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• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  them to my dad and asked “Does this sound like me?” In my essays, I

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  - but it does mean taking out of your life the things that aren't working

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dragons A blog post for deferred students (and everybody else waiting on decisions).

  

  definitely does not mean rejection. I’ve met so many people here at MIT who

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 14, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  flops every single day, even in the OR. (See, this story does have a happy

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2) My take on the MIT short essays.

  

  that MIT DOES NOT admit on a quota, and you WILL NOT be penalized by

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  student does more harm than good. This is the first year I've gotten to

  • by Snively '11
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice you’ve heard before and a story you haven’t you can just skip to the pictures if you want to, I wont be offended.

  

  . Does this mean I'm not interested in Aero/Astro? I don't know, but I don

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  : Free online resource that does almost everything for 2D design (Like Canva but ... Photoshop does. Great place to develop photo editing skills, create digital

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

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

  

  "]length[/annotation] and [annotation note="who is it used by, and where does it take you ... on this list, this crossing is the only one on my list that does not

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me

  

  think you’re supposed to. A PhD, in particular, does not always lead to a ... look back on really does kind of make sense now. If there's only one

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a freshman year 🦴🧠🩸🖐️🫀 my first year at mit, told through the body

  

  sentiment that instagram does *not* reflect reality, but surrounded by so many ... dimensional scale. so i’ll think about it in terms of growth. a year does not

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ten reflections on mit

  

  IHTFP. [carousel image1="85731" image2="85732" /]   We make fun of the architecture a lot here, but sometimes, MIT really does look nice. Unfortunately, these are not recent photos. No snow lies on this

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 15, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  marketing materials, and even a mysterious [annotation note="Does anyone have

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

  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  schedule does not have enough space for all the classes I want to take. And

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  due tomorrow, and maybe this should worry me more than it does... but if

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Flying Close to the Sun a semester of fire

  

  is given to the author who leads the project and does most of the work

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj

  

  and discover that the real world does not demand every last drop of your

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  non-stop / walang hinto what a mess

  

  limit, but not reaching it, not getting past it. now, it truly does feel

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 8, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  ™. I think I held 4 phones in this time span which looking back does not

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  entirely, but it does get harder to go to grad school. If I decide to go to

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • April 20, 2021