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• Blog / About Decisions

  The Beard, The Name, The Response, and EC Why does it say E.Jones on my door when I am B.Jones, and why is…

  

  . The reason that we don't have a separate form for EA is that the form ... 'm getting kindof hairy, much to the chagrin of my wife. There's a story behind this: I challenged the other admissions officers to a "no-shave" reading

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 28, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  school break thoughts

  

  I wake up with a jolt. In middle school, I used to have a recurring nightmare where I’d feel completely conscious, going about a perfectly average day at school only to realize I forgot to do a major assignment. I

  • by Victor D. '27
  • June 21, 2026
• Blog / How to Human

  stories and decision paralysis

  

  a few weeks ago someone wanted to shoot a music video and needed a few dozen extras in the background, so they made a big group chat and ... were a lot of people whom i recognized from classes or activities a few

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 8, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Results of My Summer cookies, web usability, and painting

  

  consist of Doritos? Will the effects of eating so many Doritos have a long ... cookies with Liz and they turned out awesome. We also learned a few life lessons along the way: 1) For the grittiest frosting you'll ever taste (feel

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 10, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The Open-Ended Question Why I chose MIT ... twice

  

  this is the place for you. I think in some respects you have to be a car ... , I'm getting a little old, but it's cool. It's really crazy awesome to ... finally, a sorry to those of you who thought I would be taller or more buff

  • by Bryan
  • April 15, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Learning by Doing a glimpse into the cool class-projects I got to work on last semester

  

  everything for a while. I’ve had to catch up to a LOT of emails and Slack ... for a week and taking two finals on Friday, I somehow needed to pack up my entire dorm room on Saturday and THEN, take a 5 AM, 6-hour flight to

  • by Hala K. '29
  • July 10, 2026
• Blog / Athletics

  My IAP All the snow has melted since I took these pictures.

  

  whose papers I read for class and whose writing and clean, minimalist ... . Over IAP I am working on a short-term project and my thesis proposal ... one of which will comprise my thesis and the next year and a half of my

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 19, 2015
• Blog / Advice

  everyone* knows each other sin limite/ebony affair/cpw psa; class of 2030 discord plug

  

  friends, many are acquaintances. Furthermore, MIT has several programs for ... had a brief conversation there lol"].[/annotation] It's an uncomfortable asymmetry to walk into a space where it seems like everyone is friends but you

  • by Victor D. '27
  • April 9, 2026
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Fig. 3: La dolce vita snaps from an extended spring break

  

    Earlier this month, here at ETH, we had our spring break a ... embarked on a journey to warmer, sunnier lands down south. Two weeks before, however, my exchange friends and I did a pre-Spring Break weekend trip in

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 23, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  When MIT Gets Tough, CAAAATTTT Everything was terrible, and then I cat

  

  I was feeling particularly stressed out and at a loss for how to deal with MIT. I was stressed, I was upset, and I made a completely rational and reasonable major life decision. I ADOPTED A SEVEN WEEK OLD KITTEN

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • October 7, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Ups and Downs Currently down.

  

  Not gonna lie, my happy-to-sad ratio is a little sad-heavy at the ... , when I make mistakes occur at lab, I mourn for about ten minutes, then ... take a different perspective on this problem. I'm going to see this

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 12, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Share Your CPW With Us! I can haz guest blogs?

  

  QUOTE: "Coming from Stanford [before MIT's CPW], I actually bought a ... , quoted verbatim from a letter left to her host before she departed MIT ... happens every year). Starting from meeting a couple dozen of you at the i

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 11, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Funny pictures of me I wear a New Year's party hat. That's funny, right?

  

  having something of a get-together. It was just my aunt's family, a couple of her friends, and their kids (which turned out to be a surprising ... to be an actual adult for the night (I turn twenty next week. Yikes

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 3, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Crazy Day

  

  My Wednesday: 9:00 AM -- Swim Test at the Zesiger (Z) Center. For ... , but I miraculously passed and am now a teeny bit closer to graduating ... International Development Network, a community network developed to promote and

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pictures of me

  

  One of the requested entries a while back was for me to post some ... '05. I dressed up as Indiana Jones for a friend's post ... /Vice-President candidates' debate. I've been through two UAP/VP elections (with a 50% success

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 4, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  “What the hell is water?” Thinking about and understanding your own context…

  

  . How’s the water?’ And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then ... ?'” (DFW went on to deliver a timeless and celebrated address that is well ... that a) applicants simply don’t understand what information we are

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 27, 2024
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT EA decisions to be posted Saturday, 12/18/21, 3:14 PM ET i guess the title kind of says it all, huh?

  

  ...and...well...here’s the announcement blog you’ve been waiting for? kellen: Ella! Jenny! I've brought you both here today because i need to announce a decision date for ... ME  IN A MICKEY MOUSE HAT kellen: but they won't be able to see your

  • by kellen manning
  • December 13, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2016-17 Application Essay Questions For those of you rarin' to go.

  

  As the summer rolls on, we're starting to get a lot of questions from ... this year. Although our application does not go live for another few ... 'll answer these questions. Our approach to application "essays" is not a

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • July 26, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Awesome Biology UROP: florescent plants, genomes, metabolomes, big data, puzzles + more! Bonus: A VIDEO!

  

  junior fall (now). In the summer, for Elizabeth C. 13's Science Out Loud ... describe the specifics of what I do, but gives a general idea of why. It also shows you where I work-- at the wonderful Whitehead Institute for

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Science, Technology, and Elephants. In which I take the best field trip ever.

  

  the best engineering school in the world—we have a circus live behind our campus for a week every fall!” This all being said, I should ... , has been excited about the coming of the elephants for over a month. So

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 13, 2010