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• Blog / Admissions

  Get psyched, stay with it, do whatever it takes Adam's dad's advice is succint. Mine isn't.

  

  chunk of the day to get to the store and back on the T. I will note ... intellectual efforts of any given scientist, lab work fails at least half of the ... figure out what's wrong and take steps to fix the problem, but much of the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 28, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  What’s the big deal about 40^2?

  

  same as any higher score she could receive on the retest. One of the ... moving on to the more important parts of the application -- that is, who ... makes a big deal of the student's "scoring the magic 1600 on the SAT." Now

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 20, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  My favorite room on MIT’s campus a personal room of requirement

  

  feeling of competence and belonging. This place is my jam. I'm writing from ... .320 (Analysis of Biomolecular and Cellular Systems) and 7.18 (Topics in Experimental Biology). I glance at my watch, which of course is on my computer

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 24, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You Can Save the World a post on Kanye West

  

  is reliant on a lot of the Earth's natural resources and we are ... artists of all-time, not just for his incredible lyricism, production, and ... another step back, shook myself out of it, and realized: Why am I giving him

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / Events

  To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before: P.S. I Love You THANK YOU LSC

  

  movie on Netflix at least 14 times over, if not more, and read the first ... and gasps of excitement and whispers and it just made me feel so cozy. I ... incredible experience and it was a much needed break from the stress of this

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 5, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything is cool tl;dr I want to study too many things

  

  aerospace for less hands-on things: a lot of modeling and CS, some data ... about before this summer, and all of a sudden, they all seem like the most ... [annotation note="the mathier version of physics ii - electricity and magnetism

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 11, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  hello deferred applicants, i, again, don’t know what to say, but i can try

  

  too", and a lot of "time to focus on regular apps, then", and a lot of ... fine, but of course, it's one thing to know and another thing to believe ... cycle. i wasn't ready to write dozens of essays and go through interviews

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 20, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  How Are You? because it's not just a simple question

  

  Life is busy at MIT. Most of the time, our schedules and motivation ... . And amidst all of this constant work and running around, we see people ... lives. We see that one kid that sits behind us in lecture. And to all of

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 19, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where did my Summer Go? Written 30,000 feet above the ground in a giant piece of metal

  

  to South Korea for two weeks to work on a project. In the words of one ... opportunity to go on that trip, and to help make connections and friendships with some of the coolest people in the world. And it did happen for a

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 15, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  all the classes I took freshman year feeling scholarly, part 1/2

  

  too much. Taken on top of a UROP and my extracurriculars, I definitely ... emphasis on math and the derivations of physical laws. I talked a little ... Europe, there is a bit of an emphasis on the politics of race and migration

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 18, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  mit made me rational on decision-making

  

  to just die and donate all of that." I then asked my brother the same ... day of the concert. Yeah, she said, and then she told me how much she ... to make it, and part of the reason why I wanted to go was to hang out

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 19, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester II: v. hosed tl;dr: *loud screaming*

  

  ’t going to attend any of my Monday classes) Sophomore Standing If you ... GIRs, and have taken one CI-H/HW class. Somewhere between 25-30% of ... Equations) out of the way before sophomore year. I’m still on the fence on

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 14, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m a pedestrian! I’m a motorist! Pedestrian! Motorist! Read on, my children, and you shall see of our midnight ride to IHOP.

  

  Hop with people you know from all branches of MIT. Jose is course 6. And they ... , Boston's most infamous 7-way stop, with no traffic and the only sign of ... disctinction of being both motorists and pedestrians (see entry title), we weren

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 14, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an album a day the only new year's resolution i've ever completed

  

  ,  and organizing any noteworthy finds into one of my 150+ carefully ... , Thinking Fast and Slow, a renowned tome that delves into the intricacies of ... more than once, anyways. that's why I can reflect on my year of music

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 2, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Systems and Light [by Miren Bamforth '15] Even MIT's art scene is a little nerdy.

  

  [By Miren Bamforth ‘15] On behalf of the four other freshmen ... how classes and activities are going. Some of our most recent artistic ... ’s Acting with the Camera (21M.624) class and taking a tour of MIT

  • by ARTalk
  • October 28, 2011
• Blog / Events

  MIT Calling Yo Snively - I lied. There are actually 2 admits in Oregon BESIDES you -…

  

  action telethon! 54 MIT students total came to chill out and check up on ... , during which Christina and I called our parents to congratulate them on ... , and I'd like to congratulate you on your acceptance! That's right! I was

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 19, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  speculation also a post about touching grass

  

  generally of an abstract nature, and you can get pretty far on math just by ... comment a lot, and i think i’ve definitely been guilty of excessive ... people often think i am smart because i think a lot and can solve a lot of

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 19, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Updated MIT Groceries Guide (guest post) A requiem for Stata.

  

  on produce, meat, and Asian specialty items. It has all sorts of fruits ... of Stata would fill with rows of fresh, affordable produce, and I would pause my hectic day to lug home armfuls of groceries. Alas, the produce

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 4, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Dorms: Burton Conner House Why is BC awesome? Because three bloggers live there. Plus, lots of other stuff too.…

  

  with friends, watch TV or movies, or play on any of the game consoles the ... the game and TV rooms. (More on those later.) The laundry room is ... , except that one use of a washer or dryer costs $0.75. And someone has an

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  defense the other bloggers didn’t believe i could write a post about basketball

  

  every principle i’ve been watching basketball on-and-off for a while now and my favorite part of the game is seeing very effective defense. there ... kind of defense is man-to-man defense, where each player on the defending

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 20, 2022