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• Blog / Admissions

  No Chance Why "chance" sites like AdmissionSplash are Bad Things.

  

  students how likely it is that they will be admitted to each school on their ... volunteer or play sports. It then uses an algorithm to give users a ... selective colleges, is really tough. It's hard to know how to gauge your

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Have Never Been to Beijing A (loose) translation of the previous post written in Chinese

  

  thought it was wonderful, and would often repeat the phrase to myself, “we ... was a lovely phrase, and would often repeat it to myself, saying “we are ... sentence was wrong. I should have corrected it to “sorry, I was born

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  señoritis navigating work/life balance - and spring break photos

  

  was about work/life balance—is it stressful to balance everything at MIT ... student? it's no secret that coming to MIT is signing yourself up for ... break! it is always tempting to take an extra day or week to cram in more

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 28, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 things I love about MIT and hopefully you'll learn to love them too.

  

  and now it’s time to decide which offer to accept. As a senior blogger ... always bond over how much work that they have to do. It’s an instant conversation starter. I’m surprised that the song, "It sucks to be me," isn

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Diversity or Merit? false questions, false answers

  

  process: When we admit a class of students to MIT, it's as if we're choosing ... matter. For college to be worth it. If all you want to do is learn stuff ... this: when it comes to each applicant, we are not looking for merit or

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

  senioritis not to be confused with señoritis

  

  out, mumbling that it would be worth it compared to the other work i had ... i never really had senioritis in high school—it was probably the surprising amount of momentum behind me, but i don't think i managed to pull

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 10, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If man is five Then most people are six, and if most people are six then pre-meds are seven.

  

  Engineering?" It's funny, because I remember going to a choice of major fair in ... conflicting times and few prerequisites), it's actually not too difficult to ... it's going to be because your molybdenum tris-anilide compounds aren

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  0.125 not a course 0 class, but a fraction complete

  

  how to cook! Or it might be more accurate to say I learned how to learn how to cook. It turns out that cooking, unlike baking (where I had far ... healthy, I can start figuring out how to help myself achieve it every night

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 4, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  get SLAPped! it doesn't hurt

  

  to be notified about every single event on campus"]deleted it ... , not the original, otherwise i wouldn't even want to breathe on it -- but it's still SO COOL. i brought it to the entrance to fill out paperwork

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 21, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  endeavors. She is proud of MIT and how it can provide real solutions to ... to immerse herself in completely new cultures and environments. It ... Kornbluth, and it makes me excited to see our president taking the initiative

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brief Wondrous Lives A little too much thinking brought to you by four in the morning.

  

  across it in red. I am lucky to still be alive, having brought my spoon ... am not my disease' ad? How difficult is it to maintain an autonomous ... what field they would devote their life to because it’s all they’ve ever

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Sunrise, Sunset An MIT-Israel student shares his day

  

  here in Israel) is something that forces you to stop. It can be frustrating if you want to go do, but it’s a nice excuse to just be. Ben ... want to do when they get out. It means that the MISTI kids are precisely

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  outlets, because in addition to being a positive human-interest piece it ... New York Times about the college admissions process, it is hard for me to deny just how much of a curmudgeon I have become. I’m pretty sure

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  it,” he said. I used to feel that way about my social life, sometimes ... to actively exclude me, but sometimes it feels like that anyway. But ... taking things slowly, it’s hard to go slower than nature. There are

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Are people on the East Coast friendly? An entry especially for those from the Midwest.

  

  , and it is plenty friendly. As for Boston though, it might help to share ... city to increase community spirit. It was nighttime, and colorful lights ... an idea of what to expect. Boston is a city, and it can be a little

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 21, 2010
• Blog / Advice

  finding place

  

  same time, it was a hard semester for me due to all the life changes of ... 't have the capacity to make it happen unless they do. At the end of fall ... lot of effort sometimes though! It means you mostly have to interact

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • April 7, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  graduate. September 2019 What does it take to get to know someone? I could ... camera at it. We can take the T to Faneuil Hall, cram ourselves into the ... 2020 What does it take to get to know someone? I could tell you that I

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

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

  

  , once put it, “If you have to pause, for more than a second or two, to ... ability to check multiple boxes should make it easier to identify one's race ... . While I try to avoid being overly cynical, it has been my sense that very

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

  Gee, my life’s a funny thing Remembering the bills I have to pay, or even yesterday.

  

  help. Basically, it's hard just to walk down the street at MIT without ... , but you really need to realize how cool it is. Talking to some of my ... to the cemetery where Jim Morrison is buried because we had an hour to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some More Pi Day Facts and Advice You thought all that was over, didn't you?

  

  you will all enjoy it! It is a bit belated, but all the footage was taken on pi day, so it's still a pi day video! Good luck to all you 2019s ... insight from these experienced college-ers. You made it! Happy Springtime :)

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 23, 2015