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• Blog / About Decisions

  25 Stories of Getting Accepted to MIT told by students and alums

  

  field, but not enough speed to load my decision before the server timed ... .  We had a snow day and when I called my grandmother to tell her, she ... eat the ice cream to celebrate; if I did not, I would eat the ice cream

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  amount of knowledge on the subject they need to have in order to field your ... It wasn't like I meant to do it. I was late for recitation, and I ... unknown to the universe I went for the front door, all while my TA just

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

  [Guest Post] How to Build a Three Story Fort by Zack I. '27

  

  had past experience lining soccer fields and introduced us to the method ... I've had all kinds of feelings about returning to MIT as staff a ... first got to the office, our information sessions even showcased a picture

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 1, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes I Won’t Be Able to Take also "What Is Pre-Registration?"

  

  try to explain: Pre-registration opens very early, and regular ... will have to complete an add-drop form if you want to make any changes ... to take and helping the administrators figure out how popular classes

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 23, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  to Aristotle and the field of virtue ethics as a whole, and much of the ... Act I: A (Probably Flawed) Introduction to Aristotle Although I ... ; often used as a noun or verb to refer to specific UROP positions

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  location on the Infinite Corridor to its new home in the MIT Welcome Center ... century, [annotation note='According to MIT Libraries, the MIT Admissions ... Corridor. A copy of the MIT Bulletin from 1930 makes reference to the

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

  Queer at MIT, but not on the blogs the map is not the territory, but it's getting closer

  

  . Calculating safety tolerances on your wooden rollercoaster to industrial ... to a need with which many other bloggers past and present concurred ... way to blog? Maybe like creating a profile that any blogger can use when

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  decided to throw it up here mostly unedited (meaning, excuse all the typos ... lecture at 11, so I rush to get ready at 9:45, going through the motions of ... try to figure out where my lecture hall is. It’s in a room I’ve never

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  non-stop / walang hinto what a mess

  

  happened. it’s as if the entire month has just been in my head. to be fair ... ata gustong manalo Wala na ’to Pareho lang tayong malabo i’ve been ... refusal to reflect on what is happening in my life, but it is impossible to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 8, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  everything i made this year (mostly)

  

  working in a more technical field first to build up savings, or working in an adjacent field to build up life and work experience. And of course ... to push any of them over the finish line, mostly due to lack of time

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 1, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  happened to go into a field that my parents are very well acquainted with ... To the class of 2016 - My name is Jess, and I graduated in 2010 ... improbably old. According to science (and by science I am obviously referring

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

  The Thong I Should Be Wearing [UPDATE] Sexy sexy undies.

  

  in the comic strip, Alex, had to decide which college to go to. She was accepted to several tech schools and the comic strip writer decided that he'd leave it up to a vote to decide where she went. He put up an online poll

  • by Snively '11
  • November 1, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  : "So where do you go to school?" ME: "Oh, I go to school in Boston." HIM: "Do you go to Harvard?" ME: "No!" HIM: "MIT?" ME: "Yes..." HIM: "Funny how Harvard and MIT kids always tell people that 'they go to school

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  , and Kenneth ‘19, to talk about their experiences as members of historically Black Greek letter organizations. My goal is to illustrate that ... label that refers to nine historically African American Greek

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Really Just Cannot Write Anymore of My Thesis I wish I can bang out essays like blog entries.

  

  Hello MIT blogs! I love blogging. I applied to be a blogger on whim ... still seems to be around from the batch that got selected with me on that ... be working on my thesis instead, so I stop blogging and revert to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  Picture this. You’re trying to shuffle past a gaggle of camera ... , then return to their conspiratorial whispering. Before you think up a ... ’t have to tell me about that. I knew it. Hours spent fixated on a problem

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

  Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!

  

  2, lived on the infamous Conner 2, played on the varsity field hockey ... ! In celebration of the 10 year anniversary of the blogs, I'm back to tell you about my life after MIT.  But in order for me to properly tell

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Reading aka inhaling all the books i can before school starts

  

  ’s posts from past summers - as she wrote, “sometimes MIT students like to do ... this year’s cohort of students applying to MIT to know that as well! If ... writing phase in middle and high school. I eventually moved on to RPG video

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Riri Williams Pi Day Video Behind the scenes of an extraordinary three minutes!

  

    Chris asked to meet with me last fall, in late September. We ... video,” he said, “I basically want to make a two-minute trailer for the ... (and/or don’t particularly follow Marvel), Chris was referring to the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)

  

  , and try to level the playing field accordingly (I can't remember where I ... school because of its arbitrarily bureaucratic hoops. To give you an idea ... time) to respond with "Stick it to the Man" when people asked what he

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013