Search

Search Results

• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bad Ideas Weekend 2019 good times

  

  came up with all sorts of bad ideas that pushed our stomachs, hearts, and ... “The winter has come. The days are dark, cold, and dreary. There is little happiness, and little to look forward to; no hope remains. In this

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 3, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the Bloggers’ Personalities! A post about personality tests, part 2!

  

  evaluations of character or qualification, but a little silliness and ... 've always found that my closest friends are cancers and that our personalities ... personality type, and I think I have a similar personality to her, or at least I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 12, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Praise Of Holistic Admissions not an admissions machine

  

  mean? Why do we have it? And what does it do for our class? When we say ... In last week's blog entry Diversity or Merit? I included the ... sorts of people from all sorts of backgrounds and you learn from each

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  containers to each other, or we were given new containers. And today, dining ... move as much as items as could fit in my luggage, and maybe two or three ... things for when I move, or crying. I pushed these things further and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a freshman year 🦴🧠🩸🖐️🫀 my first year at mit, told through the body

  

  who identified as “teen writers,” and together we sent our writing to ... competitions—Scholastic, Foyle, YoungArts—and, ultimately, shared our admissions ... make a perfect body, or a perfect blog post, and the beginnings do not

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the exclusion of everything else on making decisions, and how i chose mit

  

  he hangs out with. And sometime during our conversation I fall asleep ... ’ll call U, and my return flight to the Philippines had a connection through ... new itinerary leaving on Saturday morning, and I had to spend Friday

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s not fair! ... and why that's OK.

  

  topic of MIT admissions, much has been said by me, and others, about our values and priorities. Maybe we share too much, or are trying too hard to ... Is among the most overused phrases of petulant children, and

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] a space for women at mit by Nandini Choudhury (WXGS Assistant Director)

  

  womanhood, and/or the complexities of gender diversity. Gender is nuanced and ... watched this documentary about the uprise of female faculty at MIT, and it ... lives of female faculty here']The history of women at MIT is long and rich

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • August 12, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  College Shopping List Everybody do the shopping cart!

  

  need, and where you should buy it, and what you should bring from home or ... only a sleeping bag (good for retreats or sleepovers) and had their ... have our on refrigerators if we ever wanted to eat perishables later and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 26, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj

  

  great job, and you can't stop thinking about him or her all the time ... on for dear life and hold our breath. We look out for each other, and ... of the firehose and everything. (Of course, the water was actually from

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT wedding Paper airplanes instead of rice and a reception at a science museum... what's not to…

  

  engineering major named Adam, and we dated for the rest of our years at MIT. In ... drizzly and dreary in Cambridge. Our ceremony started at 4 PM, and the sun ... lie. Our friends had come in from jobs and graduate school all over

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  for a few minutes. 12.52 pm: Caragay and I head out from EC. Our lunch ... at midnight. Oops.) At the end of class, we get our midterms back, and ... put a ton of stress on its internal structure, and cause it to break or

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  so little of us and immediately explains away our failings. You are ... Head over to /r/confession and you'll find this post lurking near the ... 'll reproduce the post here: I'm a senior in high school this year, and will be

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My dorm room’s 24-year history meet 16 former residents of my room

  

  was, and still is, the room of floorpi's Graduate Resident Advisor, or ... , followed by W or E for West and East. I know that Baker, East Campus, Mc ... A, B, or C tower, and I don't know about Maseeh or New Vassar

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 19, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The MIT Major Arcana a collaborative art project

  

  skip 13, 19, and 23. The registrar lists CMS as XXI-CMS, and STS has no ... and Environmental Engineering to 24: Linguistics and Philosophy. There ... correspondences, and got the idea that I should commission art for this! It was my

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s More Than A Job Thoughts On The Eve Of RA Decisions

  

  , and I imagine a lot of our applicants share these sentiments. A million ... shine. (Your grades and scores are clearly competitive or your ... , either you're accepted or you're not. There is no grey area... so they

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hard MIT Class ...or is that redundant? And yes, hiiiiii.

  

  ? Nope. Swim requirement was a thing. And one way or another, I would have ... it. Sure, it was swimming, and we didn’t get grades or scores or rank ... else is paddling that Earth-deep cliché back and forth? Might as well

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  IHTFParadise – A Journey of Depression at MIT Guest entry by Angelina G.

  

  about her depression experience at MIT, and I truly think that she ... me, and that you enjoy the read. ---------------------- It was a rare ... Center holding my name badge and a newly earned certificate and dragged my

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  the Olympic Games and earn medals, or to serve the nation in the U ... Leading our transfer admissions program is one of the greatest joys ... students to the Institute, and each year they surprise and inspire me. The

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

  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  first two or three weeks were easy, and then after that everything changed ... combatting the issues that AI can perpetuate or create (such as racial and gender bias) and use our institutional power to actively resist using AI in

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020