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• Blog / About Decisions

  Remember to Breathe Chicken Soup for the Applicant's Soul

  

  So many of you are starting off with college applications trying to ... million extracurriculars I was involved in. A word of advice: Take a deep ... stressful, believe me, I'm applying to graduate school and every day I call my

  • by Bryan
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Juniors: Sign up for SAT Subject Tests SAT Subject Test registration deadline is April 28.

  

  Admissions web sites of all of the schools that you are considering to ... the final time this school year on Saturday, June 3. The deadline for ... preference between any of the tests. You should take whichever math test best

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 13, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Trick or Treating Halloween Shenanigans

  

  the usual business of walking up long driveways and knocking on doors ... on my butt) around the ice rink a couple of times, sans costume. But ... phone when I discovered a picture of 6 or 7 year old me dressed up as a

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • November 1, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  EA Decisions Some facts and figures to put it into perspective

  

  In a year of record early action applications, 590 students have been admitted to the MIT Class of 2014. There were 5,684 Early Action applicants ... between early and regular action admissions, meant that only 10.4% of

  • by Decisions
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  In Defense of Peer Pressure or, why my hair is now purple

  

  Peer pressure gets a bad rap. Since elementary school you've been taught “Don't give in to peer pressure!”--an oversimplification of a ... , come to think of it, I can swim across the Charles... My point is: peer

  • by Kate R. '14
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes Time may change me, but I can't trace time..

  

  college kids, kids who love their school and have never experienced many of ... senior two months before he leaves for grad school on the opposite side of ... [To be honest, I've had a little bit of writer's block lately, under

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 28, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Reflections from the “other side” of the desk Even when you are gone, you can't really get away

  

  It has only been a couple of months since I left MIT Admissions for a ... official member of the broader MIT community, I find that it is difficult for ... wonderfully idiosyncratic family of the admissions office, who will always be

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A brief history of 2.007, the MIT class that inspired FIRST Robotics Complete with 1970s-era footage of Woodie Flowers

  

  If you're like me (and I'm willing to bet a lot of our readers), then you spent last Friday and Saturday eagerly awaiting the unveiling of the ... high school student, and which I have been involved with as a student

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Brain Dump This is going to be ~14 entries in one - my fault for being too…

  

  This is going to be ~14 entries in one - my fault for being too busy ... audience, all of us mentally picturing images of cute, fuzzy baby birds. So I ... visualization, oscilloscope showing the waveform of the music, and surveillance

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some Perks Of Life At The ‘Other’ Cambridge [by Mirat Shah '08] Along with ~40 other MIT students, I am studying abroad at…

  

  University as part of the Cambridge-MIT Exchange. I was disappointed to see no coverage of study abroad at MIT in the blogs, so I asked if I could write about my experiences here as a guest author. First off, some perks of life

  • by Cambridge
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  list of things that refill my will to live things to do when i don't want to do anything

  

  memories of high school one night i had a breakdown at 2 in the morning in ... the halfway point of the camp and we were all sad about it being halfway ... of my friends this surreal video about studying math because the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 9, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

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

  

  : Firstly, MIT will train you how to think. The Latin motto of this school is ... thesis mode. Now I have 60+ pages of it finished, and trying to get words out of me is starting to feel like making myself vomit when there

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s that time of the year again If you want to do a UROP this semester, now is the time to contact…

  

  Fund which supports women UROP students pursing research in the School of Science. ItТƒфs pretty easy to apply for one of these awards, just write ... will be more willing to hire you and there is not a lot of hassle with

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 10, 2006
• Blog / Personal Projects

  reflecting on 2020 goals and planning for 2021

  

  In high school, I neglected many of my personal interests to make ... time. I bought a DSLR in high school but it was mostly unused. A lot of ... books is nothing to the number of books I used to read in middle school

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • March 30, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  The ratio of people to cake is too big.

  

  !, 2003 (this puzzle, instead of a word answer, has an image for an answer ... at Diesel Cafe. Reading is kind of like studying: everyone needs to ... yesterday, because I had lost my trusty Swingline stapler, one of my crucial

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 13, 2005
• Blog / Events

  I’m embarrassed to be writing this entry. The one where Matt regresses back to being a 12 year old boy.

  

  ) Huckabees, School of Rock, and Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle. There ... Yesterday evening at MIT had a fairly random pair of events: First ... advance screening of Blades of Glory by the Lecture Series Committee (LSC

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 23, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  What the end of the semester does to Conner 2 For one thing, no one does the dishes. And I mean no one.

  

  " of intro bio- another flavor offered in the fall as 7 ... 'm happy to be getting lots and lots of sleep in my FULL SIZE (!) bed at home. Almost all of my grades are in and I'm also happy to report that I did much

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Terence ‘13 The second in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  Today, we continue the series Introducing the Class of 2013: Terence ... school and to get accepted into a great college. Sometimes this dream can seem out of reach because of where family lives, but is that always true

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 22, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mini-Guide to the GIRs Now I've been through them - don't make the same mistakes I did.

  

  - you would soon discover that a regular high school courseload of 7 ... from high school in the back of my mind, "You should be taking the MOST ... (yes, I got to go to school for the last two weeks of my high school

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 10, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

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  poor family and a bad school, which would you take?" Well, of course this ... morning of reading, I had lunch at the Stata Center (or Building 32, or ... another of Frank Gehry's buildings, Disney Hall in Los Angeles, might have

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2004