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• Blog / About Decisions

  An Open Letter to MIT Applicants Don’t Panic (and know where your towel is)

  

  authority figure who I had very little respect for in the first place was ... looking for them. Life works in crazy ways so, please, don’t panic. ♥ ... of a sudden you imagine competing with these people for a spot in a

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Flying Close to the Sun a semester of fire

  

  paper were, because that would introduce bias if an author were a ... [annotation note="endearing term for alumni and garbage. but in this case i ... on repeat for choreographing is probably why I’m in the top 0.005% of

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2021
• Blog / Blog Projects

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

  

  days) for an email. In my case, the collection happened from 11:15 am to ... restaurants in Boston; decisions about when to turn off the heating for spring ... clothes in the middle washer; and requests for empty gallon jugs, superglue

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  sea glass turbulent waves in these parts

  

  efforts to try. Isn't it ironic that in my attempt to look after myself, I ... submission in this blog. [annotation note="well it's actually been two weeks at ... a bit before throwing it out there for the internet to judge

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 5, 2022
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  with my dad in New York. He had traveled to the US for a program called ... simply typing up words whenever an idea for a story comes to mind, but ... , and an increased sense of affection for what is mechanically no more

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 17, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  Favorite Classes at MIT! survey says...

  

  what we were learning in class, and get an intuition for reading and ... wanted to be an engineer to begin with.  2.00C: Design for Complex ... had. It was great to see someone who looked like me in his position

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who

  

  I go. Overview In Searching for legitimacy, we look at compare the ... register an account for and make progress in. Compare this to the archived ... low-stakes games, it's looked down on in competitive settings. Take, for

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 29, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Let’s Go Fly A Kite Up to decision night!

  

  ’re deferred, and you get trapped in an endless purgatory, living in torturous limbo for an eternity before inevitably executed. Or you’re not accepted ... afford to relax. I read an interesting article in the New York Times a few

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  This story has to do with professor accessibility. And something awesome that I got in the mail.

  

  professor in the physics department lent to me. For privacy, let’s call him ... the name of the author. Let’s call him (again, for privacy) William ... a package slip in my mailbox earlier this week; I passed it to the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “So what are you majoring in?” *sweats nervously*

  

  simple. I signed up for 6.01 in my first semester and went to a few ... had this 21W phase in which I would become an esteemed science ... perceived problems in the world, and I’ve been granted the authority to say

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015
• Blog / Blog Projects

  The rise and fall of CPW all the cpw history, plus proof the weather machine is fake

  

  there was already an admissions website back in 1996. Look at those ... weekend CPW's origins are rooted in a program for prospective women and ... earliest thing I've seen in the Tech that could be considered an admitted

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Reaffirming our commitment to diversity in uncertain times

  

  may narrowly consider race for individual students in our process is ... ’s precedent for more than half a century.']further a compelling interest in ... .[/annotation] For many years, we have [annotation note='As we say in our policies, “In

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 7, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  What I Did in High School in the actual sense of the phrase

  

  in an organization for students who were honest, morally upright ... , but I got in, and he didn’t. When MIT hopefuls ask what an MIT student ... ’t understand. It took a bit of time for me to start working as hard as I did in

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  ][2][3][4][5] for quick access.) Note that these are not stories in the mythical ... , was personality-altering for me. In my math and CS classes, we talked ... year, I started changing my mind a lot more, started looking for new

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  HERE LIES P/NR September 2018-December 2018

  

  . Either way, it made for an exciting ride. Ironically, in spite of getting ... fluffy crystals landed on my jumper. I looked up in confusion to see the ... economics class in addition to everything else, and it was too much for me to

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 16, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  demons on depression

  

  a pastor in a room for an hour. Although I don't believe that demons ... interesting detail. For fourteen years, the author didn't realize they had ... . My father was a professor, at the time, and got an offer for a research

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 28, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Reflecting on 10 Years and Lessons Learned Happy Birthday, MIT Blogs!

  

  people you'll be friends with. Look for communities that you're excited to ... and cheaply – look for your chances to volunteer, study, or intern ... bed of a pickup truck, climb Mount Hua in China, and explore the

  • by Kim D. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  The Long Road to Happiness Stuff no one likes to talk about...

  

  summer visiting China, UROP-ing for Mediated Matter with two weeks at Google in California, and successfully beginning well construction for my ... drop into a room in building 6 during certain times for a small, informal

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 22, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  , or none of my writing at all, or an author whose name was circled, or an images that were printed in color. After flipping through an ... stained. It sat crisply in the back of an army of papers simply staring at

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Reading aka inhaling all the books i can before school starts

  

  and spent hours daily daydreaming up new stories for the characters in ... /minor/major, so I wound up not getting in. I spent a few days scrambling around for ... a serial, because I finished this story in about an hour, and honestly

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018