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• Blog / About Decisions

  the mortifying ordeal of being known embrace the care that lies within you (my attempt to soothe pre-decisions anxiety)

  

  ."]PhD[/annotation] programs.  Well, I don’t really have to make a decision until if I get in ... Common App essay, but more focused on how your past academic experiences ... departmental faculty to read and make decisions on"]faculty readers

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus Hall Rush: 1E So many packing peanuts

  

  Hi friends! I'm Jamie and I'm a new blogger. I'm a senior in 2A-4 ... /architecture). I live on the first floor of the east parallel of East Campus, which brings me to hall rush! Each hall in East Campus has a different culture

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • September 14, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Working With WashLava Time management in low places

  

  , I get to haul a soggy pile of clothes from the washer to a dryer on ... never get it back on"]I shove the entire duvet in the dryer ... neither are difficult Sundays, but it gets the job done. Here's to another

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • November 7, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The 2009 Brass Rat My highly biased and personal opinions about Ring Premiere.

  

  doubt I'd be organizing some crusade to get one on there. But the fact is ... mention those. So I'd just like to get my actual opinion of the ring out ... , I'm glad the Ring Committee included a tribute to it on the Brass Rat

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 20, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Really, I don’t feel like thinking of a title right now Now there's a title cop-out you can only use once. Good thing I saved it…

  

  found each other online and chatted a little before getting to MIT. By the ... other real conversation we had- our first day on campus, trying to figure ... diagram: On to the editing

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 11, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  IAP trip to the natural history museum! turns out nature's history is pretty cool

  

  't that great". I said sure to my friend because doing stuff with your ... 'll come, but I don't really want to see the glass flowers [more on these ... was a semi-sullen teenager, who was maybe not exactly thrilled to be on

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 27, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Jupiter’s Moons, Doge, and a Tub of Icing how to CPW from Yuliya the Undecided HS Senior

  

  participants get to burn food and then eat it)? What's worse, is that 6 minutes ... throughout campus, prefrosh will get to learn about Algebraic Topology, Space ... Talent Show to get judged by future students, but still, they do. The

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The waking of all creatures that live on the land Lingering at MIT with my wandering eye. UPDATED, BABY.

  

  unpacking. Instead, it just makes me want to get out of my room as much as possible. On my way home from Europe, I had to use a Swedish girl's scale ... tell you, time really does start to lose all meaning when your life is

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  April Questions Omnibus 1 Recent questions, answered.

  

  to send us any scores at all, so I recommend using your four free score reports on each test to send scores to four schools you're considering. Also ... wrote, "I sent in my affirmative reply on March 21st, and have yet to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  On Greek history, and this strange end-of-semester sprint  tl;dr nerding out over a final essay

  

  really fun to dive into; and I'm a frosh on [annotation note ="pass ... have a focus on writing and speaking, and we've got to take one each year ... start writing, though it took a minute to get to. I spent Thanksgiving

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 11, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  22 Hiatus Adventures stories from my time away and my first semester back!

  

  actually get out on the water. Over the summer, I finally managed to get on ... murder mystery on Halloween. I will forever be grateful to have had her and her family to lean on during a pretty difficult time in the pandemic

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  It’s Possible To Have Too Much Nutella Wait, don't go away! Hear me out on this one

  

  they're versatile enough to be savory (if you put eggs and stuff on it ... like salads as they hand out coupons to passersby. (If I ever get the ... : what's your take on crepes? Is Nutella the dominant and essential

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 24, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Painting with the Colors of the Wind reflections on the first MIT semester

  

  the Maseeh Hall announcement screen: “MIT gets hard. I’ll get to fixing ... expertise I wish to take (#22). Enjoyable on-campus jobs are very much “a ... soon the path to solution worked, getting the right answer was definitely

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 23, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  [Guest Post] Duolingo Champion How to immerse in education while learning nothing

  

  website, ~34 hours of practice on Duolingo provides an equal education to a ... Spanish, and recently decided to get back into the habit of using it once ... the leagues restarted, I began working to get ahead of the initial

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 29, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back to School If you go to school in Missouri City (TX), I might see you this week!

  

  coming week, I'll get to meet more new people - maybe even youu :) Along with a fellow MIT student, Alessondra, I get to visit some of the middle ... me to write this entry. I've spent the last 24 hours alternating

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 23, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas thanksgiving and warm fuzzies all around

  

  to so many new perspectives and ways of life that I just never even ... our friends in Fremont!), who came to Boston to hang out over break. On ... . Our friends from New York go to music school, so someone started playing

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 30, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Freshman Application: Live on Monday The MIT Freshman Application will go live tomorrow (Monday) on MyMIT.

  

  accepted students Regular Action December 10: Last day to contact your ... , you must list MIT as a school to receive your scores when you take the ... The MIT Freshman Application will go live tomorrow (Monday) on My

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 3, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Slam Dunked Long crazy week...a few necessary lessons

  

  here, and it might be easier on your nerves to understand this on a ... , a sort of climax emerged. I was on the path to being part of Nigeria ... on most nights trying to finish up difficult olympiad problems while

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 4, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The most beautiful class schedule yes. good

  

  yourself that you’re positive this is the semester where you’re going to ... to access your rational, “outside view” shoulder-devil to remember the times you’ve lost your optimism as the semester has unfolded.. to try and

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • February 3, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  The Marks of a Student or, let's catch up

  

  to Boston, I've been able to get a handle on things. Kind of. My mental ... /NR (meaning if you get lower than a C, it doesn't show up on your transcript ... silent on the blogs for about three weeks, far longer than I ever want to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 4, 2020