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• Blog / About Decisions

  it’s only a matter of time a post for the deferred

  

  -minute speech on one of them, memorized, citing sources. Decisions were to be ... , disappointment rapidly setting in. I refreshed the website a couple times to make ... building after this, and listened to "Connection" by OneRepublic on repeat

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 20, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Avoid spelling errors! The most commonly misspelled words I see on MIT applications.

  

  on Microsoft Word to proofread your essay -- you'll want to take a keen ... misspelled words I see on applications. And, thanks to GoogleBattle, I'll tell ... thought I'd give some tips on how to avoid simple spelling errors. Most

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 25, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  getting back in the groove 🎵groovy groovy🎵

  

  your major, but everyone in the major still has to take them, so the ... enough (I planned it), this happens to be the first day of classes on ... I will want to look back on at the end of the semester to see if this

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 3, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  …and other things you can do with your four-day weekend context around the marathon

  

  desk, I thought, "oh, maybe it's time to get started on all that work I ... helped write an email to my dorm on March 25th, pleading for folks to take ... , and so I would have to cram work into the corners to get it done by

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 25, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blended Learning at MIT benefits of technology in MIT classrooms

  

  allow instructors to focus on critical content in the classroom and rely ... more time on problem-solving discussion. New tools, such as embedded ... to Biology), MITx software registered 3,000 clicks in a given day on

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 23, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  In which I am only slightly less boring than usual The title says it all, no?

  

  it nearly impossible for me to type anything at all ever. Getting ... 't put a damper on anyone's excitement. Get it? Thunderstorm? Damper ... addition to your week of breaking stuff in lab and eating marshmallows for

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 12, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Nerd Camp tales from TDI

  

  ? Wait, I thought. You mean I get to come back to camp, and you'll pay me ... to run. I taught class in Digital Literacy and took on more overnight ... themselves, and I had the opportunity to think about new, interesting things I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 27, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice On How To Approach Your Interview Advice on how to approach your interview.

  

  able to accommodate your interview. Here are my suggestions on how to ... , but also a way for you to get to know us better. Show up on time ... interviews has changed (though Stu's advice on how to prepare for it remains

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  On Greatness

  

  important thing is to find what you love and do it to the utmost of your ... it is you love to do and funnel your energy into relentless pursuit. So for those of you in high school, wide-eyed and unsure of how to get

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 11, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harvard Social Enterprise Conference with a virtual reality demo that showed me the communities of Nairobi

  

  , the conference’s content focused on the untold truths of Social ... to go but I had a pset due on Saturday and plans to hang out with ... on the initiative. I listened to him at first, but soon I became

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 11, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Orthostatic Tolerance [by Ken Haggerty '11] It might not be such a bad idea to visit this…

  

  (HERE!) on the first floor and is free to everyone :) Those artists who show their work at LVAC do not necessarily have to produce any new work ... " (2010): India ink on Mylar®. I will admit upfront that I am a bit, if

  • by ARTalk
  • June 23, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 2 electric boogaloo

  

  arbitrary order and still confuse me from time to time. Sidequest 2: Get my ... (and still very shell shocked) to report that I’ll be working on the God ... of given up on this, because like the New Englander I am, I do have a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  “What Should I Bring To College?” (partly) answered my everyday carry

  

  depends on your needs, and I'm not looking to start a flamewar here.  I will ... purchased Kindle books on your computer. Tablet (?) Let's get this out of ... .  Equations, diagrams, and graphs are no fun to try to reproduce on a laptop or

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 23, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Prof. Junot Diaz on The Colbert Report! MIT Writing professor Junot Diaz, winner of this year's Pulitzer Prize for fiction, appeared last…

  

  weeks back, and it was a great book -- put it on your summer reading list! ... & Humanistic Studies, appeared on The Colbert Report. Certainly Prof ... Fiction, but an appearance on Colbert is always... interesting. For those

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 24, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  tea shirt the tea and stories behind the merch in my closet

  

  getting on campus in February, I was very excited to get makerspace training ... most part, a fine time. We did struggle with getting people to turn on ... have constantly been on a mission to better myself. By that, I mean

  • by Waly N. '24
  • June 19, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part 3 Connecting with your Educational Counselor

  

  frustrating. When you contact your EC give them a little time to get back to ... you have submitted portions of your application on the EC website during ... be something new, but for others the meeting with your Educational

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Scenes From Admissions, Round Two What's going on in this picture?! Another installment of our new little game.

  

  Occasionally I'll show you a picture and give you some clues to see if you can figure out what's going on in the scene. Welcome to Round ... contains many secrets 2) A large noteboard 3) Daniel's index finger, which

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 1 Dealing with failure and trying to move past it.

  

  process, like anything else. You get up. You move on with your life. You ... --it’s difficult to see these things as positive, but it changes your perspective on ... record. I passed all my classes, and had fun learning and getting to know

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 21, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Someone saved my life tonight Survived my squalor, like a butterfly.

  

  . You start to develop new methods of moving around your house, as normal ... squalor. So, for your edification... First degree squalor: You are getting ... emerge and your disorganization is starting to affect your life and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 12, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  *Independent* Activities Period Part 2 our second IAP apart!

  

  getting industry experience in a field that you know you want to pursue, but maybe have not gotten the chance to get your foot in the door through the ... to try and fail. It did get frustrating at times, but overall, I still

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 5, 2020