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• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  For most of high school, the US was just a vague blip on the radar of ... ” or “running for president”. I had read one of the MIT blogs once ... sitting in the library, studying for a Geography exam when someone ran up to

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / Community Projects

  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  --mostly because I never “look the part” for anything, anywhere, in any culture. I ... would be too spicy for the “guest”, me, of my own father or mother ... ” party, people from MIT went to Yale for the Harvard-Yale football game. I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to choose your major putting people in boxes, feat. credit for reddit, social science, and lots of yarn.

  

  -tool-cum-participatory-art-installation for our final project. What you're looking at is a rendering of my ... * Choosing between the forty-nine majors that MIT offers can be a nerve-wracking, sweat-inducing mess. We the admissions bloggers have somehow done it

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 6, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  How to date at an American college Things we never talk about

  

  exclusive to the 2+ people involved. This is not, for the most part ... committed relationship? You should look for cues. First, sometimes, people will explicitly say they are not looking for commitment. You should

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  of the shirt looks something like this: Right. I'm not at MIT right ... most other places. In fact, I'm wearing the 2014 Rush shirt for my dorm, East Campus. (The dorm goes by EC for short, or East Campus Alumni

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice you’ve heard before and a story you haven’t you can just skip to the pictures if you want to, I wont be offended.

  

  for the 'extra time' I should have saved. Where did that go? In a single ... , not four. It's easy to say that you'll read the lecture notes for the ... character and I took a look around. This was the second time I'd overslept

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  My high school was this tiny sort of dinky-looking building on the ... compare the two for fun. But anyway! During high school, I: Didn ... hard learning things I wanted to and leave Algebra II studying for the

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Guest Entry: Christina Bognet Supplemental materials to help you through the next few days.

  

  'm sitting in my dorm room looking out at the beautiful Boston skyline, taking ... like my old self, if you don't get the news you are hoping for on ... This post is written by the beautiful and talented Christina '10

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 8, 2006
• Blog / Community Projects

  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  anything. Just check the course catalog for Splash 2019, with classes like ... Discord instead of the office. When the time came for us, a few weeks after everyone got kicked out, to elect directors for the summer and fall programs

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!

  

  left for another job, and I looked around the office and realized that I ... , when I was competing for entry level jobs with the experienced employees ... MIT utterly failed to prepare me for the real world.  I wish there had

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  , waiting for the blogger application to appear. I knew that one of the ... wanted that job for a long time. 2. How I blog - the writing and posting ... : Do you follow the admissions blogs / have a sense for the culture? Does

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s Not Me, It’s You How to kiss goodbye to a school that rejected you

  

  out pretty well for you, didn't it, Washington? The statue in the ... ’t control what traits an admissions committee is looking for, or what mood a ... ambition was to be an officer in the British army. Despite his repeated

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 29, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Today I hit my TA with a door I didn't MEAN to.

  

  usually go in the back door when I'm late but today, TODAY for reasons still unknown to the universe I went for the front door, all while my TA just ... TA. The same goes for professors. I mean, sure. There's a certain

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 7, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer…” wherein Neil Armstrong's legacy kicks off a year of Unified Engineering, and I reflect on…

  

  : 1. Take the candidate outside. 2. Wait for the familiar rumble of ... looks up at the airplane, the candidate passes and gets the job. Having ... work in teams, and what qualities to look for in good teammates. I

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 9, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  A Half-Century Retrospective Revisiting the MIT Application from the 1972–1973 admissions cycle

  

  ="79491" /] The MIT Application for Admission from Secondary School Introduction Set ... . The Admissions Office looks forward to receiving your application, and we at M.I.T. look forward to the coming exchange of information as you

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  An Entry About Snow ...Even though we don't have any

  

  Over the years, I have discovered that just about anything can be used as a metaphor for life, and that it's highly unoriginal to come up ... , onions or riding bicycles (have fun looking these up). Of course, that

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 11, 2008
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  On Teaching and Learning Minimum requirement: read the last few sentences of this post. They're important.

  

  the most. Each of us is paired up with a Teach For America teacher; my ... shy away from participating for the rest of the semester. Fail to ... student looked at the coins in alarm. I continued my little improv act

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The Great Wifi Outage of 2007 Burton-Conner's wifi went out two days ago; Evan will tell you more by the end…

  

  the epic e-mail failure of po14 last spring. Look for Evan's blog about ... , and 2) that isn't the only things grad schools are looking for. Paul ... work set the basis for several new developments i.e. using yeast to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.

  

  grant out of the many that we applied to or looked for. What seems linear ... have volunteer work like this in the United States). So, we looked for ... things, but finally, I decided to cut them away, for the sake of telling

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Some Advice Sometimes I wish I could tell freshman-me that everything's going to be okay

  

  where you instantly figure out what you want to do for the rest of your ... the difference between being deeply unhappy and feeling ungrateful for ... the blank pages for to-do checklists. Staying organized will be a

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 20, 2015