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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Three Tales of Junior Year Accidental Harvard Class, UROPs, Experimenting in College

  

  The Accidental Harvard Class It is possible to miss a class. Not in ... . Junior fall, I wanted to take a Harvard class. Philosophy of Education ... ’s a logistical thing to do before you start.” I was so excited for

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 10, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  An interview with AoPS "What Kinds of Students Does MIT Look For?" but ASMR

  

  full and fair review. And we're going to have a spot on the application ... surprising to any of your listeners. But I do actually want to tell you a quick ... MIT Look For?", but that was really a way to open a conversation into

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 7, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  me, existing one day at a time

  

  -seated anxiety and a general feeling of not knowing what to do. All the buzzwords ... 't really see a lot of emails on the eecs side, especially after i muted ... on your phone. It was nice—and it honestly helped dispel a few worries

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 2, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eastward ho! Don't US people normally go to Canada or Mexico before they cross an ocean?

  

  cardstock that entitle me to a non-reserved seat on what I can best describe as a train that makes you feel like you’re on an airplane. Right now, I’m sitting on a bus that will take about 8 hours to get me half way

  • by Stanley G.
  • July 20, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m laughing out loud cheek. muscles. cramping.

  

  due, one of my friends slept for one hour last night, I have to submit a paper draft to my research advisor tonight, I e-mailed a paper to my music ... , it really doesn't take much to make me laugh hysterically). On the off

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 11, 2013
• Blog / Advice

  tidbits pieces of advice

  

  though you're on PNR or take a 4am trip to Seven Eleven with you ... conversation on. And I think this really goes to show the nature of MIT? A lot of ... this a lot, but I'd rather go to a hard school with a collaborative and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 24, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  If strangers meet life begins you shall above all things be glad and young

  

  I. Flying back home to MIT from home in South Bend (not a typo), I ... precisely a year ago, when I was but a newly arrived freshman on MIT's campus ... me to meet at least five new people each day of Orientation. But he

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 23, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Updates for the Admitted There's good stuff on your MyMIT portal.

  

  enter themselves on the guestbook, it's a good way to share your contact ... 're making the best choice for yourself), or to request a deferral/gap year ... would you like to see us do blog entries on over the coming month or so

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  post-semester paradise two weeks with no psets or exams in sight

  

  days of doing nothing at all! on Monday, i went to a brewery in seaport ... of Monday May 9. i had to present a project, which wasn't great, but as ... consume so many episodes on a 'school day'. the next day, which was the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 3, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  Things I did instead of thinking (about decisions)

  

  teeth that need to chew on something or you’ll grow wild and mad, and so you turn to chewing on college applications. Perhaps you’re like how I ... better on a different chew toy, brightly colored perhaps, the kind of treat

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Thirteen Theses on Wide Tim In a world which really is topsy-turvy, the true is a moment of the false.

  

  spectacle to actual social activity: such a division is itself divided. The ... But certainly for the present age, which prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, representation to reality, the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 23, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Some virtuosos play $4 million violins, and some Trojan heros wear brass rats $4 million violins, not 4 million violins. Joshua Bell isn't *that* intense.

  

  stretching by spending most of Friday with my legs propped up on a giant ... organist at Westminster Abbey, which is very strange to think about. As a ... on Westminster Abbey aside, Purcell was a musical genius. Period. That

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 22, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  taking care in all forms

  

  . (when i told her this, she said she was going to mail me a bunch of ... of the transition to full adulthood. it's a funny stage of life that we ... 's always there to tempt me"]paris baguette[/annotation] and buying a slice of

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 22, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Really, I don’t feel like thinking of a title right now Now there's a title cop-out you can only use once. Good thing I saved it…

  

  found each other online and chatted a little before getting to MIT. By the ... misery for a few minutes. I can't help but think back to the first and only other real conversation we had- our first day on campus, trying to figure

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 11, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Wisdom of Khan revealed the MIT secret

  

  incredible young people to realize what they are capable of. This is a place ... . A place where sleep regularly takes a back seat to the intellectual ... the room and share a quick smirk. And if you are the preferred gender

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Cacti and Ice Cream

  

  their project titles: Use of Homology Modeling and Molecular Docking to Map retinoid Binding Sites on Protein Kinase C A Practical ... left to right: Nick, Peak, Jijun, Johann, Mike, Donald, Amber, Kenny (MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  8 Hypotheses Like Schubert, I never finished the Eighth.

  

  'm listlessly thinking to ask her about the force on a dipole due to the gradient ... weekend at pika, after waking up on Thanksgiving day to a house full of ... decided to call it a day when the robotically-sonorous female voice on my

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 7, 2009
• Blog / CPW

  Backstage at the CPW Closing Show “Other duties as assigned”

  

  best chance to view what’s happening on stage is to sneak a glimpse from ... noon for soundcheck, 8 hours later we had put on a show! I want to thank ... “Other duties as assigned” is a concept well-known to admissions

  • by Jeremy W.
  • May 19, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  greta gerwig’s barbie and insecurity aka moving to college

  

  ’). Like a lot of people, I act like I love to embrace change and go on crazy ... Vassar with my roommate, I was appalled to hear he missed out on the ... modern feminist movements is something I cannot comment on nor relate to

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 19, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Admissions Decisions and Mystery Hunt A few thoughts and a lot of puzzles.

  

  question 11a on our application ("what do you do purely for fun?"). Try to ... Two years and 363 days ago I was on a plane home from Tenerife, two ... were released. On the drive home I considered calling someone to check my

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 12, 2013