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• Blog / About Decisions

  Applying Sideways How to get in to MIT.

  

  on a slant route over the middle. Terrifying? Yes. Required to be ... officers follow the winds to the corners of the country to talk to students ... speak to students or their families, be it on travel or during a campus

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  The Great Wifi Outage of 2007 Burton-Conner's wifi went out two days ago; Evan will tell you more by the end…

  

  shifts on the ambulance, and long hot showers trying to scrub off that Saturday overnight shift on the ambulance, I've barely had any time to ... . I friend mine on Facebook.). So the professor doesn't have to know you

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  cohort[/annotation]to reflect on their experience. I’m sharing the ... students to the Institute, and each year they surprise and inspire me. The ... follow the same path to MIT. Colored by the patina of life experience

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

  Flux and Flow Thermodynamics as therapeutic analogy; or, the longest way I've ever said, "I'm still figuring things…

  

  you to reflect on it if you've ever felt the same way. Let's say that ... difficult concepts and brutal tests. It represented the final hurdle to being med school ready, the last outstanding class I had to take if I ever

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Axes of Confusion ????

  

  , continuing on the course 6 path will generally allow us much less time to take ... a double major because, well, it equates to the units of one major ... opinions, is the epitome of the epitome of using animation to not just tell a

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The end of a chapter

  

  farewell to all my friends. I then flew back to Boston on 20th June and ... :( Studying in Cambridge is a great experience. On the top of my favorite ... focus on biochemistry, molecular and cell biology. Physiology to me, acts

  • by Linh V. '13
  • July 8, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parametric Cooking how i make fifty plus recipes with just three!

  

  length segments, on the XY plane, and then use a Box component to extrude ... more or less depending on your taste. Once the pot has reached a boil ... says on the bag (this can range from 10 minutes to 1 hour, depending on

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 30, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  always count on the fire hose to spray those out with constant velocity ... here. It’s tempting to be nearsighted and to focus on the immediacy of ... Zeta Psi house. Since it was raining lightly, I sprinted to the

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python

  

  maintenance on the text. My agenda created plenty of opportunities for me to ... MIT has brought its own set of failures. It's hard not to get hung up on ... failures are gifts that will lead to successes down the road. [caption id

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Really Just Cannot Write Anymore of My Thesis I wish I can bang out essays like blog entries.

  

  still seems to be around from the batch that got selected with me on that ... thesis took me on research trips to Washington DC (at the National Archives ... . Instead, you are asked to apply that knowledge to new situations on the exam

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Midsemester Night’s Dream Technically an All-Nighter's Dream, but hey, close enough

  

  gradients and force fields that are all starting to blur together, and over on the couch is Reva ‘18, who fell asleep on her laptop keyboard while ... casualties strewn across the furniture. This week is my second-busiest of the

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Home Under the Dome sorority recruitment, tips, and my experience

  

  as someone who was at first hesitant to the idea. Despite the ... and learn more about the process! Intro to Panhel What is Panhel? MIT ... the largest women and non-binary community on campus (making up ⅓ of all

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • August 14, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to date at an American college Things we never talk about

  

  , on the blogs. I am not used to being open about this kind of ... , but it really depends on who you're speaking with). Second, the ... real, unfiltered picture of the information you need to know and real

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Distraction News Your internet connection is unstable

  

  . I am on the couch in the living room right next to the wi-fi router ... cameras on so that the guest lecturer has some human faces to look at while ... little boxes on Zoom and everyone seems so calm and ready to start back up

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 31, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advisor vs. Advisee a '07 and a '21 answer a series of questions

  

  on that it was okay to let this one go on the shelf. We never totally ... at MIT. Why was he responding to this email thread? And why was he on ... . Bryson used to do back in the day: Q&A. In our many conversations, I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  AOs write the “What do you do for fun?” essay Ever wondered what admissions officers do when they're not reading applications?

  

  is what the optimal position is to defend the net. Every time I’m on ... childhood. While I still jam out to the top songs of the 1990s and 2000s on a ... back to my dorm room, sat on the couch, and turned the TV to Cartoon

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Pretender a message to both you and me.

  

  getting in, reducing getting into MIT to a coin flip. On the ride home, I listened to a small playlist of songs I had thrown together for the ride. As ... drove up to MIT for the first time. I had signed up for the Shadow a

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dormspam-the-game (Part 3) parting remarks from no-longer-anonymous gamemasters

  

  accomplishment? Seeing your name on the leaderboard from week to week? There ... build working websites :D And so we moved on to the real thing™. game ... on the public list. Unfortunately, there was no good way to create this

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  went to a second worksession. That night, I helped put up the posters ... organized activities for the parents. Not wanting to take on responsibility ... )[/caption] No ESP work allowed On the week leading up to Splash, my decision to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  16 for the 16’s 16 Guidelines to Making the Most of your CPW

  

  going to go to on the plane ride to CPW, then threw it out after my second ... ; Without further ado:   16 Guidelines to Making the Most of your CPW ... the dining halls, now's a good time to check them out :) Especially

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 18, 2012