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• Blog / Admissions

  Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2) My take on the MIT short essays.

  

  in the merits of the first blog in regards to a long college admissions ... the product of intense cognition, I thought I'd share some of my views ... things first - the "Pleasure" and the "Department" prompts are not really

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  (Bitter)sweet home meeting high school teachers again, and visiting my hometown for (probably) the last time

  

  walked down the halls, there was a good chunk of name tags next to the ... has a giant banner in the lobby with a collection of trophies on a table ... subset of those were a miscellaneous mix of talking about the sanctity of

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT Underwear Exposé (and Sorting Hat) The coolest data you never wanted to have.

  

  dorm in the first place. (In other words, the denominator is the sum of ... A lot of socializing at MIT happens on the dorm mailing lists. One of my favorite mailing lists is Burton-Conner’s, not because of the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On Teaching and Learning Minimum requirement: read the last few sentences of this post. They're important.

  

  When you last heard from me, I had just arrived at The Middle Of ... the most. Each of us is paired up with a Teach For America teacher; my ... shy away from participating for the rest of the semester. Fail to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  10 Things I Learned 1st Semester Yeap.

  

  . Chris used it in the beginning of the year to schedule the first Blogger ... my life. I got my first taste of Indian cuisine this semester, however ... because of the spiciness than anything else. While i had to keep chugging

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 24, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Chose MIT On deciding where to go, now that you're in

  

  maybe the first time in your life, all of your peers will be as smart as ... you will live away from your parents for potentially the first time in ... few days is one of your first big decisions. Some very intelligent

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 29, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choice and the MIT lifestyle ...because "MIT" and "student life" aren't mutually exclusive.

  

  lot of my activities into a few days of the week, so I can enjoy my lazy ... AM, then I'm free for the rest of the day. Now, the last question ... involves goldfish, but for the life of me I have never been able to figure

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Making Connections we live in a society (affectionate)

  

  first day, the two of them were already sitting together, and ... ="EC has two buildings; one is to the west of the other"]west parallel[/annotation]of ... ) rainy today, instead of going outside to get from one parallel to the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  finding place

  

  . I haven't posted in a while. Too long. It's been one of the semesters ... same time, it was a hard semester for me due to all the life changes of ... perspective on MIT; the different scenes, as well as the type of people I want

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • April 7, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Random Hall ‘13s Life plans, advice, and stories from last year’s Random Hall graduates.

  

  the first time, which meant a lot of new logistics to sort out. I got to ... hunt happened in the first quarter of 2014. After a rejection and a few ... of them changed my life in a good way and I’m excited to see the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 20, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An actual day in the life It's not the most exciting day... but it's a day!

  

  'll be sad.) Since the stated purpose of the blogs is to introduce prospectives to a day in the life of an MIT student, I have rather uncreatively ... gets up with the first alarm anyway? 8:24 -- The alarm goes off again. I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Underwater Dreams (from a distance) A reflection on immigration, student activism, and civic engagement at MIT.

  

  questions, then hope. The event was the showing of Underwater Dreams, a ... , every piece of the story. my notes on the flyer... brochure? pamphlet ... before Obama’s executive action on immigration. Of the millions of

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Putting Diversity into Context The diverse ways that colleges and universities define diversity

  

  the dilemma of racial identification on college application forms, with great interest. In my role as the Director of Minority Recruitment, I ... complete the race and ethnicity section of the MIT admission application

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Move Fast And Break Things just make sure you have a net positive of unbreaks

  

  spirit of hacking, the office is bedecked with a variety of posters ... from the University of Waterloo, whose academic program alternates four ... hackathons -- video wall posts, and the 'like' button, to name a couple of

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Entry About Snow ...Even though we don't have any

  

  that yesterday I permanently restructured the shape of my skull when the back of my head slammed on the ground. The ski patroller asked me if I ... snowboarding lesson that would often be able to do things on the first or second

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Note To Self Please don't forget this.

  

  freshman you, preserving five of those lessons in a blog post that the world ... simply hit the limit of my intelligence? Was this as good as it could get ... know how to do, instead of focusing on the ones you know you can’t do

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A (Belated) Letter to July In which I start blogging again with an angsty video

  

  bit of momentum fueling the blogging part of my brain. Here's a transcript of the video for those who might want it (I may have changed a word ... less romantic than it sounds. For the first time in my life, I'm hundreds

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Masquerading as a Liberal Arts Student The life of an MIT student abroad

  

  given me a glimpse into the life of a liberal arts student, a life very different from those we live at MIT. Without the constant stream of problem ... quite the same number of skits, they do encompass many of the same

  • by Becca H. '12
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  We’ve been there, too. It feels like the calm before the storm. Please don't forget to breathe.

  

  that scale in years: the bottom of my gut would drop out, I'd hallow out, my teeth would chatter, and this dread of just wanting the panic to end ... the time senior year of high school rolled around that I wasn't looking

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend

  

  The Flight of the Iguana and First Light, respectively; reading those ... areas of science and deeply resent the idea of having to specialize, and ... MIT. Literally. At the beginning of the semester, when I finally stopped

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012