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  In Search of Answers Seeking recommendations, rather than providing them...

  

  make the choice between enrolling at MIT or one of our similarly ... When most people learn what kind of work I do, they often speculate ... point out that I am just a single member of an otherwise exceptional group

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Praise Of Holistic Admissions not an admissions machine

  

  following quote:   One of the most important things about college is its ... sorts of people from all sorts of backgrounds and you learn from each ... socialization. And so we have to take a great deal of care in constituting the

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

  The Adventures of Flat Tim And his admissions officer friend!

  

  . ----- After 5+ years at MIT Admissions, I’ve accumulated quite a lot of mileage ... Before I started working at MIT, I had never driven on the ... adults. Former Director of Admissions Matt forced me to practice driving as

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • June 6, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  “He touched the brim of his hard hat and glanced back at the dome ... thesis defense was at 9:30am over Zoom, with a committee of six professors ... that the road ended so abruptly -- a two-hour Zoom call at the end of a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• 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.

  

  pumpkin in my life, which is part of why the pumpkins that emerge at French ... also has a host of other talents): Now, take a look at this ... girl, since I kind of gave that away) wins. 5: At the pumpkin drop, a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 15, 2011
• 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.

  

  At the end of the semester I emailed Random Hall’s social mailing list asking people to send me their projects. Here are some of the ... 'm super proud of this mural. Before MIT I would have said I wasn't at all

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The joys of web development or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the web

  

  about the comfort of knowing there's at least one thing out there that I ... is kind of annoying, and I enjoyed programming more when I’m not doing ... short answer is that I discovered the joys of web development. The long

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 9, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  learned everything I needed to at MIT. But in these moments of reflection ... that first taste of intrinsic change, using the time at home to reflect ... was academics. It was the feeling of running freely and openly at MIT to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The rise and fall of CPW all the cpw history, plus proof the weather machine is fake

  

  myself looking at dozens of issues over dozens of years, digging through ... efforts were necessary, because at the time, a smaller proportion of ... recommendation of a committee that parties be shut down at 1 AM, which I think

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hacking A performance art that lets students remind the teachers who's smarter.

  

  should make a point of getting on that train.* I get asked about hacking at ... Truman's blog. A-ha! Hacking at MIT! There have been a bunch of entries ... incentive for me to just enjoy looking at the fire truck on top of the dome

  • by Snively '11
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fit or happiness made easy

  

  along with a big helping of the word "fit". At this point, it's a buzzword ... room and see if we could find pieces of ourselves reflected back at us ... natural, where you can focus your efforts on achieving instead of diverting

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Burton 1 Social Club This Thanksgiving, I'm thankful for my ridiculous, hilarious, amazing floor.

  

  living groups but also of universities), so it's really fantastic that at ... at the end of the day. We're so cool that we were not only one of the ... at a corner of the table, not distrubed by the lack of attention

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a freshman year 🦴🧠🩸🖐️🫀 my first year at mit, told through the body

  

  stud that i could go to at any time, even odd hours of the night, and ... expo, or attending freshman formal at the top of the prudential. along ... into crochet, because one of my roommates at the time, sharon z ’27, had

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  look of sadness when it came. I figured, MIT is for those other kids at ... Note: all stories below are unedited accounts of current and former ... screamed loud enough that the person on the other side of the living room

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Few of my Favorite Things (Counting Blessings) Maybe the most sentimental blog post I’ve written.

  

  made our bay in lab two semesters ago (at right). The smell of Cambridge ... summer. The morning after I got here, I woke up to a pile of stuffed animals on top of me where I had fallen asleep on the couch and, on a post

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 6, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mostly Harmless Rifle. As in, the phys ed class. As in, I fired one.

  

  with my glasses on. This time I aimed at the bottom of the bull’s eye, at ... at hand, not the pressure of the tasks coming up. I try to do my best ... . Look at the long game. A lot of times we get all focused and wound up on

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 22, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Really Just Cannot Write Anymore of My Thesis I wish I can bang out essays like blog entries.

  

  examination at MIT, and I didn't feel a sense of relief. Just moments after the ... " questions that used to be at the end of your math textbook in every section ... impress your guests at cocktail parties with the precise names of all the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing is Magic And 15 minutes is all you need

  

  magic. Take a look at what one member of the MIT faculty, Nick Montfort ... ’t updated it lately. It’s not because I’m tired of writing- I’m not. And it certainly isn’t because of a lack of material. I have more material than ever

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 13, 2011
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  Pictures from a Semester of Classes The Sequel Society Didn't Know It Needed

  

  Athletic Center which marked the end of a very long first semester at MIT. So ... : BU Expedition So at some point in the middle of the semester one of my ... wholesome (He's also the same professor from that slide at the beginning of

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

  The Room(s) Where It Happens You've hit submit. What Comes Next?

  

  world. Many of us read at home 5-6 days of the week throughout November ... with the same people. Moving at a [annotation note='For those of you who ... of committee and various checks and balances. At the end of the process

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • January 9, 2019