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• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  this. They can't do it for all of the reasons I mentioned in the CC ... students how likely it is that they will be admitted to each school on their ... selective colleges, is really tough. It's hard to know how to gauge your

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  We’ve been there, too. It feels like the calm before the storm. Please don't forget to breathe.

  

  that scale in years: the bottom of my gut would drop out, I'd hallow out ... would sink in and make my skin crawl. I had had enough panic attacks by ... submitted in time for the EA deadline. Somehow, I managed to distract myself

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Life is like a Game Elaborate metaphors from an amateur comic artist

  

  It's been a pretty rough week, so I took a break and drew out my struggles. For some reason (mostly the fact that I'm a media dork at heart), a video game metaphor was easiest to conceptualize in comic form, so enjoy

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 7, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Night at the Office A bit longer than I expected.

  

  Cormick article so I'm not dying to see it at this moment. 8:28pm: Rebecca sends in ... are people in Bexley too. Oh, I think it was about their “student ... Verde's – come in. 11:29pm: I discover that our slightly eccentric John '98 has a

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  .) Here’s an equally important message: I saw the “perfect match” in a bunch ... dominating College Confidential and the blog comments makes me sad. I ... formula. It’s like trying to explain poetry using calculus. It would take

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 16, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On Escaping An introspective vlog about MIT and getting ready to leave

  

  I have five different takes of this video that were scrapped before I finally figured out what I wanted to say. I think that's how this semester is going, though. I'm working on so many different types of projects

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cool Classes

  

  , and in general how have you experiences been with the classes at MIT ... . Even if none of these things were true, I would recommend that everyone ... interesting. And Prof. Wolfe is...wow. I miss his lectures. I wish all

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Diversity or Merit? false questions, false answers

  

  There's something I've been mulling over in my head for a long time ... . When I'm on the road, or in an information session, or online in various ... applicant. I would hope that premise, once so plainly stated, is self

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  10 Things I Learned 1st Semester Yeap.

  

  -yogurt-more-endearingly-“Froyo”. I can’t count how many “Ordering Indian in 10! Come to Room # if you want in!” emails I've gotten over these past few months. My family eats rice every night and do not dine out much; I’ve never had Indian food in

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 24, 2009
• Blog / Advice

  Enjoy Life Farewells and New Beginnings

  

  month ago at his nursing home in Missouri. There’s a lot that I could say ... also Dr. Abe’s memorial service. Today would have been his 99th birthday. Dr. Abe was my “American grandfather” since I was 16, without whom I

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 5, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  e) Other Some pretty important stuff, and then just some pretty stuff.

  

  knows exactly how to get what they want in life and I'll convert, but to ... me if I haven't written back to you in the past few weeks. This ... certainly worked hard back then, but I was never forced to engage in the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Women’s Soccer Talking to the 2009 NEWMAC Champs after they returned from the NCAA National Championship Tournament

  

  watching (i.e. water polo), it was hard to know how good MIT's varsity teams ... really sure why I'm writing in pink -- Liz and Meghan asked me to do it ... When I came to MIT I joined the marching band. We played at all sorts

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 25, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  grouped with seniors in the MIT people directory. Similarly, I can’t know ... ). Here is how I went about obtaining my data: I deleted spam and emptied ... ’t let me download such a large file, and I couldn’t figure out if or how I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  . At most institutions, campus construction would be mentioned in the ... wood in the walls. Few institutions would even bother to share these ... impressive recreational work it brought forth would remain in the institutional

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  150 years of MIT course catalogs the mit history you want to know

  

  insights into the kind of MIT history you won't read in history books. I started looking into the course catalogs because I wanted to find out how ... catalog was published” and “today” means “today, in 2021”. I won't be

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Guest Entry: Stephanie Lin Presenting MIT's most recent Rhodes Scholar!

  

  Spanish. I was a beekeeper/researcher for a summer in high school ... jumping from Biology at MIT to Physiology in medical school (I eventually want to work in public health and infectious disease. See, I told you

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 12, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m back! (And what I carry on it) "You can tell a lot about a person by what they carry" - Atlas

  

  changed a LOT in the few years I’ve been gone. Registration is now online ... in my own life too. I live miles away from campus (which used to seem ... bag and show you what’s in mine on any given day. (I actually did just

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 11, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The future isn’t the answer reflecting on anxiety

  

  a devastating mistake, and I'm not satisfied with how I'm doing now ... started a draft back in September about my anxiety problems. I was trying to ... place devoid of good things, but now I feel like there's too much stuff in

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HNY from NYC for IAP, 2016 time passes so quickly, help

  

  rang in the new year at home with a power outage. I’ve since relocated to ... Manhattan. Makes me feel classier and older than I am. Leaves me wondering how ... eighteen in a week; I feel like my spirit is aging more quickly than my body

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to Crying on Campus It’s right about that time of year.

  

  this: I imagine everybody here has felt like this some time in the ... pictures in the comments! I personally haven’t had a good cry yet, but when I do, it will probably be in one of the lounges on my floor at East

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 16, 2017