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• Blog / Admissions

  Crazy admissions stories A story about craziness from both sides of the college admissions process.

  

  mine. There are plenty of good schools I can go to." Mr. Conroy says more ... . Every time it happens, I can't believe it is happening." And every time ... process. I think my favorite is the private jet/financial aid story from

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 5, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  Canceled? HOW COULD THEY!?!?!?!

  

  , this is a hacked website. IAP will be proceeding as planned, psych ... ! They can be fun!]

  • by Snively '11
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reading, Thinking and Igniting Innovation Rational optimism about MIT and the future

  

  can only be content in the woods for so long. I want to contribute. Not ... I can`t wait to start writing more about life at MIT, but since I ... hike. I was in a strange mood. I`m a student at one of the most

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • August 5, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The Minerva Delusion the political economy of an educational scam

  

  paragraphs in this Economist interview: “I don’t want or need to disrupt ... prestigious private school I was in love with. I didn't get in. I went to a ... of interest to underleveraged students in the developing world, then I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 6, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Guess who can legally drive alone in Maine now? Learning to drive on hard mode (i.e., in Boston)

  

  still in Boston. To their third objection, I smugly pointed out that ... foreign license only if I’ve been in the country for less than a month. But I wasn’t about to let anything get in the way of my Acadia trip

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Houston-area Suburbia kid Makes Trek to MIT Campus Preview Weekend with Mother By: Kevin, '11

  

  about MIT the instant I got my acceptance letter (deferred, got in regular ... this mean great things in Kevin Rustagi's future. I would endeavor to ... arcade project that my friends and I worked on in January. He gave me some

  • by Bryan
  • April 22, 2007
• Blog / Uncategorized

  an unnecessarily detailed normal friday finding things to blog about when you're swept into normalcy

  

  my alarm goes off at 8am, and i turn it off in probably enough ... should really get up, so i[annotation note="in room 251, we all have Next ... in light [annotation note="i was fortunate to acquire both a waterproof

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 27, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  I’ve been reading applications And I'm still reading them

  

  compassion as I can. You share so much of yourselves with us in the application ... extensively on this website and in many blog posts. Plus, you wouldn’t want any ... my makeshift home office can be found. Hello routine, my old friend I

  • by Jeremy W.
  • November 28, 2020
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Can I study Global Change Science/Climate?

  predict changes in the global environment. Additionally, a variety of
• Blog / Admissions

  So who is this Laura person, anyway? Hello and welcome to the single coolest blog on the entire admissions website. My name…

  

  website. My name is Laura and I am a member of the MIT Class of '09, which ... I can't even begin to explain it. When I do get to MIT, I'm planning ... can jump in a pool whenever it gets too hot. Plus it's a pretty cool

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  UROPing research, science, and throwing big funnels in lakes

  

  in her lab. I’ve heard you can ask profs for UROP positions after ... , I was telling my sister about hunting for a place in Boston, and she ... then. I knew I wanted to get into a lab at some point, but I wasn't in a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 4, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Misconceptions initial thoughts from a first-gen college student

  

  I first stepped onto MIT’s campus in the summer of my junior year ... like. I didn’t visit many colleges outside of my local area in high ... getting into. I had a few ideas about how I thought college would go—in some

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 30, 2023
• Blog / MISTI

  A day at Seaborg Technologies interning at a nuclear startup in Denmark

  

  I can be the young intern who is distinctly swimming in a bra and ... because I didn’t know where to buy cake. I also had an end ... close early in Denmark, and I hadn’t been able to find anywhere with cake

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 9, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Person Who Inspired Me to Start this Blog The girls of Sri Lanka have in Alia an incredible beacon of hope and defender…

  

  these types of experiences. But she didn’t. In retrospect, I feel ... . Where I saw so many other people falter in their efforts, she persisted ... woman can emerge into her own The girls of Sri Lanka have in Alia an

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • December 9, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  a house tour of mit sororities! meet aphi, axo, and theta

  

  're interested, I've also talked a bit in the past about what the sorority recruitment and experience is like, which you can read here. Because a lot of us spend so much time hanging out at our respective sorority houses, I

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 21, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Raskolnikov as an Odd Metaphor on angst and deferral

  

  Caltech, which I was also applying to EA. I was completely in love with MIT ... 1st, when I submitted an application that I was pretty proud of.  By ... because there weren’t enough interviewers available. But in the moment I

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 17, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Some questions that I've received from prospectives.

  

  't get in, because I'm not a genius. 5. Can I have some life advice? 6 ... MIT? 2. What does a day in the life of a physicist look like? 3. I ... pursue in math/science. 4. I'm worried that I'm never going to find a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 8, 2012
• Blog / People & Identities

  Amicus briefs and the ABCs of a diverse MIT A SCOTUS filing with Stanford et al, and a strategic action plan for an inclusive…

  

  opportunity, and shaping an environment in which all people can do their best ... , you can download the plan, or read the recommendations on the website ... A few weeks ago, MIT —  in conjunction with Stanford, IBM, and Aeris

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 27, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions…..*sigh* Is (Fill in the Blank) University the right school for me?

  

  questions like, "Do I want to be in community with lots of other high achieving students or do I want to be in an environment where more students are still in the process of actualizing their potential?" I know that

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • April 22, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  will.i.am: An entry by Prof. Patrick Henry Winston The Black Eyed Peas' frontman hangs out at MIT.

  

  at MIT whenever he is in town. This time I took him to see robots in ... besides, I hadn’t been to a good concert since the Rolling Stones were in ... I got an email the other day from Professor Patrick Henry Winston ’65

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 2, 2010