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• Blog / Admissions

  Life, or Why I’m Afraid Of It 1) Isn't everyone?

  

  happens? This is something I care about a lot and really want to do with my ... .341 project last fall.) All right, maybe "gorgeous" is a bit of a stretch. I've been floating around this school for the last couple of months doing

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 18, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work Hard, Play Hard MIT students actually have lives, occasionally.

  

  risk of sounding like a complete idiot, I have to ask: do people always ... took a weekend away to fall down a 3-mile trail. So not only do we get ... queries: I'm a little concerned about MIT's degree of toughness...is it

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  how not to be a mathematician on taking time & not running away

  

  didn't want that to happen.  The question of whether I wanted to do math began to nudge me more often. I wondered if I was doing it purely out of ego and stubbornness and not because I actually wanted to. I didn't do a

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 15, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  A Picture is as much as Ten Hundred Words This is in fact a story that does have pictures.

  

  Part of the Up-Goer-Five Game. This Eye-A-Piece, I did a lot of ... doing up-goer five, I had the idea to take pictures instead of struggling ... went to that baby college down the long water road. There's a lot of

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • January 26, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 2

  

  ); sending in a strong application is all you can do to "influence the RSI ... if you don't do a post-Calc math class that you'll automatically be ... Nice," while a Do You Believe in Magic album, released in the fall, spent

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 11, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Exhaustion Guess who's not ready to go to grad school after all

  

  overwhelming amount of exhaustion. I am doing much less than I ever have in a ... MIT, but still go on to do an MEng, or do a multi-year grad program ... , do I love it enough to sacrifice a healthy work-life balance and a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 5, 2020
• Blog / CPW

  I’m nervous to meet you A letter to the prefrosh at the dawn of CP*

  

  "]CPW[/annotation] 2020, except it isn’t. It’s the first day of CP*, a virtual answer to ... this event. We’ve all done our best to pick of the pieces of a scattered ... a million different corners of the world. Personally, I think we

  • by Powers '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where are you going, where have you been? (Part I) Academics.

  

  something. So she pulled him aside, at a house party I think, and said, "Do ... , beautiful years of my youth, a "4-year party", my boyfriend called it ("You do ... Part I: Academics   "You do know that MIT is unlike almost any

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 27, 2009
• Blog / Personal Projects

  A Recycled-Material Selfie Stick Engineering and problem solving in developing nations (the most important problems only, of course....)

  

  I think (and hopefully you do too) that the title of this blog post sounds like a fun, silly mini-project that an MIT student would do in their ... Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. He’s studying Electrical Engineering. He’s a pretty

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 1, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a major road to trouble exploring interests as a baby beaver

  

  MIT and call it a day? Do I make a visualization of all these things ... would do. In a sense, I craved something more tangible to me than these ... never do CS after hating my CS class with a burning passion. My subsequent

  • by Waly N. '24
  • November 23, 2020
• Blog / How to School

  Today Was A Long Day and it's not over yet.

  

  either treat my day as a long list of things to do or just that, a day.  A ... hall before it closed kind of a day. My alarm was set for 7:30 am this ... ). So basically I averaged about six and a half hours of sleep. And for

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 25, 2018
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  cruel summer ok it's actually, like, fine i guess

  

  don't do that. But it still gets to you after a while. Sometimes it ... Note to anyone who is confused: Cruel Summer is a Taylor Swift song. I've been listening to a lot of Lover lately 😛 There is also a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 20, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  (un)Empty Nest Welcome Back!

  

  the great summer blog posts. MIT encourages students to do research, travel, do service work, or just recharge and have some fun. While that’s a great opportunity for you, it does make things much quieter on the

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 26, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Round here we stay up very, very late Vignettes on my last day at lab, the Counting Crows, grad school, and pets.

  

  danced around doing awkward white girl dances and had a blast. (And then ... soon, do yourself a favor and do not rent a car.) Questions 1. Meg asked, do you think it's a good idea to jump into harder courses right

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 30, 2006
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  with the best of intentions, even though this may be a difficult time for ... . Remember that you will survive, even thrive, wherever you go; whatever you do. Stove-cook your oatmeal, do things that make you happy, and keep taking

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2024
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  go; whatever you do. Stove-cook your oatmeal, do things that make you ... a huge achievement and will still lead to new beginnings; welcome them ... may be a difficult time for you, but we ask that you converse civilly

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Math = Broken Whatchu know about math?

  

  finished most of a Diff Eq. PSET (I started at 10:45 PM, it's been a long day ... Mathematica could do it." Jon: "I know, the same thing happened to me. I think I figured out how to do it though." Me: "How?" Jon: "Here, look what I did

  • by Snively '11
  • February 22, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Visit YouTube to Participate in the World Economic Forum! Have world leaders watch and respond to your video at this year's World Economic Forum!

  

  ://www.youtube.com/thedavosquestion and post a video response of no more than three minutes to the following question: "What one thing do you think that countries, companies or individuals must do to make the world a better place in 2008?" World leaders

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • January 2, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admissions Decisions

  

  you again get a choice: where do you want to go? Remember that no matter ... confidence that you will be admitted to several great colleges, and a letter ... your talents to go on to do wonderful things with the education and

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 18, 2006
• FAQ / First-year application

  Does MIT recruit athletes?

  undergraduates play at least one varsity sport. If you're a prospective student ... your sport by completing a recruitment form. Depending on your potential ... letters" or do "signings," nor do our coaches have discretionary "slots