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• Blog / Admissions

  How to decide, when you’re deciding a pretext for productive procrastination

  

  the next few days is one of your first big decisions. Some very ... the process of making. They aren't intended to persuade you to choose MIT, but to make the best choice for yourself. Although of course you

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 1, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Presenting…My Prefrosh! ‚ô•

  

  pulse. I'm used to the relaxed and sometimes languid feel of Texas, and ... lack of a better term... sketch looking :S Taking the underground transit ... minority dinner and got to meet a bunch of interesting new people! The food

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

  avoiding responsibility writing this blog to procrastinate on stuff

  

  first semester. The going to a dining hall feels like more of a time ... clothes out of the wash, sending emails, cleaning up my room for CPW ... Initial Dissection After crawling my way to the freedom of spring break, I

  • by Anika H. '26
  • April 6, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  and i try to find my place

  

  in the mirror and I see my accomplishments. I think of how far I ... in the past year. But then, I sometimes see the flip side of that ... the weight of "not good enough." I've said this time and time again and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 23, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  Quarantine and Social Life trying to maintain some connection

  

  aspect of life has been stripped away owing to miss Rona. During the online ... conversations, but most, if not all, of the interactions I end up having brought ... compilation of some of my favorite calls/interactions in the last few months. I

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 26, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  hello, again it me

  

  talk at length about my personal life online because a lot of the greater ... Interesting Work I Do As An MIT Student, and also a lot of the work I've been up ... over the summer, and by the end of each semester I would be extremely

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 23, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I DECLARE BANKRUPTCY!! and also my major and also indecision

  

  one of the "prestigious" schools that accepted me. It's as if even the ... my favorite/most-interested-in topic. Half of it was all the cute ... all the MIT majors out of curiosity, when I stumbled upon the strange

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 20, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Walter Lewin ESG Lecture Oh, you know, only one of the most famous Physics Professors of all time

  

  Earlier this year I had the pleasure to meet Walter Lewin at an ESG Friday Luncheon. A close friend of ESG's 8.012/8.022 Professor Paola, he sat with us and answered any question we threw his way. Taking the most

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • July 26, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You’re Still Our No.1 :) less than 2 days left!

  

  QUOTE(S): "If I have kids, I'm going to name the first one "Control" and the second one "Experiment."" -an embarrassed '12 "Can anyone help ... !) --- While we are on the subject of speeches - for all to-be valedictorians

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 12, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Telethon! Yay for the class of 2010!

  

  Whew. I just spent the last 4 and a half hours calling up as many of the Early Admits to the class of '10 as I possibly could. And it was seriously a lot of fun. First of all, I finally got to meet Alia and Mike

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Application Advice v2.0 How to survive the application process without losing your mind.

  

  shop building your FIRST team’s robot, the little kids you counseled in ... of the other applications in the pile, no matter what the numbers are ... into the overall community. (I think my friend Becky is one of the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 20, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Eating Too Much Cake Just kidding, this post is about physics

  

  thought that it would be more of the same; but I couldn’t not go, for it ... crafted a very clever plan, sort of like the plan you make when you are ... simultaneously was not good enough for me to take 8.012, the advanced version of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 25, 2020
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Why is it called the Brass Rat?

  It's the goal of every incoming student at MIT to get their own Brass Rat—MIT's version of a class ring. The phrase "Brass Rat" is derived from the alleged resemblance of the brass beaver featured on the ring to
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Call For A Good Time a weekend of coffee shop networking

  

  one of them casually remarked, "Oh, I saw Mitra the other day ... those of you who don't know, was the original admissions blogger, and ... last year of blogging the year I started thinking about applying to MIT

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 2, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Not in Kansas anymore A brief look at your third '15 blogger

  

  and left for the States at the ripe young age of 1. From there I enjoyed ... The Wizards of Oz(aka my parent's old friends) had a huge impact on ... 11 years in the beautiful town of Olathe. Now before you say anything

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • September 9, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Yes, This Actually Happened wwydfcfa - what would you do for chick fil a

  

  knew that this was the chance of a lifetime, that there would never be another opportunity like this for the rest of the year where Mariia would ... that we were somewhere off a pretty empty highway in the middle of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thinking Positive Sophomore year was kind of awful. But there were happy things! I'll focus on the…

  

  - with the incredible Professor Bill Corbett.  It was one of the last ... ton of fun, and I am so happy that I have my beautiful brass rat! The Year of the Bro Tanks So many bros. Minimizing Finals I've started

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 17, 2014
• Blog / How to MIT

  HT@MIT: Academic Resources How I Learned To Stop Slacking and Love the Office Hours

  

  recitation and office hours. This is a compiled list of the resources that I ... . Recitation This is usually your first line of defense when you leave lecture ... will swear that recitations are the worst possible waste of your time

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 19, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Summer Decisions

  

  unexplored intersection of science research and public outreach. Before the ... aren't the most important part of your application. Letters of ... doing research. Gradually, the blurry outlines of A Competitive Applicant

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Next steps Relax, guys. I'm still going to be around.

  

  grad/family dorm on the very west end of campus, tomorrow (omg so excited ... investigator" or PI), wants me to write some sort of short and sweet paper on the ... month of August off... sort of. I am not so good at the "do nothing" thing

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 26, 2006