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• Blog / Admissions

  Lots of questions today! Lots of answers, too.

  

  everyone says that you can buy anything in the convenience store, but how do ... to the dining halls in other dorms, so do you cook every meal? Thanks ... every day. I actually do cook for myself almost every night, but I haven

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 9, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Making your college decision May 1st! Have you decided?

  

  lab doing some sort of cutting-edge, uber exciting research. I love the ... . And not only do we have it, we have a group of super dedicated students ... cheerleaders can do Fourier series and Laplace transforms. Boo ya. We're nerds

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 28, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds, Part 3 Helping the Class of 2010 with their decisions.

  

  to MIT as well, as a backup to the courier messing up???" We do require ... , "I love MIT, but I do have 2 questions. [1] How accessible are the ... attention, what can you turn to? [2] Also, do MIT students tend to be pretty

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Dorms: MacGregor House Because really, sometimes you just need your own space.

  

  do not want to get fat. There's a big lounge called the TFL ... and a nice chunk of money to do with it what they wish. My entry, for ... wastes time. (Some people do their homework in the lounge too... I've never

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Careers in biology Also known as "why on earth I'm applying to graduate school".

  

  'm already well on track, huh?). Postdocs in academia do not make very much ... all the publications that come out of your lab. People do not usually ... ... ;) Answers to questions: 1. Timur accused me of being superhuman, which I do

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Essay-M A representative collection of an MIT student's best writing samples.

  

  not even buy a car. If I do, it will probably be a Saturn, preferrably ... we have kids, although I'd like a boy. I'll do a lot of cooking to save ... will cook only main dishes. This is what I plan to do when I grow up. I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Question me an answer. I try to help somebody, for the first time ever.

  

  to do an entry introducing myself in a survey-type format. If you have ... chemical engineer would do?" I've always been meaning to do the "how does a ... old adage "Chemical engineering is the practice of doing for a profit

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 27, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  More questions

  

  four questions. "Question 1: How do you look deeper? To what depth? As it ... there are any questions. Do you know if the AdComm has ever actually ... who are doing the application reading. What about the rest? Who else is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 31, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Collections Simple

  

  things I have been doing both inside and outside the confines of MIT. I've reached this strange turning point in my life where I want to do things more ... of this to encourage anyone to let go of everything. I'm doing more

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 23, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Great Hunger an artisanal take on my quarter life crisis

  

  doing day-to-day work, since I felt like I was missing a central ‘why’. It ... what they do, technically capable, but don’t have dreams of their own ... possibly do enough with so little space. My life is too short to change the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  shifting seasons something reflective

  

  five years, and only now do i feel comfortable dusting off the little box ... my high-speed data for canada, there wasn't much to do on my phone so i ... write comments about how students were doing and what they were learning

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • January 15, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  updates cook or get cooked - summer boston edition

  

  competent course staff. Would recommend. You basically do low-level hacking ... able to compute and do the math than the physical ideas, so I decided to ... really complicated! Once you've formalized these notions, how do you prove

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • May 30, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Andi and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week :(

  

  walk all the way back to MIT… which I indeed ended up doing because the ... . Listening to music was one of the few things I could do to distract myself ... those policies do not allow excused absences because [annotation note

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 3, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  can’t stop smiling a time capsule for freshman fall

  

  doing nothing at all. I couldn’t stop smiling. So then, of course, I had ... own “wow, I really do go here now” excitement. But I expected all those ... ! Really though, I do want to talk about this, because it’s something I truly

  • by Allison E. '27
  • February 12, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goodbye 2023, Hello 2024 looking backwards and looking forward

  

  —I've always just had a vague idea of things that would be nice to do or learn ...  nervous, but I want to[annotation note="for right now; this changes almost daily"]do ... realistically do in one year: learn color theory, become financially literate

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 1, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Attack of the Acronyms and the space between the letters

  

  … freedom :D But what to do with it?   “What time does the [annotation ... their friends and family. It’s kind of hilarious, but hey—you gotta do what you gotta do…"]a state completely deprived of Trader Joe

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 3, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  Parental advice, revisited… a self-referential throwback, that is somehow, still relevant

  

  , the underlying question is almost always some variation of “How do I ... at least, may actually do more harm than good. In the intervening

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 12, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  gesturing around MIT drawing sights and sites around MIT

  

  make sense to say what I have been doing and what exactly has been ... enjoy lying to myself and made a brash decision to do so. I wound up dropping a class. Not cause I was doing terribly bad, but because I hated it

  • by Waly N. '24
  • March 6, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Halfway Through MIT Where I’ve been, and where I’m going

  

  enjoy it as much as I do! It has hit me that I have officially ... . But it’s also a bit of a comfortable spot to do some reflecting and ... things I’ll be doing.  [caption id="attachment_79603" align

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 25, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Be a Blogger 2022!

  

  communicate what MIT is actually like. We do this by hiring students who have ... like something you might like to do, then head on over to Slideroom and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2022