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• Blog / About Decisions

  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  grad school now, I lose the job offer I have open, and there are no ... up in one week — whether to go to graduate school, or whether to accept my job offer at the finance company I worked at last summer — is very

  • by Paolo A. '21 G
  • April 20, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  study spots at MIT not exactly places to cry, but they'll do

  

  'll probably have to share during the day when it's busy Ida Green Room (9th ... light (near the skylights) Cons super busy between classes, hard to ... to food places located in building Cons loud busy, you

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview It's only going to be as fun as you want it to be.

  

  the same-old "words of comfort" that adcoms offer to students," and ... colleges) is quite often a way to help you know more about the school, for the school to know more about you as a person, and for you to address

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 26, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the exclusion of everything else on making decisions, and how i chose mit

  

  admitted students weekend of another school in the Northeast, which we ... offers to give me some money for breakfast or something, which was very ... . Luckily enough, the Logan wasn’t as busy as I was warned it would be the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  . And just look at the two campus maps. MIT is a school of numbers ... minutes. You get 1,000+ class options per semester, plus grad school classes ... teenagers of ages fourteen to eighteen. This destination is a high school

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.

  

  the Norwottuck Rail Trail from my house in Belchertown to school in ... , and the varying degrees in between. I always recommend driving (or

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Grey and Other Colors

  

  ’ve never felt that more than now. Having just graduated from school, I ... student, you’re driven by the mentality of getting into a good school, completing your degree, landing a great job, etc. Now that I’m out on my own

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And sometimes why? A reality check on the state of my MIT blogging.

  

  reason. David, my freshman year roommate, was a Mexican who went to school ... high school Spanish day by day, and all I had really known to begin with ... semester at MIT, I enrolled in German I. My high school math teacher had told

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 18, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  this post so late? I was busy, okay."]November 23 and 24,[/annotation ... school students all over campus. It’s huge. Huge. The other really notable ... high school again, just so I could go to Splash and take classes. Some

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  In my (high-school) senior spring, when I was almost sure I planned ... life even if one does fail out of school (and your interests are academic ... high school economics classes, and Michelle mentioned that she also hadn

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Let’s Go Fly A Kite Up to decision night!

  

  offer from Apple and a congratulatory call from the President, with the ... definitions of “well-qualified” and “top school” are subjective, but the point still remains. Getting rejected from a top school, particularly MIT, isn

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

  : "Describe the world you come from; for example, your family, clubs, school ... my school's community I've had plentiful opportunities to challenge ... "Economics" in my degree to tell you that. I consider myself ridiculously

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

  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  conversation with my supervisor about grad school and grades and my future in the ... , and fell asleep. Friday evening I went to visit my high school friend ... was a spark, an extra degree of freedom, a young, harmonious vitality

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

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  were valedictorians of their high school. Aha! MIT must highly value ... probably doing pretty well in high school. Additionally, we highly value ... considered in a complex ecology of decisionmaking? To some degree, yes; that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  15']my own process of applying to grad school,[/annotation] where to be ... way you wanted. My first graduate school application came back on my ... academic offerings at MIT. But the two seniors in our group both said they

  • by Paolo A. '21 G
  • March 16, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  New Mexico at a six-week astrophysics program for High School students ... School in 2010. All summer, I obsessively checked the admissions page ... posts sounded a bit artificial. I then got very busy. This is the hardest

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who

  

  , a department under MIT’s School of Humanities, Arts, and Social ... in Chapter 2 of The Business of Media Distribution. He notes that ... hype, subscriber shoutouts—all ways to offer digital feedback. More than

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 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…

  

  school or early college, far fewer students decide to 'take a shot' at ... middle school and high school, explored extracurriculars, and now attend ... -percent-Asian high school would express a similar sentiment. I know that I have close

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 9, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  was awkward, always too busy reading to pay attention to others, and ... middle school. By high school, I had grown used to being treated ... extremely clear, '28th best high school violinist in South Dakota' is not a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Liveblog: Info Session with Karyn Blaser! Learn about MIT

  

  institvte as a whole, not to a particular major or school. There are separate "schools" here, but they aren't really distinct and are kind of a technicality. School 1 = Engineering, 58% of students. School 2 = Science. School

  • by Snively '11
  • October 12, 2009