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• Blog / Classes

  semester 4, take 2 positivity edition!

  

  forced to was great; I love linguistics and I love children, so of course I ... me: is this my fourth semester? can you explain that to me? my mom: nope. can someone explain to me the passage of time? how to avoid

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 23, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  books I’ve read this year slowly but surely completing my 2020 resolutions

  

  website if you want to check it out. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini ... : I got this book as a birthday gift, and my instinctive reaction to it was negative, which was incredibly rude to the kind person who gave me

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • November 19, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST Robotics and Alumna-hood I miss my team.

  

   won an £11,000 grant from Google Rise to start new FIRST LegoLeague teams ... now at MIT - encouraged me to. From what I remember, there were about ten students on the team that season; we traveled to New York for the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Second Day of Class Course shopping and such.

  

  Google Calendar. It is slightly amusing to see fellow classmates toting multicolored, multi-ringed, colorful planning books complete with enough pens to ... classmate next to me opened up her Google Calendar (complete with tabbed

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 10, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What’s new? Life in Radiohead's hometown

  

  ’t want my last entry on the MIT Admissions website to be about the Z Center ... MIT, or should I say my hiatus from MIT (I will be returning to the joint Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology program to get an MD

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 2, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  More Updates from Cambridge It's CPW 24/7 here. We can't wait to see you.

  

  the website as a PDF. You can fax it to 617-253-4076. If we don't get it ... here as we prepare for nearly two-thirds of the admitted class of 2011 to ... . Must be seen to be believed. Two independently conceived Mooninite

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 10, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fight Fire With Fire How is MIT so hard?

  

  ;   This is a really good question, because it forced me to think and ... the homework, the pace is forced to be slow enough that you can still ... people to buckle under the pressure. I’ve adapted the response I created

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2015
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  tuesday another blog about an ordinary day

  

  8:00 AM wake up. check my clock and go back to sleep. 9:00 AM actually wake up. i take a shower, stop being naked, and am ready to head out ... warm fifteen minute walk. i tap my id at the elevator and take it to the

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • August 7, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PE classes are…great!? catch me at the 2028 summer olympics

  

  played before, being forced to start with "this is how you hit a ball" was ... -obsessive amount of time to look through the course catalog and major requirements ... possible class schedules for colleges I didn't even apply to. Something about

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 3, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Answering your questions

  

  being challenged and forced to grow. I like the opportunities I have here ... necessary for girls wanting to stay in all-girls dorms to ask for orientation ... to know if you want to stay somewhere that's not so that they can put

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 31, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Is it a video? two assignments from two classes

  

  Before I got to MIT, I had never really made anything. I saw something on the admissions website about a Maker Portfolio and got nervous because I had nothing to put in one of those and thought that maybe they

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 11, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Monday on learning to balance growth and recovery

  

  , as a described in that post, that it's possible to overtrain both body and mind to the point where either/both get injured. That's what happened to me: overuse injuries in my knees and hips that never got any

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Happy Things Yay!

  

  playing Frisbee on Kresge Oval. Spring seems to have arrived at last ... for awhile now. I've learned not to trust Boston weather, it'll probably ... now, though, it's byooootiful. The kind of weather I'd like to ride my

  • by Karen F. '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Does MIT Offer Application Fee Waivers? In a word, yes. Click through for the extended answer.

  

  of philosophy, MIT is committed to the idea of equal access to higher ... to MIT can be a barrier for those of modest financial means or those ... have no real interest in MIT from applying (the ones who do not wish to

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • October 16, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  More entries about buildings and food Same as it ever was. I'm still single, but at least I'm in Belgium.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? According to this article, Malaysia recently made it illegal to name children after "animals, insects, fruit, vegetables or ... , Belgium. Because I was in Brussels, Belgium this weekend. if you happen to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 3, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Mind the Gap (again) About deferring admission for a year, also known as a gap year.

  

  's been in newspapers and on websites from Kentucky.com to San ... when I get a chance, but in the meantime, this is a good time to talk ... year. In the interests of time, I'm going to reprint an entry (edited

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Adam makes a guest appearance Adam's motto: Step one, get it done. Step two, there's always more to do.

  

  Mollie has decided that she doesn't want to write any more "this is how my interview weekend went" entries. So seeing all she has to talk about these days are said weekends she's asked me to write something about

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 14, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hope for the Axolotl: On the Amphibian Extinction Crisis Happy Save the Frogs Day!

  

  , and I encourage you to Google and PubMed for updates (and please post ... Today is the fifth annual Save The Frogs Day, a day to spread ... used to spend this day at my little brother's elementary school with my

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 27, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  it’s getting colder and i’m getting older on fall, friendship, and growing up

  

  friends and remember to message them back and Google Calendar a time to meet ... has abruptly given way to winter. It’s the cold air stinging my airway ... ="course 6 (EECS) has a nice program that allows you to work towards your

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • November 3, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Lot Can Happen in 7 Days

  

  played games, watched virtual reality horror films, and listened to my 12 ... graduate MIT. People were going to start asking me what I was doing after graduation, and I had to pen some sort of answer, even though honestly I still

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 14, 2017