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• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  When I hit puberty my inability to assess risk thank goodness ... -hipster phase. I loved setting up ridiculous goals and then reaching them, just to ... that I was working to get into MIT. If I got into MIT, I’d be happy. And

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 8, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Institute of Smashing What do you think MIT and a garbage compactor have in common?

  

  guarantee one thing:   You're going to be crushed   Now before ... first set of thoughts about coming here. Following CPW, you're positively ... here and quadruple-major, put your nose to grindstone, and crank out a

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.

  

  Writing after going to Ethiopia has always been impossible. When I was seven years old I took my first trip to Ethiopia with my family. My ... fueling only first-world solutions to first-world problems. She told me she

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  AOs write the “What do you do for fun?” essay Ever wondered what admissions officers do when they're not reading applications?

  

  -wracking freedom of moving to a new city, the overwhelming rush of first love, the ... the reasons I connected to her in the first place and discover new axes ... kid at heart. Danielle When I was recruited to do this post my first

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  crushed by my first semester of college. I need to ask you, has anyone ever ... person I looked up to when I first got in. You're so young, way too young ... Head over to /r/confession and you'll find this post lurking near the

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Today I hit my TA with a door I didn't MEAN to.

  

  . Which isn't AT ALL to say that I dropped it because of that first guy, but ... It wasn't like I meant to do it. I was late for recitation, and I ... unknown to the universe I went for the front door, all while my TA just

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 7, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Guest Entry: Stephanie Lin Presenting MIT's most recent Rhodes Scholar!

  

  (obligatory fun fact), really love parentheses and tend to write/talk too much (as you will soon see…). I’m incredibly excited to be going to Oxford next year via the Rhodes Scholarship, and Hamsika asked me to write some

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 12, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choice and the MIT lifestyle ...because "MIT" and "student life" aren't mutually exclusive.

  

  First, questions answered: 1. Many people wondered aloud how I was ... happen to be amazing). Monday and Wednesday nights are usually dedicated 5 ... recitation to revise problems or figure out problems I couldn't do on my own

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bursting the MIT Bubble 1.0 things to do in Downtown Boston

  

  expectations for my first oceanic viewing as well. When I first got to the Boston ... will also be the place to meet their best first-year friends (and look at ... regrettably failed to take advantage of its historical and culinary wonders, but

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  A Few Lessons from FLL

  

  . And, as I am gearing up to head to St. Louis for the FIRST World ... the FIRST robotics competition. There are two elements to the program: a ... you reward. The key is to measure and reward the outcomes you want. And

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • April 23, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  for construction in 1923, and opened to students for the first time in ... social demographics: East Campus was first allowed to go coed in 1970. By ... heading back to MIT (well, South Station in Boston) from my hometown of New

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Essay: Yogurt Edition! You like froyo? I like froyo! ^___^V

  

  : Should I get my teachers/friends to proofread the essay? For my very first college essay, I asked two teachers to revise it for me, since it was "omg-this-is-my-first ... of flavors, you get to customize it, and experimenting with new flavors

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Halloween is the best day of the year. Yes, I recognize that it is now closer to Thanksgiving than to Halloween. Sorry.

  

  , moving onto some pumpkins from this year: First person to figure out ... snowing heavily. Boston's gift to me: the first time I've seen snow on my ... -to-in-ages-because-you've-both-been-super-busy give you a call, or send

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s Not Me, It’s You How to kiss goodbye to a school that rejected you

  

  ambition was to be an officer in the British army. Despite his repeated ... foolish to recognize his potential. Washington rebounded from this ... own colonies, and becoming the iconic first president and, in many ways

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 29, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  to deny just how much of a curmudgeon I have become. I’m pretty sure ... difference in perspective relating to what applying to college is supposed to ... journalists appreciate. I have the luxury of being able to be a purist in this

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  island in an ocean, but it’s going to start with me at a desk in an office ... . It turned out to be for my grad student (I say “my”, but in reality I ... opened the package later, it turned out to be two Amazon Echoes. Nothing

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  College Shopping List Everybody do the shopping cart!

  

  Welcome to the scary world of College Shopping. Who knows what you ... what you should wait to buy in Cambridge? Who comes from far away and knows what's absolutely necessary to be brought from home and what can be

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 26, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Favorite Classes at MIT! survey says...

  

  . Not only did I get hands-on experiences as a first year, I got to ... to be his student. Larry Sass was the first Black professor I've ever ... class is wild. It's really your first introduction to the beauty of

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  nose to the paper, pencil poised, ready to race across the page as if those 60 seconds were going to be my last, and then loudly putting my pencil down announcing that I had finished first. In 4th grade, in

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  first time in my life, I’ve needed to schedule time for myself. I’ve set ... good enough answer to give justice to what I feel about MIT. Instead, I prefer to think of MIT as malingap, buwis-buhay, parang slow-mo, makulay

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019