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  There Is No Formula A formula would take the human component out of our process, which is perhaps the…

  

  This whole “is there a formula to get into MIT” thing that’s been ... is very self-selecting in that regard. It’s who you are that really ... .) Here’s an equally important message: I saw the “perfect match” in a bunch

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 16, 2004
• Blog / Events

  Halloween is the best day of the year. Yes, I recognize that it is now closer to Thanksgiving than to Halloween. Sorry.

  

  pumpkin in my life, which is part of why the pumpkins that emerge at French ... girl, since I kind of gave that away) wins. 5: At the pumpkin drop, a ... Halloween is awesome, for a bajillion reasons. Reason 1 of 1

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “So what are you majoring in?” *sweats nervously*

  

  that kind of attention. In a moment of grave seriousness, I’ll say it has ... ask me that again in a few weeks when I have to declare, and then again ... find most comforting through all of this is that in talking to a range of

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  To whom much is given… ...you know the rest!

  

  few weeks. I can tell you with a fair level of certainty that it is just as true in college admission circles as it is anywhere else that it ... analysis is a big part of trying to process the outcome of a journey that a

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 13, 2012
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  was far too headstrong and honest and bold to do that. And in a way, I ... the main filter is: Can I see myself doing this as a career in the ... think that in some alternate universe, where this program is in person, I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Praise Of Holistic Admissions not an admissions machine

  

  - broadly defined - for college to matter.   I hope that this quote is ... didn't mean that it's a place to idly chat with people (although it is that). I mean it is an environment within which one undergoes

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  What I Did in High School in the actual sense of the phrase

  

  on Tumblr In hindsight, I am positive that signing up for a Tumblr ... enjoyed doing research that year, though I was never invested in it enough ... . But let me repeat that it is a misconception. I had a friend whom I

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  I said I'd do in a zombie apocalypse, and don't remember how I said I would decorate my scraper bike. I DO remember that I sent in a copy of the ... have no idea what that is. Oddly, as soon as I typed this, my sister

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An actual day in the lab Hectic is my middle name.

  

  whiff. Do not try this at home. It smells bad in a way that I cannot even ... transfection I'm doing. He mentions that he doesn't have a particular plasmid ... body is not pleased that I'm getting up so early. 7:54 AM. I roll out of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  that I could afford to fuck up in math, I could relax for a whole year of ... voluminous, but somewhere inside I know that it is a means to an end, a tool I ... admired them a lot, still do. Meanwhile every year, I realized that I would

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Day in the Life Liveblog of my Thursday complete with (not so great) pictures

  

  building a portfolio of work that I'm proud of until I can (maybe) do ... I really enjoyed Ana's recent post about a single day in her life, so ... doing a bunch of things even though I don't have any classes. If you

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 15, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  On Escaping An introspective vlog about MIT and getting ready to leave

  

  that it takes me a couple tries to even get in the right mindset to make ... being a senior at MIT, and I think that was enough for me to finally ... I have five different takes of this video that were scrapped before I

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 2, 2015
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Decade in Online Posting looking back: from the forums to the blogs

  

  ."]cliffhangers.[/annotation] Have to do my homework *ugh*.[annotation note="I made a Facebook that ... for a STEM camp. I wanted a way to keep in touch with these people that ... decide."]and I'm in a dilemma.[/annotation] Should I go for the school that

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  : Because I want to do things that are interesting to me. A: Why do things ... "]reason."[/annotation] Aristotle goes on to argue that that virtue is itself a [annotation note="i ... is true in a lot of different ways—I'm taking a lot of different

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

  Advisor vs. Advisee a '07 and a '21 answer a series of questions

  

  that thing where if someone I’m talking to is in a bad mood, I by default ... . Bryson used to do back in the day: Q&A. In our many conversations, I ... been really helpful but I have a long way to go.  What is something that

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  interview day took five years off to start a NGO in India, and I thought that ... : "So where do you go to school?" ME: "Oh, I go to school in Boston ... in Boston.'" I never thought about it, but if you must press me for a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  I know you’re bad at something And here's what you should do about it. Hint: NOT "do something else"

  

  straight up told me that I was going to do it. I practiced hard at home and ... knew that if I thought too hard about it, I wouldn't do it - so I put myself on autopilot, and shot my hand in the air. On the occasions that I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 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

  

  , Adam '07, and his admissions story. (Well, that and I took a thermo test ... that he didn't get those two scores together -- the time he got a 710 in ... physics... and a 450 in writing. (Note: Adam and I are always warring about

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Painting by number The anti-formula

  

  (which can also be read “what is the minimum that I need to do”) in order ... generated by pbnify.com[/caption] In a rant post many years ago, I referenced ... , generally the best that it can aspire to be is a convincing counterfeit, which

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 2, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  . This is a nuance that I don’t think that many students, parents and journalists appreciate. I have the luxury of being able to be a purist in this ... that it is not simply a function of age, but rather a fundamental

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011