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• 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

  

  who's a better writer, and I just took the opportunity to razz him about ... Fair. The fair is held every year at MIT, and Adam's award (a trip to a ... According to my hit counter as well as by raw comment count, my entry

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

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

  

  learn to adapt The fruit of my labor Impostor A sense of scale ... spring, we run Spark and Spring HSSP. Spark is similar to Splash, being a ... . Spring HSSP is a long-term program, open to middle schoolers and high

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  No Chance Why "chance" sites like AdmissionSplash are Bad Things.

  

  different social network sites, and been syndicated to CNN among a bunch of ... volunteer or play sports. It then uses an algorithm to give users a ... to create a helpful tool.* However, this tool is unhelpful. In fact

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  And the Whistle Blows soccer post-season & my last competitive soccer game

  

  became a conscious idea in my mind. It is almost absurd to think that the ... kind of hard. It’s only been a few days, and it’s hard to process how I ... from 5 to 7 pm is spent out on a turf field. Nearly every Wednesday is a

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 21, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting for Decision Day In which I give a pep talk of sorts (with a little help from my…

  

  I tried to create this video as something I'd want to hear as a ... always-inspirational things to say. Here are a couple of my blog posts that ... bloggers, but I can't link to all the posts here. They're just a quick search

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  and went to grad school I thought I had figured a lot of things out, in ... . Tackling a focused question can lead to a remarkably expansive adventure ... got to meet and work with a group of K-12 public-school teachers. So

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Snively’s Cross Stitch Corner I really enjoy cross stitching

  

  Park lends itself to cross stitching so a lot of my early work was South ... stitched the more and more I tried to figure out a way to monetize cross ... copyright violation. I sold a few South Park patterns but it never amounted to

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paths there are so many

  

  now. What used to be a maintained sting like an open wound, now merely ... who was able to get through the door you wanted to, or through a ... do great things, because if you had the guts to apply to a place like

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 19, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  This next week and a half promises to be electrifying. We’re on the ... about me, about MIT, and about why I haven’t talked to you in a month ... professor about a class presentation. “Cory,” I said to my boyfriend, “nobody

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  50 Things Advice for the class of 2010.

  

  scored front row seats to the Indigo Girls at a venue 2 hours away. I didn ... 't count.) Go on dates. Don't feel like every date has to turn into a ... college kids. In the first month of college, send a hand-written letter to

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking the L On "failure" at a place like MIT.

  

  to take a math assessment. This essentially assess your skills and ... on 18.01 before getting to 18.02."]18.01a/18.02a[/annotation], and ... in IAP]. I got recommended 18.01 and 8.01L, but that had to be a

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  [joint post] we visited every station on the MBTA and the Logan Airport Rental Car Center

  

  ought to begin this post with a motivation. CJ: Motivation? There was ... few days later we went to a touchdown space on campus to plan it ... the top half of the Red Line. A map might be useful to follow along. CJ

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  0.125 not a course 0 class, but a fraction complete

  

  , I can't even seem to get through a day on seven and a half. Knowing ... floor, and I've noticed that there's definitely a cycle: from 2ish to 7 pm ... company, it's a good time to eat. Afterwards, people hang around and talk

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 4, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  dormspam-the-game (Part 3) parting remarks from no-longer-anonymous gamemasters

  

  it took to make these games come to life! a history WZ: Paolo was ... Next Forum Games, a precursor to dormspam-the-game, in 14.05. I promise ... had a 2.5’ x 3.5’ whiteboard that served as a message board—something to

  • by Phi A. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Putting food on the table daily with Daily Table affordable, nutritious, and delicious groceries near MIT

  

  walk carrying/pushing your things. I have a car, so I can drive to Costco ... . They do deliver —  for free! —  to campus right now, via a partnership ... than I could grow, at a price lower than I would have to pay to grow it

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

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

  

  delightful to you. Freedom! A chance to be expressive and creative in front of ... am going to do it." Every little success felt tremendous (what? a note ... things that way. It takes a whole new dimension of gut, though, to hold

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• Blog / Advice

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

  

  themselves into a panic because they think they need to prepare for MIT, when ... 's a lot. Do not feel afraid to stop reading all that MIT information ... all to acquire your MIT wings. There's nothing wrong with taking a look

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2) My take on the MIT short essays.

  

  which you are used to seeing in print. (ii) Never use a long word where a short one will do. (iii) If it is possible to cut a word out ... once upon a time, I wrote a blog comparing the college essay to froyo

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  senioritis not to be confused with señoritis

  

  remembered helping my (sorority) little (sister) on a project she needed to ... to sit my butt down on her linoleum floor for a few hours to help her ... surprising amount of momentum behind me, but i don't think i managed to pull

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 10, 2015
• Blog / Blog Projects

  What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj

  

  subject of a famous hack in 1991, where hackers hooked up a fire hydrant to ... . Firehose itself became a single word referring to the academic experience ... education from MIT is like…”. I sent a survey to an East Campus mailing list

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020