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• Blog / MISTI

  This Entry is Really Long. And my pictures won't upload :(Edit: Actually, they finally did! Yay!

  

  time of my life – outside in perfect 75-degree weather, the one jacket I ... graders celebrate the end of the year by pulling a prank on the school and ... completion of high school. Partyyy Speaking of celebrations: following the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 28, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  The first step ...is admitting you need help.

  

  MIT is harder than your high school. In many cases, MIT is harder than your high school in ways you can't even begin to imagine. A thousand ... ask anybody for help. As you might imagine, sticking 1000 of the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 8, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Well I Know That It’s a Wonderful World from the sky down to the sea, but I can only see it when you're…

  

  to find a semester's worth of rushing over to Building 68 to turn in ... because of the combination of directing an ESP program almost single-handedly and trying to manage 72 credits until mid-Nov (with orgo added into the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 21, 2008
• Blog / Events

  In Prison Literally

  

  degree for free. However, the purpose of the visit today wasn’t for a class ... have obtained the degree. It would have made a world of difference for ... where I was. A group of women trudged past me. I looked around wonderingly

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 5, 2013
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Deferred Early

  

  As you know, we had a very competitive pool of applicants in Early, and unfortunately we could not take all of them. If your decision was ... students shortly, to help you manage those complicated feelings. 

  • by Decisions
  • December 13, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT and the SAA HOORAY FOR ACRONYMS

  

  AM. Since I have the worst luck in the world, I had a serious case of ... sounds like. Clearly MIT is refusing to let me graduate without a few last ... test last month.) This morning was out of the ordinary, though, because

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 28, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Associate Advising and the MedLinks Program I'm sick of unpacking, so here's a blog post

  

  collection of these for a while, and will start leaking them out) MIT Student ... , probability, and diff eq. - We're in the midst of freshman orientation, so now ... campus right now. Basically, each freshman has an advisor: a member of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 28, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  General Advice Application advice for HS juniors and sophomores, inspired by a student's question

  

  the most general sort of advice I can offer. If you (mostly juniors, but ... in terms of general advice, let's see. There are no specific activities ... traditionally-thought-of-as-MIT-ish things like science fairs or math competitions

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Real Deal no impostors here

  

  admission and high achievers, and especially at graduate school (one grad ... blow her cover. She had always believed her peers in graduate school were ... high school. Never had to study, always aced everything. And some of the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 27, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Crab Cave or: i moved to dc with friends

  

  A brief happy post amidst the chaos and confusion of existence: Hi ... going on with me and my life. For those of you who don't know, I just ... with all of my family members and spend time with them, as this summer

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 20, 2020
• Blog / Events

  IAP Jealousy (Hey, Jealousy)

  

  , because of how unique it is to an MIT education. I wanted to update my spiel ... office to catch up on non-reading work and meetings and I spied a bunch of class offerings that are really interesting: Heavy Metal 101 is turning

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • January 13, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  choosing the abridged version

  

  . options at the end of my job search i had offers from the following three ... in which i document some of my thoughts regarding my job search and how i decided what to do after graduation. this is a condensed version

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 20, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Week of Music Eight bands in nine days, and I still missed five performances.

  

  One of my best friends from high school, Pablo, and I share the exact ... characters on this famed seedy strip. In my senior year of high school, I ... leadership and management skills. The best part of these concerts is that they

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 28, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Illusion Of Validity look inside your heart. you know it to be true.

  

  with the judgments of their commanders at the officer-training school ... In the CollegeConfidential discussion of my blog post The Difficulty ... basically, it's a perfect setup for the Illusion of Validity Why is MIT

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Alaska, part I There...

  

  night of every summer since our senior year of high school. We're all a ... Unlike Snively's "Alaska" post of a year ago - which read, in its entirety ... Alaska. Not because it's cold or anything, just because it's a change of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  The First Four Days of the Next Four Years (Guest Entry) "STUDY. SLEEP. PARTY….pick two"

  

  at CPW, I came to understand the meaning and context of those words. My name is Li, and I am an enthusiastic member of the incoming class. I attend Cambridge Rindge and Latin School (more commonly known as "CRLS" or

  • by Bryan
  • April 17, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Odds & Ends 522 EA admits, Snively, molecular jewelry, and Evan Broder's holiday card - more random than…

  

  other highly selective schools. Each university's yield (the percentage of students who accept their offer of admission) is predicted to decrease ... . Congrats to all of you who got your applications in on time. :-) And being a

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Blogging Scholarship I'm a finalist for a blogging scholarship - now I need your help voting.

  

  MIT's "nerd school" reputation, while appealing for those of us with ... college. I happen to fit both of those descriptions, so I (who happened to be in New York with high school friends for the weekend; more on this

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 8, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  4 Years advice from a freshly minted alum

  

  that MIT has to offer? He's the kind of person will read Marcus Aurelius ... he asked me one of those deep questions that help gage what kind of a mindset you have. It was something really general, along the lines of "what

  • by Ana V. '15
  • June 8, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT OpenLabWare: A sneak peak at research @ MIT This new website is sure to change the way that the world thinks about MIT…

  

  graduate student to take one of their papers and completely flesh it out. I ... researcher (or more likely, a group of researchers) behind the finding. Granted ... as being analogous to OpenCourseWare, featuring research instead of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 13, 2007