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• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  medalist, who also happened to get an 800! The same goes for people who are ... to accompany and support the claims I had made. As one commenter put it ... .   So let's discuss admissions data. First, I'd like to say that I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  , which you take to earn credit for an MIT subject without taking the class ... , or I revise for an ASE, or I’m walking over to the other side of campus ... first time in my life, I’ve needed to schedule time for myself. I’ve set

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  ways for exploring ideas. It’s not cheap to have such a big focus ... transitions so well that there will be no need for presenters to change slides ... especially important for a product that absolutely needs to be reliable

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 10, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  told myself that it was “practice” for the “real” applications to “real ... super reach for HYPM” “EC's aren't that good imo, to spread out kind of ... -800” “For MIT and Brown, try to bump up your SAT to at least 2200.” “you

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  sibling dynamics at MIT yes lmao Nisha and I are related

  

  ’ve been going to the same school for most of our lives, so I wanted to ... Be Named came to the realization that Nisha and I are, indeed, sisters ... ="aligncenter" width="454"] PROOF![/caption] To be fair, we’re completely different. I

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a sad sad toaster made of glass. Do you like your toast with tears? Because I'm sad.

  

  't plan anything to do, so after playing Crystalis for two hours, I decided ... 'm headed to UC Berkeley for grad school. Of course, the data also predicts ... for you. Actually this entry did end up being kind of long, but it's not

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Masquerading as a Liberal Arts Student The life of an MIT student abroad

  

  environment and it has been immensely beneficial for me to understand the ‘other ... fulfill my wanderlust. While it is great to do MISTI for a summer (they just ... to the realization that I had undertaken more than just an

  • by Becca H. '12
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  WHY? for people who don't like "no"

  

  waitlist for Columbia! She ended up going to MIT! I told my dad about the ... to college, but he was sure that I was a great candidate for whatever ... can hurt a lot more for people with technical brains, because we tend to

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Distraction News Your internet connection is unstable

  

  listening to someone lay out a plan for the next week, and the overhead ... everyone is still for too long for it to be a natural pause. I watch as a ... quiet for me to go and there are three other people streaming lectures and

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 31, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  studying. I think this holds truth for me; to maximize my exposure and ... lot of persistence for me to not get frustrated and give myself time to ... fundraisers and creating petitions to re-emphasize the need for MIT to implement

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Early History of International Students at MIT studying the people MIT made, and the people who made MIT

  

  Bulgaria. Then he moved to Persia to do construction work for the Russian ... tenure at MIT with a vision to build a more diverse and inclusive Institute ... they can insure the future peace of the world.” To achieve this ideal

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / Community Projects

  Robo-CJ writes haiku “didn’t you already make a blog post about this?”

  

  , so ready for CPW, because I didn’t get to go to CPW when I got admitted ... format for a haiku. Most of its poems are 2 to 5 lines long, and each line ... one wish i would wish for the haiku bot to reincarnate myself with haiku

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Iron Man, MIT ‘87 (?) After 21 last month, another MIT movie.

  

  using his own intelligence and sweat of his brow. I would love for that to ... . According to the Wikipedia bio, this is Stark's background:   ... really like to give these kind of honors to fictional MIT grads, though. In

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Midsemester Night’s Dream Technically an All-Nighter's Dream, but hey, close enough

  

  I’ve decided to continue a long chain of poor decisions by starting to write this post at 5:38 AM. In front of me is an empty Pringles can and some iced tea, to my right is a notebook full of vectors and

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  the contours of a wild ride 2.009 😤

  

  about it, for obvious reasons. This idea made it to the second-to ... for a group photo and moved short people to the front. "We need Concert ... to cracking. Software pulled their first all-nighter for this

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Blog Projects

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

  

  ingredient. —anonymous going to Harvard, but for a fraction of the cost. —Robo ... 're going to get rich. —Robo-CJ trading your sanity for a piece of paper that ... , but you'll have to hold your breath for high tide. Every time the waves

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Into the Smoke In more ways than one.

  

  ever been before. Coming to terms with the fact that this would be my reality for three whole months, I thought to myself: What on Earth am I ... . Now, I shudder to think of life before MIT, condemned to four years of

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Advice

  parallel universe for those feeling dejected

  

  , except for the wet sheen of dejection, weighing upon you alone. But - look ... elsewhere, if only for a few hours; one where a weekend trip with friends ... , diffuse, waiting to be molded into reality.

  • by Kai V. '25
  • December 19, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some More Pi Day Facts and Advice You thought all that was over, didn't you?

  

  taken on pi day, so it's still a pi day video! Good luck to all you 2019s, no matter where you are going. This is a video for pre-frosh in general, not just for MIT. College is a weird place, so I hope you can gain some

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 23, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Beyond the Stop Light it's been a ride, MIT

  

  ! If you would like to see our content beyond these blogs, we will be ... twinstagram lol We're bad at goodbye's so, for realsies now, bye!

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 26, 2020