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

  

  separate the College Board Test Information Card from the two-part Referral ... .I.T. 5. Ask two of your teachers to fill out the EVALUATION OF APPLICANT BY ... . You need not apply for aid from specific funds, such as the National

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  . To begin the cringe, the video opens with two students in a lab. They ... first two or three weeks were easy, and then after that everything changed ... thing today at MIT (and many other colleges across the nation) but I didn

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  If the Obama were a unit of measure . . . . . . what would it measure?

  

  , right? Right. After two hours of waiting, I made my way to my seat. A lady came out onto the stage, was introduced, and sang the National ... played the same classical music they'd been playing for the last two hours

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  25 Stories of Getting Accepted to MIT told by students and alums

  

  heard her (she was not on speaker). N.T. ‘21 (Early Action) I bought ... about two weeks before the college guidance counselor came up T: Hey I ... to check on one of two hotel lobby computers, both of which had

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?

  

  grades. But when I saw those threads filled with national and international ... the chemistry olympiad. But between my almost two-hour commute to and ... ’re young. Take college for instance. If you take two students interested in

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  where I’m coming from as I think about this all.) This post has two ... ’ve had about my own decisions. But two, I hope that this post has some ... trajectory of my own life. I am acutely aware of the above two paragraphs as I

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • April 20, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Things (That MIT Made) LISTS

  

  first public health school in the nation The link between cancer and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 27, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  And the Whistle Blows soccer post-season & my last competitive soccer game

  

  bid to the D3 NCAA tournament, which is the national tournament. We ... do amazing things (including win a National Championship for us

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 21, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.08: Intro to EECS via Interconnected Embedded Systems aka: the class that convinced me i belong at mit

  

  next two hours reviewing my code, trying to figure out where I had gone ... -level detector which turns the LCD screen turns ON and OFF with two loud claps ... foil to a piece of cardboard for more structure. In between the two

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 21, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  make you undervalue your (perhaps less-national-news-worthy) achievements ... , and maybe even more across the nation, yelling at me for my apathy, “You ... schools in the nation with rich learning environments and resources, or who

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  Fun fact: when George Washington was a young Virginian, his driving ambition was to be an officer in the British army. Despite his repeated attempts, he was denied a commission…

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 29, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting for Decision Day In which I give a pep talk of sorts (with a little help from my…

  

  , Marayna M. '18, Fejiro O. '18, Andrea H. '18, Hannah C. '17, Sade N. '17

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to use these blogs Scattered thoughts on the information age, plus some bonus snark.

  

  So I was looking through some old notes that I was working on for this blog- topics to cover, questions to answer, stuff like that, and I came across a…

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Policies, Principles, and Protests thinking about responsible citizenship in a time of student protests

  

  , protest, at the local and national level. They've done all these things for

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • February 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The leftmost station on your dial WMBR = awesome campus radio

  

  wanted to take his TV station national in 1979, he offered to donate $50

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Decade in Online Posting looking back: from the forums to the blogs

  

  by a bug in my room, in a thrilling two part saga"]giant mosquito ... had been about two years since I had posted, and I did something similar ... cooler than i was two years ago :^) im sad and i wanted to [annotation note

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020
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  Cozy Hobbit Times, Cozy Hobbit Food

  

  Middle Earth or Discworld or National City. Tonight is Old New Year’s Eve

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

  50 Reflections

  

  national conferences. I like to think we played at least some part in the ... the national higher ed recruitment landscape in the last decade, away ... . It meant a lot to be recognized on such a prominent national stage

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)

  

  life, whether it makes national headlines, as so many did this year, or ... our nation and other nations to always put things back where we found

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the blogs at twenty some reflections, plus an index of posts

  

  CJ Q. '23 rearview reflections by Waly N. '24 Affirmations by Paige

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 29, 2025