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  A Brief History of Cars on Fire at MIT You didn't think I would miss an anniversary, did you?

  

  , who mentioned it in an email to me: I saw the car after it had been pulled up the side of the dorm where I lived during my sophomore year. It ... If you're the kind of person who remembers to look up once in a

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT, part deux The case study of someone else you wouldn't expect to have gotten in

  

  physics... and a 450 in writing. (Note: Adam and I are always warring about ... , pictures of rockets on the wall -- and I can't imagine he hadn't dreamed of ... on how I got here is the most popular thing I've ever written

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the Deferred I feel your pain.

  

  . ~*~ I started tossing essay ideas around in my mind soon after the 2009 ... Monday, simply because I knew I wouldn't be able to focus in any of my ... was one of those kids. I made it here. You can too.

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bring your stuffed toys to class reflections on liminality

  

  about how you can't do this after you graduate. Worry about how you can't stay in MIT forever. Talk to all your friends about how you can't stay in ... . Learn where all the ramps and elevators are. Grumble when there's no

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 11, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Applying Sideways How to get in to MIT.

  

  in between over the course of a few days. I visited big high schools ... to a thousand-person MIT revival in an Atlanta auditorium. Whenever I ... , which is this: How do I get in to MIT? And here is what I tell them

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Admissions Excavation Chris gave me a box of stuff and this is what I found inside

  

  ? (Edit: I've recieved confirmation from a couple of alums in the comments ... I was in third grade when those students were running around MIT), and ... , I trekked over to the admissions office to pick up this: And my

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Units of Measure A simple question with a lot of cool answers

  

  written I moved into the same dorm, the same floor in fact, as Sam - Conner ... assigned to them by another member of Conner 2. I can't remember all of the ... at MIT, and in the years since I graduated, I've continued to collect

  • by Snively '11
  • January 7, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bad Ideas Weekend 2019 good times

  

  and down in excitement. I had a bunch of them and they were really good ... worst of the bad ideas I took part in. It was so bad that I wrote an ... someone had the bad idea to run the test in the East Campus courtyard, I

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 3, 2019
• 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 ... them still intact. Sorry for the “Admittedly” pun back there. I just can ... myself that I do, in fact, have free will. For example, on a whim, I

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Views of Campus, the Charles River, and the First Snow with a snowman and a snow dalek

  

  ’s campus, especially Stata. I personally love the dissonance in the ... ’re walking in. I spent a few evenings last summer and this winter so far ... the Charles River was through a downpour, when I was temped in Mac

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 20, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  How to look over your application and advice about breathing. My older younger brother is your age. I am fully aware of how much you’re…

  

  I was back in the day, or my younger brother is right now, or like ... Oh man, it has been a while and a half since I’ve blogged. However, this is not important, and you guys can probably stand to wait another

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ATHack A day well spent helping others

  

  , I took part in my first hackathon- The Assistive Technologies ... team and I met at 8:30 AM in this cool lab space called Beaver Works. I ... ) and also amazing. I teared up a little when I got to see him in the

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Mischievous Anniversary Tonight Four score and ten years ago...

  

  of everyone at the Institvte in front of Killian. I don't have a ... find themselves in places where they don't normally go. You've ... about half a decade more, in which time two identical extensions would be

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • June 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  halloween down the infinite

  

  Happy [annotation note="so if you think about it i'm technically still on time in pacific standard time. but also i girlbossed a little too ... also really wanted to learn how to lift weights and Get Buff (so i can

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 1, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab How to lose a phone in 90 seconds

  

  . One day last summer, while I was working as a UROP in the Media Lab ... . It turned out to be for my grad student (I say “my”, but in reality I ... dawned on me that in order to use Android Device Manager, I'd have to log

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Putting Diversity into Context The diverse ways that colleges and universities define diversity

  

  great interest. In my role as the Director of Minority Recruitment, I ... in a highly selective college admissions process. Instinctively, I knew ... . In that respect, I appreciate the spotlight that is now shining

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paths there are so many

  

  feels awful. Instead, tell yourself: "In my circumstances, I tried my ... , whatever works). Let's do it together: In my circumstances, I tried my best ... heartbreaking it felt. We obsessed over MIT unhealthily to the point where going

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 19, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  There Is No Formula A formula would take the human component out of our process, which is perhaps the…

  

  our applications. It’s not anything I can explain – you just know when ... .) Here’s an equally important message: I saw the “perfect match” in a bunch ... , there is nothing I can say here to make this fact easier to digest. But

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 16, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Perkus Nonacademia MIT will give you more than just an engineering degree.

  

  friends I meet more great friends and so on and so forth. In fact, this is ... brief background, I made some really close friends in Oregon. Now that ... I'm chugging into my 3rd year here at MIT blogging, studying, and

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Women’s Soccer Talking to the 2009 NEWMAC Champs after they returned from the NCAA National Championship Tournament

  

  accomplishments in soccer, you can tell that these women are not only extremely ... really sure why I'm writing in pink -- Liz and Meghan asked me to do it ... When I came to MIT I joined the marching band. We played at all sorts

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 25, 2009