Search

Search Results

• Blog / Academics & Research

  Schedules are up!

  

  't think it counts as my favorite day of term.) I know for sure that I'll be ... evaluations. I'll also be taking 5.60 (Thermodynamics and Kinetics), because it ... website, and I did not like what I read. There seems to be a lot of writing

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  As The Saying About Assumptions Goes… Assume = Ass + U + Me.

  

  . First, an applicant should never assume something to be true about a ... . Obviously this person wasn't admitted to MIT for being good at daydreaming ... quite clear that he'd assumed my admit to be some rich private school kid

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Summertime I am often asked what we admissions officers do during the summer. Frequently, people assume…

  

  of work to be done. So, you may ask, what are we up to right now ... staff will be visiting 70 US cities this September and October, from ... conference for New England, and we'll be attending some other conferences in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Majors

  

  different options. As early as CPW (less than a week from now!), there will be ... ), there will be an Academic Fair with representatives from all of the ... term, even more events will be held to help you choose your major. During

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 2, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The ratio of people to cake is too big.

  

  officers are expected not to come into the office (where there can be ... also very hard). A few questions to be answered... From NY asks, "As ... . I was wondering if my login account would still be available for use

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 13, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  A sporting chance

  

  to participate in college. But I still wanted to be active, and my dorm ... ... The sign-up sheets for the teams would be in the lobby of the dorm, and ... . And whenever we had an IM game, it would be announced to the entire dorm

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 22, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Schools of dreams

  

  ask what was wrong, and usually the answer would be that there was ... need to be open to the, too. A lot of times, they aren't." Behind him ... York at Stony Brook on Long Island, NY. I chose this to be the first

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 17, 2004
• Blog / Life after MIT

  If I ever come back on being away from mit

  

  , said I wasn't ready Didn't think it'd be this heavy, let me Explain ... leave MIT because it will be better for me? Am I ignoring why I chose MIT ... becoming a better programmer was. Now a pessimistic brain might be thinking

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 12, 2024
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 4) notes from the last day

  

  running two hours behind, although if the Amtrak schedule is to be believed ... delay are unknown to me, but I did remember waking up once and being ... be going through those mountains soon enough.   Other than that

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 14, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Room Where It Happens my two year tale of student governance, up until the bitter end

  

  dormitory; we celebrated 100 years of being open just last October. Senior ... stone clad courtyard it still feels like home. And it will always be my ... . She had talked about going kayaking and having a cat and being Senior

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • July 13, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Wisdom of Khan revealed the MIT secret

  

  honor to be here at MIT. Not only did I spend some of the best years of my ... potential to be, MIT's rationale for it was even more powerful. MIT was ... . I had no idea then that my own life-adventure would be so closely

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  How I got recruited to play D3 soccer at MIT the college sports recruiting process

  

  The college recruiting process can be a confusing world to maneuver ... definitely intimidating and tiring at times, ended up being a great decision ... between 2018 and 2021, so keep in mind that some of my experience may be

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 16, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  summertime! and the livin's easy?

  

  sent out to my friends, I thought: oh! this would be a cute blog so that ... burning sun will, some day, rise So what am I gonna be doin' for a while ... being on my own two feet. Having my own place and car. My schedule is

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • July 15, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  I Can Talk to Anyone perseverating with caution

  

  time of the semester when [insert vague statement about being hosed].” I ... , and the conversation carries on. If the rules of the game aren’t being ... . Though most people’s conversations are only small talk, so this tends to be

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 13, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  every class i went to during the first week of fall all *checks notes* twelve of them

  

  semester, I'm not sure I want it to be this one. #2: 6.3900, Machine ... remember. I don't know if this class will ever be that exciting to me ... course is supposed to be a lot of time and effort, but I think it's worth

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 11, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  motivation musings as i look back on the year

  

  else to do it right that second. It took about a month for it to be ... trip was intended as a way of relaxation and meditation; a time to be ... settling?"]just being happy with where you’re at. [/annotation] On the other

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 7, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  swatches of MIT collected like paint chips

  

  . But it can be lovely, too.   When I first thought of this blog, it was to have the title You Knew What MIT Would Be, and it was going to be about how you predicted many of the pitfalls of this place. It

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 27, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  dating while asian to love & be loved freely

  

  been white. After all, white people can be from many countries too. His ... in silence when I should have walked out, and I didn’t like being ... girls who hate themselves and wish to be adjacent to whiteness.  You don

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 30, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  head down, marching on highlights of spring semester

  

  From my journal the other night-- It’s 2 am, and I should be asleep ... this some day and remember it all.I expect there’ll be a deluge of blogs ... this break from writing would be the last one I ever made. Maybe I would

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 21, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Virtual Fall, Real Performances coming soon to a zoom very near you!

  

  NpReCeDeNtEd times and therefore our events must also be uNpReCeDeNtEd. So without ... have the equipment they need to record. Because the play will be pre ... perform, so that they'll be able to record video as well as audio. Their

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 4, 2020