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• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later what happened after pi day 2011

  

  I've gotten a number of email responses to my blog post about the different paths our lives can take. One of them was from a student whom we ... unedited (except for where I removed personally identifiable information at

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  how to change policies at mit [joint post with Rona W.] our CUP of tea

  

  students with a full year of credits (96 units) at the end of first-year fall ... sorts of academic policies and issues at MIT: copyrights for MIT Theses ... sorts of education-related things happening at MIT. Additionally, we

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 28, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  random places, all of which I seriously considered for at least the time I ... A lot of different people have been asking me about my prospective major. And for these gracious inquirers, I have a lot of different answers

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  going into it. Many of the weeks have been unfortunate at best and excruciating at worst. It is possible, of course, that this pain was inevitable ... while. In short, I would not be quite so quickly alone at the end of the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 31, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  AOs write the “What do you do for fun?” essay Ever wondered what admissions officers do when they're not reading applications?

  

  [/caption] Molly In the heart of the Black Hills National Forest, South Dakota you ... [intro]We know you lead a busy life, full of activities, many of which are required of you. Tell us about something you do for the pleasure

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a sad sad toaster made of glass. Do you like your toast with tears? Because I'm sad.

  

  quite 1,000 googol pages. All I can offer you by way of reconciliation is ... would be taking next term at MIT. So, I added a trendline in the form of a ... time that I spend at MIT, which will add up to 80 hours per week of real

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  every single cookie jar of majors that MIT has to offer in one way or ... the front-end of our app to present at the end. The program is split ... . Later, my team chooses to meet at 5 every day to get more app stuff out of

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

  A Half-Century Retrospective Revisiting the MIT Application from the 1972–1973 admissions cycle

  

  -001. Anyway, let me set the scene: one day in the summer of 2020—at the height ... authorized campus access at an unmarked service door at the basement level of ... office unsupervised. At the bottom of an old metal filing cabinet, I found

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] How to Build a Three Story Fort by Zack I. '27

  

  decade after I was a student here, but one of them is ✨delight✨ at seeing ... small deviation from 90 degrees at the corner leads to wildly inaccurate ... into the side of the stringers at the correct height and angle so that

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 1, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reaffirming our commitment to diversity in uncertain times

  

  numbered, and repeated as endnotes at the bottom of the blog. We use this ... these dates — and copies of opinions, once they are posted — at SCOTUSblog ... majority of our students are either immigrants or the child of at least one

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 7, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  that outer layer, so despite the 34-degree air outside of this 2250 Acela ... noticed three of my fellow passengers staring somewhat obviously at my shirt ... of the shirt looks something like this: Right. I'm not at MIT right

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  This Blog Post is a Bad Idea Not blogging for several months... that was also a Bad Idea.

  

  I knew there was going to be a problem when I was one of only two girls sitting at the table. Sarah R., '14, and I sat next to each other in Talbot, the large common room of East Campus, the only two females

  • by Kate R. '14
  • January 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things Charles Has Made fare thee well, rocket powered roller skates

  

  : An annotated timeline of everything he's ever made at MIT! You can see more of everything Charles has made at his website, http ... Copenhagen Suborbitals, a group of amateurs trying to launch themselves into

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )

  

  engineering degrees). 2) I've never built anything at MIT (most engineering ... something wrong if you buy all of your textbooks at the MIT Coop. One or two ... to deal with the deluge of students seeking help at the final hour :P

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Mischievous Anniversary Tonight Four score and ten years ago...

  

  of everyone at the Institvte in front of Killian. I don't have a ... Watch '93 at 11:30 was the message. '93 was the new dormitory on campus—the Class of 1893 Dormitory—which had opened

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • June 1, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Figuring out what I want to do with my life personal essay time :)

  

  really excited about this, as it’s been a dream of mine for at least…the last twelve to fourteen months. Even at the start of my junior year of ... . If you find yourself to be the same person at the end of college as you

  • by Alex M. '21
  • March 5, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice you’ve heard before and a story you haven’t you can just skip to the pictures if you want to, I wont be offended.

  

  of self respect. At least that's the way it was with me. Something that ... 2pm. You might be wondering at the moral of this story. Is it grades ... There are going to be a lot of people eager to give you advice on how

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  ending--it's the beginning of a path you might not have meant to take at ... winter and the slew of second semester tests starting to take its toll. It ... losses of Matthew Nehring and Christina Tournant. And for you, dear

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends

  

  tale from last April.  Longtime readers of the blogs may know that I've come to understand the challenge of MIT through the lens of physical ... challenges of balancing growth and recovery, and the isomorphic relationship

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
• Blog / Advice

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

  

  their graduate degrees here. Plenty of amazing thinkers never set foot at ... one of the most difficult things I’ve experienced, and at least giving myself a chance at grad school was bizarrely a part of my grieving process

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018