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• Blog / Life after MIT

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

  

  quirks and eccentricities are an important dimension of who they are, and fit quite nicely into the mosaic of the community.  When students, in ... It has only been a couple of months since I left MIT Admissions for a

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 5, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  How to decide, when you’re deciding a pretext for productive procrastination

  

  choose their matriculating institution. By this time, most of these ... the process of making. They aren't intended to persuade you to choose MIT, but to make the best choice for yourself. Although of course you

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 1, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  The Role You Play in the Admissions Process by Jenny Rifken, Director of Recruitment and Associate Director of Admissions @ MIT.

  and you control two of them. You really can have a great deal of ... with the list of "deal breaker" variables. Who was I and what was important to me? What did a school need to have in order for me to be happy

  • by mitblogs
  • October 26, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Trouble with External Validation Which came first? The admit or the awesome...

  

  admission decisions and the last of the regular action candidates clicked ... particularly conscious of the magnitude of this selection process, given the ... decisions, we utilize a wide range of sources to help confirm and validate our

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • January 9, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Diffusion Summer time!

  

  days have given me a chance to look into the future. All of my friends ... Diffusion, that's what's happening now. Finals, all of them, are completely done. This means everybody has one important commitment left: Pack

  • by Snively '11
  • May 23, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  The Art of Scheduling breaking and forming habits

  

  set out to learn the art of scheduling, and the importance of having ... -time, and did all sorts of [annotation note="including but not limited to ... have a lot of "free time", free in the sense that you don't have that

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  diversions from what is otherwise a never ending trello of things to do

  

  put any thought into them, which should give you an idea of how hosed i ... interact with media is really important in the current state of affairs, and will only become more important as more generations of people who don

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 1, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  On Essay Writing A guide to essay writing for the express purpose of obtaining admittance to an institute…

  

  and then enters into a frenzy of last minute essays and application ... another three months, but it’s important to be aware of what sort of answers ... typing out every single thought that pops into your mind. It’s important

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • July 22, 2016
• Blog / Uncategorized

  what not to pack for the dorms pretty much everything, honestly

  

  something important, Concord Market in Stud has a small selection of ... from Boston. As much as I love a long drive, that’s not for the faint of ... carry-on. That’s not a lot of space at all, especially if you’re expecting

  • by Taylor L. '29
  • July 9, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Am Excited a day in life of a student

  

  irresistible, and normally I give in to temptation. After a day of important ... away from proving that the set of all real numbers (R) is uncountably infinite. That is, it’s on a whole new level of infinity, and this makes

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 23, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Stop and Smell the Seasons Before it's winter and your nose is so numb you can't smell anything.

  

  fabled season of fall has arrived in all of its deciduous glory and is ... consider the brisk weather a welcome change. My impressions of fall, in the absence of any real comparable seasonal changes, are idealized and heavily

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • November 3, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Burnout (and what to do about it) learning how to recharge a low battery

  

  , more importantly, for the rest of your life. That's it. That's the blog ... by three dimensions: a) feelings of energy depletion or exhaustion; b) increased mental distance from one’s job, or feelings of negativism or

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 27, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  hold me (but not too close) on writing the full-length play

  

  around you is one of the most important parts of making this school ... conflict. I had poured all of my emotions into this piece of work and it had ... this fear: hold me (but not too close). The play delves into the parts of

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 7, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Perfect Match? because the right CPW host can make a huge difference...

  

  important, and at the end of the survey indicate that Cultural Affinity is ... questions by importance, is the necessity of gradation. If you rank everything ... While many of our students have known for a quite some time that MIT

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 30, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing Workshop I just wrote an entire post and my browser crashed. dfsdfksdfojfoajwefoiajdwf.

  

  that was really important to me and had been a part of my life since ... prize when you get into all ten of your top choice colleges in a few ... stumble across a page that will crash their browser. Various forms of anger

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Get excited for CPW! CPW= Campus Prefrosh? WHOA!

  

  preliminary idea of where you might be happy. (There's a very important event ... members of the former convene together to celebrate a 10M concentration of ... , food, a showcase of student organizations, food, sample lectures, food

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 6, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Events, Food, and Awesomeness: CPW A story about how CPW is more awesome than lobsters

  

  wandered off into the wilderness of the supermarket, intent on seeing the ... traumatic parts of the story. The most important parts are a blur but the ... moved before the memory making parts of my brain could actually store any

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Giant Cows Eat Venus; Earth Next Breaking apart and growing, fireworks, and a story

  

  into our backs at the end of every term and I didn't want to go out in a ...       On the evening of June 6, 2012, a satellite with its camera pointed toward the sun sent the first 500 GB of its daily

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The waking of all creatures that live on the land Lingering at MIT with my wandering eye. UPDATED, BABY.

  

  're going to be important for the rest of the class. In 5.12: Organic ... DID YOU KNOW? i^i = e^(-pi/2) Sorry for the lack of MIT ... Harrisburg and moving them all into my room would motivate me more to start

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Now and Then and Maybe Later Tying up loose ends and weathering the calm before the storm we call "Fall Semester"

  

  deciding that I was going to take the leap, look into some of the awesome ... interwoven into the very fabric of MIT’s culture. According to the 2014 MIT ... importance of research and the importance of educating the next generation of

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • August 30, 2014