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• 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 ... talk about merit in the admissions process, what we really mean, for the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  I recently opened my in-box to find an email from someone who " ... - so we read them very carefully. Quite simply, we are looking for the ... at MIT, that's what we're looking for. Best wishes, Ben

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  - features. Keep in mind that this guide is just an introduction; I chose to ... week. Just look for our table on the first floor of the student center ... .112 lecture in 10-250" or "I have three psets due every week this semester and

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / Featured Blogs

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

  

  finally... (10) If you're ever lost in Boston, just look towards the water ... Sometimes MIT gets a bum rap for not having a pretty campus.  I ... we have wacky (modern? postmodern?) buildings, the best river views in

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to get a UROP A lesson on stalking.

  

  ’re looking for a UROP in the first place (I trust it’s something other than “I ... two post docs were looking for a UROP. I have never responded to an e ... professor or lab doing work that looks cool, and get in touch with them. I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Advice

  parallel universe for those feeling dejected

  

  , except for the wet sheen of dejection, weighing upon you alone. But - look ... Text transcript: Many times this semester, I felt disappointed in ... shame over a failure that feels misunderstood by others, and an emergence

  • by Kai V. '25
  • December 19, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  AOs write the “What do you do for fun?” essay Ever wondered what admissions officers do when they're not reading applications?

  

  ’re looking for that, we have plenty of great essay advice on our site already ... Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie for the first time. I fell in love with Adichie ... up in Lagos, Nigeria and immigrates to the United States for university

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  17 Things I’ve Learned in the Past Year growing, growing, grown

  

  understand how much the onus is on me to look out for and take care of myself ... out of touch for periods. I think the main shift in mindset that has ... I presented myself, so in that sense looks do matter sometimes. And on

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Some people call me the space cowgirl

  

  ." You may have seen Pink if you came for an on campus information session ... admissions [I] have seen in [my] time, both as a student and as an admissions ... criteria, everyone here is an excellent student. A lower bar isn't set for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Application dreaming

  

  about it in your application. And for the rest of you poets, dancers ... University in Tempe, AZ. I visited here for the first time this summer, and I ... The reading continues, almost non-stop here... for another

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bursting the MIT Bubble 1.0 things to do in Downtown Boston

  

  exploration. Armed with an all-powerful MBTA Pass (with unlimited trips for a ... the park in a glorious architectural mix are an AMC movie theatre, a ... a coffee at the Thinking Cup, an adorable coffee shop for the tired

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Halloween is the best day of the year. Yes, I recognize that it is now closer to Thanksgiving than to Halloween. Sorry.

  

  and ridiculousness emerge in costume form. Reason 3 of 1 bajillion: An ... Halloween is awesome, for a bajillion reasons. Reason 1 of 1 ... creativity and ridiculousness emerge in pumpkin form. Reason 5 of 1 bajillion

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Bring your stuffed toys to class reflections on liminality

  

  empty hallways looking for people to shoot. Mull over your life decisions ... 're here, now, carrying a Nerf gun looking for people to shoot. Worry ... internships. Get an offer for an internship. Get another offer for an

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 11, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every now and then, my mind = blown. Thanks, Science!

  

  getting around to that. But in the midst of my magnet research, I stumbled upon (actually, not really. My professors for 20.363, Biomaterials Science and Engineering, assigned it as one our journal club readings.) an

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 11, 2012
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  All the bridges I’ve crossed in Cambridge, ranked my civil engineering hat is off

  

  same time, in many ways, it is the sign I am looking for when I feel like ... an hour, my roommates and I went home, and for the first time in my ... watching a sunset walking across one. So, if you’re looking for that kind of

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  rigueur activity that everyone needed to do in order to look good for ... fishing for an interesting bit of information that might make a good story ... also represented the discovery of a formula for success in the admissions

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  There are no imposters in the Class of 2018 Strength in networks

  

  . Posts include "It's an honor and a privilege to be in here with you all ... for 3.5 years and from looking through the results of this survey - that ... and for humankind. Someday, we’ll look back on these four years as the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2013
• Blog / Events

  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  a struggle: their patent was for an "Apparatus for facilitating the ... disease") and Takeshi Makino of the Safety Detective Agency in Osaka ("for ... to applaud in public" and the Belarus State Police for "arresting a one

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  MIT Gothic You are reading an admissions blog post. You are reading tumblr.

  

  in an applesauce jar. You look up an advanced course 8 class and ... required in payment for passage, and if the guest cannot provide it, an ... to an email sent to eecs-jobs-announce looking for a “technical

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  cracking. 1. Why and how I became an admissions blogger In eighth grade, I ... other words: you do not need to have had a blog for a zillion years in ... an internship in Albuquerque, New Mexico. I'm pretty sure I was on

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012