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• Blog / Admissions

  Crazy admissions stories A story about craziness from both sides of the college admissions process.

  

  presentation contained the lyrics of "Don't Stand So Close to Me." The song, made ... -school counselors get together, they have plenty of stories to share about encounters ... and asked whether the young man had a chance of being admitted to MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Average The benefits of challenging yourself in high school

  

  of whatever high school that they went to or the best in an activity or ... 't strive to be the best we can be (because some of the people here are ... misconception to make about MIT. As a school, we consist of some amazing, high

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 16, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Discover Exercise and Wellness FPOP a wholesome college experience

  

  benefit of DEW: exposure to MIT athletics. We got several personalized tours ... the absence of them). We also learned that MIT students tend to drink ... Wellness (DEW), was amazing. DEW was nobody's first choice of FPOP, at least

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 21, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Friday morning potpourri in lab How MIT's campus makes me happy to be alive. Also stuff from Adam.

  

  I have a couple of unrelated things to relate today, so I'll put ... MIT campus, and it made me think of my favorite places on campus to sit ... cushy chairs and lots of quiet. I like to take naps there. The rest of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life etc “fine,” “nice,” “good," "quiet"

  

  -intentionally resolving to “nap” a bunch of times, creating a period of essentially no schedule at all, and then trying to fix that by listening to the advice of ... blocks of time I’ve been able to dedicate to uninhibitedly thinking about

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • December 2, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  you can care about things revisiting stoicism

  

  out of your control, so it doesn’t make sense to put too much weight on ... point during the pandemic i was introduced to stoicism. one of its main ... stop wanting to. Not ‘some way to get rid of him’ - but a way to stop

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • July 18, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  tryharding but still not enough

  

  legal and okay amount of classes to take, and it means that my schedule ... doing well in school. It's a lot of free time for me to be a tryhard. For ... . None of it really comes naturally to me, and I have to work my ass off

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • March 20, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Airplane boy strikes again Adam writes about his UROP.

  

  relying on one larger vehicle to do it on its own. The focus of the project ... testing, and it introduced me to a lot of the software that I'm now using in ... expected to contribute more and work with a fair amount of autonomy. This was

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 12, 2006
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  A Summer in DC what i've been up to this summer!

  

  of the school year that I still need to revisit. As Kano mentioned in ... by members of the United States Congress. I've never been to a baseball ... policy.[/annotation] We've been able to learn about a lot of different

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • July 30, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  Holding pattern undergrad | me | graduation

  

  , but still managing to get through the questions with varying degrees of ... !!! Three of my friends/teammates and I drove to Nashville and back during the ... to come back to 40 degrees and rain. A great part of being a senior

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • April 6, 2019
• Blog / How to MIT

  Schedules and expectations The do's and dont's of freshman scheduling, and what to brace yourself for.

  

  !) so here it goes. IТƒфd like to preface this all with the statement of ... started and the endless supply of free food waned, it began to hit me that I ... . It's part of the freshman experience to take the same classes together

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Scary Tails and College Essays Three bad puns, two bloggers, one post.

  

  ! Brought to you by bloggers Canna H. and Am T. and a pair of mouse ears ... . Anyway, the rest of the night saw us to IHOP, with apparently half of MIT ... -cat. ...moving on. Anna: I would like to mention that all of the "rest of the

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 31, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  No Pain, No Gain I wish it weren't so.

  

  and triceps might need to be a larger part of my life - asap!! I was slightly jealous of the other members of my EMT class, none of whom seemed to ... EMTs are some of the kindest people around - close to ten people

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 5, 2010
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  My Favorite Spots in Cambridge/Boston well-trodden and well-hidden alike

  

  Cambridge—there are tons of places to check out. The Gold Star Mothers Park ... gorgeous views of Boston night or day! It's so nice to watch down the marina ... 's a great place to go. There are plenty of nice fields around it with

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 19, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Some Hosed Down Hodgepodge In which I breathe, then return to my business

  

  of which has kept me incredibly busy. To put much of this in context, I ... order to isolate the more notable parts of my MIT experience for the past ... and surgeries on them so that we can move on to the other stages of our

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 23, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Guest Blog: A Guide for the Hopeless and Drenched thoughts from mark '15

  

  to do for the rest of your life. For some, this moment appears ... living up to another’s expectations. No matter the means of inspiration ... but one. You begin to doubt your once powerful feelings of belonging at

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 29, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hit in the Face: A Snively GuestBlog Snively's point of view. Only this time it's actually his point of view, and not…

  

  blogger, but I have to wait for either Laura, Evan, or Jess to move out of ... ’d like to have a contest to win one of two completely useless bits of MIT ... to whoever can most accurately guess the total cost of my text books

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 14, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Famous people who didn’t go to MIT Some people are more successful because they turned down admission to MIT.

  

  measure. He wanted to go to the Art Institute of Atlanta and study cooking ... .R. Hildebrand applied to MIT from a strong public high school in the Bay Area of ... -be-arriving acceptance letters to MIT, Cal and UCLA, and pursue his dream of becoming a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 23, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Houston-area Suburbia kid Makes Trek to MIT Campus Preview Weekend with Mother By: Kevin, '11

  

  I was with the better half of my umbrella that tried to fly away on a quest to Random Hall, where the was word of Truffle-making. When I finally ... more awesome people that spoke less of academia and were willing to

  • by Bryan
  • April 22, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on the question “where are you from?” and the answer: neither here nor there. alternatively, about being a missourian.

  

  to answer and ask the same set of questions: what’s your name? where are you from? what are you thinking of majoring in? It got to the point ... now I've learned to say “I'm thinking 4B and 15-1” so I kind of sound

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • September 30, 2022