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• Blog / Admissions

  Mini-Guide to CPW KAPOW! GET EXCITED!!!

  

  , many of you may be plagued with logistical travel and planning issues ... more anxious pre-frosh two years ago, so I figured it might be helpful to ... the bag. Ok, not really something you can bring, but be aware that you

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2016
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Thoughts from the Other Side MIT through a different lens

  

  ... who would stay in the library until midnight and be back in the library ... was going to be us after our exams were finished... After all, we only had four weeks of projects. How bad could those be? So we just

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • May 30, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Early Action Updates Some helpful tips for those working on their EA apps.

  

  Naviance/Docufide, the MIT cover sheet would need to be scanned in and then ... documents to us. All teacher letters must be typed or written on official ... school letterhead and not signed by evaluators will not be accepted. Please

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

  Early Action Updates With one week until the deadline, answers to frequently asked questions.

  

  first-class as two words each, and father-in-law would be three. Thus, you ... advice would be to not sweat the small stuff. Everything will work out ... Word into the application, you may lose some formatting. Be particularly

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions…..*sigh* Is (Fill in the Blank) University the right school for me?

  

  . I thought that the conversation might be relevant to you too, so here ... selection process, but it should not be the sole means of selecting a college ... bunch of bills to pay and I don’t really want to be a burden on them. I

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • April 22, 2010
• Blog / How to MIT

  Laptops! It goes on the top of your lap.

  

  , then you won't be at a huge disadvantage with a desktop, but it ... students a discount on all three of these brands, these will be the laptops ... , everyday student. If you're going to be doing basic typing, Mathematica

  • by Snively '11
  • March 22, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Paul’s Top Ten Common-Sense College Application Tips Patent pending.

  

  the summer, I had ample opportunity to compile what may (someday) be the ... truly believe that college admissions should be as uncomplicated, honest ... my advice to be earth-shattering, I'm just hoping that my own

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Physics A short novel.

  

  I'm going to be honest - The first five academic weeks here were not ... it. But actually, the transition can be pretty painful. I'm here to tell you it doesn't have to be. That's right. You don't have to be an

  • by Karen F. '11
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Community Projects

  dormspam-the-game (Part 2) may the data be ever in my favor

  

  . This might be a little unclear, but don't worry – I explain it better ... managed to place [annotation note="To be completely accurate, I actually had ... select, the number of points you receive will be k / (the number of times k

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 15, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Some questions that I've received from prospectives.

  

  't offered at my school. Does that eliminate my chances of being accepted to ... 'm worried that by pursuing a science/engineering career, I won't be helping ... year and a half with that goal in mind, but I seem to be at a brick wall

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 8, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Life Rationing Problem how do you save a life

  

  scenarios in which some life must be lost, (a more specific case of the ... being rationed) and will argue for how to resolve the life allocation ... principle that solves the problem. If such a principle exists, it should be

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 15, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection-time Questions Omnibus

  

  probably be under 16%, meaning that, unfortunately, we'll have to turn away 5 ... opportunity if you're admitted, but I hope that people will be okay if they're not. (This can be applied to all of the other crazy schools that also

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 22, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  oh no the future obligatory “i am old” post with pretentious morbing

  

  often joke about graduating being the equivalent of dying. It’s funny and ... the chrysalis, and I don’t know if my wings will be ready. It’s the end ... ’t have the skills. “What do you mean I need to rest? This can’t possibly be

  • by Anika H. '26
  • October 23, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  Little Pieces of Living january & february & march & now, april

  

  . I was lucky to be surrounded by kind and passionate people who ... being solidly afraid of heights, and found that I loved it. One of my ... shortbread cookies with another friend, though the cookies turned out to be

  • by Sara N. '28
  • April 2, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  and they’re going to better places lessons learned from a hard summer

  

  isn't meant to be an "Oh non-MIT people just don't get it" in a snobby ... , intense understanding among MIT people to fully embrace being absolutely ... my chest, a longing to be fully understood and to be home. Though the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 14, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  Lies in MIT, lies about MIT these are the lies that i tell myself at night

  

  you want it to be. That most people don't actually take six classes a ... over somewhere else. When people assured me that I wouldn't be spending ... , "MIT is only as hard as you want it to be" was true. In other ways, it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 27, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Gap Year, Week 1 my plans for a year away from MIT during COVID-19

  

  quickly be expelled. I was also frustrated that the announcement to send us ... 's response and the new reality of being an MIT student during COVID-19. At ... like. I would be free from any sudden policy changes MIT made. I could

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 31, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  when apocalypse strikes… on being preemptively torn from my home, living group, and nearly everything i love at…

  

  fact that my time with my living community would be cut short, that I would be robbed of all the things I had been looking forward to and maybe ... floors like mine with strong communities, being split up for two years

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 16, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summers spending three at home

  

  our experience doesn't seem to be as common, and this is technically our ... 't really on either of our minds. And we were lucky enough to be in a position ... this person is doing xyz, I should also be doing xyz”) and an internal

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 22, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  SCIENCE! I'm bad at it, sometimes

  

  Signs that I would someday Do Science can be traced to when I was 6 ... to be a spaceship. Apparently I was a little confused about what NASA ... Observatory. There, I learned that Real Science can also be ugly, although

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 12, 2012