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• Blog / About Decisions

  Applying Sideways How to get in to MIT.

  

  speak to students or their families, be it on travel or during a campus ... attack each line item on the list like Ray Lewis cleaning a wideout's clock on a slant route over the middle. Terrifying? Yes. Required to be

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Institute of Smashing What do you think MIT and a garbage compactor have in common?

  

  few A's. You're on top of the world! You've proven yourself worthy of ... . You're an elite. You can't help but pat yourself on the back a little ... on I think it's important to identify roughly two types of people here

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Women’s Soccer Talking to the 2009 NEWMAC Champs after they returned from the NCAA National Championship Tournament

  

  specializing as a striker since high school. Her profile on the MIT ... she was 4 (!) and is one of two goalies on MIT's team. Her profile on ... every day and travel to games on the weekends. As a reminder, this is MIT

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 25, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  , looking back on it, there were signs: I still remember feeling an absurd ... the decision might have on my personal life. By the summer of 2017 ... with it. On the other hand, this was a place where "queer" was a word

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We Should Take This Final and Push It Somewhere Else you'll need a lot of mOXie

  

  .[/annotation] Then, you see the O on your transcript, thinking nothing of it, until you ... was spending a lot of my time more focused on the state of the [annotation note="undergrad association"]UA[/annotation] Elections than I was on

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 14, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science Out Loud! On teaching/making/producing educational videos and why it's so much fun

  

  (VIDEO) THINGS on campus, from MITx to TAing the ESG educational video ... working on various projects involving educational/digital media literacy ... on their videos, I was also researching and writing a video script that

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  IHTFParadise – A Journey of Depression at MIT Guest entry by Angelina G.

  

  open, I lay on my bed—a strange feeling emerged. I didn't care for work ... . Something was wrong. The next day Lauren messaged me and asked me to go on a ... to go to a yoga studio on our way back, so we kept walking to Central

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  101 Things To Do Before You Graduate! 102. Read this blog entry.

  

  so I can see what the heck was on it - I was quite surprised actually ... - Boston Pops performs live at the Hatch Shell in Boston on July 4th each year, and then there's fireworks immediately following on the river - did

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The MIT Major Arcana a collaborative art project

  

  cliffs on campus, but this frosh is standing on top of the Great Dome. (don ... on Instagram. The magician; blowing a witch’s ball out of glass. Using ... Computation and Cognition, @hydreajia on Instagram. With physics as a graduation

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  A Half-Century Retrospective Revisiting the MIT Application from the 1972–1973 admissions cycle

  

  location on the Infinite Corridor to its new home in the MIT Welcome Center ... grew, so did our footprint on the Infinite. We eventually went on to ... a VHS player handy? I’d love to see what’s on this tape."]VHS tape

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Boomeranging The day before classes start is Registration Day. It’s also the day we welcome readmitted…

  

  the fourth time I’ve sat on the Returning Student Luncheon panel of… the ... on out) that it’s going to be okay. Everyone likes to hear that. Some ... Luncheon on Reg Day. I’ve paneled at every one since. The Returning

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  major, making music, writing poems—the list goes on. These posts will be ... becoming the person that I want to be? Is the pain on the way to getting ... people left on campus were those who had exception housing, for one reason

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 31, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  have worked for years to finally reach. This is just a little excerpt on ... . I sat on my bed silently. My fingers were numb and my breaths were shallow. I would look at the time on my phone, then on my laptop, then on my

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  3 weeks in northern Italy Global Teaching Labs and MISTI-Italy

  

  that in Santa Fe. In Santa Fe I slept on a beautiful couch carved out of ... Canyon Road on Christmas Eve, with the farolitos and the music and everyone ... , tapping his mother on the head, everyone always giving kisses on the cheek

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Save Point sleep wake hope

  

  on this post alone for the past six days. Most of it, I've been writing in my head...forming the words, stringing them together like jewels on a necklace, trying sentences and paragraphs on for size, then

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  Greek Perspectives on the Good Life, a required class for almost all ... is sought out for itself is more complete than what is sought out on ... something to put on my resume. A: Why do you need something to put on your

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye

  

  anyway, until my very first night on the MIT campus. But I’d been up all ... chunk of which was liquid nitrogen ice-cream. I jumped on a large bouncy house and listened in on upperclassmen, who at the time had the aura of

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  , that small sadness of being alone and left on campus when everyone ... on the East Campus courtyard. The hallways were filled with boxes ... looks like. The stuffed animals on top of the cabinet all have names. The

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dear frosh: here are the things we want you to know a firehose of advice from upperclassmen: tips and tricks for freshman year

  

  miss out on some incredible friendships. Do Dance Troupe at least once ... large vehicles on the right. Assume that cars don’t see you, and be an ... and keep walking. STUDENT LIFE Listen to firehose chats on WMBR. They

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Reflections

  

  most traffic of any entry ever written on the MIT blogs. While I am ... , once I had the opportunity to ask: we're putting a rover on Mars / trying ... words, I think MIT can take much of the credit for the shift we've seen on

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014