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• Blog / MIT Life

  A Week in the Life: Optimism Edition In which I have a particularly tough, enriching week.

  

  (Fundamentals of Energy in Buildings) that morning. After the review I had but ... on time Tuesday morning, so I can't tell you about the tour of Boston ... agreed to this plan. The first night, I cried. Right now I feel okay. I

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Eletha Flores The awesome Eletha Flores '10.

  

  Herbert Flowers High School and the Class of 2006 valedictorian, is the recipient of the Hispanic Heritage Foundation's Gold Medallion 2006 award for engineering and math. Flores will enter the Massachusetts Institute of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview (the EC edition!) in which you receive advice and an alum surreptitiously gets to blog again

  

  , based on the stat counters at the bottom, has probably been of help to a ... side of the table, having done some 16-odd interviews for MIT these last ... First of all, I want to say that I do 90% Skype interviews, and 10% in

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  had i known how to save a life on self-care

  

  content warning: multiple mentions of suicide.     the friday before the last one, i received some bad news. one of my close ... ever since. the past week and a half has been truly bad. and a lot of it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 17, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back From Paternity Leave I'm back! A few words on the Harvard Admissions Institute and such.

  

  Howdy folks, First of all, thanks so much for the phenomenal advice ... (the out-of-towners are exploring Boston) so I'm taking a minute to say ... hours a day? When I get back, I'll give you the play-by-play of each day

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 22, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  perception but who *are* you?

  

  along the lines of “Oh, economists don’t really study that, we study…” or ... have of the quality of the work done under his or her direction. Even ... possible image of his or her research group be projected to the outside world

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 18, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  my application essays try not to cringe

  

  sadly still 5'2". That's 157 cm, for the 95.7% of humans who don't reside ... ripening. The sky is full-bellied with sunshine. Still, we're on the verge of ... again. Of course, this is only one approach to the essays. The most

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 27, 2019
• Blog / MISTI

  Lost and Found I've been here for almost two weeks, and been lost at least half of that…

  

  to ask directions, to the first person I saw in the midst of this ... flights of stairs from the subway, then looked at my map and declared, "I ... walked. Twenty minutes to the left of the station in the eighty

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 12, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer & the Coming Commencement stuff and things.

  

  way back when and I'd found myself an MIT student for the first time and ... introduced as a senior at MIT. Yikes. Of course, all the actual seniors are ... forward to waking up at 6:30am on friday. I'm stationed left of the stage

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  7 Reasons MIT Is Special reflecting on the Institute at the end of four years

  

  time, checking out of the room, walking the stage to shake hands with ... and lacks the permanent feeling of a full-time job offer. Right now, I ... dorm showers—their water pressure, the speed of them heating up. It hit

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 15, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  I moved to Maine just a wisconsin girl in an east coast world

  

  embarking on the ridiculous quest of acquiring these resources. First, we ... HELLO. So the last three weeks of my life have been absolutely ... apocalypse vibes) Driven 24+ hours and 1000+ miles over the course of three

  • by Powers '23
  • March 29, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  ADMIT ME PLZ? filling out the app. for some reason it's a lot easier this time

  

  , that's a lot of capitalized words. During the four years I spent at MIT ... just took The Biggest Exam of My Life Part 2 of 4 (9 hours long!), and ... of the above) Q2. We know you lead a busy life, full of activities

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m a pedestrian! I’m a motorist! Pedestrian! Motorist! Read on, my children, and you shall see of our midnight ride to IHOP.

  

  year in college." --New England proverb A prize goes to the first person to identify the source of this wisdom. Ruth, you're not allowed to play ... . ----------------------------------------------- I'm not usually the kind of person who wonders what fun tastes like

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 14, 2005
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Fixing a trapeze! then hanging upside-down on it

  

  swung around and spun each other very fast. The tire swing reminded me of ... air. Trapeze has a really satisfying learning curve the first few months ... . After a late night of work, the trapeze is finally flight-ready!  

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 29, 2020
• FAQ / First-year application

  Does MIT offer conditional admissions?

  MIT doesn't offer any special or conditional admissions. All first-year applicants fill out the same undergraduate application and meet the same testing requirements.
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Take Off Gate '21 Calling for Departure

  

  the plethora of information that has made its way into the gentle folds ... last but not least: the abundance of information that is shared with all ... flying at an altitude of 141 feet at the ground speed of 3.1 miles per hour

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 6, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  This Post Has a Happy Ending dealing with obstacles @ MIT

  

  the next day I could do it no more. Spurts of productivity came at ... to doubt the days of hazy exhaustion could end. Then I got a 20% on my first MIT math exam. On the same day, both my math professors brought up

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 30, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Standing Out [by C/3C Christopher Benson, '10] Before AFROTC, this abstract concept of "leadership" seemed very generic...

  

  the chance to fly faster than the speed of sound, pull more Gs than any ... and exciting life. When I first signed up for ROTC, I thought of it ... all of the "leadership positions" that I had held in high school. After

  • by ROTC
  • January 3, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Africans@MIT: Cassava Connection Part 1 of a series, starring a man, a plan, and a root vegetable.

  

  challenge of obligation. I invited members of the EESA (Ethiopian ... of the people I refer to as “international”, though, have a very ... the U.S. and some other places, of taking history as Facts with a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Rats ! Foiled Again !

  

  difficulty trusting people. I’m spending the first half of Spring Break in New ... reasons that this particular mistake happened, including the eclipse of ... , staring at the soft eggshell paint of my ceiling and pondering my exam

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • April 3, 2025