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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Life is like a Game Elaborate metaphors from an amateur comic artist

  

  all the references... including a couple cheesy direct nods to MIT ... artists I like, and hoping for the best. So I might try to include a mini ... struggles. For some reason (mostly the fact that I'm a media dork at heart), a

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 7, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  jack of all trades master of none...

  

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • August 24, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fall 2019 Transfer Decisions Are Now Live

  

  application. You will log in using the same email and password used to create ... we could not. As a former transfer student myself (not to MIT), I know ... applied to transfer, and we have admitted 20. And as usual, we are very

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 3, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fall 2018 Transfer Decisions Are Now Live may the 4th be with you

  

  application. You will log in using the same email and password used to create ... competitive: 538 students applied to transfer, and we have admitted 23. And as ... chagrined about those we could not. As a former transfer student myself (not

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 4, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  我没去过北京 在外国出生的孩子的故事

  

  (Read the English version here!)     我没去过北京。我们回中国去的时候，总是去上海、南京、杭州，总是在江苏一带。我记得，我小的时候还能说上海话（我三、四岁的时候，外婆照顾我，我就学了上海话）。 我第一次去中国是四岁的时候。我们到了上海就去我亲戚的家了。我只有一个清楚的记忆：有一天，我阿姨要让我小睡一下。她告诉我，“如果你不睡觉，叔叔会切掉你的鼻子！”。 我还不知道这个记忆是真实的还是来自我的梦，可是我知道以前我就会说上海话，可是现在回想起这个记忆，是英文的。 我小的时候

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 23, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Get psyched, stay with it, do whatever it takes Adam's dad's advice is succint. Mine isn't.

  

  learn at MIT will be how to fail. Okay, one time I said that the most ... the failing gets to be primary. This might sound surprising, since ... have to realize that "something that I did failed" is not the same as "I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 28, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fall 2020 Transfer Decisions Are Now Live may the 4th be with you

  

  application. You will log in using the same email and password used to create ... applied to transfer, and we have admitted 22. And as usual, we are very ... we could not. As a former transfer student myself, I know that this

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 4, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Leaving Massachusetts is the hardest state to draw.

  

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 24, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  CPW Problem: What Can People Wear? CJ pragmatically writes concerning poor weather

  

  (Condensed pre-word: CJ pens without constrained phenomenon within comments. Perhaps written clearer? Proceed warily.) Campus Preview Weekend, commonly pronounced/written “CPW”, progresses. Welcome, current prefrosh, welcome! CPW’s putative weather contraption prevents…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 5, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Failing and perfectionism

  

  , perfectionism bad." The thing is, perfectionism is not the only path to success ... is required for my major, so I had to retake it. I failed not just one ... felt. I really couldn't understand why I was at MIT. The hardest fact to

  • by Jenny B. '25
  • June 12, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 1 Dealing with failure and trying to move past it.

  

  twenty in my high school. I am not used to being at the top nor do I think ... know what I thought was my shining glory, my thing to be proud of, the ... at is English. Being good at failing means not being phased by it, and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 21, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Transfer App Is Live For current college students hoping to enter MIT in the Spring of 2013

  

  reminders: The transfer application deadline is November 15. (There will ... , complete, and mail the MIT Transfer Application to MIT Admissions ... entry in the Fall of 2013. To enter MIT as a transfer student, you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 19, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  June Questions Omnibus 1 Bigfoot asked a few weeks back, "Will you be posting an omnibus soon, Matt?" Yes,…

  

  to be a junior next fall. My schedule for next fall will not have any A ... classes, we cannot expect you to take them. Also, not being in the Intel ... dorms to get a sense and feel of the people their son or daughter will be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 13, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Where WAS I? Honestly? I still don't know.

  

  for why in the time it has taken me to write this new blog entry I have ... circles, particularly the word "blog", so I really wasn't permitted to be ... truth. Yes, folks, I'm about to tell you the truth, and man, is it a doozy

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Collective Apprehension Seems like my last entry freaked everyone out. No worries guys! You can do it!…

  

  , people kind of freak out. So they want us EMTs to be familiar with the ... _ forget it. Not to mention it really _is_ the basis for the beginnings of ... , and transfer to community college. Hopefully not :) but I'm still scared

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Seventh Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 4PM on 01/09/06.

  

  the SATI, on the application, the writing section is said to be 'optional'. Does this mean that it will not be considered as much as the ... post it to my blog so that others will benefit from the answer. If your

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist and transfer: quick update No decisions yet, but some notes & reminders.

  

  not we will use the waitlist this year, and if so how many students we ... students choose to enroll by the May 1 deadline. After that time, we will ... the transfer students we are able to admit. And of course, like in our

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 27, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Like a Polaroid Picture My alleged lack of football fandom triggers an epiphany.

  

  would be the best amount to transfer? Would that be more than 10 вВђ? Can ... that. The only way to avoid the service charge was to transfer money out ... Stimpy. To begin with, a World Cup fan with the fortuitous name of "Go

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  101 questions we’ve asked ourselves at MIT we're all just trying to figure it/life/ourselves out

  

  am discovering who I am and building the person I want to be. I am ... decorate my room? Does this person like me (the person can be referring to ... -campus? Can I afford to move off-campus?  Why are people wearing shorts in the

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • March 27, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  [Guest Post] An Overthinker’s Guide to Finishing Your Transfer Application by Warren K. ’27

  

  face, it might not be the best thing to write about. Introspection can be pretty hard to do. One of the things that helped me think about my ... The fall transfer application deadline is coming up. I tried to

  • by Jeremy W.
  • March 4, 2025