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• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  examples. Here's another comment from my diversity vs merit post about SAT ... . When an applicant says "I have X SAT score and Y GPA, what are my chances

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Night at the Office A bit longer than I expected.

  

  ) asks, “When's the latest I can get my article to you?", to which I ... from my multi-tasking with editing Wikipedia – was the fact that in the

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s Not Me, It’s You How to kiss goodbye to a school that rejected you

  

  offers you an environment where you can thrive. And that brings me to my

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 29, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Mischievous Anniversary Tonight Four score and ten years ago...

  

  reasons, but my favorite reason are the students who are, um: And this

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • June 1, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  for all the children in the world, but I will give you my take on the

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Applying Sideways How to get in to MIT.

  

  and hawk their school. I recently returned from my travel, which took

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

  MIT Women’s Soccer Talking to the 2009 NEWMAC Champs after they returned from the NCAA National Championship Tournament

  

  other athletics at MIT; I'll do my best to find answers. P.S. I'm not

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 25, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  how to change policies at mit [joint post with Rona W.] our CUP of tea

  

  evaluating learning) and my extracurriculars (largely through ESP). Last year ... people showed up to this online forum. During my time serving on a

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 28, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Praise Of Holistic Admissions not an admissions machine

  

  from my favorite sport of football: MIT isn't the end zone. It's where

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

  Diversity or Merit? false questions, false answers

  

  There's something I've been mulling over in my head for a long time. It's an issue at the intersection of other excellent posts that folks have made here on the blogs, such as David's Putting Diversity Into

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

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

  

  because we haven't made the app available yet. However, from my own time

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Thong I Should Be Wearing [UPDATE] Sexy sexy undies.

  

  (not even my family in Oregon) could access it. Then, magically, a day or

  • by Snively '11
  • November 1, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where the Free Things Are A List of Free Opportunities and Tools for Students

  

  you don’t. And one of my favorite quotes from the blog that resonated ... needed in high school and even carried me in some classes during my first

  • by Richard O. '28
  • January 30, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Putz and Tetazoo are friends!! field notes from a faraway land

  

  with great cost — not only do I feel my quads deteriorating, my journey ... not sure if my thin blood can withstand this level of sustained exposure to the ever bittering elements, but I shall adapt. My first venture

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Your Friendly Neighborhood Dream-Destroyer "How Could You Work There?"

  practicing their choreography on-stage when I responded to my friend: Me ... was quite confused during my own college application process. Although my parents were incredibly supportive of my dreams and aspirations

  • by DJ Rock
  • May 30, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  On Being the “Dumb” Friend and the freedom from comparison

  

  ’ve found myself in amongst my MIT group of friends: Namely, I am the “dumb ... quantitatively true: I am not as smart as my friends. It’s evident even just with ... access to, because my friends learned in 9th grade some of the content that

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 2, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Making friends by learning languages Welcome to the Language Conversation Exchange

  

  try out. Then, during my sophomore IAP, I took a Spanish conversation class in Spain through a program called IAP Madrid. It is one of my most treasured memories from my time at MIT and it reminded me why I love speaking

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 6, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Our loving, our friends, and our labor This entry is based on Aaron Copland's opera "The Tender Land."

  

  meeting for my UROP (the turkey one) just to get free apple pie 2. discussed ... succinct, complimentary and distressing e-mail I've gotten in a while from my ... presenting on my 20-page GFP report. I don't really know what I'm going to do

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 22, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  3 Simple Steps for Making New Friends Guide to Meeting People

  

  passerby as a person who is waiting for you to speak to him.” My friend Alex ... the strangers reveals he himself is Mexican. Considering that my friend ... anything.” - Maria Kalman My heart was nearly jumping out of my chest when I

  • by Victor D. '27
  • September 17, 2025
• Blog / Community Projects

  Friends, Carafes, and the Infinite Corridor What a week! Watch Tim play his instrument after a morning of camaraderie and cheap…

  

  had my first omelette since coming to MIT, so that was very nice. We ... machine suitable for a server, with delivery to my dorm, for a mere $10 ... musical prowess to a wide audience, so I donned my corridor gear and

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 16, 2005