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• Blog / Admissions

  Brain Dump News and updates for admitted students from the last few weeks, in no particular order...

  

  - if you aren't the sh*t, you're not going to get into MIT. Having said ... affected by so many different factors. (Note to self: take Weather Machine ... having to suffer through others saying "you only got into MIT because you're

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 28, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  choosing the abridged version

  

  each other. for a while i tried to get the best of all worlds - i was ... exploring a new field can cause their whole social circle to begin exploring ... people like your parents telling you what to do, you gain freedom in social

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 20, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eric Lander, spring rolls, and the New York Times two of those three are related

  

  -related news, the productivity geek in me decided to try out an entirely new note ... Luckily, thanks to our friendly Senior Haus GRTs I was able to acquire number 1, and thanks to the obscene amount of tuition I'm paying MIT I was

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 6, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  2014 Resolutions January 2nd and still going strong

  

  This New Year, I want to try a resolution that would mandate how I ... "I'll just get by this semester and be more organized next semester ... I'm gaining money rather than losing it. Lastly, I also wanted to get

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 2, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  No Ceilings next steps

  

  you can't get to the 1000th step without taking the first. Or the second ... first). I was lucky to get the opportunity to be here. And while luck may ... time here, looking down on all the stairs that I climbed to get to where

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 12, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  [Guest Post] Love Is Hard (A Sequel) wherein anon feels different from how he felt seven months ago

  

  relationship ends, you tend to look back on your experience and think about the ... talking to each other because you’re too focused on the words flying between ... yours and never wanting to let go. And tracing the lines that seem to so

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 3, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  blind spots on privilege

  

  to do: catch up. I needed to bridge the gap that was created by a ... I work on problem sets with friends who seem to be getting to the ... achieve that or how to get to a point where I know how to approach problems

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 4, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Bad Ideas ...and the universities that encourage them.

  

  . But to each his own! Whatever floats your boat! Insert other clichés ... be more or less dangerous than it sounds, depending on your imagination ... 's something to be said for watching people do really random, stupid, amusing

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 30, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  IAP and Igloos This is an entry about IAP. IAP is the month of January. It's...February. I know.

  

  during the school year that you didn't quite get to because you were ... to walk across the Harvard bridge, wear rainboots up to your elbows ... throughout Boston and avoiding a soggy return home by taking Saferide back to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 25, 2009
• FAQ / First-year application

  Do I need a high school diploma to apply?

  your odds of getting into MIT and will help you make the most of the Institute when you're here. For some more information, check out What to do in ... completion to apply. Each year we receive a small number of applications from
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Meant to Be What I've found at MIT

  

  't limited to pizza), spent a night in the New England Aquarium, and finished ... crammed in your tiny room trying to solve the hard problems together and ... this week are waiting for the newest psets to come out, come in your hour

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • September 19, 2011
• Blog / Advice

  Two Years and how it's changed me

  

  like an artificial race to get the most experience you can as early as ... , and there's this indirect but constant pressure for you to get some form ... software engineer because of it. I'm glad I get to work on my team, because

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 28, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Starting over sucks but sometimes you have to do it

  

  , so I knew what to expect by the time I became a senior. Each round had ... 'd stay up until 2 a.m. in hopes that we'd get to see a sliver of change ... . And then I get up every morning to start the cycle over again. And again

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 16, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Food, Folks, and Fun…..but definitely not mcdonald’s Quinton makes friends at the Muslim Student Association

  

  As far as admissions counselors go, I am relatively new to the MIT ... , and staff as humanly possible in order to get a full taste of the true ... enough in itself to entice me to explore new opportunities, this invitation

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 1, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  Bavarian Rhapsody I'm just a poor boy, I go to MIT.

  

  in a blog? Anyway, it's good to see fans getting along. The motto of ... still life painted by Jan Brueghel, but forgot to take a picture of it ... liked to paint tangled masses of naked people getting sucked up to heaven

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Careers in biology Also known as "why on earth I'm applying to graduate school".

  

  lecturing for 9.12 that he needed to tell us "what you're getting into by ... from four to six to a zillion years, depending on how fast you get your ... of arrows on that page, so I'll try to clarify. First you finish your

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  See her picture(s) in a thousand places In which I understand what Bruce Campbell feels like

  

  upon being recognized that I forgot to get to your name. Sorry about that ... Sam: [folding laundry] Guy: Your name's Sam, right? Sam: Um, yeah. Guy: 'cause you're on Mitra's Blog. Sam: Heh. You know I have a blog now

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 3, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  My “Normal” High School What it was like going to an ordinary high school

  

  situations. If I was working on trying to come up with some new cancer idea, my ... than to get into the local state school. Now I cannot stress this enough ... college’” “Lol no way, why work super hard to get in there when I could just

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi on Pie So much pi[e].

  

  dishes). I want to share them with you, to the extent that I can share 1 ... pies, piedentified (joke by Irina’s boyfriend Alex). The top row is ... this blog post I’m going to go back to grading. (“Grading” is a word

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 13, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Open Sesame A look at Brewster Kahle '82 and the Internet Archive.

  

  I'm back to work tomorrow, hopefully posting a new Questions Omnibus tomorrow evening. While waiting to be called from the jury pool, I had plenty of time to read both the New York Times and the Boston Globe. The

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 15, 2005