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  I Was Deferred And it was not the end of the world

  

  'm sitting on a train that took me from Washington D.C. where I had just met ... :24pm. I sluggishly made my way upstairs to my PC and log on to my ... , which is sad because there are a lot of really cool people who apply to

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 17, 2014
• 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.

  

  the coolest things I've ever made are bismuth crystals. The procedure is ... where we are living for the summer.   Last weekend we moved out of Random ... list asking people to send me their projects. Here are some of the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 13, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  highlight some of the awesome things that MIT students are working on, I can ... really wasn’t concerned where because I had no idea what I was going to do ... telling me what I could or couldn’t do with my life, and that made me really

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

  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  experience what it is, not where you are. Take advantage of the opportunities ... matter where you end up, you are going to find an environment that you ... where you are."   Next Steps: If you still feel like you need a

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

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  decisions, not the basis on which they were made. Admissions data are an ... to accompany and support the claims I had made. As one commenter put it ... data, you are liable to draw conclusions consistent with the data but

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  As We Approach Decision Day On getting in and on not getting in

  

  ’ve already given your all, for almost two decades, to get where you are now. I ... are some (free) things on the Internet I enjoy now or enjoyed in high ... magic didn’t happen. MIT is not a magic wonderland. There are grades

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 8, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  other about plans. What are you gonna do with all your free time? Do you ... here are some pictures I took leading up to the move. This is what my ... nice day. Or, yeah, these are tough times, huh? Or, thank you so much

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself on choosing a college, and realizing one of many possible futures

  

  ...we have to build the Republic of Heaven where we are, because for us, there ... 2020 who are all struggling with the same basic decision as Sam: whether ... to go to college, anymore? Because these are MIT admits, they usually

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  Decisions are coming. That means a lot. It means that several ... ’ve frantically emailed the admissions office after realizing you made a horrible ... -qualified applicants are admitted to at least one top college. Admittedly, the

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

  It’s not fair! ... and why that's OK.

  

  consistency, so that similar decisions are made for similar applicants from the ... , where two-thirds of the class are selected before any regular action ... is access, and the standards are specified by the state legislature. If

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT Underwear Exposé (and Sorting Hat) The coolest data you never wanted to have.

  

  are also cupboards, some of them under stairs, where people have been ... mailing list with the color of the underwear you are wearing. (For a more ... boon to those of us who are data-curious and kind of creepy. All MIT

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Academic Conference and also things I have learned about publishing research in the past few months

  

  experience :P From what I have gleaned, conferences are basically places where ... seeing the work other researchers are doing, and it made me think about ... that took up a lot of my spring and summer, but I made it! So in this

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  good for their admission chances. WARNING: You are about to encounter a ... competitive admissions cycle, a journalist made calls to admissions offices ... inspired others, and the community came together and made a significant

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Subtle Black MIT Traits A few things I have experienced as a black person at MIT

  

  So quite recently I made a post on Facebook about a few things I had ... high school even though I normally went to schools where half of the ... are for a lot of people. Sadly, a lot of the high schools that are known

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 3, 2019
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  A Few of my Favorite Things (Counting Blessings) Maybe the most sentimental blog post I’ve written.

  

  animals on top of me where I had fallen asleep on the couch and, on a post ... , State College over eight years and Boston over the past three. Here are a ... made our bay in lab two semesters ago (at right). The smell of Cambridge

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 6, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  have done to help you get to where you are, not only by telling them so ... opportunities and has made choices about how to use those opportunities. I won ... support network is going to vary, but I don’t think that you could have made

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 13, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Move Fast And Break Things just make sure you have a net positive of unbreaks

  

  branches. It's sort of like a retrograde exchange program, where they use ... . Many hacks are internal, which is probably utterly uninteresting to you ... frugal reward of a warm fuzzy feeling of accomplishment and a free T

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  3 weeks in northern Italy Global Teaching Labs and MISTI-Italy

  

  smell and sizzling of hot breakfast, and coffee made for me as consolation ... , dark beer made richer with beaten eggs, and my uncle taught me how to ... changing texture. Why do I feel called to write about where I am from? Why

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 2, 2016
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  I Miss the South Musings on a secret Instagram account

  

  town, where the people I graduated high school alongside are the people I ... , I made a separate Instagram account to serve two dozen followers split ... are otherwise prohibited by my heavily restricted digital presence.  I

  • by Ella T. '25
  • October 1, 2022
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  A Midsemester Night’s Dream Technically an All-Nighter's Dream, but hey, close enough

  

  gradients and force fields that are all starting to blur together, and over on ... honestly haven’t figured that out yet. While those things are all certainly true, it doesn’t represent all of life here - psets are hard, but they

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 6, 2014