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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  History textbook The American Pageant, and my friend Davie ('12) is sitting opposite me, resting on his elbow and playing Words With Friends. He ... asked him whether "Cloudy Apple" is good, and Davie's response was "it

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Hawk Flies High Spontaneous jazz improv at 77 Massachusetts Avenue.

  

  Boston university, the Berklee College of Music, plays tenor and soprano ... over our footsteps and shouting in an otherwise silent and uneventful night. At first I attributed it to the loudspeakers that blast rock and

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • August 7, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Future Is Grim check it out

  

  Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department (or EECS for short (or ... in 1980, and presumably hasn't left his lab and doesn't know what year ... numerous committees and won countless awards for his excellence in teaching

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 28, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Few Words

  

  a good ten minutes, I decided to call home and get my mom to check for ... to be rejected, my mom would see it first. But still, I called. And told her how to log in. And listened to her read the letter. And

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 14, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice On The Essay The rules are simple: write your own.

  

  ;would love to interview an admissions officer from your prestigious university ... piece of prose worthy of a magazine, or something that has been edited and edited and edited by a variety of different people. Just a voice, and

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  This next week and a half promises to be electrifying. We’re on the brink of an epic hurricane, a Presidential election, and either the most ... about me, about MIT, and about why I haven’t talked to you in a month

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
• 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.

  

  various rearrangements of the Institute furniture and our heavy, multiple ... awesome responses I got. Jenny R. ‘15 Eli [D. ‘15] and I painted our door ... wrote the code to make the panorama: basically, you detect features and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 13, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  senioritis not to be confused with señoritis

  

  less about me and more about helping others. a friend recently shared the ... the cosmic fabric of the universe, you certainly can do positive work ... 'm hoping the rest of my (and your) senior year pans out like that.

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 10, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paths there are so many

  

  We were deferred when we applied early to MIT, and remember how ...  having gone through the college application process, and two years (going on ... go down this route! We've been there (way too many times), and it just

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 19, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Thong I Should Be Wearing [UPDATE] Sexy sexy undies.

  

  , Wellesley College, and Bob Jones University. None of them had actually been on ... accepted to several tech schools and the comic strip writer decided that he ... and, well -- I read this before I came to MIT and thought it was one

  • by Snively '11
  • November 1, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

  , Economics, and Data Science) But the most important thing that I take with me ... team of capable people who will support, surprise and inspire each other ... , community, city, or town. How has that world shaped your dreams and

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 6, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sibling dynamics at MIT yes lmao Nisha and I are related

  

  state, and having the same damn last name isn’t enough—at a blogger ... A little while ago, I got my first(?) mention on MIT Confessions, and ... me assuming that I’m Nisha, and I hear “Ankita, I thought I saw you at

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 20, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Physics Prof. Peter Fisher on Conan A freshman physics professor helps the late night talk show host break a record. [with…

  

  light shows, a visit to the doctor, a turtle race, and ring spinning. In ... , this is a physics problem. And when there's an important physics problem ... disposal"), MIT researcher Jocelyn Monroe, and his daughter. My favorite

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  different social network sites, and been syndicated to CNN among a bunch of ... , address, and other factors that affect admissions, like whether they ... , it is much worse than unhelpful. It, and tools like it, actively harm

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  US Army and the Massachusetts State Police and now runs his own private ... editor. He had to trim it a bit, but it's still an improvement.” “And what ... moments at MIT when I’ve felt really awesome and really, really badass (not

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

  Guest Entry: Stephanie Lin Presenting MIT's most recent Rhodes Scholar!

  

  !!) with a minor in Applied International Studies and concentration in ... (obligatory fun fact), really love parentheses and tend to write/talk too much ... next year via the Rhodes Scholarship, and Hamsika asked me to write some

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 12, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The Great Wifi Outage of 2007 Burton-Conner's wifi went out two days ago; Evan will tell you more by the end…

  

  -renowned geneticist and the former director of the Whitehead Institute, as well as a ... worthless Conner 3 residents, and a bloody dormwide revolution ignited when someone whipped their shirt around their head and declared, "YOU CAN TAKE

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• 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

  

  , Adam '07, and his admissions story. (Well, that and I took a thermo test today, and I was planning to write about tests. But Laura beat me to it ... , build them, and fly them (guess who the cameraperson was on that video? Oh

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

  I want you to burn Unfortunately, usually somebody just blew up their spaghetti-o's.

  

  though we haven't meaningfully updated our web page in two and a half years ... kitchen--sink, cabinets, two refrigerators, stove, and oven. No lugging a ... burrito, or that you shouldn't put pita chips in the oven and then forget

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  101 Things To Do Before You Graduate! 102. Read this blog entry.

  

  ! 101. EARN YOUR MIT DEGREE(S)! Biology AND History! :D Been there ... since my freshman year, and I just asked Grace to take a photo of her list ... , considering that I never went out of my way to do anything and most of the list

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 15, 2011