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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Feeling Energized Watching the sun rise signals that it's time for bed.

  

  equations in Latex. 20 pages of chicken scratch later and a solid 1.5 weeks ... report where I derived equations about the natural oscillation, center of mass of the frustum, etc. I can't even begin to describe what joy it

  • by Bryan
  • December 7, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  butterfly season the very tired caterpillar

  

  whole point–they’re cyclic. things begin once things end. for the rest of ... away, helping out around the house. We were doing a lot of renovations in hopes of selling it later this year, which included repainting the doors

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • July 31, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  “what if I get rejected” for everyone nervous about admissions decisions

  

  I'll cut to the chase: it's November, which means that a lot of the people stumbling across the blogs are among the tens of thousands of ... the attachment solidified as years of romanticization played out over my

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • November 13, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  How to not love CPW but love MIT (for the most part at least)

  

  , upperclassmen I knew from high school, and of course the academic excellence and intensity. I wanted to address some of the fears and concerns I struggled ... . I think part of the time spent at MIT is about finding things you love

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Ode From A Science Fair Junkie in honor of intel isef 2018

  

  become a mosaic of all that life gives you. Your high points lay the ... full of finals studying to do. I’ve been one of those 1800 kids for the past three years of my life. And in the blink of an eye, I’ve gone from

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 13, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT What?!? The Long and Illustrious History of the MITMB, as far as Kim knows.

  

  /kimfad/Public/rightsize/MarchingBand/newspaperarticle.pdf">fascinating piece of history</a> from 1978, we see on page 12 that "the band ... of both the marching band and the modern football team. Looking through ... ;p>One of the band members out there was Doug Pape '81, also the trumpet

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 10, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  On Essay Writing A guide to essay writing for the express purpose of obtaining admittance to an institute…

  

  of with the first three Harry Potter books. The plot and characters ... with a pithy line or a catchy hook to convince you to read the rest of this blog post, but unfortunately, the circuits in my brain in charge of

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • July 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Metabo lite s Why the Broad Institute is inspiring my exercise goals

  

  my wedding dress. This might be because I spent the whole winter in ... during my lunch hour at the Z center this summer. Clary Clish, director of ... been working since 2008 in the rapidly growing field of metabolomics

  • by Kris Guay
  • May 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  cognitive augmentation probably the most mindblowing course i’ve encountered at mit

  

  post i’ll briefly summarize a few of my favorite readings from the class ... content before teaching it, please take all of the following findings with ... . this time, the study participants worked through a series of cognitive

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 19, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  My Rejection Resume working up the courage to look failure in the eye

  

  About a year ago, in the midst of job recruiting season, I wrote a ... return offer. Obviously, it's nice to be on the other side of things, where you're done with the process and don't have to run the gauntlet of

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 12, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  on success, meaning, and time existential musings about big questions with no answers

  

  -some page book, you should just read “The Disadvantages of an Elite ... : watching fireworks over the Charles during my first (and only) 4th of July in ... -packed with new things. But then the first month of freshman year seemed to

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 15, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, decisions Yikes! It's been a month since I last wrote to you guys. In the intervening…

  

  decisions were just recently released. First of all, congratulations to all of you who were admitted! I remember getting my decision- the old ... of a variety of different subjects. Because of the small size of my

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 19, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Chris inspired me to do dumb things I went to Disney World. It was fun, I guess.

  

  registered for a whole host of half marathons that summer.  The first one was ... warmer.  As it got warmer it got a bit less fun.  The first half of the ... the coolest things ever! Ok, so, like I said, the first half of the

  • by Snively '11
  • July 20, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  We’re Ready for CPW Are you?

  

  we're going to feed all of you! And, you know, run you into the ground ... -Conner and say hi, I'll likely be involved with most of the events we host but ... mentioned that some of you are flying in TOMORROW!? The entire room just lit

  • by Snively '11
  • April 4, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Once upon a time Who I was in high school.

  

  problems and then broke up, so the whole semester is just a blur of angry ... 't about being boy-crazy. First of all, this was me in high school. I think ... all four years of high school, the only girl to make the competitive

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 19, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  V&Q&A Video, Questions, and Answers

  

  common. First, we’d like to introduce ourselves. Please excuse the rather ... wrote our responses so that you can get several points-of-view on the same ... the culture. From the hackers scaling buildings under cover of night to

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 3, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Saturday, 12/15, at 12:15 PM EST

  

  the rest of the committee's ability to read without annoyance ... knew that by reading the title of this blog. But you also need some ... the release of admissions decisions, we WILL be mailing admitted

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • December 10, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  socializing over zoom it's been rough

  

  think most first years are struggling, and it’s just the rose-colored of ... actual lottery keeps getting delayed, but the actual process of ranking ... "]staple[/annotation] with was a whole process in itself. Thinking about the spring and pods

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 24, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Fourth Semi-Annual Q&A Even yet still more answers to your questions.

  

  employer for the same job since my first year of high school, does it affect ... any way of knowing what the admission decision is online or through e ... to the word limit for the essays, a lot of space is left over in the

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions for 2016 And what I gained after a semester at MIT

  

  defined by its discontinuities. The first half of the year was spent trying not to fall asleep in my last stale months of preparatory schooling. The second half of the year I was thrust into a new, thriving, churning

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 3, 2016