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  An Astrological Guide to the College App Process We all know astrology isn't real...or is it?

  my sign and see what parts I do or do not relate to. Plus, I'm constantly asking my fellow admissions officers and student tour guides for their sun, moon, and rising signs so that I can give them an "astrological

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 20, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  here comes a thought on decisions

  

  i've been thinking about pi day and decisions lately and the song ... should post just the audio or the full music video, and decided the video ... [/annotation] came into my head, and i thought the words were really fitting for the

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 13, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HNY from NYC for IAP, 2016 time passes so quickly, help

  

  .) After finals, my brother and I flew home and stayed there for about two weeks, which filled themselves with card games and electrical failures. We ... safety, clean air, and good public schools. It felt unusual to have so

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  and the holistic admissions process. And while I hope that these entries have contributed some insight into how and why we do the things we do ... to accompany and support the claims I had made. As one commenter put it

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  Nowadays we seem to primarily battle problem sets and thesis snakes ... ago my personal dragon has been pathetic and droopy and largely sedentary and cold. My last dragon at MIT was my finals dragon

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 14, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Applying Sideways How to get in to MIT.

  

  and hawk their school. I recently returned from my travel, which took me from Raleigh, North Carolina to Atlanta, Georgia and a dozen places ... and small high schools, cities and villages, and performed what amounted

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  e) Other Some pretty important stuff, and then just some pretty stuff.

  

  major is more of a personal journey, and these blogs are supposed to apply ... elucidate the lives of MIT students, and this subject has definitely been on my mind lately. (And by subject I mean aw

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Beacon Hill in the Fall More door.

  

  is behind us, the Charles River is below us, and Boston is in front of ... is vines and fire escapes up brick walls, streetlights leaning against steep slopes on narrow brick and stone streets; it is hidden alleyways

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 17, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  History textbook The American Pageant, and my friend Davie ('12) is sitting opposite me, resting on his elbow and playing Words With Friends. He ... asked him whether "Cloudy Apple" is good, and Davie's response was "it

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An actual day in the life It's not the most exciting day... but it's a day!

  

  smack Adam and ask when he wants me to get him up (he can't get up by himself), then sit down at the computer and turn on my (illegal but oh ... :30-9:10 -- Check CC, everybody's blogs, Google News, and a bunch of Live

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  girls sitting at the table. Sarah R., '14, and I sat next to each other in ... foolhardy enough to enter the Bad Ideas Wings Eating Contest... and was it ... for the celebration and creation of very bad ideas. But since it was the

  • by Kate R. '14
  • January 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Distraction News Your internet connection is unstable

  

  Classes are happening again and I am not ready. I am looking at the little boxes on Zoom and everyone seems so calm and ready to start back up again. People are giving helpful suggestions and input. The [annotation

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 31, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Brief History of Cars on Fire at MIT You didn't think I would miss an anniversary, did you?

  

  while, it's not that uncommon to wander MIT's campus and find yourself wondering: How did THAT get there? Four score and zero years ago ... HELL"—the IHTFP-esque MIT motto of the 1930s—and hauled

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing is Magic And 15 minutes is all you need

  

  I have a personal blog that I write about my teenagers and I haven’t updated it lately. It’s not because I’m tired of writing- I’m not. And it ... lately with one kid on his way to college and the other on his way to a

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Future Is Grim check it out

  

  Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department (or EECS for short (or ... in 1980, and presumably hasn't left his lab and doesn't know what year ... numerous committees and won countless awards for his excellence in teaching

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 28, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hacking A performance art that lets students remind the teachers who's smarter.

  

  If you've never seen "Hackers" then you're depriving yourself and ... be Course 6 (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science). This ... to MIT for the hacks?” *Yes, I'm on a train again, and will probably

  • by Snively '11
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the Deferred I feel your pain.

  

  this entry. I've been biding my time, waiting for this day and the ... have glimpsed rejection and are already thinking about other schools. And others of you are stuck in that frustrating and seemingly interminable

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  The fall semester has just started, and the 2025s have poured onto campus, eager to experience MIT and everything it has to offer. Many of ... buildings on campus, and the classes which they will take in the coming four

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  i dissected a roach *cronch* *slurp*

  

  sturdy carapace, unparalleled scavenging prowess, and ability to fly. In ... sprinter down the hallway, and can probably spot a fly a building away. He ... stinkiest little cat on hall and we love him. Anyways, one time, when I found

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 28, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Painting by number The anti-formula

  

  out to be woefully short on substance.  I want to revisit and elaborate ... creatively, and perhaps most importantly, we love to do all of these things, and many more, simultaneously. As such, the very idea that one can

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 2, 2024