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

  

  . What I mean by this “privilege,” more specifically, is that an MIT ... exactly what they’re doing. :’’) Not me. I entered MIT with the vague ... . I started having thoughts to the effect of “everyone else is already

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

  There Will Be Pi (Day)

  

  decision online before signing in to decisions.mit.edu. To ensure that you will receive a decision online, please visit https://decisions.mit ... :       MIT Regular Action admissions decisions will be

  • by A Delicious Pie
  • March 6, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The joys of web development or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the web

  

  popular page on my site is titlegen, which I liked working on even less. 3 ... is kind of annoying, and I enjoyed programming more when I’m not doing ... TypeScript is now my favorite programming language. What happened? The

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 9, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  These are the droids you’re looking for (on Pi Day) beep boop boop BEEEEEP

  

  receive your decision online before signing in to decisions.mit.edu. To ...       MIT Regular Action admissions decisions will be available online on Monday, March 14, 2016, beginning at 6:28 PM ET

  • by Decisions Droid
  • March 7, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Keep your eyes to the skies this Pi Day 2019s are happening

  

  decision online before signing in to decisions.mit.edu. To ensure that you ...   MIT Regular Action admissions decisions will be available online on Saturday, March 14, 2015, beginning at 9:26 AM ET. When

  • by Decision Drone
  • March 6, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Future Is Grim check it out

  

  member. He loves MIT, which is no small thing to say considering he knows ... for him is a man worthy of MIT's respect. ... There is much hullabaloo around campus here lately as everyone is

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 28, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing is Magic And 15 minutes is all you need

  

  like to mention that there is a writing requirement here at MIT. To some ... special arts program for his junior year. It’s because writing is hard. Some of you brilliant prospective MIT students know exactly what I mean

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  Campus preview weekend (CPW) at MIT is just what it sounds like—a time for high school seniors to visit campus to see if MIT is really the ... work or results. The definition of the MIT experience, however, is not

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  all the references... including a couple cheesy direct nods to MIT

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 7, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  There Is No Formula A formula would take the human component out of our process, which is perhaps the…

  

  This whole “is there a formula to get into MIT” thing that’s been ... belongs here, then you obviously don’t know what MIT is about. (And for the ... define admissions with a formula is like trying to define life with a

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 16, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  10 reasons why MIT is beautiful if I do say so myself.

  

  Sometimes MIT gets a bum rap for not having a pretty campus.  I ... Cambridge, and a whole lot more. So without further ado, 10 reasons why MIT is beautiful: (1) Because I get to see this view every day walking

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what work is bite-sized senior spring

  

  the work of not working this is going to be a challenging semester ... not so good at and that i can usually get away with neglecting. this is ... with joy and curiosity and energy, which, for me, is so much harder than

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Life is Improv say yes

  

  and you all will (or have) receive at MIT. Part of that preparation is ... The first and most important rule of improv is this: don't negate. To negate in improv is to break the flow of absurdity and belief that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  lines of "What is the difference between Chemistry and Chemical ... prefrosh alike, the correct answer to that question is... "There is actually ... all. No, really. What you're going to do is take some reaction or some

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  To whom much is given… ...you know the rest!

  

  Much is expected. I can't tell you how many times I have heard ... few weeks. I can tell you with a fair level of certainty that it is just as true in college admission circles as it is anywhere else that it

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 13, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Gothic You are reading an admissions blog post. You are reading tumblr.

  

  must be what MIT is like, right? No one would say The Milk doesn’t belong ... Hemingway in dramatic black and white. There is perhaps my favorite meme that ... : MIT Gothic. I think it paints a very concrete picture of life at MIT

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  This Blog Post is a Bad Idea Not blogging for several months... that was also a Bad Idea.

  

  ever a Bad Idea. Bad Ideas is a weekend festival thrown by East Campus ... Challenge. The Green Building is the tallest building on campus (and the ... are an MIT student, you check your email compulsively. It's the only way

  • by Kate R. '14
  • January 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blended Learning at MIT benefits of technology in MIT classrooms

  

  educational institutions. Now MIT is implementing the latest educational ... taken in the spring in an online format. An initiative is underway to ... Learning website here.  Fourteen years ago, MIT democratized secondary

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 23, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  time. When I was younger I always believed I could get into MIT, but it ... ; I'm just rambling. What follows is one of the most insightful and ... Reddit comment needs to be published here, so here it is, reproduced below

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

  Why I Chose MIT On deciding where to go, now that you're in

  

  know what it meant. MIT is MIT entirely because of the people here. For ... will learn at MIT is how to handle failure in a constructive way. You ... gives you the confidence to take risks. A lot of MIT is fun and games, but

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 29, 2012