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

  

  Office was formally created in 1929, led by the Institute’s first ... Campus Preview Weekend brochures from the 90s, stacks of old MIT Admissions ... a VHS player handy? I’d love to see what’s on this tape."]VHS tape

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  admission exam and accepts the top scoring kid(s) from each town in our ... person isn’t nearly representative of “what you did in high school,” so it’s not what I wanted to write about. Instead, here’s a genuine account of

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Random Random Projects/Moving Out of Random Randomly zigzagging about until I find myself in the future, somehow no longer in Random.

  

  At the end of the semester I emailed Random Hall’s social mailing ... . ‘16 Genome-based legged robot simulation for 6.S079. Robots are Klann ... ) and her boyfriend Alex and we yelled to early 2000s Avril Lavigne in the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 13, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  through to graduate high school. It’s also a book that has left me with a ... least three other Asian Jenny’s in the class of 2013. Ultimately, I wasn ... with Pass/No Record, it may very well seem like everyone’s hanging out

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  having been admitted, of being at MIT. (Though, to be clear, it’s ... what.  There’s a lot of things that you might be feeling. And I can ... received, my first question was always “why”. But that’s already been talked

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 16, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  somewhat.  It’s Friday as I edit this blog, the 19th of March, Add Date. If I want to switch into 8.02, that’s gotta happen today. This blog was ... smart enough and that is tied to your worth. It’s tied to your worth and

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  piece, although that’s what I’m trying to do today. It’s not that a blog ... entirely), and it’s not about Ethiopia, and it is not about my family, or ... spring protections. A spring protection is made where there’s a source of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” and other ways to improve your test scores

  

  visualizing rotations of two- and three-dimensional shapes in one’s mind, and ... might assume that he’s going to have an easier time than a woman of ... objective science. And statistically speaking, he’s right. It is true that

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] a space for women at mit by Nandini Choudhury (WXGS Assistant Director)

  

  .  Throughout the 1880s, +100 women enrolled as students at MIT. In the 1950s ... was AWESOME. do recommend. there‘s also a short video series on the ... what has been. It‘s complicated. But, this blog is not about that

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • August 12, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Snively’s Cross Stitch Corner I really enjoy cross stitching

  

  art. You stitch little x’s onto a perforated piece of cloth using a ... , and actual artistic talent. I prefer, instead, sprite and pixel art. It’s ... E degree. It’s something I can do, mindlessly, while watching TV or

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Love In the Time of Corona lots of evidence that the people are the best part of MIT

  

  my phone exploding with notifications. Harvard’s decision was out ... email came out, I’m really grateful I was at MIT.  It’s a scary time and ... ’ve received so many emails offering support and help. It’s just a really good

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to MIT: Choosing a Dorm the good and not-so-good reasons

  

  ’re absolutely certain where you want to live, it’s helpful to discover different ... (there’s a historical reason for this!), but I would never forego the ... find that it’s actually pretty easy to feed yourself, and that the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 14, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to Freshman Days composed in the wee hours of morning

  

  . That’s 60 left. 12 for movies with friends. 12 for meals, 14 with eating ... . He told me about a bet he'd made with a friend in the 1970’s. Then, he claimed that the P vs NP problem would soon be solved. It’s the 2010’s now

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 29, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Figuring out what I want to do with my life personal essay time :)

  

  aerospace engineering sometime in the mid-2020s.[/annotation] I’m genuinely really excited about this, as it’s been a dream of mine for at least ... . It’s possible I would have decided to be a software engineer if my

  • by Alex M. '21
  • March 5, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  my mistakes. Now take that 35-lb backpack and let’s get going! June ... the gridwork of Tucson. There’s a Target with an “Apply now!” sign, and the wage is above Arizona’s minimum. July 2019. Working at Target

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] How to Build a Three Story Fort by Zack I. '27

  

  the fort’s rectangular footprint.  This method is effective in theory ... began to arise. 2x4s usually come in 96 inch lengths unless you ... people assumed that all of the 2x4s could just be taken and used for

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 1, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Miss the South Musings on a secret Instagram account

  

  significant amount of forethought and editing. At least that’s what I tell ... thoughts at the end of each day. It’s gotten to the point where I walk across ... . Night. It’s gotten to the point where I believe I am developing tendonitis

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tenets or, my only piece of advice for incoming first-years

  

  The fall semester has just started, and the 2025s have poured onto ... 2025s, here is some advice: you will survive this. You will have ... . I think it’s worked out for me; some of my favorite moments of MIT so

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  So Chance Me Maybe? Hey! I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my SAT...

  

  I just said is a horrible lie. Here’s the truth: I have never taken ... math SAT was 40 points below MIT’s lower 25th percentile, and I wasn ... that I was getting rejected. That’s the truth. Last September, I was

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 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 ... freshman advisor: it’s this person’s job to help you. My advisor wrote a ... : you have to make them, in a sense. If there’s a particular department or

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 7, 2011