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• Blog / Admissions

  November Questions Omnibus 1 As usual, Q & A.

  

  important part of your context. If you tell us about your situation, we will ... summer...i am already submitting my RSI paper as a part of my MIT ... parts of the application that inform our decision. Admissions decisions at

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Tour of an MIT student’s notebook my brain is a mess so my pages have everything

  

  favorite part of my notebook. I use CAD (Solidworks, Fusion360, OnShape) for ... ="116766" /] Scratch paper These are the messiest parts of my notebook. The main way I ... . Scribbling stuff down is a part of how I process, and really useful to me for

  • by Anika H. '26
  • July 8, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  what I’m doing this IAP mostly physics and musical theater

  

  ). I’m part of the ensemble for [annotation note="MIT Musical Theater ... , and I knew I wanted to be part of one—I just kept psyching myself out of ... —e.g. making it to a part of a problem that I couldn’t reach last time, even if

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  how not to be a mathematician on taking time & not running away

  

  part in terms of math academics, I had fallen to believe something ... because of it, and for the most part, our conversations were sanitized of ... in hopes of feeling more like a part of the math department, I signed

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 15, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Always the Art Kid many many many identities

  

  collection of all of these pieces. I am still part of the art kid, part of the reading kid, part of the science kid, but I am still learning, and that is

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • November 28, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  making art for fun what a crazy concept!

  

  irreparably change that part of me. I was afraid that I would lose touch with a part of myself that has always been a defining part of my life. I was

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • March 28, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Sensations On Having Feelings

  

  being. Simultaneously, though, loneliness was a big part of my high school ... . Having emotions, and leaning into them, became part of my conception of who ... fewer emotions to be hard, partly because I have a lot more control now

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 9, 2022
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Joint Post] Build a robot boat with MIT Arcturus! Q&A with Arcturus captain Audrey Chen

  

  focus on the parts of Arcturus they're most interested in, be it robotics ... part of the competition, though, was definitely just being able to spend ... been one of the defining parts of my MIT experience. It's been a great

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  everything i cooked this summer it wasn't gourmet but it (mostly) tasted good

  

  being. A big part of this was learning how to cook and bake. I tried a couple of elaborate recipes that year, but for the most part I just spent ... . Compared to them, my taste in food is distinctly... [annotation note="part of

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 14, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  sk8 jebby on a skateboard

  

  Future Part II. I was in seventh grade. It was a week before Halloween, and ... skater and led through the process of picking out the different parts for ... the fun part! This was pretty much learning how to shift my front foot

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 29, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  how to adult spoiler alert: no one knows

  

  'm five, and other days i feel like my actual age. they're all part of me ... is that a big part of adulthood is figuring it out as you go. you ... we might even still have some of the good parts we envied from our

  • by Melissa Cao '20
  • November 3, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  making space in my schedule to go to the maker space and 100 other things I was bad at this semester

  

  DO NOT put your hand inside the laser cutter. The second part of the ... parts of the design are raster prints (basically tracing the design into the material) and really thin lines, which are the parts that should be

  • by Waly N. '24
  • June 5, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  sunset/sunrise swiftly flow the days

  

  , and, for the most part, I have been[annotation note='I promise that a ... horrible, not great. It was fine, for the most part, until two weeks ago ... of them are worth much on their own. The hard part of the semester

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 18, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  I've mentioned briefly on this blog before that I'm part of a ... workshops on different parts of a cappella, like percussion & beatboxing ... cover of a song or audition to be part of one. Each cover lead will work

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Lyrics to my MIT experience i definitely never, ever wrote songfics when i was in middle school

  

  the goddamn loveliest melody How grateful I was then to be part of the ... the communities I've been a part of have been there to provide love and ... depending on whatever part of your life you're experiencing. These lyrics are

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 15, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  on realizations and learning in which i say a bunch of things that might seem obvious

  

  parts of language at about the same age. The input is necessary, but it ... only part of the puzzle for me; the other part is time to think and

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 10, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  [Guest Post] Those Kids in Uniform Everything you didn't ask to know about ROTC

  

  amazing program and a huge part of my life. However, it’s hard to understand ... available to cadets.  What’s your favorite part of ROTC?  Besides what I ... been my favorite part of ROTC. The program has given me the unique

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 7, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  to do lists and have done lists so busy that all I can do is just stare at the wall

  

  the part one of my apple journey, with part two being an applesauce ... :,-)"]rocky horror[/annotation] every other part of my grad applications

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Your Friendly Neighborhood Dream-Destroyer "How Could You Work There?"

  for a living. And yes, turning down applications is a huge part of the ... basis, none of us particularly enjoy the rejection part of our job. And ... into the running and here I am at MIT. Yes, selection is a huge part of

  • by DJ Rock
  • May 30, 2019
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  living the dream: UROP edition! in which i run experiments on children (well, kinda)

  

  do my part for the statistic that 90% of students have had a UROP by ... learn it is one of the coolest parts, and here I am, helping to figure ... super nervous, but it went really well (in part thanks to the persistent

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 22, 2019