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• Blog / Challenges

  Standing out But what if you come to MIT and you're not the best in the class…

  

  bound up with the concern that not being at the top of the class will ... class, and you have to learn for you, not for the grades. My new ... I would have still felt like I needed to be at the top of the class

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring cleaning and miscellany The Brass Rat club, sending 4-inch heels to Goodwill, and picking a new food-providing graduate…

  

  over to the table where Brit '05, Lara '06, and I were chatting and ... Madden high-heeled shoes that a) I have never worn, and b) I would not be physically capable of walking in, and c) would cause me to be approximately 3

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  tuesday another blog about an ordinary day

  

  but will probably just be confusing to others. it doesn't help that most ... 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 / Admissions

  A few quick answers The skinny.

  

  . ------------------------------------- When will regular action decisions be released? I don't know yet when decisions will be released. Watch the blogs and MyMIT for more information ... international applications, in parallel to the selection of domestic applicants

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 22, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  craze how a blog gets born

  

  pursuits feel like this to me   it's kinda funny being at the whims ... 's not a slow, methodological process   against my will ... itself through me as if it, itself, wants to get out into the world and I

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Not Admitted Early

  

  There were many wonderful applicants to MIT this year, which unfortunately means that we had to turn down some great students. For those of you who fall into this category, this is an open forum for you to talk

  • by Decisions
  • December 15, 2018
• Blog / Events

  This is the end I couldn‘t decide whether to put "They‘re beautiful, aren‘t they? The stars" here, or to…

  

  when I started, and I get to look back at all I've done. Not gonna lie, sometimes it's hard to remember (not because the moments are painful, just ... goal to blog about all the things you would NOT expect to see on an

  • by Snively '11
  • June 19, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  A Maple Peach in Cambridge They have some weird fruit here

  

  those of you who will be freshmen next year. Either way, I can’t wait to ... frequent the blogs would love to stalk learn about one of the new bloggers ... seconds, we’re going to start a brief presentation on the life of Kirsten

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • September 5, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Our FAPnomenol Start of Sophomore Year! where we recount the tale of our first week back on campus

  

  watching a quality piece of cinema: Troll 2, not to be mistaken for the ... were in the elevator on our way down to the steps we said we would be on ... just want to say that we will try our absolute best to provide helpful

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2008: So I think I’ll go to Boston (Guest Entry) More pictures than your body has room for!

  

  !" Mathematician: "If one more person goes into the building, it will be empty!" The ... to MIT, I think this would be one of the first choices. There were some ... had to be the world’s biggest crossword puzzle: The tour ended around

  • by Snively '11
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Associate Advising and the MedLinks Program I'm sick of unpacking, so here's a blog post

  

  student perspective on things like class choices, deciding whether or not to ... would like to let you all know that they are the 23 coolest freshmen on ... is similar to the Associate Advising program, in the sense that it's a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 28, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  seven scenes from Paris a simple story

  

  , all old things returning.) We walked to a boulangerie and ate the best ... ,” I told Uzay, sitting there next to him in the park, breaking off bits of the loaf to share, letting its flakes fall to the ground between us

  • by Kai V. '25
  • March 31, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Quick Update I am busy, this is short.

  

  have taken. I don't think the class is going to be easy, but it starts at ... to 1.5 million things per day. Which is why this entry is short. Sanja ... there, watch some kids and can't do all the cool stuff... Being a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mens et Manus – mainly Manus! Hmm my hands feel itchy...

  

  too much not to enlarge, enshrine, and share it with the world. Well ... later, all you early birds will be free birds! Or you’ll feel above-the ... escapes from the tennis courts to a vast Briggs Field trademarked by the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 29, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Memory down résumé lane Serif or sans-serif?

  

  the night before career fair. The printers will be jammed and all the ... because thousands of your fellow classmates will be doing the same because ... jobs and summer and what I want to do with my life was the last thing on

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • September 20, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  : Gap years need not be a luxury for the rich. Some students use them to ... . Reardon says anyone would be hard-pressed during a gap year to spend the $30,000 or more many of them would be paying for college. I'm not writing to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  West Coast Trip Report some work, some play, lots of nerd stuff

  

  . '12 and Danny B.D. '15 before flying to LAX that night.   Not ... couldn't build it, but I volunteered to provide the vocals, and so proceeded to scream into an iPhone in a bathroom in the Mission so loudly that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 30, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  November summary: books, playlist, gratitude

  

  it's Thanksgiving break. Next week will be absurdly busy, and I am not ... I'm on the train home to Philadelphia. Currently: four women run my ... and not doing many student-life related things because of the time

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 25, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP, CES, and other acronyms I spent my MIT IAP with a CEO at CES in LAS, and now I…

  

  year to exhibit all the cutting-edge tech that will trickle down into ... exhibit floor the minute it opened. I expected CES to be huge, but it ... January is “supposed” to be an off-month for MIT students - a break

  • by Joel G. '18
  • March 9, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Face Book And Study I have been doing all this and more. But mostly not this.

  

  pictures. I imagine most of my pictures for the rest of the summer will be of ... not to take company housing for some reason. When I landed last weekend ... break doing this: Okay, they didn’t actually pay us to goof around the

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • May 30, 2011