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• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds and the Order of the Phoenix Answering the important questions of those still making their decision.

  

  many hours does it take to do a problem set or understand a concept? It ... will be a very hard decision to make since I do not know everything about ... also made the time for myself to do one at Wellesley (or invent a time

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  academic struggles zig-zagging in a world of straight lines

  

  Even as a kid, school never fit right for me. I recall my third ... with the notion of “half”, I did a zig-zag that still partitioned the ... , “Rona, you can do that, but it might make things harder for you later

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  Crocheting With the Firehose Gauge your stitches, gauge your life

  

  a less appealing piece. But what does that have to do with life? If ... 've successfully woven in my crocheting with my life at MIT. But why do I spend so ... not crocheting for practicality, because a lot of what I crochet is

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 13, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Digging through old bookmarks time for some blasts from the past

  

  , scrutinizing them with a skeptical eye and asking “How do we really know it ... While I'm working on a longer post, I wanted to write a quick post and share some of the old bookmarks I was digging through today. It's a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 18, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Some Hosed Down Hodgepodge In which I breathe, then return to my business

  

  old people do. So basically I had to edit this down a whole bunch in ... , they do, but they're small and a bit less prehensile than ours. Their ... 's prospective students, but I've had quite a few things unfold throughout this month, most

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 23, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Noise and time chaos and peace in a silver package

  

  interested in, you can find a lot of people doing things around it. For me ... . But in doing so, I was losing out on a lot of depth. This semester I ... having lots of freedom, so it seems like a good setting. I'm doing a UROP

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • October 15, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  whiplash feelings from yesterday

  

  , and a few months into your role you still don’t think you are doing a ... pm: you go to a cafe with K, a friend of a friend who asked to hang out ... and there are no other drinks, so you buy a cookie even though you

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 30, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First UROP Initiating a Life of Research

  

  but support my dream to always stay in academia. I know doing a UROP as ... was easy to pick MIT. I knew I wanted to attend a school that would not ... will stay in academia and become a professor someday, so I suppose I

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 14, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  One Day in the Life of Dora as told by the one and only Dora

  

  : Rate my day? Um, what do you mean? Me: Like on a scale of your choosing ... like having nothing to do to having ten billion psets… it was a pretty ... I interviewed my roommate Dora ’18 about her day today and here is a

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 4, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  Physical Education: because your body needs problem sets, too My adventures in completing the MIT Physical Education requirements

  

  class. They teach you awesome stuff like doing a “hockey stop” and cross ... You can get a perfect GPA and lead every extracurricular activity on campus, but if you don’t pass a swim test and complete 8 Physical Education

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 20, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  on happiness and well-being Coursera attempts to cure our depression

  

  and do things like focus on grades as a measure of whether or not you ... During quarantine, I enrolled in The Science of Well-Being, a free course hosted by Yale on the online learning platform Coursera. A friend

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 11, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  4 Years advice from a freshly minted alum

  

  The first time I had a conversation with Archit Bhise I'm pretty sure he asked me one of those deep questions that help gage what kind of a ... do you think about x global issue" or "what is your goal here at MIT

  • by Ana V. '15
  • June 8, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  More Information on the Waitlist Further details for waitlisted applicants.

  

  aiming for a class of about 1,075 students this year. Based on our ... uncertainties, we also keep a waitlist of students. Is the waitlist ranked? No ... -- approximately 2.9% of applicants -- a spot on the waitlist. Not all of those

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 17, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Interview Deadline Approaching! It's time for applicants to contact their local MIT representative.

  

  applying to MIT. Do a little research on the web, and think of some questions ... are conducted in your home area (not on MIT's campus) by an MIT alum, a ... wear a suit or ball gown or anything like that. The interviewers won

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 11, 2007
• Blog / Advice

  Advice I give others that I don’t follow myself (yet)

  

  it. Take breaks. Take breaks, even if you have a lot of work to do. Take breaks, especially if you have a lot of work to do. Pursue those ... yourself as much as others love you! There’s a point to learning how to do

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  smarter students, and that we are doing a good job of recruiting ... basically, it's a perfect setup for the Illusion of Validity Why is MIT ... fewer-than-half of applicants insufficiently prepared to do the work at

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It all comes to this The Senior Thesis (cue dramatic music)

  

  doing homework. What do you have to show for it? What monumental task will prove that all of your tooling has made you a better thinker? For most MIT ... pretty much anything that you and your thesis advisor (who is usually a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tuesdays with Linda It's kind of like making smoothies but not.

  

  're doing is taking a slurry of blended collagen and glycosaminoglycans, then ... their UROP. Basically, in a nutshell, I spent 2 hours sending emails to every professor at MIT who I thought was doing something that could be

  • by Bryan
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Get The Scoop The dish on ice cream around MIT.

  

  , it would be ice cream. Fortunately, here at MIT, ice cream is only a ... a five minute walk from campus. This is actually where the bloggers ... , I never really do the Ben and Jerry's thing. I can buy that at the

  • by Bryan
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Boris Alexeev: Solving Graph Theory Problems Boris Alexeev spent five months working on a math UROP with Prof. Daniel Kleitman.

  

  I met sophomores Boris Alexeev and Shaye Storm three years ago at a ... the program, we spent two days presenting our research to a panel of ... a booth right next to Boris'. Despite spending more than fourteen

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 28, 2005