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  Subtle Black MIT Traits A few things I have experienced as a black person at MIT

  

  high school even though I normally went to schools where half of the ... are for a lot of people. Sadly, a lot of the high schools that are known to send a lot of students to high level schools just don’t have a very

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  good,” of getting into the schools. Admission Splash currently runs ... to selective schools - or, at the very least, if you're thinking of ... different social network sites, and been syndicated to CNN among a bunch of

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

  My College Essay Early Action / November 2005. ~500 words await.

  

  of my classmates come from private schools, and many buy prep books for ... was a fantastic twist of fate. How much would have changed if the ... frantic night of keyboard-banging, friend-proofreading, and increasing panic

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The end of a chapter

  

  beginning of the school year, being away from all my friends and getting used ... was in desperate need of some de-stressing) then came back to Cambridge ... my year abroad and now, I can’t take some of the classes I really want

  • by Linh V. '13
  • July 8, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Guest Entry: Christina Bognet Supplemental materials to help you through the next few days.

  

  of my best friends, Colin, as we chatted about getting into our respective first choice schools early decision. "I have a really good feeling ... rational in convincing myself that things would turn out okay, at the end of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 8, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions of Travel a guest post by Spencer W. '15

  

  1,126 students joined the Institute as freshman in the fall of 2011. One of them was Spencer Wilson, a young man from the small town of Moultrie, Georgia, where he and his carpenter dad worked on a lot of projects

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  out of battery. Naturally, I decide to be the hero, and offer to tape my ... , debugging a server at my desk outside the office of the graduate student I was ... one of many lessons the Media Lab taught me this summer: Lesson #1

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

  To the Deferred I feel your pain.

  

  the release of EA decisions. I seriously pondered skipping school that ... plethora of emotions that come with it. Right now, some of you are nearly giddy with elation, having just learned of your acceptance. Some of you

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  yourself what you've gotten yourself into, let me assure you of another truth ... first set of thoughts about coming here. Following CPW, you're positively electric with the thought of classes and schoolwork. You think you'll come

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.08: Intro to EECS via Interconnected Embedded Systems aka: the class that convinced me i belong at mit

  

  big hopes of working in biomedical engineering and product design. Now, with my last final of my freshman year tomorrow, I am now a computer ... me the strength to declare the major that I did: 6.08 6.08 is one of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 21, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  , and most of the other schools I applied to were art schools anyway. My ... (already a year out of high school) came over on Pi Day to hang out for a bit ... Note: all stories below are unedited accounts of current and former

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• 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 ... officers follow the winds to the corners of the country to talk to students and hawk their school. I recently returned from my travel, which took

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

  demons on depression

  

  images in one's mind. It turns out the majority of people, when asked to visualize something, kind of see a picture in their head vividly, which can ... are around three percent of people who are completely unable to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 28, 2021
• 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…

  

  week before I update you on the last 5 months of my life. Right now, this is about you, because as of RIGHT NOW, you only have this much time ... UChicago the night it was due, I figure a few of you might need this reminder

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

  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  done. It's just a crawl to the end of the school year before you can do ... from feelings of social isolation, of losing my friends in high school ... 's very easy to get caught up in the daily metronome of life, especially

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  offer of admission, from the big name universiy, that will impress their ... to deny just how much of a curmudgeon I have become. I’m pretty sure that it is not simply a function of age, but rather a fundamental

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  How Wrestling With Snapping Turtles Can Get You Into MIT A student profile of an aspiring limnologist.

  

  As someone whose idea of Friday night fun in high school involved (a) spending three hours with a bunch of other nerds and a stack of pizza boxes ... and I said "MIT," I got a lot of blank looks. My school was in a small

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to choose your major putting people in boxes, feat. credit for reddit, social science, and lots of yarn.

  

  your life and you're kind of interested in a lot of things and everything ... * Choosing between the forty-nine majors that MIT offers can be a nerve ... project in itself) so we took some of the patterns from our interviews and

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 6, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  So drastic and inevitable, the leap from high school to college seems ... . That hope was certainly true of me, and from chatting with friends ... Great Gatsby, “the Great American Novel”, is a book most of us have to go

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Avatar and Desserts Exploring Food Art

  

  . Desserts offer more flexibility in terms of color and textures, and after ... her it was for a school project (which is true!!).  Back to Table of ... episodes. Here are some pictures. The rest of the blog is me explaining how

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • December 10, 2020