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• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  it? There is no universal definition. So as it stands, enrollment ... is access, and the standards are specified by the state legislature. If ... university community facilitate that experience, but it all begins with the

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

  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  . Malingap is someone giving me an impromptu tour of East Campus in the middle ... the twenty-minute walk from Next to East Campus, from one end of MIT to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thoughts for the New Year A semester's worth of thoughts, tbh

  

  weeks ago, I joined an a cappella group, and I did wind up living in East

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On identity f(x) = x

  

  in East Campus. I like math, and writing, and coding. The trouble is ... surrounded by people who excel in every corner of the universe, and no longer

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  N.Y. Times, Page B11: “MIT Guard Shows Brains and Hoops Can Mix” Jimmy Bartolotta '09 leads the 16-5 MIT Men's Varsity Basketball team.

  

  as an all-State player at Heritage High School in Littleton, Colo., where he drew recruiting attention from Division II universities and a ... hardest. Anderson tried to sell him on the university’s academic excellence

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 6, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  before states. Dreaming about nationals. Crying on the bus home when we ... so many wonderful universes around and within me, that college ... lives won’t be dragons that a college degree could help with, and I am

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

  Random Random Projects/Moving Out of Random Randomly zigzagging about until I find myself in the future, somehow no longer in Random.

  

  Hall but I’m typing it from a fancy but empty apartment in East Cambridge

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 13, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  My College Essay Early Action / November 2005. ~500 words await.

  

  East Side, I’ve adjusted well to low-income living. Stuyvesant High

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Solar Car Pulled Over The MIT Solar Car Team got in a little trouble.

  

  Auburn Street when a state trooper pulled them over for not displaying a ... Austin, TX, make its way through the Plains states/breadbasket provinces

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 1, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Application dreaming

  

  , in the comments section. Not the same few colleges: Arizona State University in Tempe, AZ. I visited here for the first time this summer, and I

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

  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  , which is not in grocery stores in the east apparently?? "]Tapatio ... reach Sheepwash, a town with four streets -- East Street, South Street ... been barred from her university campus due to Coronavirus. I had been

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.

  

  , and the varying degrees in between. I always recommend driving (or ... Transportation Secretary Ray Lahood's new policy, which states that "walking and ... states and municipalities competing for federal highway funds to include

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2010
• Blog / Advice

  The Art of Juggling please take away my balls

  

  ball was failure, stating that I wasn't good enough to complete what I ... hobbies that made myself me. My permanent state was a state of stress ... probably won't make it, so you have to assign degrees of importance. Drop the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 23, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s Not Me, It’s You How to kiss goodbye to a school that rejected you

  

  , the linchpin in the formation of the United States of America. Worked ... motivation to apply to a great school like MIT or any other top university, you ... university, for some reason or another, is not recognizing what you have to

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 29, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Putting Diversity into Context The diverse ways that colleges and universities define diversity

  

  this to be true, but most students are unwilling to state this outright ... wrong area. Many colleges and universities value multiple forms of ... college or university because they are likely to both take advantage of the

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  took me around the East Campus dorm (motto: “the weak shall be eaten ... this--I found East Campus pretty terrifying as a prefrosh. So did a few

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Some Advice Sometimes I wish I could tell freshman-me that everything's going to be okay

  

  train to visit friends at other East Coast schools or a flight to another ... the East Coast, in Massachusetts, right now. So try and act like a

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  University in Toronto ("The social life of donuts: Commodity and community in postwar Canada") The Kansas and Colorado State Boards of Education ("for ... to applaud in public" and the Belarus State Police for "arresting a one

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Chose MIT On deciding where to go, now that you're in

  

  senior year of high school at the Penn State Schreyer Honors College as an ... years. At Penn State I was at least a year younger than everyone in my ... . I didn't relate to the predominant culture of the university, and I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to Freshman Days composed in the wee hours of morning

  

  in East Campus waiting for me. In 30 days, I will fill it as a wide

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 29, 2015