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• Blog / About Decisions

  Diversity or Merit? false questions, false answers

  

  principle from which to derive a conclusion: Oh, [that student] did / did not ... is comparatively much less prepared than a student who has. But there ... process: When we admit a class of students to MIT, it's as if we're choosing

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

  21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye

  

  . I realized I needed to sleep, so I ate a little more, and made it back ... paradoxical need to preserve their happiness. And how much truth should ever be ... , scrubbed diligently, transferred to the rinse bucket, then pegged to a

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  it is really like to spend your days here. Linked below are a few ... to burn out as a student at MIT? Here's a Quora answer about being ... . My parents were pressuring me to be a premed and become a doctor (like

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  on since my sophomore year. I worked to design and build a longer ... as a side effect, it is also much safer than an open cavity, which is ... included) need oxygen, and you can’t find much oxygen as you progress lower

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

  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  This next week and a half promises to be electrifying. We’re on the ... about me, about MIT, and about why I haven’t talked to you in a month ... professor about a class presentation. “Cory,” I said to my boyfriend, “nobody

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the blogs at twenty some reflections, plus an index of posts

  

  week, we (belatedly) celebrated by asking a bunch of former bloggers to ... their entries from most to least crufty: It’s been a long road… by ... I may have been accepted to MIT, but by Snively '11 That rings a

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hard MIT Class ...or is that redundant? And yes, hiiiiii.

  

  too busy trying not to drink too much chlorine. Ultimately, on a purely ... Picture this. You’re trying to shuffle past a gaggle of camera ... , then return to their conspiratorial whispering. Before you think up a

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Advice From The Elderly My last blog entry, at least from this chapter.

  

  Tuesday night, when I needed a friend the most. She introduced me to the boy ... to get us where we need to go, and I quickly learned at MIT, a few ... to Science Magazine, who published a study on my expected lifespan in

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Grey and Other Colors

  

  like planning a trip would take so much time and energy. I didn’t start ... moving to a new place, falling in and out of love with SF, trying to stay ... 3 AM in a cold sweat that things have to change. This is an attempt at

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 8, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Painting by number The anti-formula

  

  , generally the best that it can aspire to be is a convincing counterfeit, which ... probably need to keep looking. Try new things. Keep investigating and ... simply sufficient.  Don’t limit yourself by asking what do I need to do

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 2, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parents, Please Read Prefrosh and students, read this too, and make sure to have a discussion with your…

  

  pressure on their children to succeed and to get A's. While it's wonderful to ... student does more harm than good. This is the first year I've gotten to ... $50,000 a year to pay for tuition. As such, parents want to see that

  • by Snively '11
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  handed me a stack of poker chips. “Use these to place bets.” She gestured ... -actualization when one could listen to podcasts wirelessly? A few minutes later, I was ... towards some inevitable death. Game over. I handed my poker chips to a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  wrong, I knew I didn’t need to. A different perspective leads to different ... self arrives to campus, you’re given a booklet with pages and pages of ... something with a pile of Legos that seemed to reach my knees. Knowing no one

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The end of a chapter

  

  was in desperate need of some de-stressing) then came back to Cambridge to pack my whole life there into 4 suitcases, attend a May ball and say ... geeky, but it’s truly a fantastic feeling to understand the biological

  • by Linh V. '13
  • July 8, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Entry About Snow ...Even though we don't have any

  

  used as a metaphor for life, and that it's highly unoriginal to come up ... quite as much as I love DUSP. But still, it's a lot). So when I found out that a snowboarding PE course existed over IAP, I jumped at the chance to

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 11, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Today I hit my TA with a door I didn't MEAN to.

  

  need to give different ones a shot, and you need to find which one fits ... : being brilliant in a subject does, by no means, translate to being a good ... up there because I'd attended a couple other sections and found his to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 7, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  . You don’t know how to get back down. You finish a problem set. There ... 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 / Best of the Blogs

  [Group Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Survivors three bloggers face the horrors of public transit

  

  and skills—ranging from puzzle-making to set design—to put on a spooky ... friends was even a cast member two years ago), but I was always too lazy to ... a slot this year, I had no excuse not to sign up. I really enjoy

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reaffirming our commitment to diversity in uncertain times

  

  attention to the class of 2028 and beyond, I want to take a moment —  alongside President Kornbluth — to reaffirm our commitment to diversity in a ... on desktop (or tap, on mobile) to see a related annotation on the right

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 7, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  and went to grad school I thought I had figured a lot of things out, in ... . Tackling a focused question can lead to a remarkably expansive adventure ... worked out the physics of shockwaves and high-energy collisions on a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020