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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Activities, humanities, question-ities Will you have time to be in an extracurricular at MIT? Yes, you will.

  

  extracurricular activity or two, plus a UROP, and still graduate on time and happy ... inclined to waste time on the internet. A blatant plug for cheerleading An ... 've been on the squad. Join the cheerleading squad! It's fun! :D HASS

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Answering your questions

  

  . Anonymous asks: "How many people on the waitlist actually get to go to MIT ... : "What made you decide on MIT in the first place, and what are the major ... come to MIT?and...how stressful does it get on an average day? thanks

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 31, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Congratulations! You got the job. You start in 6 months.

  

  rejection and sexism. I am just plain moving on people. Here we go. This week ... , right? I don't think I'm going crazy. On Monday I had my first shift on ... allowed to discuss calls we've been on. That won't be hard- there weren

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Application advice Read this. Now. It's important. Promise.

  

  become so famous due to the sheer concentration of bloggers on the floor ... . "We want to go to MIT?" "So do lots of people!" On that topic, I feel like the time has officially come for Laura's Entry on Unsolicitied

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  “I’ve Got 99 Problems… Admissions Is Not One” Really 52, but who's counting? I know that you love numbers, stats and checklists, so…

  

  , I've been on an AWARD TOUR WITH MOHAMMED MY MAN. And everywhere I go, you want to know the skinny on how to get into MIT. The more I try to ... of your essay. Avoid slang. Use "street cred" on your own time. If

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to college, Kid. My first week at MIT.

  

  On the hallowed grounds of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ... on Third East. In the lottery, you are assigned a room in which you ... a space on East Campus' strip of paper spanning the entire length of

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Railroad reading A Thursday evening book review that nobody really asked for.

  

  to come to MIT, so I'm a total authority on all of this. Plus, I ... figured I'd pick it up. I took it on an eight-hour train ride back home ... that everybody should probably read it on some rainy afternoon or bus

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  greta gerwig’s barbie and insecurity aka moving to college

  

  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 ... and unavoidable reflections on how I’ve been feeling once again. So

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

  Out and about in the fog at the edge of the world

  

  with the sesame paste on top. For a few hours I felt the city move and I ... large tower looking down on the world, an edge jutting out into the sky ... rest (but in due time). So again I walked across the city on my worn feet

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • March 13, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MARC 2025 (not a live blog) Featuring Andi '25!

  

  blogs on MARC, it's MIT's Microsystems Annual Research Conference where we ... with the average broke-college-student budget. Andi and I were both on ... ="aligncenter" width="300"] i drew this on my phone[/caption] Skiing! I missed the

  • by Anika H. '26
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I’m a Muslim Woman and… on this #MuslimWomensDay, meet some p cool ppl

  

  , they’ve become my closest friends, my shoulders to cry on, my ... . Your personality doesn’t solely depend on being smart. And that pushes ... . I struggle with my identity on a day to day basis. Racially and

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 27, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  the threek post! my lovely lovely year on maseeh three

  

  students to explore MIT dorms and find their future home on campus. REX ... ’t too important, and I ranked it first on my housing intent form when it ... create our own culture.” - Lisa “I don't even live on M3! It was a twist

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 27, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every class I’ve taken at MIT RANKED!

  

  others liked are at the very bottom. It really depends on the person, but ... kids stuffed in a New Vassar study room, being on campus during my first ... : Ancient Perspectives on the Good Life (CC.110) → Rank C This was a

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 26, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  Apply to WISE! It would be WISE of you to do so

  

  was the first fly-in she applied to.  Daymé had her heart set on MIT ... in STEM and chemical engineering, MIT was on her list of schools to ... “sitting in the basement with glasses on in the dark,” and she would not know

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • June 13, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visual Arts @ MIT part 2 our experience trying to prepare for the animation industry at MIT

  

  that we have [annotation note="emphasis on (?)"]kind of (?)[/annotation ... have been reflecting on what skills related to animation we’ve learned at ... cross-registration, watching youtube videos on our free time, or creating

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 22, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  The Lessons I’ve Learned and it only took three full semesters and a summer

  

  to every class and completed all of my assignments on time. Freshman ... ever taking extra time to do the problem again on my own. I ended up no ... and I'd be working for three to four hours on a single problem on each

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Questions Fall 2007 Here are answers to the questions posted in my blog over the last month or…

  

  xx on some test. Should I retake it? Probably not, especially if the ... got less than 7xx on some test. Should I retake it? Plenty of people get ... whichever test you feel you'll do best on. Or take both - we'll use whichever

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I DECLARE BANKRUPTCY!! and also my major and also indecision

  

  planet as I put the sticky stars on my ceiling. Then I took AP Physics C ... little noble and important. I wasn't super sold on the engineering part ... those psets for hours on end with no gratification. The crisis continues

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 20, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  throughlines some things never change (but thankfully, only some)

  

  helloooooooo blogosphere! so i wasn't planning on posting this week ... reading everyone's blogs has brought me so much joy, and i'm sitting here on ... incredible[/caption] i'm here in Southampton on grad studenting business. it

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Summer

  a year of counting fish the shape of real work

  

  , and I would pick one and work on it. With the endless opportunities and ... my mind theory and impact existed on two sides of an impenetrable ... . By a strange twist of fate, in my junior year I found myself working on

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 11, 2024