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• Blog / Personal Travel

  Fuji: Not Your Grandma’s Mountain I guess if we're being honest here there were actually a lot of grandmas climbing…

  

  will be in Japan next (and it's only open two months out of the year ... - a fact I was to be reminded of when our trail merged with the most popular trail after the 8th station. (FORESHADOWING!) There were five of us

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 6, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Food, glorious food In which I learn that Simmons Dining is not, in fact, the best that Boston's…

  

  "] Map of restaurants I visited over the week.[/caption] Day 1 (Saturday ... custard" (from the drinks menu, which turned out to be just a bowl of corn ... fueled by the adrenaline of venturing off MIT's campus the previous day, I

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 6, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  they want to see you fail managing others' envy

  

  ’ve defused the situation or avoided it in the first place. Yes, there’s an ... in the class (first place went to my math rival). If they were busy ... other people. The change wasn’t one of moral goodness but self

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  In which I “get a life” again reclaiming my childhood hobbies

  

  question, as if I’d never snapped out of the trance of college apps, and one of the most common ones I noticed was “what are your hobbies?” But ... a sense of identity. Despite what the title of this post implies

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

  Wooo Summer The goal as usual is to do ALL the things

  

  and it was really interesting.  For the first half of the semester during the study of ancient Andean culture, we had labs where we spent ... the meaning of Pass/No Record.  I thought I'm going to take all

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • July 15, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Strike! Strike! Strike! I. H. T. F. P.

  

  first day of CPW so they could study. Luckily our test is this coming ... of that quiz than any test I'd ever taken. I spotted the admissions ... things, so once I got the paper portion of Course 2 out of the way I'd be

  • by Snively '11
  • March 29, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Mid-year Grade Reports And Other Common Questions Quick answers to a few of the common questions in my blog over the last…

  

  Quick answers to a few of the common questions in my blog over the ... 're sustaining the work that led us to want to admit you in the first place). We ... trimester system? Send us what you can - this is usually the first trimester

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 22, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider taking a year before entering college.

  

  moment, taking a gap year (read on for details). If you are a member of the ... into one of the best, most stimulating and resource-rich universities in ... future you’ve always dreamed of (and, no doubt, the one everyone *expects

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Few Words

  

  had reported the same level of satisfaction with their lives. I'm sorry ... . And to those of you who get waitlisted: Waiting's hard, yes. But the ... get off the waitlist, and you could be one of them :) To everyone: As

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 14, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Lived, I Learned, I Got Burnt not necessarily in that order

  

  couple of months. The Afeefah that sprinted across campus in March 2020 is ... writing this post in the middle of the night - vitamin string quartet ... putting things into words seemed insurmountable. Part of the fear comes from

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 26, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Third Semi-Annual Q&A More answers to your questions.

  

  to the context of your overall app - what you're interested in, what ... decision. We make no distinction between the importance of SATI (or TOEFL ... significant amount of time. How would only three activities look to the

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  talk about science at MIT? I mean, obviously it IS the institute of ... two amazing days of skiing in New Hampshire - a bunch of the ESG kids ... CPR and defibrillation can increase the chance of survival of someone in

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Slump and an unexpected summer

  

  , software design, French, and costume design) helped avoid the sensation of ... academic study in a way that goes beyond just taking classes. As the end of ... a position that matched the type of technical work I was looking for

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • June 2, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  On Friendship how my beliefs have changed over the years

  

  talk to anyone outside of the people I knew from different ... else in the car disagreed with my claims of being an introvert. In ... where or when the idea of life-long friends was planted in my head, but

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • November 2, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Come to MIT Get a free haircut!

  

  finish psets and start less-frantically trying to take care of all the ... and Glory to whoever sends me the complete list first.) ... I think she did a fabulous job. She started learning in the fall on

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 20, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I Wish I Was an Astronaut I was a nerd even back in 3rd grade.

  

  my name, Planes and space is my game, First American on the moon, that ... Beats from the Playground, Vol. 3 MIT has a set of it's own astronauts as ... grade, just thought I'd share. Mollie, maybe Adam wants to make this the

  • by Bryan
  • July 27, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  Never Have I Ever…reflected on my identity "too indian" or "not indian enough"?

  

  critical facet of the Indian-American experience. In one scene, where Devi is ... last few paragraphs of the essay. Disclaimer: I didn't really care about the Common App, so I kind of...spliced up some ideas from my MIT essays

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 4, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  FYI: Undergraduates with family income below $200,000 can expect to attend MIT tuition-free starting in 2025 what it says on the tin

  

  income threshold. And for the 50 percent of American families with income ... are the latest in a long history of efforts by the Institute to free up ... preference for the children of alumni or donors (which can be seen in the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 20, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Public service announcement One stereotype that I just won't accept.

  

  . One of the first things people realize when starting classes here is ... instance, many people in Boston do like the Red Sox and say "ah" instead of ... work right at the edge of their abilities. But this difficulty is what

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 31, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Set Your Alarm for CPW 2019 i'm entirely serious

  

   hundreds of student-run events to welcome the class of 2023 and help them figure ... – to this day I don't remember who – pounding on the door of my host ... have screwed up. At first, my tired brain tried to ignore the noise and

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • April 10, 2019