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• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  medalist (with an 800) over random applicant X (with a 740), does that mean ... class rank in our application! No, we don't. Then why does this happen ... students with a 750-800 was 15%, it does not mean that the chances of a given

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fig. 6: Eigenverantwortung The time of my life. What responsibilities?

  

  the exchange coordinator buys into that argument.  Drop by the ... come August, but that's future-you problem.  Buy a transport ... .  You've preponed your exams, so buy a return ticket home

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • August 28, 2018
• Blog / Advice

  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  optionality and buying lottery tickets are not way stations on the road to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 22, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tenets or, my only piece of advice for incoming first-years

  

  question of what makes life meaningful] which I fundamentally don’t buy is

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  buying lottery tickets are not way stations on the road to pursuing your

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

  WHY? for people who don't like "no"

  

  (-100 My Parents Can Just Buy Me A Spot At [REDACTED] Points)?  

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Subtle Black MIT Traits A few things I have experienced as a black person at MIT

  

  hair for braids at a beauty supply store, try to buy it at home or

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Grey and Other Colors

  

  needed…), having an awkward conversation with my manager, impulse buying a

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 8, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  ” does not succeed in that one goal. For me, MIT was a golden opportunity ... does not make you anti-social. The tricky part is putting yourself in

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  How to look over your application and advice about breathing. My older younger brother is your age. I am fully aware of how much you’re…

  

  entire application as the you-who-isn’t-you-from-number-2- What does it say about you? Does each part contribute to the bigger picture of you that you

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My Product Design Internship in Austin how to build things: both externally and internally

  

  note="Does it make it sound better if I say drizzled? I think it does ... . How does this battery cover stay locked in without screws? Aha! Because

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • July 26, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Rain by any other name lagi na lang umuulan

  

  different from the rain here. Back at home, if it does rain, it will rain for ... dry, but not quite rain. Tagalog does not have a word for this kind of ... —where the rain does stop. And you'd just never know, because you've never

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 22, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  perspective instead of that one? What does this color bring to the table over ... time with? What does it mean to be friends with people who are no longer dating, who no longer want to be around each other? What does it mean to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  to survive." Mackenzie '17 - "What school you go to does not define ... choose to be does. Any future graduate program, employer, etc who doesn ... that I was admitted off of the waitlist. Remember, one school does not

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Different Voice some words about MIT, by someone who's not me

  

  –this place really does that to you. it wrecks you. it tears you down; makes you

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 24, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  To whom much is given… ...you know the rest!

  

  given much. That does not mean that everyone has received in equal measure

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 13, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Halloween is the best day of the year. Yes, I recognize that it is now closer to Thanksgiving than to Halloween. Sorry.

  

  's RIGHT! She does! BECAUSE THAT'S THE GIRL IN THAT LAST PUMPKIN. Anyway

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “You know what would be cool?” some pizza would be a start...

  

  trivial things, like "Does orange plaid match with a floral green print?" or

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 8, 2009
• Blog / Advice

  Words of Advice for the Incoming Class you did it! now what?

  

  we are trying something new! if you'd like to consume this blog in video format watch the video down below. this video does have subtitles ... easier to you than it does to for others at MIT. A lot of you may have come

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab How to lose a phone in 90 seconds

  

  that our lab does is really related to anything the Echo can do, and they ... reassuring "How does this work again?", Larry turned the drone on. He flew the

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015