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  Let’s Go Fly A Kite Up to decision night!

  

  ’t help myself sometimes. But no matter how much we tell you to relax - let ... long time, since my obsession with learning how to properly throw cards ... , and the depths of hell open to swallow you whole, rejecting you from all

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a freshman year 🦴🧠🩸🖐️🫀 my first year at mit, told through the body

  

  , where i learned how to use a telescope to observe stars from atop the roof ... . i did so many things wrong / non-ideally while learning how to run ... for how i did in a class, and that i would never be forced to share a

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  of assignment you can do the night before," to which a student proclaims "Challenge accepted..." Oh, how true. When giving tours on campus ... . That is, no matter how much time is given for an assignment, it will

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  to deny just how much of a curmudgeon I have become. I’m pretty sure ... difference in perspective relating to what applying to college is supposed to ... journalists appreciate. I have the luxury of being able to be a purist in this

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

  It’s More Than A Job Thoughts On The Eve Of RA Decisions

  

  having known you. If you've had an interview, I get to read about how you come across in person to someone you've just met - how your face lights ... In response to an earlier entry of mine, this post appeared on

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  -and-such happened, at how common it was that important milestones seemed to be incited ... probably don't know! 4. How do some people manage to take 6 classes at MIT ... do psets handed to you on a plate, but rather on how well you apply

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  didn’t know quite how to put it, and instead peppered small references to ... Yultide (credit to the bloggers for the awesome name). Today is Yultide Day ... Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences a Chance I have wanted to advertise the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dragons A blog post for deferred students (and everybody else waiting on decisions).

  

  referring to how long waiting for decisions feels. Because I was fairly sure I ... Nowadays we seem to primarily battle problem sets and thesis snakes ... sick right when I got back to Boston after IAP, so up until a few days

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 14, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  welcoming "How are you doing today sir?" to his deeper and brotherly "wassgood ... you should speak if you want to be respected. This is how you should ... convince myself that what they were saying was true. I tried to forget how

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)

  

  need to know about how to live, and what to do, and how to be, I learned ... the very least, I learned how to be a better friend. Play fair. Five ... encountered this in college and had to figure out how to clean up my own messes

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I know you’re bad at something And here's what you should do about it. Hint: NOT "do something else"

  

  section. All eyes are on you, as you lift your instrument to your mouth ... measures and symbols telling you what key you're supposed to be soloing in. It's your chance to play whatever you want! Maybe this sounds

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Policies, Principles, and Protests thinking about responsible citizenship in a time of student protests

  

  , advocating for policies to prevent such a shooting from happening again. They ... across the country to join them in protests, including several school ... may in turn be reported to universities to which they applied. Indeed

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • February 22, 2018
• 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 all of our students (regardless of how he might believe they ... as a Tech Caller, which means I call alumni, talk to them, and ask them

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

  On identity f(x) = x

  

  seconds. I have listened people call problems I don’t know how to solve as ... how lonely I felt, or how I had no motivation to do things, or why my ... threaded through the narrow keyholes of exactly how I wanted it to end up. If

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  The Room(s) Where It Happens You've hit submit. What Comes Next?

  

  sometimes ask students to imagine who reads their applications and to tell me ... . That we are there to judge them and find flaws in them. The truth is, we are all in this profession because we like students. We want to serve

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • January 9, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.

  

  protein engineering and computational biology to try to understand how a ... especially how it would affect my experience after MIT but going back to read ... . The TV show in fact is older than many of you applying to MIT right now

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Fireside Chat with President Sally Kornbluth get to know our president!

  

  endeavors. She is proud of MIT and how it can provide real solutions to ... Climate Project at MIT. The goal of this project is to figure out how to get ... ’s how we know it. The elegance of science is something to be admired. If

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Random Hall ‘13s Life plans, advice, and stories from last year’s Random Hall graduates.

  

  family of MIT to be famous for how we treat people: famous for sympathy ... program. This program teaches middle- and high-school students how to ... I know how to pronounce Eyjafjallajokull (and yes, I typed that

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 20, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  how past-me decided to act, a function of my choices and values. We always judge harsher in hindsight, just because it’s easier to; we know how ... apply to things, no matter how selective, no matter what I tell myself

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 16, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Cozy Hobbit Times, Cozy Hobbit Food

  

  that. Chop things. I don't know what reference to give for how small ... a recipe and more some notes on how I wing it: Slice to preference ... In 2015 I got to experience a longtime dream of mine, finally finding

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 14, 2016