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• Blog / About Decisions

  Even More for Admitted Students: Share Your Story Another open thread for '11s.

  

  a month. I was barely reading the blogs, just trying to get two ... means it's exactly one year to the day when I discovered I got in. In honor of that anniversary, I'd like to hear your stories. I know you all

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 13, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Holiday Life's not always a picnic in Killian Court.

  

  take up a quarter of the page, and to be printed in full color. Also ... ridiculous amounts of food for a few hours (I woke up to my friends making a ... joined in and made my earth-shattering waffles), and then went back to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My advisor won $3 million Unraveling the mysteries of the universe, and helping Anna make life choices

  

  meeting, he gave me a list of professors to get in touch with. One of them ... we could actually get to all my questions. There’s now an e-mail thread ... , great - famous person for an advisor. I'm not going to get any attention

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  Pigeonholing boxes = semesters, pigeons = classes

  

  class. This is due to a few reasons: Firstly, I have never had a semester at MIT where I didn’t want to be taking the classes I was taking. This is a somewhat privileged position to be in (and given some of those

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 13, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Value added You are not the same person you'll be at the end of undergrad, and your…

  

  school applications (particularly in getting into my perfect program) to my ... several problems with this logic: Not everybody wants to go to grad ... to grad school. You are not the same person you'll be at the end of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do You Want To Build a Robot? it doesn't have to be a robot (see: electric gokart section)

  

  guaranteed spot on the final day of competition, and get to relax and watch the ... hadn't ever used a mill or lathe.  I wasn't sure what it meant to tap a ... , I was comfortable with all of these tools, thanks in large part to the

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 9, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Hint of fall A Sunday adventure

  

  were spent in meetings, labs, and libraries, trying not to get smashed by ... the city. You get to check them out for 30 mins at a time before you ... , presentations, you name it. Plus basketball practices started Monday. My Google

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • October 21, 2018
• Blog / How to MIT

  Schedules and expectations The do's and dont's of freshman scheduling, and what to brace yourself for.

  

  probably take you a while to get used to college life and on P/NR you ... to use Freshman P/NR to take the absolute hardest classes and get them ... nearly had a panic attack. I tried to study the first few pages of the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2020 Reflections & 2021 Resolutions

  

  apartment gym has closed again, but I'm hoping to get back into the swing of ... work on it. Get a summer 2022 internship. - It would be great to be ... Hello and happy new year (kind of)! I was really bummed out to make

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 3, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  uncertainly i am writing a blog post about another song

  

  getting sick of dining hall food, or getting used to it. i will be eating ... get a copy of some book shipped to them. i picked the unbearable ... want to make round 3, because everyone who makes it to round 3 gets a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 17, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  recently read words absorbed by my brain

  

  by the time you get to the end you’re different than you were at the ... ’ve often found it difficult to get through historical books—admittedly, old ... with most other cryptography, no idea if I’ll ever get to apply it in the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 3, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Choosing between a career and motherhood A reflection on the ideas expressed in the 9/20/05 NY Times article, "Many Women at…

  

  across a front page article titled, "Many Women at Elite Colleges Set Career Path to Motherhood." The author, Louise Story, speaks with several ... she speaks with aspires to be a lawyer and almost all plan to stop

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Interview Tips from an MIT Educational Counselor Thoughts on how to prepare for your alumni interview

  

  impressions count. Your EC only has a very limited amount of time to get to know ... yourself. 6. It’s ok to Google us. But not too much. ECs know we are part ... interested in MIT. My advice is not to let it get the best of you. If you are

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Preparing for Pi Day MIT decisions come out this Friday: what to do between now and then...

  

  thrill of waiting for the admissions results page to load by proxy, via my ... ...don't freak out. 1. Prepare Your Wifi I applied early to MIT ... morning (Pacific time). During that time, I was scheduled to be at a day

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 10, 2014
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Things I Know to Be True: Addendum One A post I hate, and some truths from my first year at MIT

  

  to Be True. It was meant to be a simple introductory post, and I suppose it was, but I also wanted it to act as an anchor. I told myself that ... throw down the anchor. I could revisit what I knew to be true. Looking

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • June 20, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Railroad reading A Thursday evening book review that nobody really asked for.

  

  this book. Roth can really write, and I want to get acquainted with some ... one passage so powerful that I was afraid to turn a page for five ... was trying to find myself but was unsuccessful. Then we went to Shawna

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  Deadlines and Habits Staying sane

  

  know that a chapter of Blue Mars awaits, and that you get to spend half ... MIT and need to do psets. This is what I have to look forward to: I realize that most of this readership has never applied to either grad school

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 19, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wake Up Calls because The Big Picture needs you

  

  what you've done to get to where you are. Answer the question, and it ... most hilarious and zombie-affected pages of my physics notes for October ... pictured above.) 2.) Notice how the first page says "Nathasha, help me," on

  • by Ana V. '15
  • October 23, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Uncreative Post with an uncreative title

  

  the white carpet, so we got to sink into the clean softness, get ... ’ll get to more thorough blogging, but for now, I must rush to write an ... immediately… only to be interrupted by more excitement (which, naturally, I had

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Dorms: Baker House A tour of Baker House.

  

  was a proud resident. All freshmen have to live on campus, but after ... moonlights as a rockstar. And now to our regularly scheduled program: Bryan: hey, so get this, i was walking down mem drive today Bryan: and out

  • by Bryan
  • May 14, 2006