Search

Search Results

• Blog / Admissions

  Application dreaming

  

  're excited about. While I was in California in early October, I started to ... . You get the point) The best candidates to MIT bring much more to the ... short, Shahab, yes, we will value your poetry. I look forward to hearing

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Cozy Hobbit Times, Cozy Hobbit Food

  

  that. Chop things. I don't know what reference to give for how small ... a recipe and more some notes on how I wing it: Slice to preference ... In 2015 I got to experience a longtime dream of mine, finally finding

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brief Wondrous Lives A little too much thinking brought to you by four in the morning.

  

  's looking like red, but it's still a little too early to tell. I'll get back ... across it in red. I am lucky to still be alive, having brought my spoon ... fact that I've been at MIT for four years and have never thought to take

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  somewhat lightened up as I witnessed how many people stopped by to ask where ... nights when I didn’t even want to think about walking across campus to get ... experience, with many exciting things that I had the opportunity to experience

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a sad sad toaster made of glass. Do you like your toast with tears? Because I'm sad.

  

  conversation. Or something like that." And then I get real sad, so I go back to ... there was no way I'd ever get up again if I went to bed. And yet I was ... Physics, that I would get to the last problem set that I would ever turn in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Save Point sleep wake hope

  

  them to. Poetry, prose. Prose, poetry. Sometimes I think there's not a ... story or narrative. Since coming to MIT, I've had far less time to dedicate to my writing than I really would have liked, which is one of the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Search of Answers Seeking recommendations, rather than providing them...

  

  admitted to the class. Even though they are certainly right, I am quick to ... enrollment of each outstanding new class. While I don't want to minimize my ... , I don't need to be introspective or do any soul searching to figure

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  apply to things, no matter how selective, no matter what I tell myself ... ” or “tenet”). In response to “how’s it going”, I sometimes respond with ... ’s not just us who say those words.) I know that many of you might still be hurt to be told

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 16, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  students telling me how I had encouraged them to continue striving on past ... These past few weeks haven't been easy. I've had to stay up really ... support can go a long way. I've been very lucky to have the amazing support

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later what happened after pi day 2011

  

  the years. You might want to know how I fared in past five years (wow ... life style. As I moved further into my college years, things begun to get ... year and moved to Bangalore. I wonder how much these things would have

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

   from juggling things that I would be unable to get out of bed for hours, unable to ... friends asked me how I was doing a few days before finals, I struggled to ... gets tough. A few of them that I particularly looked up to talked about

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Let’s Go Fly A Kite Up to decision night!

  

  afford to relax. I read an interesting article in the New York Times a few ... ’t help myself sometimes. But no matter how much we tell you to relax - let ... Jeff ‘18: you're great roommates. To be fair, I’ve had this coming for a

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Typical Day on the Road Having grown up in NYC, I love coming back.

  

  I am about to head out to do the MIT presentation in Westchester ... . Last Wednesday was a typical day: up at 5:00 am to get a workout in and eat a little something before heading out to get to Stuyvesant for an 8

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bye (for now)

  

  that i didn't know how to understand, so i gesture towards them in ... party. i took my last final exam (6.006, intro to algorithms). i packed up ... unreasonable stress. i guess it's my contribution to the many student

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 12, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

  isn't the piece of paper, but the lifelong ties to the people who I grew ... MIT was to find Good People(TM). I didn't really know what that meant at the time, but I knew that I wanted to find down-to-earth, genuine people

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 6, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  In the Realm of Giants imposter syndrome with a senior year twist

  

  dashed. Now, I’m stuck in a limbo of trying to figure out [annotation note="though i have some ideas"]what to do,[/annotation] and how to do it as ... to get a positive response. Each time, I have to bite my tongue to stop

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Mark Zuckerberg Visits MIT NBD.

  

  [dare I say more competent] people working for him while he gets to enjoy ... :   (Now let me just preface my $0.02 that I'm about to spill by saying that I am by no means and expert in anything related to business

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  here? Do I deserve to be here? How does this reflect on me as a person ... messages, thanking them, talking to people about how I felt. It took a long ... of how many people work together to make it happen. I already

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Applying Sideways How to get in to MIT.

  

  , which is this: How do I get in to MIT? And here is what I tell them ... to a thousand-person MIT revival in an Atlanta auditorium. Whenever I ... them something they can do that will get them in. Maybe they need to be

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  I tried to create this video as something I'd want to hear as a ... bloggers, but I can't link to all the posts here. They're just a quick search ... 't stick exactly to all of the words, but you'll get the gist of it. Best of

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2014