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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  when it came time to apply to college, MIT was naturally on the list, and ... ; it had the advantage of feeling like a friend I'd grown up with. If the ... about the job - and consider that it's possible to write a post in half an

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  17 Things I’ve Learned in the Past Year growing, growing, grown

  

  because it’s an of-the-moment thing that seems important to know, but it was ... all the members of the class to teach the material to each other. It ... —this year, I finally came to terms with the fact that I get tired if I

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  kill yourself with homework if you really want to try and emulate what it ... That phrase is probably the most uttered string of words I hear. It ... Science to Student Life, the best way to get free food and every tangent in

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

  Guest Entry: Christina Bognet Supplemental materials to help you through the next few days.

  

  ," moments. It was difficult to decide whether optimism or pessimism was the ... how it ever got to the point where I put so much emphasis on a place ... silly. The truth is, and maybe you can't see this yet, it's going to be

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 8, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  can apply to their husbands' underwear.") You get the idea. If you don ... centrifugal force. It's the force that makes you slam your head into the car ... swing outward. In general, if you ride around in a circle, you feel the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Into the Smoke In more ways than one.

  

  , of course, if they think you can read it). And, the sidewalks are lined ... Aviv's Ben-Gurion International Airport. It was just past six in the ... ever been before. Coming to terms with the fact that this would be my

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting for Decision Day In which I give a pep talk of sorts (with a little help from my…

  

  nervous prefrosh. I hope you like it! If you're curious, here is the Ze ... 't stick exactly to all of the words, but you'll get the gist of it. Best of ... . If you’re deferred, it’s not the end of the road. Recollect, continue

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Midsemester Night’s Dream Technically an All-Nighter's Dream, but hey, close enough

  

  absolutely worth the time. It took me until 5:37 AM to finish 18.02, much ... stressed I am, or how much work MIT is, or how to handle it, because I ... 3, my floor, seems to like movies. It’s how we relax. Our floor lounge

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Adulthood Boom!

  

  Sorry if this is just a rehash of my Grown Up post from last year. January seems to be the month to be sentimental and reflect upon the impending doom delightful adventure of aging.

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 14, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Random Ceiling Tiles The ceilings of Random Hall and a friendly message.

  

  :59 tomorrow. If you're on the fence, I have one small bid to make you fall in ... the path you choose gets difficult, it will be very helpful to rekindle the assurance and sense of purpose that drove you to follow it. Do it

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 30, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parametric Cooking how i make fifty plus recipes with just three!

  

  cooking, if you just take the time to make your model right. I find recipes ... "]basics of cooking,[/annotation] but it's very easy to get caught up in the ... , it can be hard to know what's good and what works. If you try your hand

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 30, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  some warmth on a cold decisiony day "there have been times that I thought I couldn't last for long / but now…

  

  to be reminded, it is that time of year: the time when tensions run ... , how it would feel to be rejected so that the emotion wouldn't come as a ... extracurriculars. On my way to the first one, I realized I just couldn't do it. I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  everyone, even if they belong here. The best we can do is try to build a ... formula. It’s like trying to explain poetry using calculus. It would take the human component out of it, which is perhaps the most important part

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 16, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Stove-Cook Your Oatmeal and Never Look Back To not-admitted applicants and anyone who knows anything about fuses.

  

  pathogens. (If I were cooler, it would be good to actually replace the broken ... motivation behind applying to MIT, chase it. Don’t let the switch of a single ... ’d imagine belongs to two MIT grads and a master’s student:   Here, on the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 19, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Search of Answers Seeking recommendations, rather than providing them...

  

  institution)? If you have, I’d love to hear about it in the comments section ... admitted to the class. Even though they are certainly right, I am quick to ... of people who make up the admission staff. It is the collective wisdom

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT Underwear Exposé (and Sorting Hat) The coolest data you never wanted to have.

  

  and the Sorcerer’s Stone to reread it, after reading a particularly ... supplemental tables at the end of this blog post if you would like to perform ... (if you’re on a tablet) to see each color on its own. There is a sad

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Application dreaming

  

  as part of the application to be reviewed? Will it be interpreted as ... technology, about the possibilities for research to improve society, make the ... , this is a paraphrase):   "MIT is not a good place to be if you don

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thank you for reading A rigorous study of 26-year-olds (n=1) showed that getting older is positively correlated to the…

  

  never get to hang out with Beyonce? Ugh, it's all terrible. Back in the ... when it comes to losing the most important person in your life, there is ... every day and will continue to do so for the rest of my life. But it has

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “So what are you majoring in?” *sweats nervously*

  

  money to give in exchange.” It’s dehumanizing subsets of people to the ... for the beauty of it, but I recognize math as a tool to be used in ... , if I can handle it. Then there are the random engineering disciplines

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Burton 1 Social Club This Thanksgiving, I'm thankful for my ridiculous, hilarious, amazing floor.

  

  missing the floor Halloween party). It's a fantastic place to come home to ... like you've chosen the right one - it's fairly easy to change, since ... even in all the dorms at MIT. Yeah, I said it. BURTON 1 FREAKIN' ROCKS

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 19, 2007