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• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s not fair! ... and why that's OK.

  

  virtually anyone trying to make sense of the college admissions process. In ... for all the children in the world, but I will give you my take on the ... admissions staff thinks that you can hack it, you're in. How can they do that

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things Charles Has Made fare thee well, rocket powered roller skates

  

  just made these really cool things. In the same vein I posted Carlos, the man who built a 20 foot flamethrowing exoskeleton in my linkdump post a ... Guan. Charles will be graduating tomorrow with a degree in mechanical

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  What’s the big deal about 40^2?

  

  Okay, so I'm in the middle (towards the end) of a long day of reading ... recently. I come to the second to last piece in the folder, which is the ... highlighter for, circle in big red pen, make it the focus of your case. In fact

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 20, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  theme song on the piano in the middle of the room. Nearby, an ... grasping. I soaked it all in and confirmed that MIT was for me. I was ... times were probably in their rooms behind closed doors, waiting for the

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  'll reproduce the post here: I'm a senior in high school this year, and will be ... truly the smartest in my class. However, this past year has shown me that ... I should have gotten B's in several other classes as well, but I

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  College Shopping List Everybody do the shopping cart!

  

  what you should wait to buy in Cambridge? Who comes from far away and ... -shopping, as was Melis's list. If you're interested in finding out what you already have in your room, that list'll let you know: essentially, bed

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 26, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Avatar and Desserts Exploring Food Art

  

  childhood shows like SpongeBob or Dora. A lot of channels I had access to in Ethiopia like Nickelodeon or Cartoon Network were dubbed in Arabic because ... Diaries💀💀 but I digress"]show.[/annotation]   Meanwhile, sometime in June, my

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • December 10, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  ’s not acute. I haven’t shouted in the courtyard in frustration. I haven ... spotless. Moving out, of course, is just the move-in process in reverse. I ... know what you’re doing this summer? Do you still plan to live in EC in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HOW TO FORGE A DRAGON SWORD and other skills picked up in 3.096

  

  things) slowly. Feel the heat rising from them. I move differently in the ... student in the class showed, into wavy table legs). we also learned how to ... element of ironwork to iterate 5 times in an exploratory project. I decided

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 7, 2023
• 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 ... science major (with a potential double major in ???? because there's too much I'm interested in), and I really have to credit one class for giving

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 21, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  taken from Your Last First Day in There Is No Antimemetics Division. There ... 's your chance. (There are five parts in the series; Your Last First Day is ... , that I would need to pare down my focus or I'd drown in the torrent of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear My Old Friend, This is quite possibly weirdest way to introduce myself

  

  for the prompt “Picture the one person in the world you really wish were reading your blog. Write her or him a letter.” I wrote elsewhere in the ... , I guess. God, why is this so difficult? I’m just talking in circles

  • by ana~
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing I don’t have time for hosed into my core

  

  respectively. And that was really reflected this weekend in the difference ... , and instead put in earplugs to focus. I didn’t just read recitation ... reflected in this. And right after I finished at 9:30 tonight, I was hit by

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 25, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  In 1st grade, there were these 1-sided sheets of simple math problems ... pencil down announcing that I had finished first. In 4th grade, in ... ’ people, knowing that I would win. But as I moved up in the hierarchy of

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
• Blog / Advice

  Words of Advice for the Incoming Class you did it! now what?

  

  we are trying something new! if you'd like to consume this blog in ... in reality, you were admitted because you are already prepared. If you ... school -- why not take a break and relax knowing that MIT is in your pocket

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the contours of a wild ride 2.009 😤

  

  E capstone class in which six teams each create a new product. It's known for ... Wallace stood in a gigantic tree. We also built products. The first month ... -to-last round, and the first of four major milestones in the class. For this

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  how to change policies at mit [joint post with Rona W.] our CUP of tea

  

  -year student to take five 12-unit classes in the spring; however, there is also an explicit reminder in the motion that “[60 units] is an upper limit ... Committee on the Undergraduate Program (CUP) in the 2020–2021 school year

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 28, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  finding place

  

  evolutions, but in the moment I mostly don't think about this stuff consciously. I haven't posted in a while. Too long. It's been one of the semesters. MIT has taught me a lot of things about community. I was in a small high

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • April 7, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Flying Close to the Sun a semester of fire

  

  “Going up in flames” “Trial by fire” “Burning out” “Burn it all ... considered using a fire idiom in the title of this post, but decided to go with ... a lab in CSAIL. I could say a million great things about my mentors

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  reject modern web design return to 2006

  

  does anyone else remember when the internet looked like this? sorry can’t come out tonight i gotta sit alone in front of a muted tv opening ... lot lately (all quotes taken from the top posts in /r/2meirl4meirl)

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2021