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• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s not fair! ... and why that's OK.

  

  for all the children in the world, but I will give you my take on the ... selection process that students initiate by applying for admission in the ... for all. I grew up in Florida. The state is flat. There are no mountains

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” and other ways to improve your test scores

  

  testosterone and differences in brain wiring in capacity for spatial thought. It ... higher capacity for spatial reasoning than females. A large-scale 1995 meta-analysis found that on average, men outperform women in a cluster of tests related

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions advice from someone who’s been there

  

  living in Switzerland, I didn't really have a social life outside of work ... discovered these, for better or for worse, but I'm sure that most have not ... getting in were, or who posted their very high SAT scores and then asked if

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  , Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays. On Wednesdays, I may drop in for office ... school in the MIT area to observe and assist with a STEM class for ... frustrating, for I still haven’t found the optimal waiting spot on the platform

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The Great Wifi Outage of 2007 Burton-Conner's wifi went out two days ago; Evan will tell you more by the end…

  

  a good GPA is an important factor in applying for grad schools (I ... in this area), I'll guess that it's probably similar to applying for ... pretty freakin expensive). But don't send in waivers or requests for them

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  recruit volunteers. It's Thursday, March 5th. I'm in a meeting for ... of our thoughts in a post-mortem, and leave it for the next CPW ... which I attended in 2018 and was a counselor for in 2019. Along with a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Painting by number The anti-formula

  

  generated by pbnify.com[/caption] In a rant post many years ago, I referenced ... seek ways to unlock the secret formula to secure admission. For starters, I can not argue with the logic of trying to discover the formula for

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

  señoritis navigating work/life balance - and spring break photos

  

  above and ended up in puerto rico with my sorority sisters for spring ... i participated in my last admissions telethon early last week! it was ... student? it's no secret that coming to MIT is signing yourself up for

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 28, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Essay: Yogurt Edition! You like froyo? I like froyo! ^___^V

  

  money in application fees, counselors get mad at you for making them work ... a picture for your audience. Personally, I liked telling stories in ... reader to think about. For example, classics in world literature rarely

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to Make Money at MIT for all of us who don't know how to make a startup :(

  

  Admissions Office for an official meeting (with INTENSE snacking involved). In ... requests, people in the community needed a college student for literally ... As someone who is notably not a millionaire, I started working in

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 4, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Upside Down Gnomes From Wisconsin Always look up.

  

  bathroom except for the full-length mirror leaned against the wall in front ... isn't always predictable in a class with more than 200 students. I fell behind in in 6.854 in the first week of the semester and never caught up

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 26, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Things Wot I Did Whilst Studying at MIT A tale told in pictures (and someone else's words).

  

  are done, my grades are in, I've nothing to do but work 40 hours a week before my eligibility for student employment runs out, and I vaguely recall ... regrets in life is that I didn't take more pictures in college. My excuse

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 27, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Iron Man, MIT ‘87 (?) After 21 last month, another MIT movie.

  

  finger in both pictures? Iron Man with a Brass Rat! Having Iron Man, a.k.a. Tony Stark, be an MIT alum got me interested in the movie ... .   In the movie version, they say that Stark graduated "

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  appropriate for our student body with its extraordinary diversity in interests ... Preface In the process of moving our office from its inaugural location on the Infinite Corridor to its new home in the MIT Welcome Center

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bye (for now)

  

  that care for each other in an environment that also has a reputation for ... i graduated! *confetti noises* i took a semester off back in 2015 ... spring, i finished my last semester of undergrad in the dead of winter. i

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 12, 2018
• Blog / Advice

  parallel universe for those feeling dejected

  

  Text transcript: Many times this semester, I felt disappointed in ... , except for the wet sheen of dejection, weighing upon you alone. But - look ... elsewhere, if only for a few hours; one where a weekend trip with friends

  • by Kai V. '25
  • December 19, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some More Pi Day Facts and Advice You thought all that was over, didn't you?

  

  , no matter where you are going. This is a video for pre-frosh in general, not just for MIT. College is a weird place, so I hope you can gain some

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 23, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking the L On "failure" at a place like MIT.

  

  of everyone...except for people in the front row. These people know the ... recommends a math course for you. Your advisor is also informed of this ... textbook a lot of Psets are done through. I did well in Calc BC in high

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Defying That Sinking Feeling On learning to swim and envisioning success

  

  On my application for MIT, I made it a point to mention that I couldn't swim. Not because I wanted to come off as that kid who had done well in AP classes and participated in extracurriculars but still didn't know

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  sea glass turbulent waves in these parts

  

  submission in this blog. [annotation note="well it's actually been two weeks at ... a bit before throwing it out there for the internet to judge."]Last week[/annotation] I got back [annotation note="how the process for the

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 5, 2022