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• Blog / About Decisions

  Applying Sideways How to get in to MIT.

  

  in and of itself will get you in to MIT. For example: A few years ago ... officers follow the winds to the corners of the country to talk to students ... me from Raleigh, North Carolina to Atlanta, Georgia and a dozen places

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  I put on my robe and graduation hat It's sortof hard to believe it's time for this already.

  

  for graduation. Classes were over, and the most stressful thing I had to ... 've known, because I'm staying for another year to finish my Master's degree (through the MEng/VI-A programs). Since I am going to around for another

  • by Kim D. '09
  • June 7, 2009
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  [joint post] we visited every station on the MBTA and the Logan Airport Rental Car Center

  

  some parts of the path, there were even options for us to take depending ... onto the Mattapan High-Speed Trolley, which gets credit for going to ... to this day— CJ: Stopped 2 stops away. shivers Alan: The time for the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  Splash is to explain both its scale and the classes. For one, Splash is ... giving a class called “How to make a timer for Firestorm”, in which he ... to sign up to teach for Splash. [caption id="attachment_49472" align

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  submitted in time for the EA deadline. Somehow, I managed to distract myself ... supposed to have an Educational Counselor interview for another college. I ... " was code for "depressingly early sunset." After a lot of writing and

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  On Escaping An introspective vlog about MIT and getting ready to leave

  

  being a senior at MIT, and I think that was enough for me to finally ... finally figured out what I wanted to say. I think that's how this semester ... that it takes me a couple tries to even get in the right mindset to make

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 2, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Life is like a Game Elaborate metaphors from an amateur comic artist

  

  artists I like, and hoping for the best. So I might try to include a mini ... struggles. For some reason (mostly the fact that I'm a media dork at heart), a video game metaphor was easiest to conceptualize in comic form, so enjoy

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 7, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  , waiting for the blogger application to appear. I knew that one of the ... other words: you do not need to have had a blog for a zillion years in ... writing come easily for you? If you take five hours to write 500 words, this

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Things Wot I Did Whilst Studying at MIT A tale told in pictures (and someone else's words).

  

  classes that have nothing to do with your major(s), purely for the fun of it ... are done, my grades are in, I've nothing to do but work 40 hours a week before my eligibility for student employment runs out, and I vaguely recall

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 27, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  The future isn’t the answer reflecting on anxiety

  

  me to talk about and has affected me for a while. My mental health ... grade after trying to ride a skateboard, I wasn’t angry at myself for not ... couldn’t help but to admit to people that I felt scared for no solid reason

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  . I love MIT, but but there was no good reason for me to want to be anywhere ... are for getting to where you are now. MIT is a pretty cool sword, but it ... referring to how long waiting for decisions feels. Because I was fairly sure I

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

  If man is five Then most people are six, and if most people are six then pre-meds are seven.

  

  just to be in the same room for a minute and catch a glimpse of his well ... much as things to be studied for they work, but rather as elements of a problem that have specific properties for you to minimize and maximize

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  to them that I was worth something. If it wasn't enough for them, at ... attribute to hide or compensate for. I was lucky enough to know a few openly ... , or collecting a large set of people named Josh to fight for the right

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Defying That Sinking Feeling On learning to swim and envisioning success

  

  On my application for MIT, I made it a point to mention that I couldn't swim. Not because I wanted to come off as that kid who had done well in ... for dear life to the pool's edge, but the inviting depth of the water

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  list, asking us to apply for the[annotation note="Residence EXploration ... scenarios and start to put together a framework for each of them, considering ... , to get to know each other, we'd failed to attract all the students. For

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

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

  

  wanted to be when he grew up. I reached for the right words to validate the ... looking for pictures to use in a Father's Day card) and came across pictures ... up with people for no reason other than to derp in the hallways and

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends

  

  't want to wait for the next cycle to begin before I told this collaborative ... and how to take risks. But the most important and fulfilling thing for ... building, and she was kind enough to offer me a few square feet for the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “So what are you majoring in?” *sweats nervously*

  

  simple. I signed up for 6.01 in my first semester and went to a few ... involving education for kids, public policy, and using media to effectively ... for the beauty of it, but I recognize math as a tool to be used in

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take a Load Off Quoting The Band's "The Weight" should make the wait bearable

  

  is visible from my awesome double.As much as I would've liked for it to ... time, all just to see MIT's decision, makes for a dramatic story, but it ... . And it's still true of everyone who wants to get in to MIT. And I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  comforts would yank us back to the paths drawn for us before we were born ... to MIT for my sophomore year.  The week before I flew off to the ... in my math class—how to compute a probability density function, for

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019