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• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  given much. That does not mean that everyone has received in equal measure ... outcome, the real work is just beginning. An admission decision, as ... have applied to, you have an obligation not simply to avoid squandering

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 13, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Day in the Life Liveblog of my Thursday complete with (not so great) pictures

  

  I'm probably running late (this is not an uncommon thing) 9:30am out ... 't know what questions I would ask them, or the omnipresent fear of not ... -the-scenes meetings that go into writing and producing not only the TV show itself but

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 15, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why My 5.13 Problem Set Took All Day Moral of the story: Don't procrastinate, or I'll never talk to you again.

  

  'LL NEVER SPEAK TO YOU AGAIN." It hasn't worked so far - Thursday was the day ... -pushing mechanisms warms my heart like a big hug from Bryan Nance (not that I ever get ... pset once again. 4:45 PM: Almost three hours of work. Celebratory email

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  SHASS Hack feminist hacktivism

  

  communities they work with. This is not to say that the individuals recognized here do not deserve recognition but rather that in choosing to display ... that are not white cis-men. -the hackers And recreate the display they

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 4, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.

  

  . At the end of undergrad, I was deciding between going and working in ... engineering to pursue a PhD in biological engineering at MIT. (It’s not as crazy of a leap as you might imagine). My PhD work combined proteomics with

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  start. But however scary that may sound, this is not a post about how stressed I am, or how much work MIT is, or how to handle it, because I ... , this post is about having fun and not taking life too seriously. Conner

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Reflections on 50 Things thinking back on The Blogfather's wisdom in my senior year

  

  played Some Nights by fun. over and over on that first independent work ... college. Try not to become nocturnal, despite The Blogfather’s advice. You ... , but I discovered that my brain works much better in emergency conditions

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  did not. We both got back to work. Anonymous ‘20   I was accepted ... heard her (she was not on speaker). N.T. ‘21 (Early Action) I bought ... eat the ice cream to celebrate; if I did not, I would eat the ice cream

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Advice

  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  continuing something i started that's not working, i can try something else ... dr licorish on a tuesday morning, during an hour off work. we talked ... when, last saturday, i found no fun working on huntinality's puzzles

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 22, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] You Have a 50/50 Chance a guest post from my mama

  

  ? [annotation note="Hello! Cami here. This is not at all true. But I love my ... concert that was not going to start until 8 PM that night. (Don't get me ... , I asked myself "What am I doing here? I'm not even watching the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Flying Close to the Sun a semester of fire

  

  were: writing a first author paper on my UROP work helping run the ... "]brimstone[/annotation].  For the past year and a half, I’ve been working on my current UROP with ... mentorship. I’ve had some prior experience working with relevant computing

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  TeX-based CAPTCHA, and the super PAC Why Not ZoidPAC?, of which he is President and ... lengths to advertise itself as a place not only of rigorous academics, but ... with dining and housing options. However, this was not always the case

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Bleary-eyed Some thoughts and reflections on this year's admission cycle - particularly for those not admitted.

  

  favorites would not get admitted, and for all the work and effort that was put ... .g., the admit rate is now 9.6% instead of 13%). This post will not be as ... , upside-down transcripts, and more. My eyes have not been thankful for that

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 16, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Underwater Dreams (from a distance) A reflection on immigration, student activism, and civic engagement at MIT.

  

  , college. People asked me, I wondered, why am I working so hard if there’s no ... Ruben a two-year work permit and exemption from deportation. “It’s a ... through.” And DACA does not offer protection to everyone. He echoed Sofia

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2014
• Blog / Advice

  You don’t have to be a founder move slow and fix things

  

  , Standards Engineers, and Introverts Create Technologies that Kind of Work Most ... " an average of once per page. Replicating a previous work's experiments ... ' Guild, work can be anything from helping cart the Nerf guns to and from

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 29, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer…” wherein Neil Armstrong's legacy kicks off a year of Unified Engineering, and I reflect on…

  

  . Maybe we're not all white socks/pocket protector (about a third of us are ... see, to be quite honest, Course 16 is not designed like many other ... , and enjoyed building things. 2. I was not very good at building things

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 9, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2) My take on the MIT short essays.

  

  things first - the "Pleasure" and the "Department" prompts are not really ... admission officers ("adcoms") are not looking for "standard" answers, and you ... that MIT DOES NOT admit on a quota, and you WILL NOT be penalized by

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Shiny Circuits Shiny, in some subcultures at MIT, means REALLY AWESOME

  

  the life of an MIT student, my pictures are not about my life as an MIT ... the year in 6.131, students have just finished working late nights to create a system that lets them drive a go-cart. Now they're working on

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 31, 2009
• 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

  

  his freshman year, and has been working at Draper Labs since the ... school class, and the first male valedictorian in 10 years -- he's not a ... , giving him a not-particularly-spectacular combined score of 1400. (Note

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Reflections

  

  to take 8.02. Everyone who works at MIT is expected to innovate, to ... which I am not grateful for the privilege of having been a part of that ... convinced that you don't find MIT; rather, MIT finds you. This may not be

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014