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• Blog / How to Human

  Making The Switch Making the transition from high school to college, Chapter 1

  

  hardest transitions for me were when I came to MIT, it would be the ... and a strong will to learn to say "no" to yourself and others when it is ... individual to individual. If there's one thing that I think can be helpful, I

  • by Bryan
  • March 31, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  Doing well??? Uh, sure... I guess

  

  dropped 9.00. It was interesting, but I wasn't in the mood to write an essay ... nothing. I went back up to Maine and visited my old high school. It was ... 've changed! As for my UROP, my schedule is making it hard to get some hours in

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • April 3, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  A Week in the Life of a Student-Athlete feat. women's soccer & meche

  

  why. I basically used it as an opportunity to roast everyone hehe ... journey of that week, and what it's like to have both a mix of soccer and ... make it to every game and most of the practices to support my team in any

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 31, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [joint post] give us your words you have words. we want your words.

  

  return to a topic over and over again. It is a form whose flexibility ... ,[/annotation]and, for this year, my goal is simply to write as many sestinas as I can ... (I did). While writing it, we decided it would be fun to exchange the words

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A for the Waitlisted Some (hopefully) helpful questions and answers for waitlisted students.

  

  "yield"), we admitted 1554 students. However, it isn't possible to exactly ... students will choose to remain on the waitlist. Can you tell me where I am on ... students from the waitlist. So, it's hard to know how this year will look

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Getting Help @ MIT by Warren K. ’27

  

  can be a little scary. I think it’s especially hard at MIT because it ... folks here aren’t used to failing. The biggest highlight of my first month ... once. It started with an email to my academic advisor, then a phone call

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 17, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Celebrating Defiance @ the Media Lab a prize for responsible, ethical disobedience

  

  art and protest, and it challenges those of us in academia to use our ... scientists who became activists, using rigorous research to investigate the ... talk, but I'll link to one if it arises, and in the meantime, I'll update

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 21, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  This week’s Questions Omnibus

  

  .. Is it possible for me to somehow update my application?" Yes. You can ... replied, "A.M.C., they might not know you by your pseudonym. It's easier to ... material by this week if it was to be considered before the application went

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobody’s Got No Class! I was browsing through the MIT Course Catalog, and thought these classes looked pretty thought-provoking.

  

  tools used in the analysis and appreciation of architecture for its role ... the modern city relate to its social life. Explores six conditions of ... mixed use. Relates these conditions to sociological analyses and debates

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Half Harvard, Half MIT My schedule this term is split down the middle. Like the movie Grindhouse. Or Korea.

  

  and as easy as it is to get there, though, at times it can feel like I ... sort of gotten used to it now, but on the first day everyone was like ... popped, it's been feeling pretty starchy as of late. Going to Harvard as a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / People & Identities

  Quarantine and Social Life trying to maintain some connection

  

  introverted, and my social bandwidth is limited, even more so when it comes to ... socializing a task I had to complete every day. I recognize that phrasing it this way makes it seem like a chore, but I needed a way to hold myself

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 26, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  on mit’s mailing list culture update: tetazoo glounge

  

  can ignore it, or use gmail filters to move those emails to a separate ... email can get sent to. so for example, a list like [email protected] can ... social lists can range from small to large. i know some people have small

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 17, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dreams How MIT has helped me keep a life long promise

  

  that it can be hard to stick with just one. Nevertheless, due to an ... . As time goes on, it is no longer just a question of what you want to be ... in this field, etc. It is no longer a question that can be easily

  • by Ben O. '19
  • August 22, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Shot in the Life I now realize that this is probably a misleading title.

  

  clearly had to share it with everyone we knew, or to preserve that one crazy ... actually using up all the change in your wallet before you can accumulate any ... anticlimactic, but apparently I had needed to take it to show someone some

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • April 16, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  bursting the MIT Bubble when 🅱️ig 🅱️ome Energy gets too real

  

  undergrads can attempt to be functional human beings an environment conducive to trial and error. we can turn in our psets barefoot and then binge ... and beautiful enclave where it's okay to fail at being real adults, a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 17, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Random Post While Reading Apps. Because we need some new posts...

  

  applications - and since we have so many to read, we often find it more efficient to do it at home. That's why I'm here. So, I'm taking a break because ... Wrangler - which I use to take notes about prospective students I'm reading. (And

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • November 7, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Grad school admissions My (limited) insight into the graduate admissions process.

  

  . And it's all free, from the airfare to the hotel to the sunset walk on ... morning at 6:45 AM. (My postdoc at the lab told me I don't have to come in ... a pretty good sign -- it means the department is excited about your

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 20, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  confronting the self i am the captain of my soul

  

  it. i can still do it. i don't have to worry about the future, because ... it'd be a good idea to try to write a blog like this, when you could ... 's an admissions blogger. he has an obligation to post regularly. it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 30, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  MyMIT is live we're ready for you to begin

  

  Good news!  You can now log onto MyMIT to access the application for freshman admission to MIT. Many of you may have received a shiny ... process and it’s not too early to start. You’ll want to do a few

  • by Kris Guay
  • September 4, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Arts Party 2010! [by Ken Haggerty '11] Now that I'm about to graduate, it's time for some fun…

  

  is obscenely large, but I am trying to make good use of it by cooking ... festival, there's even an class you can take to work on one of F ... hopefully we'll get someone to cover it for ARTalk. SIMMONS ARTS INFUSION: I

  • by ARTalk
  • September 27, 2010