wanted to use this title.

  

  Hello, world! (Sorry, I had to. It's the classic "first program" for any new language, and ... ok, fine, it doesn't apply to admissions blogs ... that it's my job to tell you about MIT, the things I do here (or don't do

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  guess my response wasn't very helpful to them. But hopefully it will ... . It's always nice to have someone look over your writing and fix the ... I recently opened my in-box to find an email from someone who "

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  applying to MIT. It’s so easy to become overwhelmed by hearing about the ever ... wanted to study in college, and all of a sudden it was all very REAL. I ... wasn’t my thing, and I really, really want to stress that it’s okay

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Praise Of Holistic Admissions not an admissions machine

  

  didn't mean that it's a place to idly chat with people (although it is ... within it. This leads me to another point I'd like to discuss, which is ... system around "merit", defined, as it always seems to be, by test scores

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Day in the Life Liveblog of my Thursday complete with (not so great) pictures

  

  I decided to share a day of mine too! Quick disclaimer: I thought it ... 's super approachable, kind, and down-to-earth and it turns out we have a lot ... Central Square 12:35pm decide to take the T instead because it's chilly 12

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 15, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  . But it’s more than just famous. To MIT students, it’s a symbol that we ... ’s ring that they had been working tirelessly to create. It’s a time to get ... . Just to give a sense of how crazy and loud it was, here is a video of the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where the Free Things Are A List of Free Opportunities and Tools for Students

  

  start the new year.  But I also want to note that while it might be ... it comes to college applications than trying to do too much of stuff ... Equations. Uses a lot of beautifully crafted visuals in each video to make it

  • by Richard O. '28
  • January 30, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Random Random Projects/Moving Out of Random Randomly zigzagging about until I find myself in the future, somehow no longer in Random.

  

  this year! It's Cthulhu, rising from Rl'yeh to crush the unsuspecting ... it makes perfect sense to build a laser into a lip balm tube. It has a ... forever. 31 hours after we initially intended to be moved out, Cory and I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 13, 2015