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• Blog / About Decisions

  Diversity or Merit? false questions, false answers

  

  principle from which to derive a conclusion: Oh, [that student] did / did not ... , even though they are *unqualified* Let's cut to the core of the matter ... vast majority of applicants, is closer to the idea of qualified or

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

  Do I have a story for you… *SPOILER* I do

  

  myself it's been 3 years since I failed to follow through on this ... . I attribute a statistically significant portion of this to a mismatch ... ?). But then when you pop up and think back to just a few months or weeks

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to My Favorite Places on Campus can't leave without making one more post of this format

  

  up being useful - or at the very least informative - to most of the ... going to be useful or informative to anybody, except for future me who wants to reminisce back on my glory days at MIT. So, for future me: here

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 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.

  

  There are going to be a lot of people eager to give you advice on how to survive college and maybe even leave with a degree and some shreds ... "Go to class. Go to class. Go to class." But that's for dumb kids who

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

  Words of Advice for the Incoming Class you did it! now what?

  

  we are trying something new! if you'd like to consume this blog in ... off, congratulations to the admitted class of 2026. You have taken incredible strides, made great sacrifices, and worked so, so hard to get here

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On Teaching and Learning Minimum requirement: read the last few sentences of this post. They're important.

  

  shy away from participating for the rest of the semester. Fail to ... dangerous of all, fail to make it absolutely clear that you believe in every ... neither, in all honesty, do I. To recap, I’m here for MIT’s Four Weeks For

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choice and the MIT lifestyle ...because "MIT" and "student life" aren't mutually exclusive.

  

  when Robin visited his fraternity and failed to identify him as a robot ... happen to be amazing). Monday and Wednesday nights are usually dedicated 5 ... recitation to revise problems or figure out problems I couldn't do on my own

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  really developed a good set of tools for what to do when those failed. This ... of my head. People fail to graduate from MIT because they come in ... Head over to /r/confession and you'll find this post lurking near the

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Feeling Many Feelings :) and :( and everything in between about decisions

  

  I have a lot of feelings. It doesn’t take much to make me cry ... dollar for every time my mother told me to lower my voice, I could probably ... told me to chill and “be cool” in selection committee – I told her that

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • March 16, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  To a lot of people, myself included, getting into MIT is the dream we have worked for years to finally reach. This is just a little excerpt on me getting into MIT and why it meant so much to me. Enjoy!!!! Finally

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  't want to admit people just to have them fail out. But once students have ... different social network sites, and been syndicated to CNN among a bunch of ... Mashable writer Sarah Kessler. Startup Splash Networks wants to make

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  November 1st is my January 1st each november is a new direction

  

  your experience was like mine, many people were doubting you. To you ... heartbreaking. Takes a lot of courage to put yourself out there for a school with such a reputation to accept you or not. I remember when I applied

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  to enroll at MIT, I read obsessively about student life at MIT--the research and academics are, of course, first-rate, but I wanted to know what it is really like to spend your days here. Linked below are a few

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  We’ve been there, too. It feels like the calm before the storm. Please don't forget to breathe.

  

  something, then try to force myself not to think about it, then fail, then ... rewriting and fretting around my application to MIT, I managed to have it submitted in time for the EA deadline. Somehow, I managed to distract myself

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The leftmost station on your dial WMBR = awesome campus radio

  

  's seen the unpublished posts; I just keep changing the date and planning to post it. I fail at life, I know.) I woke up on Wednesday morning at 11 AM with the (vaguely) shocking realization that I had to read and

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!

  

  MIT utterly failed to prepare me for the real world.  I wish there had ... ! In celebration of the 10 year anniversary of the blogs, I'm back to tell you about my life after MIT.  But in order for me to properly tell

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  0.125 not a course 0 class, but a fraction complete

  

  , learning how to fail and bounce back from it. This is one of the big reasons ... back up without me pressing start. I replied to emails,[annotation note ... ,[/annotation] and started sorting out spring semester things. I tried to begin this

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 4, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  began to blur together into hexadecimal soup, I decided I needed a break. My circuit design was only failing one of the online tests, which meant ... ’t focus (quite literally) long enough to find it. I left to pick up some

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• 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.

  

  whatsoever to do with age when I couldn't stop giggling and failed miserably at ... -to-in-ages-because-you've-both-been-super-busy give you a call, or send ... two of you set up a time to Skype. Mushiness also comes in cake form

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 things I love about MIT and hopefully you'll learn to love them too.

  

  and now it’s time to decide which offer to accept. As a senior blogger ... order.) 1. The students This one is a no-brainer. Thanks to the ... you’re planning a meeting, but is generally amazing to witness

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008