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• Blog / About Decisions

  So Chance Me Maybe? Hey! I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my SAT...

  

  was a competition, in which the applicants strove to cast themselves in ... feverishly right up to the deadline date - and submitted, confident in my ... reach that I tried in vain to remain detached from. It wasn’t that I felt

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Dissecting emotion what is feeling

  

  in the first place, that I was just ignoring or repressing or negating ... , in a way, to being woken up by sunlight, and seeing everything as ... , in anonymous forum posts to college applications to conversations with

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 3, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ATHack A day well spent helping others

  

  Hackathon (or ATHack for short). The goal of ATHack was to pair teams of MIT students with people living with disabilities to solve a problem in the home ... ) and also amazing. I teared up a little when I got to see him in the

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  kids with adequate calc experience in high school take this to brush up ... in IAP]. I got recommended 18.01 and 8.01L, but that had to be a ... .01 met in a large conference room next to the [annotation note="It's a

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Pretender a message to both you and me.

  

  . Whether you get in or not, after decisions, listen to this song (or another ... feel for MIT life. And I fell in love with it. I wanted to go to MIT more ... getting in, reducing getting into MIT to a coin flip. On the ride home, I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Save Point sleep wake hope

  

  story or narrative. Since coming to MIT, I've had far less time to ... me a while to get my thoughts down on paper (or motherboard, as the ... the meaning of the hack. Hacks, in their purest form, are designed to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Merit When getting into MIT isn't convincing enough

  

  are excited to tell me about how they relate to MIT. Believe it or not ... to talk or donate but are polite about it, and others—a very, very ... ’m not interested in giving to MIT,” he told me. “I’m sorry to hear that

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • January 22, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the Bloggers’ Personalities! A post about personality tests, part 2!

  

  to “better manage” people in workplaces or worse, while hiring people ... test in a different mood”, which to me highlights a key flaw in any kind ... must be about 12 years apart! (or I suppose 24, in which case, petey

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 12, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  sitting in the library, studying for a Geography exam when someone ran up to ... cultured to the term “Ivy League” or anything of that sort. I knew nothing ... it to Penn within days of their mail. I also sent in my SAT scores and

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  island in an ocean, but it’s going to start with me at a desk in an office ... . It turned out to be for my grad student (I say “my”, but in reality I ... , from random tech purchases to the ping-pong table in the lab commons to

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

  Boomeranging The day before classes start is Registration Day. It’s also the day we welcome readmitted…

  

  semester or two to finish her degree. Others take that extra time not by choice, but because a rough patch here or there means they have to retake ... people who embarked on yearlong missions to South America or Africa. The

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  worked so hard to include the world in that passion that Amtrak noticed and ... . Having bad grades or scores will certainly hurt you, but I’m sorry to say ... you come to MIT or not. I know it’s not a consolation, but it’s still

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 16, 2004
• 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?!

  

  manifestation in 1924. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology goes to great ... traced back to the early student life of MIT’s dormitories. In particular ... dormitories, but in isolated houses, gives less opportunity to cultivate the

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

  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

  that wanted to do good in the world. The past few years, I've been ... ideas are as fluid as electrons in an E-­field, motivating me to learn how ... 's doing a PhD in oceanography to pursue policy and science together by

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 6, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s not fair! ... and why that's OK.

  

  virtually anyone trying to make sense of the college admissions process. In ... values and priorities. Maybe we share too much, or are trying too hard to ... situation is probably not going to change. I can't speak to the situations

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Challenge You Pi day approaches.

  

  . “Who will get in? What happens to the people who don’t? Who will I become if I get in? Who will I be, who will I become, if I don’t?” First, I ... to physically walk down a specific hallway, or take a specific class

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  activities I could only dream of — I was overwhelmed trying to find my place in ... grow, to believe in myself, to fail and learn from it because I Truly ... !!!!!! In my last semester at MIT, I have finally learned to love myself and I

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] a space for women at mit by Nandini Choudhury (WXGS Assistant Director)

  

  .[/annotation] In 1882, MIT officially began admitting women to all departments ... .[/annotation]Originally, women were not allowed to enroll—which was normal of universities back in ... -facing tables. To top it all off, it’s located in the heart of main campus. I

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • August 12, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ideate, Model, TEST! A long, behind-the-scenes look at 2.009 like, really long.

  

  ;this made me want to switch majors” aren’t phrases often heard in ... ideas, which were then converted to kits and assembled by students in an ... is heading in. We're forced to explain our progress so far without

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  (Bitter)sweet home meeting high school teachers again, and visiting my hometown for (probably) the last time

  

  that this is probably going to be the last time I’ll be in Alabama for a ... I were both in town and had nothing to do. Other than that I cut my ... problems. I was ashamed to live in Alabama throughout all of high school

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 12, 2023