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• Blog / Admissions

  Summer Lovin’ Tell me more, tell me more!

  

  visited MIT) and JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratory). By the way, the stars at ... summer? To be honest, I was really conflicted inside during Summer 2005. I wanted to go to another program in the States, but I was rejected by the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Read This! All those questions you needed answeredvar gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");document.write(unescape("%3Cscript…

  

  That title is just a lazy excuse for not being able to come up with a ... 'm writing this from the train on the way to work. Please heed my advice: When ... comments on an entry the comment is e-mailed to us, this way we get to see

  • by Snively '11
  • June 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  I Suppose It Was Inevitable That We Have An Office Instagram a list of some other places you can find the blogs (and the bloggers)

  

  other way than navigating to or searching for MITAdmissions.org. Of course ...  Instagram now. The account is curated primarily by my colleague Holly, who will be ... they would be happy to let prospective students see their lives through

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 10, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Why Leadership? (guest post) Inclusive leadership and vision-building at LeaderShape 2018.

  

  , allowing us to be authentic, vulnerable, and real. Whether it’s motivated by ... Shape program. As a student—at MIT or anywhere else—it can be easy to lose ... come true. “You have no right to be shy, when you have a gift to give

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 21, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Meant to Be What I've found at MIT

  

  's start off with a quick biology question:Q: What's the best way to entice ... because you know they'll be helpful to you one day in the future, but you ... ball in the halls These are the moments when I know I was meant to be

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • September 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Slam Dunked Long crazy week...a few necessary lessons

  

  on the p-set, but there seemed to be a dispirited laziness in the way I ... , a sort of climax emerged. I was on the path to being part of Nigeria ... mumbled wearily to him. “I’ll be fine…just a little more time…trying to

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 4, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Writing an essay using thumb tacks and arousing the suspicions of a snarky Nobel laureate

  

  final paper (due Thursday) is meant to be 2000 words; the idea was to make ... essay, pin them to the clothes line, and construct his essay by physically lining them up.  "Of course, you won't be able to do that, because it would

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 5, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  to now and forever

  

  happy to be talking to him again. Then, we made our way to Fort Mason to ... somber, Kenneth mentioned to me that I seemed to be doing well. That I had really grown up. "I feel like in high school you really used to be the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 15, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  IAP thoughts two weeks late, but with an illustration!

  

  architect be placed in a particular climate change context? Is there a way to ... quickly gave up on the ASE’s, figuring I would be better off just taking the ... -internship. I’ll be honest, I applied to this on a bit of a whim. I was sitting in

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 15, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The coolest spring break ever? Visit a College Campus!

  quick Google Search before asking questions that can be easily answered ... simply getting into a college; your goal should be to graduate. And quite ... that there are so many challenges to graduating, I believe one way

  • by DJ Rock
  • February 26, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  I did not graduate on time

  

  everything going on that semester, I had to be a good student. I negotiated ... bed, and being challenged not as much by psets as by the prospect of a ... still be a non-graduate, to not know if I could graduate.  I registered

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 13, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Trp

  

  nothing to do with MIT, but I was searching for info on Ryan Cabrera ... , and has heated the surrounding sidewalks up to a temperature of 138 deg ... is moving quickly! All of this is good news for those of you excited

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2004
• Blog / Events

  Digital Anxieties: A Conversation with Bo Burnham and Jonny Sun i cried for ten minutes after watching eighth grade

  

  , nothing quite clicked immediately. After a quick Google search, I was almost ... Jonny and also really needed to pee and by the time I got back the movie ... might not matter...I got to matter in the spectacular way I wanted to and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 28, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Guest Post: Being Trans at MIT

  

  post is brought to you by two trans MIT students, with quotes from our ... discover who you are and who you want to be. As it turns out, MIT and Boston ... and gender presentation. I found MIT to be an incredibly supportive and

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Never Calculate without Already Knowing the Answer!” xTalk about the "Art of Insight" by Prof Sanjoy Mahajan

  

  problem is way off. Despite the complexity, it fails to provide a reasonable ... : making search space much more tractable by expanding it. EXAMPLE #2 ... ’s consider the proper mathematical way of solving the problem first. To do this

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 1, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Collective Apprehension Seems like my last entry freaked everyone out. No worries guys! You can do it!…

  

  So, a quick recap of my week before I launch into repsonses to the ... , people kind of freak out. So they want us EMTs to be familiar with the facility and to be able to properly deal with radioactive contamination

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  Am I rural or small-town? Read on to learn about what a taco bell index is

  

  . Answering that question without more information can be reductive to your ... long it takes most of your neighbors to drive to work. While they can be ... . They’re mindsets, a way of thinking creatively that adds to the classroom

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • May 19, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A (Not At All) Comprehensive Guide to Your First Year what i've learned as an associate advisor

  

  your way through MIT.  Note that your hardship doesn't have to be some ... found helpful and I thought it would be even more helpful to make this information accessible and listed somewhere. It's hard to be all

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 10, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  breathing in and out

  

  campus feels as if it is being brought back to life, as if it is having the ... ’ll be great. and then i went to et, one of mit’s independent living ... /01/12/asia/gallery/taal-volcano-eruption/index.html[/caption] volcanic

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 12, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Talking about a difficult subject Answering an FAQ.

  

  medication reminders, to engage troubled students in a way they feel ... highest suicide rate? The answer to that question is: No, this is not true ... . Most people who come to MIT are happy, well-adjusted people, and leave

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2010