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• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  year – the one that went to work for Porsche – is returning from his ... Student Support Services (S3), who coordinates the readmission process for ... longer, and not all that warm. W11 is usually the Religious Activities

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

  “You are capable of more than you know.” Reflections from six MIT transfer students

  

  liberal arts and technical training to be the best path for me to explore ... Leading our transfer admissions program is one of the greatest joys ... real magic of the transfer process is that no two transfer students

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 13, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing I don’t have time for hosed into my core

  

  up the points of the things I even wrote anything down for, they just ... strong negative memories of. But it's a requirement for the new 6–14 major ... ’t even have the salty tears to show for it. I’m sure I was hosed in past

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 25, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  institution is known for selecting only the best and brightest, who among the ... ? The application volume is such that there is more capacity for students ... for all. I grew up in Florida. The state is flat. There are no mountains

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an Easter vigil alive at east campus

  

  is the only food I eat all day. I am asked to emcee for part of the ... its usual white. She is surprised and asks if that is the reason for the concert. I tell her that the reason for the concert is not the lunar eclipse

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 5, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  New York Times about the college admissions process, it is hard for me ... something that one is not, is destined for failure. Why then, would the ... undergraduate experience is finite (4 years for most), the relationships are

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Search of Answers Seeking recommendations, rather than providing them...

  

  will provide the best foundation for admission to how does one actually ... of people who make up the admission staff. It is the collective wisdom ... parents face. For me to weigh in on the merits of an individual applicant

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paths there are so many

  

  to MIT was the only future we saw for ourselves. Looking at the ... especially unpleasant for us. Those were the first time that some external ... say the least. The reality is that the college application process is

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

  I Was Deferred And it was not the end of the world

  

  out there just for you where you will strive and thrive and be the best ... didn't match up to MIT standards, my grades were not the best, I had not ... mentioned in his last post - "I actually do agree that the best thing you can

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 17, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  feelings to process. But the weird part about all of this is that I feel very ... spotless. Moving out, of course, is just the move-in process in reverse. I ... the fall? We talked for half an hour. And then he left for the airport

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Praise Of Holistic Admissions not an admissions machine

  

  office, is emphatically not to admit the "best students" to MIT, but rather ... trying to succeed."  The idea is best understood with a metaphor drawn ... following quote:   One of the most important things about college is its

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / Blog Projects

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

  

  . First is the famous quote widely attribute to former MIT President Jerome ... firehose.” The earliest reference I could find is from the 1972 How to Get Around MIT, where it is instead attributed to Anonymous: This was the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  engineering. But he's probably best known around campus for being the King of MITERS, the main student hackerspace at MIT. Specifically, he's best known ... , like a Segway, is a self-balancing scooter, but, unlike the Segway

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the exclusion of everything else on making decisions, and how i chose mit

  

  . Three. The process of growing up is that of continual disenchantment, of continually shedding the old enchantment for the new. Zero. My flight going from ... that it was fine to stay for the night because I had friends in MIT that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  An MIT wedding Paper airplanes instead of rice and a reception at a science museum... what's not to…

  

  . Apparently the museum is a popular destination for MIT alums, because the ... research and development office in Cambridge. Adam is the go-to guy for ... engineering major named Adam, and we dated for the rest of our years at MIT. In

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  in a way that ultimately is best for me? These are questions that I ... filled with memories too large to contain any of us. It is the end of my ... pounding away, what happens next— Breathe. Let's start again. It is the end

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

  There is no such thing as a typical day on energy levels and productivity

  

  always hours when it is impossible for me to work. And these are the hours ... something that looks like: This is a bit complicated, so I’ll just draw the ... happening. And it affects me for weeks, months. And the weird thing about

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 25, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Diversity or Merit? false questions, false answers

  

  , underrepresented backgrounds that make our hearts bleed. We are looking for the best ... talk about merit in the admissions process, what we really mean, for the vast majority of applicants, is closer to the idea of qualified or

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Burton 1 Social Club This Thanksgiving, I'm thankful for my ridiculous, hilarious, amazing floor.

  

  confident in declaring that Burton 1 is the best floor in Burton-Conner. Maybe ... 'd just have to meet them. The best I can do is try to introduce them to you ... culture, and while there is clearly no objective way for one to claim one

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Adulthood Boom!

  

  Sorry if this is just a rehash of my Grown Up post from last year. January seems to be the month to be sentimental and reflect upon the impending doom delightful adventure of aging.

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 14, 2013