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• Blog / About Decisions

  Into the Unknown with bravery

  

  out what to do after we graduate.  It’s scary.  For the past couple of ... rejected from the last company we thought we still had a chance to work at ... take a gap year, or scramble to find a job. We didn’t get to participate

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 17, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Reasons I haven’t blagged… hint: "I'm Busy" isn't one of them

  

  what you do to procrastinate”. A fellow classmate turned to her friend ... a modern twist. This post is a very meta post about why I haven’t been posting--or for a more dramatic flair, The 7 Capital Vices I Have Oft

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 29, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I would like to find an astronomer to talk to No admissions. Just good writing.

  

  I just returned from a week's "vacation" with family and friends. I ... certainly not forgotten. I've got a blog post in the works about how to write ... this day. Today I am just going to rip a post from Ta-Nehisi Coates - an

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All-You-Can-Eat Summer I hit food coma at the first paragraph.

  

  whatever it is that you're officially "doing" this summer, summer days pile ... . In a nutshell, summer is a diced onion, once carefully layered and ... that the outer layer is mingling amongst the inner core. Summer is a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m Shipping Up to Boston and I lost my leg! Whoah oh oh..

  

  all the feeling there decided to concurrently take a few hours off to ... poking tools in my mouth, but aren't actually doing anything. (in my head ... she's getting that cavity filled when all we're doing is HOLDING THIS

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 31, 2007
• Blog / Events

  The sun comes up, then goes away Graduation day with pictures!

  

  -- you have a lot more patience than I do! (I was threatening not to go to ... , commencement is over, and I'm officially an MIT graduate. That's still a little weird, and I'm not sure if I'm going to believe it for a while. Thanks so

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Photojournalism and answers to some questions

  

  do complain about them a lot, though. 2. Mushal asked how the biology ... carrying an umbrella in a snowstorm doesn't make immediate intuitive sense to you, you've clearly never lived though a New England winter. Timur had

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  classes i’m taking this spring study abroad edition

  

  classes only. it was a little intimidating at first, i have never taken only ... difference is that there is more room for a self-guided pace. concretely, this ... look like problem sets, but we do not have to turn them in every week

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 22, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  Caring for the body health, am i right?

  

  time I step on a scale, I find myself doing the BMI calculation in my ... Monologues, a yearly production run by campus group The F-Word. It's a series ... about life as not-a-cis-man. All pieces were written by members of the MIT

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  when apocalypse strikes… on being preemptively torn from my home, living group, and nearly everything i love at…

  

  of moving in, and I could only feel a conviction that what I was doing ... feel like I’ve lived so much in such a short span of time, which makes ... ,[/annotation] got a spontaneous tattoo of a bomber plane on my arm, perfected the art

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 16, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing Documents Deadline check your MyMIT account now

  

  Hi all- I’m taking a break from reading applications to give our Regular Action applicants a quick update. As of today, we have ... more components so you may have received a direct message from us. If you

  • by Kris Guay
  • January 18, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  More On The Interview… The deadline has passed, but if you're an EA applicant who has not yet contacted…

  

  interviewers remains accurate). A description of the current interview process is ... your EC, you should still do so! Your EC will still conduct an interview with you, write a report, and submit it as part of your application. With

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 24, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Regrade Request Analysis points, please?

  

  Several classes I've taken at MIT use a platform called gradescope ... , which features: Clear standards: Instructors can include a rubric ... which they award points. Students don't just see a total score – they see

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 3, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  How I Spent IAP bonus content: one sentence statements about books and movies

  

  three weeks leading up to that date poring over a complete set of ... is money, and IAP is essentially like being handed a briefcase full of ... relaxing at home. There really are no bounds to what you decide to do

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • January 29, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Presenting…My Prefrosh! ‚ô•

  

  'm Abir, a prefrosh, and I was fortunate enough to have the BEST host ever ... asked me to guest blog about CPW and I am going to try to give a glimpse ... my flight :( BUT I took it like a man, pulled out my macbook and played

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 18, 2010
• Blog / Events

  The Stuff of MIT Legend I'm about to tell you a super cool story. It happened two years ago, but…

  

  does the Edgerton Center do? I think a better question might be "what ... 's worthy of a blog entry, even if I'm 2 years late in posting it. Yesterday and today, MIT hosted hundreds of middle and high school students for a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 23, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Pottermania hits MIT Excitement for the release of Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows.

  

  the book as quickly as their children do. "If a child says, 'Why did he ... arrived in New Orleans, I was interviewed on camera by a producer for ... like the Harry Potter phenomenon now. Harry Potter is a massive mass

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 19, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Friday morning potpourri in lab How MIT's campus makes me happy to be alive. Also stuff from Adam.

  

  I have a couple of unrelated things to relate today, so I'll put headings in bold and you can skip around as you see fit. On reward as a motivation. So by way of introduction, it is 9:50 AM on a Friday morning. I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Class size A response to a comment brought up on Ben's blog.

  

  understand the situation this is somewhat a result of more people going to college, a lack of additional colleges having been built, students taking ... "Where there is a will....there is a way" for a reason. All the wonderful

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 14, 2005
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What do you mean by “MIT Speak”?

  MIT uses numbers for everything. You could be in 10-250 taking 18.03, which is 5-0-7, for 6-2. At MIT, all of your friends would understand exactly what you’re saying. (You…