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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Random Ceiling Tiles The ceilings of Random Hall and a friendly message.

  

  Some of you have to make a decision to come here (or not) by 23:59 tomorrow. If you're on the fence, I have one small bid to make you fall in ... because you know you want to do it, not because of money or rankings or

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 30, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions advice from someone who’s been there

  

  getting in were, or who posted their very high SAT scores and then asked if ... and Informed) Risk-taking: Going to MIT is risky in itself, considering ... earning a good GPA. Academic risk-taking, whether in research or choice of

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 17, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  demons on depression

  

  people don't suddenly lose interest in activities they used to enjoy, or ... images in one's mind. It turns out the majority of people, when asked to ... that way to me. There's a Quora answer that describes anosmia in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 28, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Putting Diversity into Context The diverse ways that colleges and universities define diversity

  

  admission. From my perspective, checking the box, or boxes to indicate one ... , once put it, “If you have to pause, for more than a second or two, to ... identification.  In reality, most of the confusion is about how to best leverage a

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to use these blogs Scattered thoughts on the information age, plus some bonus snark.

  

  when the grade in question is as low or lower than mine. Listen to me ... accurately be titled, "How to get the most out of reading the MITblogs," or ... topics. In fact, I think I'll link random words in this entry to some

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing is Magic And 15 minutes is all you need

  

  in college. (Yes, you will have to write at MIT even if you are a math ... start with a few in your head and see what happens to them as you begin ... will get them to come. In my writing group we do an exercise when we all

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  i don’t want to say goodbye sorry sad blog incoming

  

  creative community, decided to take me in. I'm excited for what's in store ... 'll meet up again in whichever city we happen to be in at the same time and ... East Campus was ticking to an end, that I'm stuck in my room shorting

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 24, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  process. Because listing the school you go to or ECAs you are involved in ... 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 / Best of the Blogs

  10 Things I Learned 1st Semester Yeap.

  

  Say hello to the holidays and winter break!!! Now, sitting at home in ... -yogurt-more-endearingly-“Froyo”. I can’t count how many “Ordering Indian in 10! Come to Room # if you ... about UROP opportunities, or asking my chemistry TA how to make up a quiz

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 24, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where the Free Things Are A List of Free Opportunities and Tools for Students

  

  can use to either self-study or supplement your learning in a class. All ...   Application Usually Spans: Sometime in fall or winter up to late March for the ... identify as female or non-binary to build coding skills in web development

  • by Richard O. '28
  • January 30, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  others or found online. Consider this more a list of opportunities to look ... semester, or at least more socially acceptable in a sense. Instead of having ... , trying to decide between multiple projects or knowing who you should work

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 4, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  to start conversations in the comments, or email me if you want to talk ... confidence in yourself and your abilities and your passions to throw your name ... motivation to excel in high school and slowly figuring out an answer to “how

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  were waiting to ask if I got in or not, and then they were crying, too ... wasn't able to tell if I was crying cause I got in or not, until I ... 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 / Academics & Research

  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  try to figure out where my lecture hall is. It’s in a room I’ve never ... so we don’t really know how to do it). In other years at MIT, I would ... on more, I thrived. I felt I was doing the things I was supposed to, in

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Life is Improv say yes

  

  you make, or strive to make the smartest decisions you can in any ... . To negate in improv is to break the flow of absurdity and belief that ... you want to pull it in another direction. you're negating. This rule

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Is My Home Looking back and saying goodbye

  

  or were just cool and awesome people, and in getting to know them and ... those that are just entering leadership positions in clubs or really ... , Delta Phi Epsilon (or as we like to call it, DPhiE). Within my sorority, I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 13, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Guest Entry: Christina Bognet Supplemental materials to help you through the next few days.

  

  Saturday or in April, you're going to experience this crazy whirlwind of ... ?" We agonized and fantasized over getting The Big Envelope (or in Colin ... ," moments. It was difficult to decide whether optimism or pessimism was the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 8, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Painting by number The anti-formula

  

  (which can also be read “what is the minimum that I need to do”) in order to earn this grade or gain admission?  Do what you are capable of. ... generated by pbnify.com[/caption] In a rant post many years ago, I referenced

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 2, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On identity f(x) = x

  

  ’m from, or what I’m interested in. I’ve done it so much I find it hard to ... to have a tumblr blog back in 2015 or 2016, and I would always write ... questions about what they wanted to do in life and had as many doubts and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thank you for reading A rigorous study of 26-year-olds (n=1) showed that getting older is positively correlated to the…

  

  reflection on what the blogs meant to us, or a life update since graduating ... that long ago that I was 17 and applying to college, the truth is that in ... got to hang out with Beyonce in the time since I was that age. I can

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 8, 2014