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• Blog / About Decisions

  In Praise Of Holistic Admissions not an admissions machine

  

  following quote:   One of the most important things about college is its ... - broadly defined - for college to matter.   I hope that this quote is ... didn't mean that it's a place to idly chat with people (although it is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  How to use these blogs Scattered thoughts on the information age, plus some bonus snark.

  

  possible, so that you can waste hours clicking arond to random interesting ... this blog- topics to cover, questions to answer, stuff like that, and I ... accurately be titled, "How to get the most out of reading the MITblogs," or

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  quit for a few hours after decisions came out, and had to wait about 90 ... . EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!! (it still took me an hour to open the decisions page) I didn ... .  We had a snow day and when I called my grandmother to tell her, she

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  17 Things I’ve Learned in the Past Year growing, growing, grown

  

  because it’s an of-the-moment thing that seems important to know, but it was ... because it’s important. I guess I’m now able to understand that sometimes ... textbooks. Sigh. 7. It is important to take care of your body and physical

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  ’ve had. It stretched to four hours and left me nonfunctional for the next ... decided to break up. Half an hour later he came up to my room to collect his ... outside. I’m trying to get nine hours of sleep a night, even if there’s work

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  : you end on why your work is important, and what you're going to be doing ... During election week, among all the chaos, I got the opportunity to ... 'm on Google Scholar and everything! I submitted some of my research to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  i made furry art for Caltech i have art powers and choose to use them for chaos

  

  pinned to a corkboard after only two hours of professional stalking. I ... to hall, but Winnie was right. It took an hour to get everyone packed ... -hour flight back to California. [caption id="attachment_85354" align

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • February 6, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  probably the least important part of an application to MIT. Not that numbers ... different social network sites, and been syndicated to CNN among a bunch of ... Mashable writer Sarah Kessler. Startup Splash Networks wants to make

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Bring your stuffed toys to class reflections on liminality

  

  . Come up with two very different ways to get from point A to point B ... silly hats not on Halloween. Wear silly hats to your lab section. Get people to ask questions about your silly hats. Take pictures of yourself

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

  The Long Road to Happiness Stuff no one likes to talk about...

  

  I’ve been meaning to write this blog post for a while, maybe since sophomore fall, and not really had the courage to do it or the time to think about what I wanted to say. When I was a freshman, I wrote two posts about

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 22, 2017
• Blog / Blog Projects

  My blogger bio over time what does it take to get to know someone?

  

  graduate. September 2019 What does it take to get to know someone? I could ... could talk for hours about Homestuck and grilled tomatoes and calligraphy. I’ll introduce you to some of my favorite board games. We can play

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 26, 2023
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  How To Make Mediocre Furniture well, maybe i'll let you be the quality judge

  

  for my grandmother, who loved to hear, and tell others, about my ... left with some extra wood stain, varnish, and desire to build things. So ... just leave them in the hallways to be taken. And we students do so, very

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 17, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Midsemester Night’s Dream Technically an All-Nighter's Dream, but hey, close enough

  

  I’ve decided to continue a long chain of poor decisions by starting to write this post at 5:38 AM. In front of me is an empty Pringles can and some iced tea, to my right is a notebook full of vectors and

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

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

  

  I linked to above, seriously, it's short and important) prompted a ... I would like to direct you to this blog entry before we begin ... culture of Conner 2 during my stay there. To the best of my knowledge there

  • by Snively '11
  • January 7, 2017
• Blog / Advice

  parallel universe for those feeling dejected

  

  elsewhere, if only for a few hours; one where a weekend trip with friends ... , diffuse, waiting to be molded into reality.

  • by Kai V. '25
  • December 19, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Thank you for reading A rigorous study of 26-year-olds (n=1) showed that getting older is positively correlated to the…

  

  when it comes to losing the most important person in your life, there is ... 've met because of them, and the important memories I have that are tied to ... We were asked to write an entry for the anniversary of the blogs, a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  tyrannosaurus REX the prefrosh are coming, the prefrosh are coming!

  

  's more important, now, to begin as you mean to go on. What does that entail ... .[annotation note= "And then some of them will leave again! To everyone heading to ... student IDs, looking around with their parents, hauling boxes up to their

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 20, 2019
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Train Coming on navigating

  

  exception of one or two family trips to Las Vegas. So, when I went to the east ...  worked-- even the supposedly "simple" things. I had no clue how to even board a plane, let alone how to get around [annotation note="to be clear, my

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 15, 2023
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Pictures from a Semester of Classes The Sequel Society Didn't Know It Needed

  

  Afterward, I had 3 hours to clean my room, pack 2 weeks of clothes, and get ... terminals. Took me about half an hour to get through TSA and reach my gate and from there I just chilled and listened to music for some hours while

  • by Richard O. '28
  • December 29, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Being “qualified” for MIT Let me show you how it's done.

  

  On Thursday, I sat in front of a camera for an hour (along with ... something international students have done in the past to make them qualified ... responded the same way we responded to all the questions about minimum SAT

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2011