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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Designing MIT for democracy why is MIT so decentralized and chaotic? BECAUSE DEMOCRACY

  

  seeking uni-formity; let us not fail to discern the gifted mind, to foster ... . We believe that the mission of the Institute should be to encourage ... believe the way you teach people to be responsible is to give them

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 19, 2018
• Blog / Advice

  On Trauma, and MIT I’m imagining my high school self, and what I would tell her before coming to…

  

  are. ← Why does there have to be a right choice?” I opened the IDHR ... this is why I need to talk to him. It’s flipping the tables for me to be ... ’s enough. I’m terrified of the future. I’m scared I’m not going to be enough

  • by ana~
  • May 4, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Embracing Change How I came to be a cook in a professional kitchen this summer

  

  ways life would be better if I could just find a cozy nook in the past to ... don’t know why, or exactly when I came to this realization, but the ... my whirlwind of thoughts to this: Why not? Ok, so I skipped a lot of

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 20, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  confronting the self i am the captain of my soul

  

  legitimate worries. cj: but that's not. that's not the point! i was trying to ... likely to fail the second. cj: … dan: just stay with your parents for the ... : to be clear, i didn't know, at the time, that this was my coping

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 30, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  The November Rule 2: Electric Boogaloo the one rule you should not break (take it from me, kids)

  

  , and having the majority of your time be consumed by one person is not ... MIT. and upperclassmen, despite appearing to be at the same maturity ... ="exactly 2 years ago to this day. i am the master of eerie timing"]month into

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 23, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  transferring student culture online virtual rush? it's more likely than you'd think

  

  decided to not include it in the final version of the website... burton ... emotionally taxing. From August 23rd to the 30th, dorms hosted events to introduce frosh to their culture and subcommunities, which was the equivalent

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The Decisions Are Not In The Mail Bad language on MyMIT.

  

  language didn't get updated as it was supposed to. Hopefully this will be ... Hi folks, I see in the comments from my last entry that MyMIT is telling people that decisions have been mailed. I've asked the tech folks to

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Doogie Howser, et al.

  

  . Often, phone calls about this to the Office will be routed to me, since I ... to another district with more opportunities; some will send the student ... decision? Does this student have the emotional and social maturity to be a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  and i try to find my place

  

  tells me I am not. When will it be my turn to finish a pset alone ... put so much stress on myself to be the very best, why must I attain this ... for not being good enough, for not being smart enough and putting in the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 23, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] 8.13 Junior Lab feat. aidan chambers '23

  

  system which is meant to estimate the number of hours you’re intended to be ... table I want to look at the actual structure of this class and why exactly ... additional challenges of this lab proved to be much more difficult than the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  An MIT FAQ Because it's better to laugh at blatant stereotypes than to let them make you angry

  

  -olds -- any analysis which suggests otherwise fails to properly account for the ... might help the admissions committee understand why you're applying to MIT ... Recently, in my wanderings around the internet (that is to say, the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 28, 2005
• FAQ / Transfer

  Does MIT require standardized tests for transfer applicants?

  We require the SAT or the ACT from first year and transfer applicants. Please visit our Tests & scores page for more complete details.
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] 10 Reasons I Joined Rocket Team

  

  involved I could be was how much time and effort I was willing to put in. 3 ... really neat to be able to apply the things I had learned in 3.091 about ... is not exclusive to the upperclassmen. I learn just as much from my own

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 11, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Trip Report: IOI 2015 in Kazakhstan of khans and computer science

  

  , who placed third in the world at IOI and will be arriving at MIT to ... educational (but not political) capital of Kazakhstan, en route to the 27th ... circumstance.   (Note: before I came to MIT, I did not know the ISOs

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The Minerva Delusion the political economy of an educational scam

  

  financial aid available to your best international applicants, you will not be ... 'd be willing to bet the real product is the debt being sold to investors ... think through what some of the answers might be. Question 1: Who will the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 6, 2012
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  pebble. The place you want to be is farther than this, right? That’s why it ... Kentaro Miura) There were many wonderful applicants to MIT this year, which unfortunately means that we had to turn down some great students. For those of you

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  clay crash course one month of wheelthrowing later…

  

  . (One of the many luxuries of IAP is to be able to spend hours just ... centered, as otherwise the resulting pot will be asymmetric and it’ll be a ... handle, to a lopsided cylinder I made back in the first class. [caption id

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • February 10, 2025
• Blog / How to MIT

  Making money: my campus job "Hello, MIT Computing Help Desk, this is Laura, how may I help you?"

  

  it's like to be the person on the other end of the line when you place ... on something not related to mechanical engineering, outside of the labs ... . EDIT: Timur informs me that these pages are not accessible to non

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where are you going, where have you been? The answer is "to a fast food restaurant to blog; to four countries in one…

  

  whole narrative was supposed to be a dream that the main character was having while listening to the radio, but nobody else in the class ... Dreilпњљпњљnderpunkt! My blogging will be a little sparser in the near future because I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 17, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Happy Holidays, and some advice

  

  through the cliche. I'm sure there are some schools, and I'm not going to ... struggled or failed? It's not a trick question, it's to show what you're made of when life's not perfect, because life's not going to be perfect

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 23, 2005