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  Applying Sideways How to get in to MIT.

  

  in between over the course of a few days. I visited big high schools ... to a thousand-person MIT revival in an Atlanta auditorium. Whenever I ... say. What makes someone stand out in your pool?, others ask. But these

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  Express, I'm in short sleeves. A few minutes ago, I got up to stretch my ... most other places. In fact, I'm wearing the 2014 Rush shirt for my dorm ... yet there's a common kinship. I am awestruck by how many stories I can

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015
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  Boomeranging The day before classes start is Registration Day. It’s also the day we welcome readmitted…

  

  can’t imagine me ever being unable to force myself out of bed in the ... coming to an end, and then I’m out the door, in the sun, walking across ... tablecloths, or no tablecloths at all – but I can’t be sure. After you come back

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  . When it comes to baseball I'm a converted sabremetrician. In the natural world, I believe in the scientific method, which is to say I believe in ... analytical theory for a moment and ground what I'm saying in some concrete

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  decisions came out. I could get 1 bar of wifi on my phone in one corner of the ... a lot of fun. In the car on the way home I pulled out my phone to ... Japanese keyboards that were really hard to figure out. When I saw I got in

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

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  grasping. I soaked it all in and confirmed that MIT was for me. I was ... engineering major. Given my interest in the major I was curious to hear about ...  from juggling things that I would be unable to get out of bed for hours, unable to

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015
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  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Semester 1 fantastic dishes and how to cook them

  

  cj: it turns out that people in my hall like making guest posts so ... in character for jacky don’t worry"][/annotation] I admit that my ... exposure to American food has mostly been limited to what I can acquire

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 8, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every now and then, my mind = blown. Thanks, Science!

  

  getting around to that. But in the midst of my magnet research, I stumbled ... have UBER simplified some genetics concepts in this explanation. I want ... offending hardcore geneticists out there, or if I breezed over some of the

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 11, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bursting the MIT Bubble 1.0 things to do in Downtown Boston

  

  tea shops to choose from, with the best prices in town (although I still ... Faneuil Hall in the winter.    Boston Harbor I saw the ocean for the first ...  "How Do Braces Work?" The complete Season 3 of Science Out Loud can be found

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  There Is No Formula A formula would take the human component out of our process, which is perhaps the…

  

  our applications. It’s not anything I can explain – you just know when ... .) Here’s an equally important message: I saw the “perfect match” in a bunch ... , there is nothing I can say here to make this fact easier to digest. But

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 16, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hilbert’s Third Problem (A Story of Threes) Holy mathematics, Batman! Math at MIT, and why we need calculus to define volume.

  

  -depth explorations of the topics of our final presentations. In 18.304, I got to ... , biology, and mathematics—and I’ve also had to take courses in physics and ... the very start I wrote with the dual purpose of turning in and posting

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2015
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  A Fireside Chat with President Sally Kornbluth get to know our president!

  

  friends, and political drama TV shows? I didn’t know any of this.  In fact ... row in the same direction. People and projects can be grouped into ... society.  She also wants to be involved in students’ lives. I don’t think

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 13, 2024
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  On Escaping An introspective vlog about MIT and getting ready to leave

  

  I have five different takes of this video that were scrapped before I finally figured out what I wanted to say. I think that's how this semester is going, though. I'm working on so many different types of projects

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 2, 2015
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  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  .112 lecture in 10-250" or "I have three psets due every week this semester and it's really hosing" or even "I'm doing a UROP in Course 7" don't mean ... showcase this phenomenon of "speaking in MITese," because I personally feel

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Diversity or Merit? false questions, false answers

  

  There's something I've been mulling over in my head for a long time ... . When I'm on the road, or in an information session, or online in various ... at MIT. Now obviously "preparation" is in some sense a range. You can

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 13, 2011
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  My blogger bio over time what does it take to get to know someone?

  

  taste in music, and I can tell you about all my favorite artists. Maybe ... , you can see above that I'm in Courses 18 and 6-3, which are Mathematics ... I've changed my bio, which you can view on my author page, once every

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 26, 2023
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  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  intelligence research. I hope we can become as strong a leader in identifying and ... , ranging from 1994 all the way back to 1934! In this post, I've embedded the ... striking old-timey scenes I found. In total there's around 2.5 hours of

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020
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  10 reasons why MIT is beautiful if I do say so myself.

  

  ending. (3) Because in between classes, I might eat lunch in Killian ... sailing photos, but I'm not confident enough in my abilities to bring ... engineering can be colorful: ^from 2.008 Design and Manufacturing II.  I

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 22, 2014
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  How to Make Money at MIT for all of us who don't know how to make a startup :(

  

  As someone who is notably not a millionaire, I started working in ... , in the random and subjective order I thought of them/was told about them. Note #1: I have of course not worked all of the following jobs in

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 4, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Application dreaming

  

  majoring in BME. I am a published poet in my country. Should I send my book ... "diverse" or "confused about goals"?   In the past week, I have read ... 're excited about. While I was in California in early October, I started to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2004