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  25 Stories of Getting Accepted to MIT told by students and alums

  

  a large quantity of ice cream the night before. If I got in, I would ... decisions came out. I could get 1 bar of wifi on my phone in one corner of the ... a lot of fun. In the car on the way home I pulled out my phone to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  Special Collections. A map of the 1924 campus layout can be found in ... manifestation in 1924. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology goes to great ... of multifaceted culture as well. In a given campus tour, time is split

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to decide which classes to take amazing classes and how to pick them

  

  things in a class without being officially in it; I've heard stories of ... out of the way. Pick an intro subject in a major you're interested in ... you're into. Pick another class in one of these three categories

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  How to look over your application and advice about breathing. My older younger brother is your age. I am fully aware of how much you’re…

  

  week before I update you on the last 5 months of my life. Right now, this ... I was back in the day, or my younger brother is right now, or like ... UChicago the night it was due, I figure a few of you might need this reminder

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Rain by any other name lagi na lang umuulan

  

  beginning of the academic year, as the Philippine school year starts in June ... rain, at least, not that I know of. I remember the first time I experience this kind of rain, I had this mental disconnect. Any moment, I felt

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 22, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  I have five different takes of this video that were scrapped before I ... is going, though. I'm working on so many different types of projects ... to delve into some of the things I've been feeling this year about

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab How to lose a phone in 90 seconds

  

  . One day last summer, while I was working as a UROP in the Media Lab, debugging a server at my desk outside the office of the graduate student I was ... . It turned out to be for my grad student (I say “my”, but in reality I

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Gothic You are reading an admissions blog post. You are reading tumblr.

  

  Happy Sunday! I am doing end of semester things and also reading ... : MIT Gothic. I think it paints a very concrete picture of life at MIT ... MIT tumblr users of varying anonymity. I hope it gives you a sense of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every now and then, my mind = blown. Thanks, Science!

  

  Hello beautiful people. I know that one of my previous entries hinted at the idea of doodling a science-question post. I still plan on getting around to that. But in the midst of my magnet research, I stumbled

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 11, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Women’s Soccer Talking to the 2009 NEWMAC Champs after they returned from the NCAA National Championship Tournament

  

  of sporting events, some of which I had never seen before. I saw ... that I didn't even know what the rules were for a lot of the sports I was ... tournament for the first time in program history. They were knocked out of the

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 25, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to choose your major putting people in boxes, feat. credit for reddit, social science, and lots of yarn.

  

  So you don't know what to major in. You have no idea what to do with your life and you're kind of interested in a lot of things and everything ... project in itself) so we took some of the patterns from our interviews and

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 6, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  halloween down the infinite

  

  still on time in pacific standard time. but also i girlbossed a little too ... "] ah yes, a normal day in lecture with a normal set of... people sitting ... note="we're supposed to take 4 PE classes by the end of sophomore year. i

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 1, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  In that moment, I felt that my conception of [Next House] finally ... , in March of 2020, I was the last person to leave my wing of Next House ... person to leave my wing of Next House. I rolled my possessions in a cart up

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 31, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Move Fast And Break Things just make sure you have a net positive of unbreaks

  

  overtime in which developers stay up all night to work on projects outside of ... in one nonstop 20-hour spurt than in 40 hours of punctuated work time. You'll understand what I mean if you ever become course 6. In the

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  . Ultimately, the faculty members on CUP chose the four of us! Rona: I chose to ... wonderful experience, and I wanted to continue in a broader capacity. Paolo ... , how subject evaluations should work in the pandemic, the mission of the

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 28, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to Make Money at MIT for all of us who don't know how to make a startup :(

  

  , in the random and subjective order I thought of them/was told about them. Note #1: I have of course not worked all of the following jobs in ... As someone who is notably not a millionaire, I started working in

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 4, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Axes of Confusion ????

  

  us in the heart the way nothing else can. Another HUGE factor is that ... in. We initially chose 21E to get a taste of both CMS and 6 to try to ... of staying in our current major or switching majors. After 2 years at

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 21, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  neighborhoods we move into and come to love. What do pregnant mice, cheerleaders, and four-foot light-up tinsel giraffes have in common?

  

  rabbit (who did not attend MIT) in an apartment just north of Boston. I ... . I'm specifically looking at the role of My Favorite Gene (MFG) in the ... .) Things are going well in the lab, although I'm breeding a lot of mice right

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 27, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  and ridiculousness emerge in costume form. Reason 3 of 1 bajillion: An ... creativity and ridiculousness emerge in pumpkin form. Reason 5 of 1 bajillion ... Building.  1: I turned 19! My favorite part of birthdays is

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  Twitter and read the rest of the replies. In response, I tweeted that ... subject of a famous hack in 1991, where hackers hooked up a fire hydrant to ... , and I’d really like to see it get picked up again. Maybe you can even

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020