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• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Second Semi-Annual Q&A More answers to your questions.

  

  't have a foreign language requirement, so you don't really need to worry ... want to hear. Should I consider answering in a more conventional/different way to avoid this? Secondly, I am attaching a three page supplemental

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 28, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask Yourself Can you really LTFP?

  

  pursue a career in advertising, then you might be able to find someplace ... all: What are you going to study? Would a degree from MIT really be ... need to decide on a major (sometime during sophomore year) and then study

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Snow(y) Day The kind of day when tea or cocoa helps in reading applications.

  

  hope you all can hear us. The idea is for everyone to take a break from Tooling, to come out and join their fellow slugs for a hot mug of cocoa ... further from the truth. It really is a joy and a privilege to read

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 3, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW on the Web CPW comes to you...ON THE INTERNET

  

  , including how to make it more accessible for the students who attend. One ... MIT community is incredibly devoted to CPW, hosts a ton of excellent ... suggestion of something else we could do to make things more accessible, just

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 2, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  my freshman year playlist 2/3 of a year in 25 songs

  

  playlists is one of my favorite things to do, so i decided to create a ... are memey, some will make me cry as soon as i listen to them, but all of ... Part by AJR — i listened to this a lot before going to see AJR. i really

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A for the Waitlisted Some (hopefully) helpful questions and answers for waitlisted students.

  

  to campus to make the case in person. Send us ridiculous items or ... another college before May 1, even if it means making a deposit. After May 1 ... first college and enroll at the second. This shifting can lead to a second

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  A Picture is as much as Ten Hundred Words This is in fact a story that does have pictures.

  

  went to that baby college down the long water road. There's a lot of ... is hard to not look like a little baby city new person when you pull ... it up! During Eye-A-Piece, we don't have our favorite place to eat. So

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • January 26, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  lots of words and a tungsten cube monologues and dialogues.

  

  telling it because i find it funny. how a silly little review can make a ... my writing. to some extent, poetry is just a monologue, right? right? i don’t know if i want to make large claims, i just find that it is

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • December 20, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in the Life of an Over-Scheduled Frosh Another hosed blogger? ShOcKiNg

  

  speed-walk back to East Campus, change my clothes, and make a peanut ... to share this play-by-play to make a point: This was a good day for me ... phone to look at the time, my heart skips a beat. Noon? Already?!? I

  • by Powers '23
  • October 21, 2019
• Blog / Summer

  what i’m up to this summer a list of verbs

  

  , and while the weather leaves much to be desired, there is still a lot of ... decided to join Kensho, a data science company at Harvard Square, as a full ... chief-of-staff at a startup in the Web 3.0 space, so I agreed to do some

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 25, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  wow. my first three weeks being an actual student actually at mit

  

  into this crazy place, to now being a blogger, happened so quickly, I'm still in a state of shock (so try to forgive me if this post is all over the place). The idea of MIT never became a reality to me until I

  • by Joe B. '18
  • September 19, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do you live in Zambia? Malawi? Ghana? If you could send me some African dirt, that would be amazing! (And illegal. But…

  

  to make a strong brick using pressure instead of heat. Also, the bricks ... -Lab to my schedule. This involved dropping a few other activities of minor ... sacrifice, right? I'm working on designing something that makes

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 11, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  It’s something unpredictable, but in the end it’s right

  

  lab that I didn't need to graduate, who TAed a robotics class ... , making you rethink your values, and so on, MIT can do interesting things to ... toward the goal of getting into a top school, and it's been portrayed to

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 7, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  C’est la Vie In which I describe my summer in words, without photos (yet).

  

  leg space! =D) It was a fun time of relaxation, going back to my high ... short trip with family up to Nagoya, Japan in the middle of June. T'was a ... up to the mountains with a Taiwanese health outreach group (think

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 28, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  the lying lives of adults by elena ferrante

  

  revealed that he, too, is willing to betray his fiancée for a night ... sun as a metaphor for Meursault’s super-ego to criticize the societal constructs of funerals and legal proceedings as superficial ways to maintain a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Eating Too Much Cake Just kidding, this post is about physics

  

  Sixteen months ago, in April, I made a promise to myself: if you choose MIT, you get to take a gap year. You’ve been selling your soul to ... how to write a love interest that readers root for. Specifically I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 25, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  This is where my decisions have taken me perspectives from grad school

  

  ; *         *        *   I used to think of decision-making as a complicated optimization ... they had time to talk. That person became a mentor to him, encouraged him ... probably got over-simplified while making a home for itself in my memory. But

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 15, 2016
• Blog / People & Identities

  in wonderland hello from the number side

  

  makes my tendency for already-nebulous statements even more nebulous to ... moments — maybe about three times a week? — where I have to convince myself ... class, but I do build things on my own time! Currently, I'm trying to make

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 16, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Long-Overdue Responses Questions answered.

  

  This is a long one. Apologies in advance! First, a quick response to ... we think that keeping in touch with you guys on a personal level makes ... these blogs are just a glorified PR trick. I'm not going to waste any time

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 20, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Doing What You Love it's both priceless and utilitarian

  

  's a terrible metric for uselessness.) But the same is true, to varying ... . (We probably aren't them.) A software developer can make a code push ... ? Maybe I'm not allowed to tell stories about Qiaochu any more since he's a

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • October 24, 2011