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• Blog / Admissions

  GRE, Boston love, and loose ends from last time Wandering around Boston lost is one of my favorite things to do.

  

  ; it's computer-based, so you get your score right after you take the ... !). My advice, as for all freshman classes, is to do your problem sets ... , since I hadn't had to do a lot of the stuff on the test since 10th grade

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s a puzzlement… ...or why I really love reading your applications!

  

  reading your applications so much and it came to me about the time I walked ... getting to the end and realizing there is a piece missing. Now sometimes it ... your lives with me, I'm enjoying it tremendously. Back to my folders

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • January 16, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  Seatbelts, Everyone! Interrupting Radio Silence...

  

  said "Take chances! Make mistakes! Get messy." I'll add to that only ... speaks the truth. (for those confused, i must point you to the wikipedia ... a week ago, I feel compelled to at least pretend I have some salient

  • by Alina G. '11
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures in Camberville

  

  her being in Pasadena, I don't get to see her that often, so I figured I ... pocket wouldn't exactly get me very far. I realized that I would have to ... how to actually get home walking from Davis. I discovered that there

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • May 15, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I went to the Arnold Arboretum!!! i become one with nature

  

  ] 10/10 amazing place to spend a day. Go picnic with your friends, or ... On Friday, I went to the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University for ... North America, and is home to over 1.3 million trees, shrubs, and woody

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 25, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Just a little advice…

  

  'm so and so and I read and comment on your blog all the time," I want to ... order to both celebrate the coming holidays and to help us get our minds ... getting into Olin anyway, so it's ok) snapped a picture of yours truly

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 31, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes Time may change me, but I can't trace time..

  

  'm pretty sure now that there isn't any other way to get it in your head. So ... considered attending any schools on the West Coast, because I wanted to get ... ? Maybe that won't be you. Maybe you'll come to college and your bearings

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 28, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  For the Not Admitted Students I just wanted to tell you a story. It has a moral, but you don't…

  

  believe in "this too shall pass," but I hope you will be able to find your ... learning from his past mistakes, he was able to get up nearly halfway, when ... truly wise will recognize that there are alternative ways to get to the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 16, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  suggestions for MIT merch but they're bad

  

  get merch for my parents. It’s your standard college merch store, plus a ... want to channel your inner Tim the Beaver. Or if you just don't want to ... Institute of Mechnology? MIT Dome Hat – What better way to show off your

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • December 10, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Exhaustion Guess who's not ready to go to grad school after all

  

  learning that students are offered, it can get tiring to constantly shove new information into your brain using these mediums that are not conducive to your ... classes is that in an environment where you're supposed to be learning

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 5, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Restoring Sanity… and Fear And love of cats.

  

  make your flight. Even though it’s rush hour, the Silver Line to the ... ! Louder!” Either way, it was quite amusing to look at the signs. If you’re ... managed to startle. But I’ll take what I can get.

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What It’s Like To Major In Science Writing at MIT according to one recent alum on reddit

  

  decisions when times are tough. And you're going to get ignored time and time ... . While all your CS friends are going off to Google and Facebook, making six ... interview I've had, I get the question, "you went to MIT? What are you doing

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What an “OX” means on a transcript and why I currently have two of them

  

  online to look at your grades you might see the familiar A ... person with some unique circumstance) and you open up your grade report to ... because I wanted to get it over with and be like hardcore but by Thursday

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • January 25, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Will the pie be bitter or sweet? Hint: it's a trick question.

  

  . Regardless of whether you go to MIT or elsewhere, your intrinsic drive and ... : encyclopedia dramatica So don't ever let anything get you down enough to stop ... While I may lack Ben's ability to speak to the heart, Matt's wisdom

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 11, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus Okay, so it's not even really half a bus. But I'M not the one asking…

  

  suggest getting another book to help you out, especially The Official SAT ... bunch of sections separately, reviewing them to find out what you're not ... your actual SAT, get up early, sit down in a quiet place, and take a test

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 11, 2006
• Blog / Events

  The Third Side of Fraternities The way I see it...

  

  very beginning, since as time goes on and you get to know your brothers ... 't mean you're "paying for friends," nor does not getting a bid during Rush ... something that you get just because you show up to all the Rush events for a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 6, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  dumb little poems and such emotional support procrastination

  

  the echoes murmur louder Get up and fight me Are you afraid of your own ... me and show me fears Wasted, without sacrifice I lay to rest your ... vanish from my todo-list i’m getting tired of fourier transforms these

  • by Anika H. '26
  • November 7, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Spot the Blogger where you'll find bloggers during CPW, and some bonus tips!

  

  best to get to know them! Remember that your host is fully aware of the ... is not a guide to optimizing your CPW experience... here are a few ... catch up on sleep when you get home. Don't feel guilty for wanting to stay

  • by Connie H. '15
  • April 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science is apparently not for the easily-frustrated Stories of woe from the lab

  

  doesn't love me back. Yesterday, for example, I was trying to get a ... a slightly different permutation in order to get a nice figure for our ... get it over with. The gel ran for about two hours, then I set it up to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  then and now a reflection on the very bad

  

  ="52584" /]   Did you finally dye your hair like you wanted to? Get a tattoo ... principal's office. "I hear you're threatening to commit suicide. Camille, do ... ? Her? You don't get to do that." and it shut me up real quick. I forgot

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 5, 2020