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

  

  fact, been many posts about Splash before. Even Petey himself, the man, the legend, has taught for Splash. And this will be yet another post ... through the whole thing made me think, wow, I need to write about this. I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Random Hall ‘13s Life plans, advice, and stories from last year’s Random Hall graduates.

  

  Graduation The 2014s just graduated, but right now I want to take you ... was persistent into the summer and the following fall. It was bizarre a ... of them changed my life in a good way and I’m excited to see the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 20, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  As I find myself again, railing against something published in the New York Times about the college admissions process, it is hard for me ... be about. As an admissions officer, I recognize that while the

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Distraction News Your internet connection is unstable

  

  Classes are happening again and I am not ready. I am looking at the ... again. People are giving helpful suggestions and input. The [annotation ... she is no longer the puppy of the house and hisses (like a cat) at Dog 4

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 31, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  similar program to Splash. Except, you know, it's virtual. And the perspective will be different, because, you know, I was one of the three directors of the program. The why game Teach anything, learn anything

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  senioritis not to be confused with señoritis

  

  i never really had senioritis in high school—it was probably the ... off the effortlessly forget to turn in an assignment thing. so i had grand visions for senioritis in college. i would go out all the time! do

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  particularly tragic because some of the quotes are from that text (quoted in ... Greek Perspectives on the Good Life, a required class for almost all ... , for example, the following hypothetical conversation: A: Why do you

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 things I love about MIT and hopefully you'll learn to love them too.

  

  order.) 1. The students This one is a no-brainer. Thanks to the Admissions people, my classmates are a ridiculously talented bunch with the most diverse interests. There are the pre-meds and the hackers, the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  posts with my strongest memory from that time: the night that I told my roommate, Lydia K., that I was leaving. On the outside, I felt tears prick at the corners of my eyes. On the inside, nothing. Just emptiness. But

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / Advice

  Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me

  

  -you-were-looking-for-but-here-it-is-anyway take. Table o’ Contents
 The most important thing is to figure out why you want to Do The Thing MIT did not convince me to Do The Thing—here are the things that did Do research and/or work to discover why you

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend

  

  The Flight of the Iguana and First Light, respectively; reading those ... off the TINIEST sliver at a time, in order to drag out the eating ... scientists and share their stories with the public - FOR A LIVING! Sounds

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to My Favorite Places on Campus can't leave without making one more post of this format

  

  Some people may remember the sporadic posts that I made in this ... up being useful - or at the very least informative - to most of the ... it is. A map of all the places that I loved at MIT, color coded and

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Life is Improv say yes

  

  The first and most important rule of improv is this: don't negate. To negate in improv is to break the flow of absurdity and belief that animates the sketch. When the Roadrunner points out to Wile E Coyote that he

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Today I hit my TA with a door I didn't MEAN to.

  

  usually go in the back door when I'm late but today, TODAY for reasons still unknown to the universe I went for the front door, all while my TA just ... 't make this stuff up. It is against all the rules of absurdity (which I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 7, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?

  

  A few weeks ago, I stumbled across a Twitter thread describing the antics of Nadya Okamoto. Here is a summary. At the time of writing this Nadya is a rising senior at Harvard primarily known for founding the non

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Was Deferred And it was not the end of the world

  

  the president of the United States and pulled an all nighter chilling ... laureates. I get home exhausted, and I suddenly remember that the time was 6 ... computer, opening up the MyMIT page that I hadn't visited in a few months. I

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 17, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Masquerading as a Liberal Arts Student The life of an MIT student abroad

  

  am reminded that I am not at MIT. I am away from the buzz that defines the campus surrounding 77 Mass Ave, but instead immersed in the organized chaos that is Hanoi, Vietnam, the last stop on my semester long

  • by Becca H. '12
  • November 24, 2011
• 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

  

  on how I got here is the most popular thing I've ever written ... in the case of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II -- wait, are you all too ... , build them, and fly them (guess who the cameraperson was on that video? Oh

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Institute of Smashing What do you think MIT and a garbage compactor have in common?

  

  Webster's dictionary has two entries for the word smashing when used ... :   It's good for you   You see, in the many conversations I've had with people from the MIT community, nearly everyone has the same

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the blogs at twenty some reflections, plus an index of posts

  

  Last August, the MIT Admissions blogs turned twenty. Over the past ... come back and blog for us—just like we did for the tenth blogiversary. In case you [annotation note='or you want to consume all the content at once

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 29, 2025