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• Blog / Advice

  Thinking Outside of Absolutes A short thought piece on thinking about thinking

  

  For a while now, I’ve had this realization that I tend to overthink a lot. And I think this is something a lot of people can relate to. There ... , you want to make a choice that leads to the least regret. So, how else

  • by Richard O. '28
  • April 30, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Astrology Forecast for the Class of 2023 Some big aquarius energy is coming...

  arriving to campus to begin their orientation to MIT. I'm excited to connect ... First-Gen/Low-Income Pre-Orientation Program designed to help students from marginalized backgrounds with their transition to MIT. Additionally

  • by DJ Rock
  • August 22, 2019
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: A Summer With Tulip Interfaces, Inc guest post by Sharon L. '21

  

  AR project, is creating a manufacturing platform to digitize factory processes ... managers can create to distribute to workers on the shop floor. I’m an intern ... day has been exciting and full of surprises. I usually get to the office

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 1, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s the middle of November. Do YOU know where your Early Action application components are? How to tell if they are missing, and what to do about it

  

  Shortly after 4PM ET we sent out the following email to the ... advice for how to get stuff to us generally. Thanks for applying to MIT ... control. There is still plenty of time to complete your application in time

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Monday (in Snaps) and my longest Snapchat story ever

  

  :10: Arrive at Johnson Arena, next to the Z-Center for skating practice. During ... , drops by to take some pictures for her photography class project. 10 ... short. Ideally I’d wake up early enough to skate the full session starting

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 28, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Introducing…Stan! Passing the blogger torch

  

  Well, it has certainly been fun to write as an admissions blogger. I ... able to write on this site, so when the GEL program asked if I wanted to ... opportunity to be able to link some of the lessons I’ve had in engineering

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 24, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Small Victories The view from a month into MIT

  

  Hello (again) World! My goal to blog once a week has sadly failed ... unfamiliar with the terminology: hosed- (adj): to be completely and utterly floundering in the amount of work you have to do The word itself comes from the

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 8, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Extracurricular Information We discuss life over lunch.

  

  So this morning I went to lunch with three of my friends from high school, Curtis '10, and Adam and Lia, who go to another school in Cambridge ... "shopping period", in which they get to sit in on classes and decide if they

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Your Profile On The Web: Can It Hurt You? Responses to questions on Facebook and other internet profiles and how they can affect college…

  

  responding to her questions, I realized that my answers may be useful to others as potential MIT '11s gear up to begin the admissions process. Below is ... simply because of an internet profile? Do you think it is fair for that to

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lazy hazy crazy Summer for me means lab and cooking. I'm not sure which I like better.

  

  finished it, and gave it to Morgan (do I have to say that he's the professor ... talking to someone, and I'll be like "my boyfriend Adam" and they're like ... write the first draft of the whole thing and submit it to some journal

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 4, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Just a little advice…

  

  messages for you prospective '10s. Congratulations to those of you who were ... can't wait to meet you guys come CPW and next year if you decide to ... my best but you wouldn't believe how hard it is to keep track of you

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 31, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hometown Heroes The first of articles about awesome MIT '09s.

  

  head off to college. I'll often get emailed them, though this summer I ... Heroes," based on local, hometown news articles about students goign off to ... ask me about (i.e. "Do any normal students get admitted to MIT, or do I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 25, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Whole 6.270 Story Where LEGOs take over my life.

  

  -by-doing class open only to MIT students, in which participants design and build a ... the students is to design a machine that will be able to navigate its ... manipulate game objects. Unlike the machines in Introduction to Design

  • by Snively '11
  • February 3, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  14 years later what I've been up to in the past one-seventh of a century

  

  lecture halls to Athena clusters, 15” Dell Inspirons clutched tightly under-arm, to scintillate our understimulated brains by opening emails with ... -2024 bore witness to my transformation from a directionless physics major into

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  a blog from the universe aka me + my tarot cards + finals season procrastination

  

  feel the itch to blog. So, I turned to the world’s best enabler- a coin ... ![/caption] Recently, I had a person ask me: “you know it’s bad luck to be superstitious ... outcomes and tarot card readings can be really helpful to encourage

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • December 14, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Exhaustion Guess who's not ready to go to grad school after all

  

  've been having a crisis over whether to go to grad school or not. And as the school year has progressed, I've sort of come to the conclusion that I am very tired. And I don't think that I'm ready to go quite yet

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 5, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Our mother shoulda just named you Laika! Come on Alex, you can do it.

  

  had intended to give mine to another relative but forgot to, and so they ... like to talk about it. (I am, of course, kidding. My sister and I love ... definitely won that day - er, I meant to say that you, too, will soon be able

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  things i have done since leaving school but only in the ten hundred most used words

  

  ~~~ cut off all my hair moved to city where the sun is out every day ... flew on many air cars to places near and far enjoyed life by the day ... remembered the things i liked to do at school remembered the love for games

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 19, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Be a Blogger 2022!

  

  time for those of you who might want to be bloggers to share your garbage ... posting the blogger app and prospective bloggers coming out of the woods to feast upon it  What does it mean to be an admissions blogger? MIT students

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2022
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2019!

  

  you who might want to be bloggers to share your thoughts with the world! What does it mean to be an admissions blogger? The best representatives ... holistic admissions authentically, but we can’t write about what it’s like to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2019