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  Admissions advice from someone who’s been there

  

  . Stats ARE important, but that's because MIT is a difficult place and they ... for MIT "hooks" and that there have been other threads asking "Is it ... and Informed) Risk-taking: Going to MIT is risky in itself, considering

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 17, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later what happened after pi day 2011

  

  decision from MIT, and I hadn't made it. I am just replying on this old email ... studying amateur Astronomy. I always wanted to come to MIT and be an ... tough, too much work load etc etc. I would still regularly follow Mit

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Semester 1 fantastic dishes and how to cook them

  

  jacky is claiming that MIT food is bad therefore people in MIT are sad and ... can find around MIT. And this is why I am here writing this blog post ... ,[/annotation] [annotation note="cj: a ci-h is a communication intensive class; mit students

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 8, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Leaving Massachusetts is the hardest state to draw.

  

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

  tenets or, my only piece of advice for incoming first-years

  

  campus, eager to experience MIT and everything it has to offer. Many of ... 2025s, here is some advice: you will survive this. You will have ... -years. It may take a while to adapt to life at MIT—indeed, it took me three

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  things that are golden a zine

  

  Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 25, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Application dreaming

  

  , this is a paraphrase):   "MIT is not a good place to be if you don't like math and science. But MIT is also not a good place to be if you only ... , DDR players... Yes, students at MIT are excited about science and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  , 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 ... you will all enjoy it! It is a bit belated, but all the footage was

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 23, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Applying Sideways How to get in to MIT.

  

  , which is this: How do I get in to MIT? And here is what I tell them ... is generally because they want to come to MIT, and they want me to tell ... is your "hook." But what if you don't get into MIT? Well, you may be

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to Crying on Campus It’s right about that time of year.

  

  past two weeks, and it’s definitely a normal thing to feel. MIT is hard ... wish is to go unfulfilled. You have another midterm tomorrow morning at 9 ... , you’re probably undergoing what I like to call This Is Fine Syndrome, a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 16, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Random Ceiling Tiles The ceilings of Random Hall and a friendly message.

  

  Random Hall. Each dorm at MIT has a personality, and I think ours is at ... this part: I hope you choose MIT, obviously. This place is amazing. If ... love. I came to MIT for the people here. I've had wonderful experiences

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 30, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  actual conversations i have definitely had with freshmen during orientation

  

  and none of us shower ever ME: beware ME: resistance is futile ... told you about my a cappella group yet * * * FROSH: is this east campus ... live? ME: east campus FROSH: oh cool!!!!! wow east campus is so cool

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 30, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  what’s good for you. MIT is also breeding ground for those out ... Great Gatsby, “the Great American Novel”, is a book most of us have to go ... great dilemma: be yourself or create yourself - just which one is it? I

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ten reflections on mit

  

  because of MIT, is it really because of MIT that I then had that change, or ... -centered narrative is clear: MIT is a difficult place. I took difficult classes, spent ... did. But how much of that is MIT? Or is it just me choosing to be a part

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 15, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  There are no imposters in the Class of 2018 Strength in networks

  

  The new MIT Class of 2018 Facebook group is a warm, fuzzy place ... . Imposter's Syndrome is rampant at MIT. Maybe you've already felt it ... of you. Is that weird?" (No, it's not weird!) and virtual group hugs

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Painting by number The anti-formula

  

  admission, (even though there isn’t one).  This is MIT after all.  We love ... , surely this is kismet.  Because the only thing we love more than formulas is numbers, or at least that is what people think. There are actually

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 2, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  office and as an Institute. We believe an MIT education is about learning ... responsibility is, like most things at MIT, something you learn best by doing ... expected from -- MIT students is a core feature of our educational mission

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • February 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Gee, my life’s a funny thing Remembering the bills I have to pay, or even yesterday.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The first person I met when I arrived at MIT for ... to the cemetery where Jim Morrison is buried because we had an hour to ... ironic that this huge, 100-plot cemetery is filled with French aristocrats

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “You know what would be cool?” some pizza would be a start...

  

  MIT apart from other institutions is the incredibly stimulating ... That phrase is probably the most uttered string of words I hear. It ... the more unsung parts of MIT: People here are very clever. You see

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 8, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things Charles Has Made fare thee well, rocket powered roller skates

  

  there is someone at MIT who falls into that mold, it's probably Charles ... few weeks back. This got me thinking of MIT people who just kind of ... MITERS, the main student hackerspace at MIT. Specifically, he's best known

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2011