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  Crazy admissions stories A story about craziness from both sides of the college admissions process.

  

  it was all a joke. Mr. Lazar decided to attend Cornell University this ... encourage him to attend Kenyon. "She was feeding me lines like a ventriloquist ... and asked whether the young man had a chance of being admitted to MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 5, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  i have fridays off this semester here's what i did with my first one

  

  want to. You can wake up without a blaring alarm, note the snow out the ... to make your day, like you've hit a drive with only green lights. And you trek to a new coffee shop, noting that even the below-freezing cold

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • February 6, 2026
• Blog / About Decisions

  random thoughts about choices why mit? why not mit?

  

  say mit is only as hard as you want it to be. that is a lie, but so is ... true, but that doesn't mean you have to make a hasty one. then again ... choose mit at all. the things that matter to me have changed a lot since

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 29, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist We have admitted 20 waitlisted students.

  

  to consider accepting a waitlist offer) or decline it. The waitlist ... is too early to know. In a week or two, we'll once again look at where ... waitlist that we will not be able to offer them admission. We offered a spot

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 17, 2007
• Blog / Hacks

  Today is a Super Important Day This is kind of a big deal.

  

  Today is an important day. The end of an era, the beginning of a new one. I know that I, personally, have been counting down to this day for almost a year. Today marks the beginning of a change we can believe in

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 20, 2009
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  character, and a strong match with MIT’s mission to use science, technology ... , then I want to remind you success is not always a straight line. Your ... available in the application portal. To check your decision, login to the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Al Kwon ‘08: Researching drug delivery Al Kwon, a Junior majoring in Biology, talks about some of his really exciting work…

  

  dedicated to celebrating his incredible achievements. Albert Kwon, a Junior ... find your UROP? A: Once you find your first UROP, it’s easy to find other opportunities. When I came to MIT, I really wanted to work on a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 12, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  trust how do you decide who to trust when there are lots of untrustworthy people?

  

  as a kid, i used to always be on edge when interacting with people ... every stranger i encountered, and it took me a long time to realize that ... instance, last fall i filled out a google form to go live with 30 strangers

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Speed Walking literally and figuratively

  

  an effort this break to try to move a little. Since we don’t like most ... , changing those walks to speed-walks was a fairly simple transition. Most of ... night’s Christmas party!” - Due to a cold front, it was a freezing 50

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 11, 2018
• Blog / MISTI

  ~*~Thoughts Are Like Traces of Birds In Heaven~*~ (P.S. I finally added pictures to my last entry - sorry about the delay!)

  

  I blogged, I was on a train from Darmstadt to Salem; since then, I ... yesterday that I took a train from Berlin to Frankfurt - for what is ... certificates and say a few words about the week. Touching would be a good way to

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 19, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Relaxing Weekend Did you ever hear about that whole firehose analogy?

  

  .03 pset. I unfortunately feel like this is going to be a theme for the ... judges for the presentations. So I basically just showed up, listened to a ... time to get stuff done. I'm just glad I'm a freshman- I feel no pressure

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 27, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  More at Home At thirty thousand feet, thousands of miles away.

  

  Thanks to a continuation of computer problems, I was without a ... . This trip to India, which had no connection to Hamsika's, was a follow-up to a course I took last term called 4.S10 – Delhi and Jaisalmer: An

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • February 11, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Not Admitted Early

  

  be able to offer them admission to the Class of 2029. The comments on this post are an open forum for those of you who want to talk with us ... recently, reflecting on his own Early Action rejection from a "dream" school

  • by Decisions
  • December 17, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Finding Inspiration encouraging motivational inspiration

  

  to Reddit but to no avail. Motivation was nowhere to be found (a.k.a. I ... psets, more emails to catch up on, more laundry to do (a very real problem ... up. Then I remember I have a lot of idiots to prove wrong” (Stanley

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • November 7, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Stephen, I’m Putting You On Notice!

  

  to really "get" what makes this such a special place. Now, I know such ... education, I felt compelled to try. So Stephen, a few of us here at ... Believe it or not, admissions officers occasionally try to do things

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • April 30, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Dean Marilee Jones in the news Articles in the press about MIT's Dean of Admissions.

  

  from the past week, with a selection from the piece; click the link to ... Stress, More Success: A New Approach to Guiding Your Teen Through College ... is that we have a tendency to want kids to look alike. We want them to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  Cannon Hack The famous tale of the Caltech Cannon Hack.

  

  hacking history comes to a close. I, for one, was quite impressed with the ... : Apparently CalTech flew out a crew of 20 to retrieve the cannon, and took it ... invites you to the official sendoff of the Caltech cannon. Our company has

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 10, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  kitchen nightmares bugs and toasters and explosions, oh my!

  

  every meal for the past eighteen years, it's safe to say that I'm a pretty ... . "Just freeze it for a few days to kill off the larvae. It'll be fine." We ... there was a whole toaster sitting next to the microwave, and when we did

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 5, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Guest Blog: From the Life and Times of Cam

  

  Tonight's blog entry is brought to you by Cam, a resident of CAMbridge, the owner of a CAMera, and an early action acceptee to the MIT ... , to which I responded with some hesitation (to be exact, a few months of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 6, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  What My College Essays Were [Not] Unsolicited advice about writing.

  

  to convince an admissions committee that you are a good fit for their ... . Fortunately, to make your life easier, MIT published a page about what it values ... obstacles3. Remember that you are applying to be part of a student body, not

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 12, 2015