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• Blog / How to Human

  How to Make Friends Disclaimer: Attempt at your own risk

  

  worth it to have met that one person, Ruby W. ‘18 at Colorado School of ... -Ethiopian-American girl from Colorado. There’s a lot of things that are really different ... lot of people all at the same time during freshman orientation, but

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 30, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Essay-M A representative collection of an MIT student's best writing samples.

  

  for you regular applicants to start writing your essays for all of your colleges, so I thought I'd offer you a little advice of my own. More specifically, I'm going to lead by example by posting some of my own writing

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 27, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Homeschooled applicants Some advice for our homeschooled applicants.

  

  version of something that will eventually be posted as official content on ... ball rolling a bit, I hope. MIT has a long history of admitting homeschooled students, and these students are successful and vibrant members of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  *waves goodbye* Homeward bound

  

  as the final song on the soundtrack of my "My Time at MIT" video. As I ... in, I always thought of MIT graduates as geniuses. These people went to ... to have achieved genius status. I've got a lot of ground to make up

  • by Snively '11
  • May 19, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A White Christmas Escaping Boston to go to more snow

  

  holidays because a lot of our extended family doesn't live within a drivable ... packed up our winter clothing and headed to Colorado to spend a week in the ... over break to escape the Boston weather, but spend half of the break in

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 25, 2014
• Blog / Public Statements

  The Class of 2019 Graduates from MIT

  

  . You can watch these remarks, and the distribution of the diplomas (yes ... accomplishment at having completed one of the most difficult and rewarding ... 7th, the Class of 2019 graduates from MIT. They were admitted

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 7, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  it’s ok that it’s not ok sometimes things will happen, and you have to just let yourself be.

  

  of what happened there, but I know the way Ruth came to be at my ... bodies of children would be curled up with mine at night. Ruth’s sister ... happened to him. When we first moved from Denver to the suburbs in Colorado

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 4, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Take Only Memories Leave Only Footprints

  

  of my dorm, Baker House. 4) while working a shift at Baker desk and I ... neighbor Lizz came in to offer her daily dose of humor. “What do you call ... year-long UROP working with polymers as a cell environment. At the end of

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Choosing a Major I hope this is helpful to you at some point

  

  popular at MIT or not? Yes? No? What do you think of when you think ... at MIT- and 5 of them are women. Luckily, the ratio of men to women ... graduate. Take a look at this page, that's about 16 classes. On top of the 17

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  College The path to self-discovery is lined with my blog entries.

  

  year of high school stood between myself and a diploma. I wasn't accepted ... colleges. After about 5 picoseconds of staring at my acceptance letter from ... means of the Internet), I accepted my offer of admission. You already know

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 21, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Newly Admitted Student Events… ...coming to your neighborhood.

  

  Hi! I’m Katie Kelley, one of the Admissions Counselors here at MIT ... Florida. Monday • Join the MIT Club of Colorado, the MIT Alumni Association and MIT President Susan Hockfield for a night of celebration at Red

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  December Questions Omnibus 2 The deadline is coming!

  

  else translate it, some of my teachers are ot really good at English ... diploma, but it might be a good idea). You cannot enroll in a degree program ... . Recently, he was offered University of Michigan merit scholarship($32

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 30, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  chaos and an exam that I technically failed irl deus ex machina

  

  A fire alarm went off in the middle of the first 20.110 exam. It was one of those times where I felt like the Simulation was glitching, except in a good way. Half of the class was taking it in one room and the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 28, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Judd Logan is my homeboy He's amazing, so amazing

  

  the quality of people here at The Institute. Judd Logan is yet another ... Institute of Technology offered a similar deal. So in less than a month Logan ... offers of such magnitude would come to someone like Logan. He did after all

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • July 14, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Infinite Corridor, set alight or, why dozens of people were crammed into a tiny stairwell at 4:19:53 PM EST

  

  amateur astronomer in Colorado, appears to have one of the most accurate predictions of the event. And so, on November 10th 2012 at 04:19:53 PM EST, a ... best not written about on the blogs. Some of these phenomena can be

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 10, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Massachusetts: The Geek State I less than three (

  

  's as good a measure as any of geekiness, at least with respect to the ... National Science Foundation released a ton of statistics as part of their "Science and Engineering Indicators" report for 2010. They compiled a lot of

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 7, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding heritage at MIT

  

  this in part to Rush, in part to a slightly larger-than-usual number of ... ) but also what you didn't. I knew, of course, that MIT students got to ... 't have any way of knowing what it meant for me, or what it would come to

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  After Graduating From beyond the veil :O

  

  international student at the University of Pretoria in South Africa, who then did ... Toronto. I interviewed at a lot of places. I gradually got better at ... never look back. I have a lot of FOMO--about not being at a startup, about

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 10, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How MIT students are trying to change education by biking across America.

  

  the kids? Too few of them were looking directly at the students using ... It’s summertime @ MIT! I'm relaxing at home after graduating last ... few of my friends are participating in - Spokes: Biking Across America

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 10, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Taste of the Real World an adventure in life

  

  . It looks at all forms of transport: cars, transit, bikes and ... When you are at school, the whole world seems to exist in its own ... on in the world, only able to scan the New York Times every couple of

  • by Becca H. '12
  • June 22, 2011