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• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Polish mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot's last name means "almond bread" in German. I got to see Mandelbrot speak on Thursday! It was for like 30 seconds, for a variety of reasons, but it was cool

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thoughts for the New Year A semester's worth of thoughts, tbh

  

  only 25% complete because I only got through the fencing PE class

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fit or happiness made easy

  

  Nearly nine months after getting into MIT, one question I continue to ask myself is "am I in the right place?" How do we know when we get there? Exactly a year ago from today, teachers and classmates insisted the

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice On The Essay The rules are simple: write your own.

  

  I recently opened my in-box to find an email from someone who "would love to interview an admissions officer from your prestigious university to measure the impact of the admissions essay on today's college

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions advice from someone who’s been there

  

  they should retake to raise them by 30 points. I hope that it gives you

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 17, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  reject modern web design return to 2006

  

  ’re friends with for the first few days of school before you meet an actually ... out of the dryer six days ago anyone else permanently going through a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  and civic responsibility" remain as, if not more, pressing today as at

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • February 22, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  actual conversations i have definitely had with freshmen during orientation

  

  pretty good FROSH: yeah i haven't eaten anything else today FROSH: this

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 30, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mind and hand

  

  together. I helped build a robot. The competition's today, and we'll see how

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT, part deux The case study of someone else you wouldn't expect to have gotten in

  

  today, and I was planning to write about tests. But Laura beat me to it

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python

  

  day for my entire senior year (beginning in November when I started ... hundreds of revisions a day. Even though I felt that the second half of ... Pandas tool called "date reindexing" to add missing dates (days when I didn

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

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

  30 different ways, look no further than your virgo friend who has

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

  An Open Letter to MIT Applicants Don’t Panic (and know where your towel is)

  

  Today on social media, I was greeted with an article about how one student chose to become part of MIT’s class of 2018. While I have nothing ... today, how fictional characters have taught me innumerable lessons about

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  i dissected a roach *cronch* *slurp*

  

  thought “I think I’ve had enough of this today.” and proceeded to pack up my

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 28, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Snively’s Cross Stitch Corner I really enjoy cross stitching

  

  ! And that gets us to today! I’m just finishing up the cross stitch for

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  Mashable is running a story today called New Facebook App Tells College Applicants What Their Chances Are. It's created quite a buzz on different social network sites, and been syndicated to CNN among a bunch of

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

  The Long Road to Happiness Stuff no one likes to talk about...

  

  , sometimes I think I won’t ever eat again for three days (which is obviously ... working on the Pi Day video. And while I was doing these things, I really ... were days that I just couldn’t handle being there and I wanted to leave

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 22, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  November 1st is my January 1st each november is a new direction

  

  . I spent days after I submitted my application pacing back and forth in ... failed a test I studied two days for. Then I slept for three hours a night four days in a row to finish a 6.005 coding pset. After taking two

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to Make Money at MIT for all of us who don't know how to make a startup :(

  

  ,[/annotation] there wasn't a realistic way for me to continue to serve 30 hrs/week like

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 4, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Axes of Confusion ????

  

  were a couple that got us close to 30, and the worst one took us around

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 21, 2018