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• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  screamed loud enough that the person on the other side of the living room ... a large quantity of ice cream the night before. If I got in, I would ... decisions came out. I could get 1 bar of wifi on my phone in one corner of the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choosing Your Own Adventure and other things you can do when you live off campus

  

  a lot of other cities. Much like with the T-pass, MIT also offers a ... people all the time and really want to feel a part of a larger community ... , living off campus is a good option. Here is my list of pros and cons: The

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  , one complaint in the comments on those entries was about a lack of data ... : MIT should release the full set of admissions data stripped of ... , and that problem is this: sometimes, you don't have all of the data

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Applying to College vs. Applying to Jobs yes you heard me, the application process NEVER ENDS

  

  wound up with 2 final offers at the end of it all. I actually applied to ... of job offers, but honestly, most people around me are in the same ... end of the semester. Last year, I had my offer from PlayStation by the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 6, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  heart of the Institute, stretching from Lobby 7 (west) through Buildings 3 ... focus on the aspects of MITese that are (in my opinion) universal across ... glimpse into the wonderful if sometimes confusing world of MITese! The

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  neighborhoods we move into and come to love. What do pregnant mice, cheerleaders, and four-foot light-up tinsel giraffes have in common?

  

  For anybody too young to have seen my name at the top of the recent ... 'm here to update you on the breathtaking life of a biology PhD student ... studies the development of several different types of neurons in the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 27, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  actual conversations i have definitely had with freshmen during orientation

  

  : so where are you temped FROSH: one of the frats ME: oh cool FROSH ... , there's so many cool -- FROSH: isn't that the ...you know ... clothing ... mean the roller coaster's pretty cool FROSH: but i would never live

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 30, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Blogural Inaugural I just wanted to use this title.

  

  bigger and heavier than most of the other forks you've used.Why am I ... quite the case. (And of course, the jab above is all in good fun -- I have ... one of the lucky four freshmen in the advising seminar 3.A04, Modern

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Frosh No More Goodbye GIRs and Intro Classes, hello course 6!

  

  ) last semester I'm finally able to jump into a couple of the CS classes ... all of my classes.  After genuinely considering changing my major at the ... field of Computational Geometry) are both wonderful lecturers and the

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • October 6, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Unofficial Guide to Unstandard MITglish, 1st Edition The joy of jargon.

  

  the incoming Class of 2013, I offer an introductory documentation of ... , localized dialect like a wandering hitchhiker on the sideroads of esoteric ... speakers of MITglish enunciate consonants at the end of words with

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  No Chance Why "chance" sites like AdmissionSplash are Bad Things.

  

  does not communicate the degree to which you are a vibrant member of the ... good,” of getting into the schools. Admission Splash currently runs ... likelihood of acceptance. I'm sure the AdmissionSplash people are only trying

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Gee, my life’s a funny thing Remembering the bills I have to pay, or even yesterday.

  

  ashes sprinkled into the soup of someone I don't like. On our way back on the Thalys in first class (yay for Thalys summer offer!) I picked up a copy of the international edition of Newsweek, which had a headline

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj

  

  of the firehose and everything. (Of course, the water was actually from ... [/caption] The firehose analogy captured the imagination of the MIT community ... their blog, Shayna A. '23 gives a full account of the pain and outrage

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  IHTFParadise – A Journey of Depression at MIT Guest entry by Angelina G.

  

  beautiful Thursday in the New England fall. I walked out of the Convention ... piles of dirty laundry, p-sets, paper, scarves, and pencils. The drawers ... . The room reeked of the moldy coffee that had been sitting in the coffee

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An actual day in the life It's not the most exciting day... but it's a day!

  

  'll be sad.) Since the stated purpose of the blogs is to introduce prospectives to a day in the life of an MIT student, I have rather uncreatively ... consume contained the highest concentration of caffeine. Mountain Dew won

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  To whom much is given… ...you know the rest!

  

  offer of admission from MIT or any of the other excellent schools that you ... , thought or uttered some portion of that phrase over the course of the past ... analysis is a big part of trying to process the outcome of a journey that a

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 13, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview (the EC edition!) in which you receive advice and an alum surreptitiously gets to blog again

  

  , based on the stat counters at the bottom, has probably been of help to a ... side of the table, having done some 16-odd interviews for MIT these last ... an admissions guru (lolz) when I was still in college, I offer the same

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  , pushing forward, and in the absence of motion, it was simply falling. This ... up with, even in the absence of much else, and I’m sure being ... wanting to create words and stories. So I imagine that for the both of us

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 17, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  , the fun and stupid anecdotes of road tripping up the west coast, working ... now and then, I’d stare out the window -- of my car, of a plane, of a ... two will describe the mechanics of how I got those gigs, how to use

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

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

  

  "]Boston proper,[/annotation] you have to walk across one of the city’s many bridges ... , I have had to cross the Charles at some point. Each of them are so different, both in [annotation note="the width of the charles varies wildly

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020