Search

Search Results

• Blog / Admissions

  What My College Essays Were [Not] Unsolicited advice about writing.

  

  . Fortunately, to make your life easier, MIT published a page about what it values ... —I mean, these tips certainly make a lot of sense in hindsight, but they ... to convince an admissions committee that you are a good fit for their

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / People & Identities

  Fortin’ with Mimi Let’s. Talk. About. Queer stuff.

  

  So, in Massachusetts, there is a law called “An Act Relative to ... Massachusetts will vote to repeal or keep the law. As a transgender woman, my ... MIT and it’s wonderful people. MIT is such a great place to be queer! I

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • September 18, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Virtual Fall, Real Performances coming soon to a zoom very near you!

  

  that; it's very difficult to learn new music over Zoom and there were a ... impart to you in one post. If you are a current MIT student reading this ... their sound editors and are working hard to make sure all their actors

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m Shipping Up to Boston and I lost my leg! Whoah oh oh..

  

  mountain, to making s'mores on a bonfire on the beach; from learning to ... all the feeling there decided to concurrently take a few hours off to ... also cannot feel.) This year, as opposed to last year when I was a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 31, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  What to expect when you’re expecting CPW Some thoughts and advice in advance of Campus Preview Weekend.

  

  Preview Weekend (CPW), I figured it would be worthwhile to spend a little time helping to set expectations for the weekend. Because CPW is such a ... it, and I hope I can give you a better sense of what to really expect

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 6, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Photojournalism and answers to some questions

  

  carrying an umbrella in a snowstorm doesn't make immediate intuitive sense to ... asked me to take pictures the next time it snowed (snew would be a better ... 's a lion on his head. I also wanted to share the "Picower manifesto

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  starting over and over again

  

  , I wrote that I like making lists. I thought that lists make a great ... onto a page, externalizing them, and thus making them seem somehow less ... used to be a bullet journal but over time has been reduced to the bare

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 11, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Slump and an unexpected summer

  

  to make changes to be happy with your situation. I think it helps a lot ... and ability to make an impact, and I could see myself starting a company ... My second year of college just ended. I’ve been trying to think of a

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • June 2, 2017
• Blog / Events

  TBT: The Science of Chocolate The school down the street does cool things

  

  bus to go visit Harvard. We got there really early to make sure we'd get ... I learned a couple months ago is quite poor, so all I have to show for ... . Chocolatiers use a process called tempering to bring the melted chocolate to the

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 9, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  ‘Just Chillax’ [about your college essays] My little brother is wicked smaht.

  

  – years that I’ve had to fall into a rut of thinking the same way – make ... . Like making it to class without running into anything/anyone while on my ... get a point across.) The essay is your chance to show that you're not a

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 22, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  To All the Blogs I’ve Loved Before Hello? Is this thing on?

  

  administrative role and a great opportunity to learn about how nonprofits operate ... , managing my boss’s schedule, and generally making sure our office was a ... problem was I didn’t get to do much of it. So armed with a greater

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • December 12, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Getting Through a Difficult Month Study, Study, Study

  

  game to be tested on. Luckily, that week prior and weekend, I spent a ... something up on the day of the test. I thought I was going to forget a ... pushing myself to spend countless hours studying for a test that truth be

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • April 1, 2018
• Blog / MISTI

  This Entry is Really Long. And my pictures won't upload :(Edit: Actually, they finally did! Yay!

  

  makes me feel like I’ve exercised enough to last a lifetime, though. On Friday, Linh ’13 and I took a train to a nearby city, R√ºdesheim, where Di ... every time, it makes more and more sense to me. Because the school had a

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 28, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  6.0001 is Done I learned a bit (or should I say 8-bit)

  

  The first quarter comes to a close at MIT. I am crocheting winter ... learned a lot of new ways to see exactly where I went wrong. This also came ... [/annotation], where I have to debug every program and circuit I make for two

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 21, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Batman Picks a Username learn from him.

  

  Trouble thinking up a good Kerberos username? Take some hints from Batman.

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 8, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Answering my own questions My perspective on the MIT student mentality about working hard.

  

  encourage other students to work to the best of their abilities; in a sense, there's a great deal of "peer pressure" to achieve excellence. Some of ... lab or get a paper published in a top journal. I have to admit this

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 10, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Pursuing CS as a (near) beginner being a prospective CS major with little programming experience

  

  fox will make sense later[/caption] I want to major in computer science ... where I feel like a lot of my STEM background amounted to nothing, since ... intelligence instead. I went to a coding camp over the summer that I really liked

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 14, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Listing It All Out you get a list and you get list and you get a list

  

  Places To Take A Nap On Campus, Ranked Barker Library - The pin ... a few months I felt like they needed to be cleaned so I stopped taking ... distance  from my dorm to feel like an excursion of a sort CAVA - also in

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 29, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  How to not love CPW but love MIT (for the most part at least)

  

  I had attempted to be (for lack of a better cliche) jack of all trades ... , and I think thats what makes many so humble and open to helping others ... prefrosh have a “need to find a best friend/roommate/friend group now or bust

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fantastic Course Numbers and Where to Find Them A List of Ways MIT is like Hogwarts

  

  together to make a better world. That is MIT. Nothing can change that. And ... was feeling a more light-hearted, nonsensical post to take my mind of ... energized by our diversity, with a meritocratic openness to talent, culture

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 30, 2016