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• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist Wrap-Up 2008

  

  was an extraordinary year across the admissions landscape, with some of ... effects, requiring longer waitlists at many colleges this year. We're glad ... schools for the fall. To those of you who stuck with us on the waitlist

  • by Decisions
  • June 24, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  intention via YearCompass

  

  , community Throw an end of the year retreat with all of my college friends ... Every year, I try to set aside a chunk of time to reflecting on the year. This is usually done in the form of setting New Year's resolutions

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 1, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Lectures I had two ideas for good blog posts, and both were stolen by other bloggers!

  

  colleges. Instead of 1 program, we had 3: two other summer programs joined us ... during the presentations. I was timing all of the college reps to keep them ... Once I was at a fancy banquet-type event, one of the ones where they

  • by Kate R. '14
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Central Ohio Summer Send-Off Event celebrating the Infinite Connection

  

  The first MIT sign appears on the corner of the gracefully named ... . The marker points to the location of the MIT Club of Central Ohio Summer Send-Off Event, a highlight of my August. The welcome from organizers and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Olivia S. ‘20 en Monterrey teaching algorithmic thinking to girls in México

  

  Softtek   Graciás a la University of Monterrey for hosting us on your ... While some of us have spent the first week of freedom from classes ... (likely) pause. Speaking of patterns, Patrones Hermosas or Beautiful

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 4, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Noam Chomsky Talk in 26-100 i still have to send these pictures to amnesty

  

  Amnesty International's MIT Chapter, as a part of their lecture series, hosted Noam Chomsky, an MIT Professor of Linguistics, to talk on the issue of social action within academic institutions. The title of

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 4, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  “Take care of yourself.” "Can you post something positive please?" - my mom

  

  's How I Take Care of Myself at one of the most stressful colleges in the ... participate in to take their mind off of the academic aspect of college and ... trigger warnings for mentions of depression, EDs, and anxiety I don

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 19, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Murals of East Campus i live in an art exhibition

  

  (This is the second half of the Art of East Campus series. The first part can be found here!) My first and lasting impression of the standard college dorm room can be summed up by this picture. This might be because my

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 26, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  Alive and Kicking I kick, therefore I am ~taekwondo~

  

  , maybe try and improve at one of the many sports you know how to play in a ... committing to MIT or any college for the matter. I had a strong desire to ... (tennis)"]organized sports teams/clubs.[/annotation] This hope of exploring

  • by Waly N. '24
  • August 3, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT = Home the excitement of a freshman

  

  ideal college, and now I get to grow here. The speed of the transition ... thus breaks the rules of nature. Like π. It’s college application season ... perfect finish to the college essay. I can almost feel the shivers of the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Reflections from the “other side” of the desk Even when you are gone, you can't really get away

  

  It has only been a couple of months since I left MIT Admissions for a college counseling position in Providence, RI.  While I am no longer an official member of the broader MIT community, I find that it is difficult for

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  News bites from the Institvte A taste of what's happening around campus.

  

  provide some snapshots of MIT: 3/26/07: MIT models interdisciplinary supply chain In the near future, the presence of human colonies on the moon will ... an international team have mapped “one of the largest and most

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 26, 2007
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Intertwined Relationships — for me — have always been about choices.

  

  My sophomore year of high school I ate too many donuts. When I woke ... remember most is thinking about how in two years I would be going to college ... fact of my life now; I’ve made it a joke.  I feel like throwing up, I say

  • by ana~
  • February 14, 2022
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at the Media Lab

  

  decision day, I unexpectedly hear from students to whom we did not offer ... I did here and here, as proof of what I usually say on Pi Day: If you are among the many stellar students to whom we are not offering

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 24, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus & Fierce Forever More questions answered, with a few words about yesterday's Fierce Forever 6.

  

  one of these entries takes up a good deal of time, so I'm sorry that my answers are brief, but I hope that by publishing answers to all of your ... , here's one of the things I missed on campus: Fierce Forever is MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 30, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Hello Blogosphere! My dirty little secret...(I've never taken calculus)

  about my college application process mostly because of a lack of accurate ... about the college process with all of you. I'm incredibly excited to join ... hated science at the back of every one of my classes?" And, well... he

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 8, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  what are we to do? we are not helpless in the face of injustice.

  

  --become the center of the universe." now i am sitting in the grass outside ... the commonness of gun violence in america. we talked. ed bertschinger ... , classmates, students of color. we talked about being white, and we talked about

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 13, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  RainbowFloor@MIT Because at MIT, if it doesn’t have a mailing list, it doesn’t exist. Fact.

  

  of bloggerdom, crowding my blogspace with its inconvenient, road ... amazed, out of my suite kitchen one night, the sound of a cadre of people ... émon approximation of Tim the Beaver. WRONG.However, I digress. What I really meant to

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • October 11, 2010
• Blog / Events

  We Eat At Food Trucks A few may even start their own

  

  event coordinated by Clover Food Lab and MIT’s Department of Urban Studies ... , because Michael covered it fantastically. That's the outside of Clover Food Lab. And this is the inside. Clover Food Lab, which grew out of a

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • March 6, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rambax MIT Goes To Senegal Like Mr. Smith Goes To Washington, except with fewer filibusters and more dancing.

  

  to still take advantage of the incredible opportunities MIT has to offer, although it does mean that people sometimes look at me funny as I ... lots of ceebujen (fish and rice). And I got to film it all happening

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 18, 2012