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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  because I liked to read the blogs. A few years later, I spent a summer in ... about the job - and consider that it's possible to write a post in half an ... I'm sitting at the kitchen table in my London flat; my sister Lisa

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  señoritis navigating work/life balance - and spring break photos

  

  ? what if there is too much work? what if i want to just be a crazy college ... little bit of time every day to have to yourself—the unsatisfying answer is ... into MIT. but i think the trick is to define what the "life" part of

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 28, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  non-stop / walang hinto what a mess

  

  happened. it’s as if the entire month has just been in my head. to be fair ... if my body is being pulled apart in different directions. yet at the ... refusal to reflect on what is happening in my life, but it is impossible to

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

  I am a sad sad toaster made of glass. Do you like your toast with tears? Because I'm sad.

  

  go to the Concert in Bad Taste. Or go on the Burton-Conner boat cruise ... sleep. On the floor. Because I had to go to German in 40 minutes, and ... . And the point is that I'm going to miss this, because problem set

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Brief History of Cars on Fire at MIT You didn't think I would miss an anniversary, did you?

  

  If you're the kind of person who remembers to look up once in a ... belonged to Ralph J. Slutz '38, was painted with the phrase "TECH IS ... , who mentioned it in an email to me: I saw the car after it had been

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Institute of Smashing What do you think MIT and a garbage compactor have in common?

  

  attending one of the most challenging and respected universities in the world ... pull off the kinds of academic feats you're used to. Working full-tilt in ... here in the fall, don't freak out about freaking out. It's supposed to

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Some people call me the space cowgirl

  

  horchata (yummy Mexican drink). I wanted to tell you a little about the last ... lot of a student who used to work in our office, who we'll call "Pink ... , which would make some in the audience gasp ("She got into MIT with those

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Blogural Inaugural I just wanted to use this title.

  

  sure how to represent the enormous beast that is MIT, I figured I'd start ... quite the case. (And of course, the jab above is all in good fun -- I have ... is worth the sacrifice. We start most nights with a demonstration

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  will continue to grow and become yourself, that this is not the end of a ... desperately want. But the person that I am in this universe is a function of ... -averse person. My utility function is decidedly concave. I don’t try to beat the

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 16, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  so much more than the school you go to. Appreciate who you are right ... life SO MUCH is going to change SO QUICKLY and you want to hold onto ... to start conversations in the comments, or email me if you want to talk

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

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

  

  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 ... shifting idea is starting right now in someone's room or the coffee table in

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Mischievous Anniversary Tonight Four score and ten years ago...

  

  built just to the west. In February of 1931, the buildings would be ... were strained to see what was about to happen. In a few moments the ... relocated the Fleming cannon from Caltech to Cambridge in 2006. (If you like

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • June 1, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice On The Essay The rules are simple: write your own.

  

  enough, so without thinking too much about it, I wrote the following in ... 's the best advice anyone can give to you. Your application is full ... in clubs and sports and whatever else you do... the essay is the one

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ATHack A day well spent helping others

  

  One of the amazing things about going to a techy school like MIT is ... students with people living with disabilities to solve a problem in the home ... ) and also amazing. I teared up a little when I got to see him in the

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The leftmost station on your dial WMBR = awesome campus radio

  

  basement of an entry in Senior House, eventually moving to a studio in the basement of Walker Memorial in 1960. The call letters were changed to WTBS ... ,000 to WTBS in exchange for the call letters. The deal worked out, WTBS

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  No Chance Why "chance" sites like AdmissionSplash are Bad Things.

  

  selecting schools to send an application to easier. On Tuesday, the company is ... to create a helpful tool.* However, this tool is unhelpful. In fact ... process. Because listing the school you go to or ECAs you are involved in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hard MIT Class ...or is that redundant? And yes, hiiiiii.

  

  nagging, awful feeling that the clever trick is going to be forever beyond ... problem your friend figured out in the time it took him to pee. You sit in ... that we had only two goals for the rest of the semester—to have fun in

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Units of Measure A simple question with a lot of cool answers

  

  to conversation. A Graybill is a unit of harem. The Itani is a unit of negative tact.  A Snively is equal to 1 byte wasted on the internet. Friends ... at MIT, and in the years since I graduated, I've continued to collect

  • by Snively '11
  • January 7, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions of Travel a guest post by Spencer W. '15

  

  Scholarship is the most selective graduate fellowship available to American ... . After receiving the Marshall Scholarship to attend postgrad in the UK for ... to: “Why?”. At first I thought, “Tsk, the answer to that is both

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  10 reasons why MIT is beautiful if I do say so myself.

  

  we have wacky (modern? postmodern?) buildings, the best river views in ... is beautiful: (1) Because I get to see this view every day walking ... sailing photos, but I'm not confident enough in my abilities to bring

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 22, 2014