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• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, decisions Yikes! It's been a month since I last wrote to you guys. In the intervening…

  

  on the Financial Aid website, and one of the most impressive is this ... ending!) Anyway, the best advice I have for you is to get really excited about your other options (because really, college is exciting no matter

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 19, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  on success, meaning, and time existential musings about big questions with no answers

  

  he is as a person (see NPR, TIME, and his own website, for starters ... This post is a culmination of many things that I’ve been thinking ... about these things is not by forcing myself to think of them — they

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 15, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Nisha’s Video Game Review cloud is judging me for this

  

  that sort of analysis is too rigorous for this blog post, and also too rigorous for my burned out summer brain. I guess what I'm trying to say is I ... a person is not knowing how to separate work and life. During school

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 29, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  seven questions with youtubers the mit side of youtube

  

  seek experiences that will make you grow! Jocelyn Luizzi: My channel is ... . Occasionally I would receive emails through my website from people who were ... hard it is to grow a channel until you start. Then suddenly, you see

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 14, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.2050 – Field Programmable Gate Awesomeness Featuring my “aggressive and weird” cat robot

  

  design a CPU from scratch. 6.2050 is like 6.1910 but much more hands-on and ... everything in 6.2050 is built into physical hardware. Plus, my advisor ... engineering is highly sought after in all sorts of industries, from chip design

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 21, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Unwinding how i destress

  

  destress! Also, this is actually just an excuse for me to talk about the ... bit late to the OfflineTV train. OfflineTV is a group of content ... scripted every big moment is. Every celebrity encounter or tweet sounds a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT’s COVID-19 precautions and their impact on admissions relevant news and next steps (updated 4/14); new blog posts below 👇🏼

  

  best way to learn about MIT, we humbly submit, is our website ... answer is no, you are not required to take AP exams for classes in which ... should know is that MIT has always awarded relatively limited credit for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 6, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice for the Incoming Froshies You've accepted your offer to MIT! Now what?

  

  !! There is an awesome Mark Twain quote on the FPOP website: "Twenty Years ... you is incredible, and I am so excited to see your happy faces light up ... thing on your plate right now is figuring out when to take the Freshman

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 13, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  “what if I get rejected” for everyone nervous about admissions decisions

  

  time to figure out their admission status. Essentially, nausea is in the ... true. This is how I got rejected from my "dream school", and how I got ... it is). It’s not as if I didn’t want to go to Stanford initially, but

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • November 13, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  6.115 Microcomputer Lab! literally the coolest class i've taken so far

  

  needed a lab class to fulfill a course 6-9 requirement. 6.115 is known as ... this later ;-;"]hell[/annotation] too — to quote Bianca '24, "why is ... lecture wondering, what even is a microcontroller (or microcomputer)? When

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 16, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Fighting Indifference MIT and MLK day

  

  religious ceremonies, different in that the population of the former is ... a mild indifference, which is more or less how I’ve started out most ... continents besides this one. It is difficult, now that I have been handed all

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 16, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Richard III: Behind-the-scenes [by Grace Kane '11, Guest Blogger] What does it take to put on Shakespeare at…

  

  seem, MIT has a thriving student theater scene. Though MIT theater is not ... -league counterpart, there is still a contingent of incredibly talented, committed ... to today. My goal is to direct a show that gives both the actors and

  • by ARTalk
  • March 11, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  busy semesters and how to manage them it's organizational structures all the way down

  

  organize things, though, I ought to describe what is being organized. What I'm Doing This Semester The gist of it is that, compared to last semester, I ... ): This class is notoriously difficult, having previously been described on

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • March 10, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Memory Quilt insert many sobbing emojis here

  

  picture when I get it!"]when I actually get my hands on it[/annotation] is ... unironically. Thankfully, it is finally at rest, never to be worn again. [caption id="attachment_61518" align="aligncenter" width="600"] it is so

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 27, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  1 Week of Meals for $8: How-To’s and Tricks Tackling Food Insecurity

  

  between classes and everything else, it is a challenging skill to go buy ... .  CASE's overall mission is to improve MIT's community awareness of class disparities ... .  Through a no-questions-asked s^3 meeting, one is provided a number of swipes

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • May 2, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advanced Standing Exams: know your stuff, get out of a semester-long class! You should really consider taking them.

  

  , the answer is no. MIT gives really remarkably, disappointingly horrible ... there’s no way to wiggle out of your eight HASS subjects.) This is all ... is not quite like a placement test because it doesn’t let you skip

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • May 24, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Every song I’ve referenced in my admissions blog posts

  

  substitutions to some songs not on Spotify. Stats This is my 173rd post, so ... most is fun. – At Least I'm Not As Sad (As I Used to Be), which is ... . The artist represented most is fun., which again shouldn't be a surprise

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 15, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Africans@MIT: Blockchain and the Niger Delta Creating a system for accountability

  

  Hassan, Sela, and the Niger Delta Hassan K. ‘17 is my friend and ... , Hassan (who is from the Ivory Coast) was always highly active in the Muslim ... you to see how strong the connection is in Nigeria!” he told me, and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Seventh Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 4PM on 01/09/06.

  

  collegeboard website says 3-5 weeks, I'm guessing this is just for the letter ... email address is. If your question is a general one, I prefer that you ... question is very specific to your case, you may email me at benjones at the

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  looking at old journals gap year chronicles, ft thoughts on science, art, and moving through the world

  

  . # When it comes to pen and paper of any sort, imposing order is a fruitless ... image1="71252" image2="71250" image3="71254" /] this entry is from the ... -thrumming panic I'm gone and I'm gone and I'm gone.   Flagstaff is lovely, I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 23, 2022