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• Blog / Admissions

  Felicitation Answers... and hopefully minimal snark.

  

  every day. A lot of students cook for themselves (there's a Star Market ... research for him for very little in the way of salary. So slave labor works ... class. (I had been working in my UROP lab for a year when I took the class

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Secret Lives of Machines 🤖 In which the machines in my life get the spotlight they deserve.

  

  my psets and my tendency to use their Apple Pencil for goofy doodles ... for me. Marla is the phone I got before freshman year of high school, and who I continued to use (and drop) for the next five years. The hall

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • September 22, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  branches was it easy to let go?

  

  search for truth or objective reality or illusion or whatever. two ... singer as a fire for the cold listener. compares themselves to a river and ... brace myself for. everything comes close to evoking existential dread, but

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 12, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  [ hard mode ] i'm on hard mode and i'm just a noob

  

  got switched to hard mode for me after November started (and no, this ... before I sat in Bates Hall for about two hours and made progress on my ... draft done for [annotation note="Intro to Media Studies"]CMS.100

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 25, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  My winter break so far take a break

  

  schedule with dying, and searching endlessly for an ounce of motivation to do ... at our respective colleges. For the 24th and 25th, I spent time at the ... had been through it already. On the 26th, I drove into LA for the first

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 29, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  On Moving A goodbye that took me a semester, and some distance, to write.

  

  , and searching for ways to help, and not adding to the media spectacle ... . I'm a full-time employee writing and editing scripts for the You ... of school for a loooong time. And I do, and I did, and I took a break

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 16, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: The Power of Intuition when making important choices

  

  way of weighing which one would be better for me. On one hand, I had the job opportunity that I had always been looking for (a job in an ... great group of friends. I thought about these two opportunities for a few

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 21, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  AHHH CPW!! Goal: Do ALL the things!

  

  . We build things and destroy things and search for free food. - Don ... world gather for the first time together in one spot to go up to random ... Victoria will be staying with me!!!   Although Victoria and I planned for me

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 9, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Commencement 2009 Oh hey, I'm an alum.

  

  out at home, searching for a job, and working at the awesome summer job ... took lots and lots of pictures for your enjoyment. I woke up super early so I could stand around the track in the athletic center for several

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 28, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Re-halloween Reuse, reduce, recycle, remember not to leave junk outside your door.

  

  I searched diligently for a sofa on Reuse, since we had a bit of extra ... laundry server for the latest news on conditions in Random's washers and ... of hurrying students, organizations selling/giving/brochuring for

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 6, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Guest Entry: Leadership @ MIT You can become a leader on the MIT campus. Here's how...

  

  Leadership Development is an online search engine for various leadership ... “MIT engineers go to work for Harvard graduates.” This phrase is no ... are required for competitive higher positions in all organizations

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 14, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Straight from the Dean’s mouth Time magazine readers chat with the MIT Dean of Admissions, Marilee Jones.

  

  didnt get into my first choice school, Rice. Since Ive been searching for ... selection; some schools use the tests primarily for placement after admission. For most schools they are required, for some they are optional. Private

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  I’m a food blogger now enjoy reading through 700 words of personal digression to get to the recipes

  

  those "get your child ready for college!" lists; when I read those lists ... ! Well, except for..." Except for the cooking. Cue shrug from me. At just ... submitting our dorm ranking choices, agonizing over the wait for results, and

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 26, 2019
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Why Is There No Water? One of the most important things in your life is invisible to you until it…

  

  can read more about that here if you want!)   For context, Muti ... there, because that's one of the requirements for us to just physically be ... of the Sahara for this reason—that’s maybe one of very few places that

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 9, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Guess who can legally drive alone in Maine now? Learning to drive on hard mode (i.e., in Boston)

  

  National Park in Maine. We planned meticulously for the trip – booking the ... , I’ve had my South African driver’s license for three years and was no ... ’t you the least bit terrified?” “Is it even legal for you to drive here

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in the Life of an Over-Scheduled Frosh Another hosed blogger? ShOcKiNg

  

  . I tell him I’ll go after I work on it alone for awhile. I’m exhausted ... I could be here for hours and make almost no progress.   2:03 PM: Oh. My. God. I have a writer’s meeting for my [annotation note

  • by Powers '23
  • October 21, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to change majors in just five easy steps!

  

  some point. For many, it comes first semester. This is why MIT provides ... (if you got a D or F)."]P/NR.[/annotation] For some, it comes second ... 's, and C's do."] ABC/NR. [/annotation] For me, it came in the fall of my

  • by Alex M. '21
  • September 14, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself Perspective and focus, brought to you by M. C. Escher

  

  all-time high. I have a Basic account, but I could try Premium free for ... attention to the ideas, or A* search algorithms from 6.01 that I was too busy ... questions correctly. I felt like I lost sight of the forest for the trees, and

  • by Joel G. '18
  • August 2, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Cancer life-changing.

  

  whom are MIT students) come together for a week of pure camp fun – filled ... rotations, swimming, hiking, and more. Planning for each camp session is done ... starts preparing for the following Camp session as soon as the present

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 18, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions…..*sigh* Is (Fill in the Blank) University the right school for me?

  

  college search process. She is the first in her family to attend college and ... right place for you and leave without a degree. In that situation, you ... to GRADUATE from a college. I know that this is hard for you, but you

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • April 22, 2010