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• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, decisions Now that you've been accepted to college, you have to decide where you'll spend the…

  

  is really like. You’ll get to stay in a college dorm, go to college ... told you that MIT is filled with nerds who are ultra-competitive and just ... problems/misconceptions one by one: Misconception #1: MIT is filled with

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 4, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Lovin’ Had me a blast. Or, the last post I'll write from home!

  

  Melis's, is actually pretty helpful, although I'm not planning on buying half of the things on it until I get to Cambridge since most of it is ... school yearbook is pretty much an encyclopedia, meaning it's fairly

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The interview life Recruiting for MIT on the west coast, plus answering questions.

  

  a little more about the process that is consuming my life. Grad ... process, which is quite a bit different at the grad level than at the ... , cause I haven't answered any recently: 1. Phil asked, Is it really

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Eighth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 5PM on 01/24/06.

  

  on the SAT writing section debate, if there really is a debate, but ... of a sudden a big optional means that an 800 or 790 or whatever is not ... 800, is it really fair that that is not even given a consideration? To

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 24, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  The most wonderful time of the year No, not Christmas... IAP!

  

  stuff is going on, and all my friends at other schools are going to class ... , required to take 8 PE points. A PE class, which meets for about a month, is worth 2 points; participating in a varsity sport is worth 4 points. (We

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 11, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Song of Myself All we need is music (sweet music).

  

  've heard that Bartok Concerto for Orchestra is absolutely awesome - I haven ... . With regards to Beethoven, his late stuff is pretty awesome (with some ... 't see the genius in that one yet). Anyway, how is the music department at

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’re 18, But You Aren’t Invincible Impressions of my first month at MIT -- both sobering and exciting.

  

  yet. College is supposed to be about freedom. Discovering yourself is ... great thing about MIT is the incredible amount of personal choice you are given. Mildly disappointing is how some choose to take advantage of it

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 1, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Somebody Else Seven undergrad blogs not enough for you? Now some of them have multiple authors.

  

  And now for something completely different. Sam is allowing me (Ruth ... continuing to tell the world that Political Science at MIT is ranked 10th in ... the student's pay for community service-type jobs. This is important for

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Beyond the Iron Cur…I mean, Mass Ave

  

  dorms (keep in mind there is also a residence hall called East Campus, which is a specific dorm which falls under the umbrella category of East ... East Campus denizens. So I've thought about this a lot. West Campus is

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hail to the king, baby. The coolest thing that never happened to me... plus, the journey back Boston way.

  

  Campbell is, right? From "Xena: Warrior Princess?" (my favorite television ... Corner Theater?! I seriously don't think you get how exciting this is. I ... was in town (and she is the one of the biggest Xena fans in all recorded

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 22, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  42 Recipes for Surviving Freshman Year (Part 2)

  

  This is the more hardcore half or so of the 42 recipes. Most of these ... fruit. Hopefully we’ll find an alternative. Here is the recipe I adapted ... the waffles to eat. One wonderful thing about slow cookers is that meat

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 3, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I DECLARE BANKRUPTCY!! and also my major and also indecision

  

  This coming Tuesday, the major declaration form is due for freshmen. What follows is the very long and detailed crisis I had in picking my ... to go from general physics to anything astronomy-applied is far to

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 20, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [Live Writing] MARC 2024 A big meeting about small things

  

    January 23, 5:00 pm Today is the first day of MARC 2024 (the ... this year! MARC is two days of very bright people from MIT (Makers of ... about these ideas, but such is life when I can only use the top ten

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 23, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  like a freight train a schedule post

  

  concept is introduced, and the cycle starts again. This class is making ... switch lanes or else you miss your exit. In contrast, 18.02 is a rural ... somewhat excited for this class. This is a seminar class with discussions

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 19, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  My Rejection Resume working up the courage to look failure in the eye

  

  actually getting an internship or a job. But as somebody who is now removed ... school. That's totally okay. In fact, the point of this post is mostly to ... is an honest-to-god life skill. Those of you who applied to MIT had to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 12, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to CPW: Logistics and Planning packing, housing, strategy, and events

  

  Class of 2020 (<3), now with fewer minions memes. CPW 2018 is next ... matches visitors to hosts definitely works. Now, for us, CPW is a familiar event. The excitement of the new Class exploring MIT is extremely

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Pulsar Discoveries How to discover a pulsar.

  

  day, which she analyzed by hand, because she was (and is) a beast. A ... is signal from sources a) here on Earth, that interfere with what ... telescope in West Virginia (where my data is collected) is a National Dark

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Pythagorean Triple of Awesome Otherwise known as the weekend of the 4th of July. Just another long weekend in…

  

  , I’m UROPing in the Doyle lab in the basement of building 66 (which is ... least once a week, and my life is awesome. Case in point. During the ... required to get across the bridge, even if you take Saferide, is sometimes

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • July 18, 2010
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining As it stands now

  

  This is another one of those entries that's going to make admissions cringe when they see the title. Dining is the current hot topic at MIT for ... short of it is that there are very few people on campus who can grasp

  • by Snively '11
  • January 2, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Choosing a Major I hope this is helpful to you at some point

  

  harder than others and omg my friend says this class is impossible and don ... address the topic in a proper way. First, some questions. Is Physics major ... makes up ~7% of the class each year. Is that a lot? That's hard to say

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 18, 2007