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• Blog / Advice

  Parental advice, revisited… a self-referential throwback, that is somehow, still relevant

  

  the programs will allow your child to learn some things about MIT and ... efforts to position your child for success in the admission process, at MIT ... select the right summer and enrichment opportunities to best position my

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 12, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Anticipation a little something to keep you company

  

  whatever it is that you're feeling, you know that there is only one way to ... remind you to listen to the world around you. To the rhythm in your ... yourself some time today. To realize just how far you've come. To hold your

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 14, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Sean ‘13 The third in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class. Plus, a related…

  

  strong and supportive community life. Read on... Stepping up to bat in ... the athlete as "one willing to take on a challenge" and who is "not ... .By Lorrie Cecil/ThisWeek The movie "21," which is based on a true story

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2009
• Blog / Classes

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

  

  choose MIT, you get to take a gap year. You’ve been selling your soul to ... myself here again on purpose. My brain does not know that it is possible to ... give to your job, and how much will you want to? I wonder if I’ve failed

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 25, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Engineering Digital Communities reflecting on the start of the zoomester and the months prior

  

  like 1+1 is starting to seem like a challenge. Day 1 of September rang in a new milestone for me. It was the first day of[annotation note ... fixed idea of where I was applying, what on earth I was doing, or anything

  • by Waly N. '24
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  TESS Science Conference III My first science conference!

  

  again."). This week, it's back to work. My new model just finished ... This summer, I started a new [annotation note="Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program. Undergrads get to participate in real research with

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  HT@MIT: Foodie Edition The Friendly Toast, Oasis and Teriyaki House, my three favorite restaurants

  

  fries and you flag down a waitress to get your anticipatory doggie bag ... Hey guys, I'm back to blogging once a week after a ridiculously crazy ... food I love. Now this post isn't to say that these are undoubtedly the

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • July 15, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Analogies “Fill yourself up with musical lighter fluid and ignite your inner match.”

  

  analogies, and are certainly not limited to expressions such as “Release your ... we play and suggestions on how to do it. Several months ago, I joined ... our rehearsals to give us tips and guidance on the piece, AND he

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 1, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Kim Affair It's been fun, guys.

  

  this. If you don't believe me, the lowest score you can possibly get on the SATs (just by putting your name on it) is a 600, combined. My point is, don't take this seriously. Read it with a sense of humor. Call your

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 1, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Shelby’s Amazing CPW Adventure A CPW Guest Entry by Shelby '13

  

  getting settled in my host's dorm at New House 2, I was pumped and ready to ... only made me more excited to be on campus. My CPW weekend was off to a ... "Immigrant Song" to play on air. Remember, I have only touched upon a few of

  • by Snively '11
  • April 29, 2009
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  love in the time of unlimited data against kindness as utility

  

  example of an application: you would be able to rotate your phone on a call ... foresight to grind a Duolingo course on the flight there, my half ... my labmates and I rented a motorboat to go on Lake Como, which was less

  • by Kai V. '25
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / IAP

  More at Home At thirty thousand feet, thousands of miles away.

  

  going to a shisha café (see a theme?). My flight was at 8am on New Year ... (technically not during IAP) was the chance to celebrate New Year's Eve in London ... focuses on addressing congenital blindness in India; eventually he'd like to

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • February 11, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All About the MCATs All about the MCATs and what you need to take to prepare for it!

  

  easy to forget after a while. So, try to plan your schedule right. Make sure to take Intro Bio, Physics, and Chem during your freshman year and I ... semester of your freshman year. It's a lot of memorization but it's great to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 25, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  everyone i know goes away in the end why i've never done misti

  

  . i was given the chance, in april 2021, to spend the first half of 2022 ... decision, and talking to people, and declined in the end, because i "didn't want to spend that much time away from mit." i never applied to a misti

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 11, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  sophomore fall (sophomore decline? sophomore roman empire?) (actually the word sophomore comes from Greek but shhhh)

  

  needing to move on to the next thing, and the next thing, and only in that ... quality: it doesn't feel like I am "choosing" to do them or not based on how ... much I can take on just because I reallllllly want to do a particular

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 1, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday Afternoon Props Props to ten people/committees/inanimate objects that deserve props.

  

  revealing to me that you can get as much organic brown rice as you can fit on ... of over 100 freshman across nine floors, rarely needing to sink below third choice for any student. 2. Megan '08 for introducing me to the song

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Questbridge College Admissions Conference A guest post from Louis Lamia '14, an MIT Quest Scholar.

  

  workshops on how to use every inch of the college application to communicate ... one long day later, we had one last night to explore New Haven with the ... Some of you may look at my last post and wonder, "what's happened to

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You Can Save the World a post on Kanye West

  

  that we are spending time on things that don't matter. And that leads to ... assumptions made about MIT. Kanye's entire thinkpiece on MIT reads like, to ... relying on us young people to solve the situations that prior generations

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Like a G6 except for the wings, the engines, the flight controls…

  

  disclaimer lately on this blogs - and should really always be assumed to be ... active in.  (I learned to fly pre-MIT and probably won't have much time to ... , I am on their mailing list, because they are awesome and frequently do

  • by Piper '13
  • September 27, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Likelihood

  

  some other top colleges do." For those of you not up to speed on what a ... in your mailbox. And for those of you applying to MIT, I wish you the ... scholarship money to come. The idea is to win their affections by getting them

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 19, 2005