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• Blog / How to Human

  on regression the to your shitty high school self, and not linear, kind

  

  this time spent living at home to do the things i don't have the time to do while on campus. this entails rediscovering my [annotation note ... satisfied; only when i dedicate myself to this host of creative channels do i

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 7, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How hard is it, really? Let down

  

  will push you but not break you. They do this by administering a math ... continued through IAP in January, something I didn't want to do. The first ... 't able to do any of the problems. People all around me were blazing through

  • by Snively '11
  • April 9, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  finding meaning at the end of the world i alone determine my destiny

  

  application, under the question "why do you want to be a blogger": i want to be ... sunday. i didn't do anything else, other than staff office hours for the ... theater! or, yannick likes doing logic puzzles! and it's just another

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 1, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  institutional memory cruft are cool!

  

  pandemic. the president takes sick leave and no one knows what to do. an ... they're available to help the students who do run things. not only are ... mit police, and why we do certain things. i wouldn't have thought of

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

  born again freshman too junior for this

  

  students and even [annotation note="it wasn't creepy do not worry ... 'm the one telling freshmen what they should do and what they shouldn't waste their time on! how the hell did i get here? why do i have any

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 4, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  sophomore fall (sophomore decline? sophomore roman empire?) (actually the word sophomore comes from Greek but shhhh)

  

  , friends, classes, activities... but most of us are probably doing too much. for me, four classes (one of which is secretly like 1.75 classes), doing ... could do next semester stack up. if i stop doing this, then i could do

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 1, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  8,726,400 SOS: The Conscious Subconscious guest post by a fellow '21

  

  Subconscious Lab coat goggles gloves, lab coat goggles gloves, What will I do ... call, why do I do this I have to workout, for the team, for me Hang clean, squat repeat Practice, wow I can’t do anything well today? Am I getting

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 13, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Thanks Guys A thank you from a blogger to the best audience ever.

  

  current bloggers do a Q&A session with the incoming class. We just sort ... you change your major, how is cooking for yourself, do we hate Harvard ... humanities, do you really have to learn major numbers” (answers: a zillion

  • by Ben O. '19
  • December 27, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Warmth, Happiness, and Baked Goods (guest post) The best way to spend your time off.

  

  admissions and summer days. What are you doing this summer? Currently, you ... croissants with your anxiety. These activities do have intrinsic value. There ... ’s easy to zoom in so closely on what you do that you never stop and wonder

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • July 25, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing documents! FAQ: What happens if part of my application isn't showing up yet?

  

  requests: At this time, do not send a second copy of something that you ... will not be penalized in any way. At this time, please do not call or ... do is tell you that MyMIT is up-to-date and to be patient as we process

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 4, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  What it’s like being back

  

  back of everyone's mind is "Chris, WHAT have you been doing?" (or depending on the converstaion, it might be "Chris, what have YOU been doing?", but under no circumstances "Chris, what have you BEEN doing?", that

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 10, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Juniors: MIT and other summer programs Juniors may want to start thinking about summer programs including MITES, RSI, and WTP.

  

  Governor's schools Governor's schools directory I do not recommend these summer programs as a thing to do "to look good on a college application." This should be for personal development. We do not expect that students

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 16, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Order of Operations In what order should your application be submitted?

  

  Recently, I've been getting a lot of questions like, "Can I do my ... of this sort. You can do all of the parts of the MIT application in ... registered for MyMIT, which, if you haven't yet, you should do as soon as

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  A blog post about blog posts Superstar blogger emeritus Mollie gives us some of her favorite entries [now its own post!].

  

  should I do in order to know MIT better?" A great starting point for how ... do with me being amazing and more to do with the fact that I know my ... ://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/...and_hand.shtml MIT students do it all night (Sam): Sam's five favorite all

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 9, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Deprotonated I see the way you're split into your ions and you're fully dissociated.

  

  , sorry, but I have one quick question..How do you get to be a blogger on this website? I know you have to be associated with MIT, but do they just pick random people on campus, do you need connections, or what? Way back

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 22, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Neurony goodness More lab, because that's what I do.

  

  's mostly what I do in the summer. Oh, and Adam and I went to Friendly's with ... I've been doing for the past year and a half. I started with the ... that the reviewers will send the paper back and ask us to do another

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  A person can develop a cough. Simultaneously the coldest and hottest entry I've ever written.

  

  'm developing my traditional mid-winter cold. I have way too much to do in the ... the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System can do to you. Despite my cold, I ... idea what I'm doing," I was pretty proud of myself, although I'm sure all

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 6, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Reading folders A little bit more on evaluating applications.

  

  pretty surprised how many communities we do know about) with resources like the US Census' American FactFinder. And what kind of high school do you ... throughout the reading of the application), I'll dive right in. How do you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  On sleep There's nothing certain in this world but sleep and taxes.

  

  's often in the back of people's minds when they're thinking about MIT: do you crazy kids ever get any sleep? Of course we do. I mean, for one ... you've figured out what you need to do in order to get that amount of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Opening doors How being an MIT cheerleader can help you get a job.

  

  freshman year. It's sort of another "how to do everything wrong" story ... to do it in high school, but I was afraid I'd get homesick and wasn ... what I spent my high school summers mostly doing. So at the end of my

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 23, 2005