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• Blog / Challenges

  Spreading yourself too thin At MIT, the saying goes that you can work, sleep, or play, but you have…

  

  The beginning of a new term is always accompanied by a mix of anxiety ... , and passion. So, choose your activities wisely and try to maintain some ... for up to 15 activities. I get really miffed when I tell an admissions

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 10, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Visiting MIT this summer (part 1) It is now high season for visiting colleges. I plan to do a series of…

  

  plan to visit, please leave your questions in the comments; I will answer ... to leave your advice on visiting MIT and Boston in the comments; I will ... and tour, we encourage you to explore MIT a bit on your own, visiting

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 21, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a semester in glass! i made a lot of things :D

  

  learning about safety in the lab, since you're going to be working with glass ... long sticks that you put glass on the end of, but we'll get to the ... learned how to take the glass back off the end of the pipe when you're done

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 28, 2022
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  available in the application portal. To check your decision, login to the portal and visit your Application Status page. There, you will be able to see your decision by clicking View Update. There are no interim screens

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 18, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harbinger of Doom, Despair, and Knowledge: PSETS Don't worry, not as bad as they sound.

  

  MIT, you might be left wondering just what it is you've managed to get ... freshman student, I decided to jump in and get started on problem 4, just to ... thought. "Maybe that's just a curveball, just a tough one to get you

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 3, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Felicitation Answers... and hopefully minimal snark.

  

  friends, you're likely to finish the movie and the pizza and get into a ... getting 6 hours of sleep... by senior year, I was getting to bed before 1 AM ... 't personally get into Boston much during the week, and on a weekday night you're

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  The first step ...is admitting you need help.

  

  than your high school in ways you can't even begin to imagine. A thousand ... in your first year at MIT isn't how to integrate that particularly ... concept with which you're having trouble. Due to MIT's General Institute

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 8, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Making friends

  

  -related topics to write about. Today's entry was requested by Anonymous (come on ... have the same question. It can be intimidating to go alone to a new place ... discovered a post by an incoming frosh who was temped on my hall and wanted to

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  17 Ridiculously Useful Tips Every Blogger Should Know i am the entire circus

  

  Whether you blog for a job and get paid by the hour, or you're ... preview of what you're discussing. What better way to do this than with a ... pursuits in lieu of stable high-paying employment. Add dialogue to your blog

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Senior Survey (Says?) (For the record, I think that being on Family Feud would be totally awesome)

  

  where I'm racing to finish up an incomplete in a class from last term by ... informal): Please use the space below to comment on what your school could have done to improve your undergraduate experience or what you wish you

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 3, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Classes (or, Gettin’ Classy) I made a series of Biology videos about blood and learned about digital education!

  

  or biology faculty who received the email and decided to stop by to ... hour to go, and some of my favorite guest lecturers from edX stopped by ... video series intended to debunk the myth that blood is red in your

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / Announcements

  A reminder that there is no advantage to applying Early Action to MIT As always, you should apply when you feel ready

  

  and an aging parent and hasn't been able to get it done yet. Judging by ... ."']here at the office,[/annotation] we are all getting ready to read your ... Action. This is a longstanding policy. There is no reason to rush your

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 21, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Flavor of Love As a wise woman once said, "Free is my favorite flavor."

  

  OF KETCHUP PACKETS, 33-541!) I'm going to be getting free food five ... somewhere to be in 45 minutes. I looked inside the new reading room and, you ... , although we only managed to get up to around 38 before program coordinator Dr

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Two households, totally unalike in dignity…” On picking majors and following your dreams, Romeo and Juliet, Twitter, Sherlock, and the future…

  

  different environment. And then in the third phase we get to do whatever kind ... between Tybalt and Mercutio? If Romeo’s trying to get in the middle of them ... have that make it ideal for telling this story this way? We wanted to get

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 21, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  what we mean when we say the people why we like “the people”

  

  insincere not to say this is somewhat true. I think what is meant by most ... the people that say "theyre not like people their age that like to get ... to talk to / get to know we’re analyzing a film in literature and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 25, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Halfway Through MIT Where I’ve been, and where I’m going

  

  by going to more office hours, getting more learning out of every hour ... new experience to sit on the subway for so long. We ate lunch together ... campus, listening to the song Alewife by Clairo. We went back a few more

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 25, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer plans

  

  tomorrow, it ends. Tomorrow, I get on a plane and fly to Newark, New Jersey ... chance to get settled in. :) By the way, I've discovered that if you read ... even if there's no reason for me to get up, and usually get less, but

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 11, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Admitted Student Spring Meetings… ...the event when I decided MIT was for me.

  

  opportunity for many of you to attend spring meetings hosted by ECs and alumni ... learned a lot at the spring meeting I attended and had a great chance to get ... Okay, I admit it! I decided to come to MIT without the benefit of an

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 17, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Retrospective Wait, what? I'm done with my first year?

  

  to no longer be among the 'babies' of the school, to be replaced by the ... the best decisions I've made in my life. Also - we're getting a new ... for this day to come, for this year to end. But now, a large part of me

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • May 25, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  We Treat You Nicely VOTE VOTE VOTE!

  

  new Macbook) and so I just used that. I don't know how to resize them ... you'll do is look to your right and see Killian Court, realize that you're ... you enough to save your life. Ok, thing two: When to visit MIT. Maybe

  • by Snively '11
  • November 13, 2008