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• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  . If I went to the other school, though, I'd be surrounded by people I ... learned, or at least not learned as well or in the same way, by working at ... start by figuring out what your big-picture goals are, and then attempt to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear My Old Friend, This is quite possibly weirdest way to introduce myself

  

  . There is never enough time to spend with the people you love.  I am your ... , but you’ll grow to. And you’re going to be very satisfied that Mrs. J is ... be older and you will be waving goodbye to your best friend, and you

  • by ana~
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  things that are golden a zine

  

  Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden ... . - The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 25, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  follow the same path to MIT. Colored by the patina of life experience ... liberal arts and technical training to be the best path for me to explore ... the Broad suggested that I apply to MIT for transfer to get more

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 13, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  .     Over and over, I learn that the way I do best is when I ... people were better than me.  By the time I got to MIT, I didn’t have the ... worth as a person to come from the things I’m doing and by extension, I

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Super Blood Moon Eclipse bonnie tyler would be proud

  

  moment was something for the books, for the memories you recount to your ... wonder what she could possibly mean by this. “Huh?” “Well, this is just ... supermoon and a lunar eclipse are scheduled to happen on the same day (night

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  0.125 not a course 0 class, but a fraction complete

  

  , learning how to fail and bounce back from it. This is one of the big reasons ... , it's not going to get any easier. This semester, the key was ... Well, I'm 45.6 smoots of the way across this bridge we call MIT. The

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 4, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] You Have a 50/50 Chance a guest post from my mama

  

  is the best Camille that she can be and I am proud to be Camille's mom ... competitive in the end). I tried to balance this stressful atmosphere by ... .)[/annotation] I try to keep the passage in my mind from The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  parallel universe for those feeling dejected

  

  time; one where you try new things and expand your sense of what is ... shame over a failure that feels misunderstood by others, and an emergence into a slightly parallel universe: one where everything remains the same

  • by Kai V. '25
  • December 19, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  There are no imposters in the Class of 2018 Strength in networks

  

  , getting to know you guys!) You will arrive at MIT at a time when the fight ... the latter. Don't feel the need to impress each other. You're already ... language that anyone could understand: after all, your goal is to connect

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MEng (Masters of Engineering) Learn about the masters plans of Phil '05 and Laura '06.

  

  official MIT website. From Phil, The Course 6 MEng program is an extra year ... GPA by the end of your junior year). Philosophically, the MEng program is geared mostly for people who want to work as engineers in the high

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 13, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Masquerading as a Liberal Arts Student The life of an MIT student abroad

  

  science and anthropology. I have learned new ways to look at the world and ... to the GECD. To try and entice you a different way, I will leave you ... organized chaos that is Hanoi, Vietnam, the last stop on my semester long

  • by Becca H. '12
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  3 weeks in northern Italy Global Teaching Labs and MISTI-Italy

  

  the way we are, and to convince ourselves and everyone that—a nutria or ... wood, and I woke up every morning to the voices of my family and the ... industrial town in the north, I taught debate to high schoolers ranging in age

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Semester 1 fantastic dishes and how to cook them

  

  door, and get a fan to ventilate the whole place unless you want to ... [annotation note="Defined by being able to elicit the strongest preference under ... bonne cuisine est la base du véritable bonheur,” good food is the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 8, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Application dreaming

  

  . You get the point) The best candidates to MIT bring much more to the ... as part of the application to be reviewed? Will it be interpreted as ... technology, about the possibilities for research to improve society, make the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Best Advice I Ever Got Take it or leave it.

  

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 30, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  study spots at MIT not exactly places to cry, but they'll do

  

  embarked on a quest to document the best study spots at MIT. most of these ... those will continue to be gatekept by the student body :)) I tried to find ... 't know the people there...I get distracted too easily by anyone I know

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Guest Entry: Stephanie Lin Presenting MIT's most recent Rhodes Scholar!

  

  to all the people I’ve met along the way. This place has so much ... As promised, an awesome guest entry - written by the wonderful ... next year via the Rhodes Scholarship, and Hamsika asked me to write some

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 12, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Few of my Favorite Things (Counting Blessings) Maybe the most sentimental blog post I’ve written.

  

  summer. The morning after I got here, I woke up to a pile of stuffed ... -it note (it was the second draft, apparently), this: I think it’s safe to ... crowded café or bar. Walking until I get lost and finding myself in the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 6, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mind and hand

  

  theoretical worlds in their heads, and love to know why things work the way they ... 't really know how to apply knowledge. At the engineering extreme, you get the ... club to get off the ground, but maybe in the future... So I am a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 3, 2006