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• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.

  

  also got Facebook accounts for the first time. OK, enough about pre-2007 ... been waiting for? Bryan’s life after the blogs Big secret: I actually ... ice cream maker. As for what I’m up to right now: I am packing up that

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  A Half-Century Retrospective Revisiting the MIT Application from the 1972–1973 admissions cycle

  

  , I stumbled into some accidental admissions archeology. For nearly a ... -ever admissions officer, Dr. James Libby Tryon.'] for as long as there had been an ... ="79491" /] The MIT Application for Admission from Secondary School Introduction Set

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fig. 6: Eigenverantwortung The time of my life. What responsibilities?

  

  ;individual responsibility"—served as a preemptive warning for us to get our sh ... for kicks, let's revisit Junior Fall for a sec, and see how all that ... . Make a spreadsheet first, of course.      Submit

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • August 28, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  , Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays. On Wednesdays, I may drop in for office ... frustrating, for I still haven’t found the optimal waiting spot on the platform to minimize exit time upon arrival. Always room for experimentation

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Riri Williams Pi Day Video Behind the scenes of an extraordinary three minutes!

  

  sat down in an office in MIT Admissions. “For the spring admissions video,” he said, “I basically want to make a two-minute trailer for the ... all saw posted on Tuesday. For those of you that aren’t Xtreme Nerds

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  staying with Exelon for a while and making a rapid climb of the corporate ... family of MIT to be famous for how we treat people: famous for sympathy ... are tentatively up to for the next five years, what they are excited for

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

  A Night at the Office A bit longer than I expected.

  

  website. 4:15am: For luckily only the second time this term, I didn't have ... As a news editor for The Tech, every couple weeks, I have the ... for quite some time, so people know when to show up in the office, no

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  . Splash, for example, happens for one weekend every November, and it's aimed ... anything. Just check the course catalog for Splash 2019, with classes like ... one-weekend program in March, but it's for middle schoolers instead

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 2 The median of an introductory trilogy

  

  Things took a turn for the worse. Quickly. Very quickly. -- August ... the indignant rumble of my ungrateful stomach, which was screaming for ... four huge airport-bound bags…and then it happened. I heard it. For a long

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  In the Realm of Giants imposter syndrome with a senior year twist

  

  together. Whether you’ve decided to try to find a job, or apply for graduate ... likely have to submit some sort of documents trying to convince the people in charge that you’re not just great, but also necessary. For some, of

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Distraction News Your internet connection is unstable

  

  eats any and all food, including the special food my mom buys for Dog 3 ... secretly snuffles around on the floor for food the same way Dog 4 does, and ... flurry for Humans 4 and 5 in the house unless we have taken antihistamines

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 31, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  What I Did in High School in the actual sense of the phrase

  

  compare the two for fun. But anyway! During high school, I: Didn ... was to get service hours to qualify for National Honor Society come our ... ’t understand. It took a bit of time for me to start working as hard as I did in

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Long Road to Happiness Stuff no one likes to talk about...

  

  I’ve been meaning to write this blog post for a while, maybe since ... , sometimes I think I won’t ever eat again for three days (which is obviously ... vague impressions of being horribly, horribly sad. For this blog post, I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 22, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  demons on depression

  

  this and asexuality a few months ago. I've known for a while now that I ... asexual people describe. For example, not really wanting to have sex, aside ... interesting detail. For fourteen years, the author didn't realize they had

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 28, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me

  

  One of this year’s admits asked me how MIT sets you up for grad ... it, here’s my probably-more-comprehensive-than-you-were-looking-for ... again Is it better to go to MIT for undergrad or grad school? Important

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  speeches word for word and designs are on our beautiful website (made ... enough seats next to each other for all of us. And when we finally sat down ... Bezel is a tradition (I'm not sure for how long, but at least since the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  “You are capable of more than you know.” Reflections from six MIT transfer students

  

  -traditional” route (for example, opting to put their education on pause to compete in ... edited for clarity. Here are the basic details for each of the six ... India and spent a lot of time preparing for the JEEs, an Indian

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 13, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  wear once — over my running shorts. I'll sit and stretch for awhile, and ... look around for my mom and dad, who always try to see me off; last year ... MIT as a staff member for a few years, knew my way around the Institute

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself on choosing a college, and realizing one of many possible futures

  

  for all four years (they don't), or whether MIT students ever study ... weaknesses. He knew he could do well at either. The problem, for Sam, was not finding the right answer: the problem, for Sam, and for many students like

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  the details, but the memory feels like this: I click the "submit" button ... , like missing the forest for the trees, like looking at the sky and seeing ... measurement. How many frosh stopped by your booth? How many frosh signed up for

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022