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• Blog / Advice

  Words of Advice for the Incoming Class you did it! now what?

  

  and I can only barely imagine what this excitement and feeling must feel ... video format watch the video down below. this video does have subtitles! if you prefer reading your information you can read the blog down below

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Have Never Been to Beijing A (loose) translation of the previous post written in Chinese

  

  mother, brother and I would go to the local grocery store to buy things ... 在这里可以看中文版。 Note: This is a loose translation. Since of course I am ... each of them. But I hope, regardless, you'll enjoy reading both or one of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  opening line. Life is not one decision that you can never come back from. I can always make new choices down the line if I figure out that my choice ... entirely, but it does get harder to go to grad school. If I decide to go to

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • April 20, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  featuring avocado, soy sauce, and a few other ingredients that i can no longer ... that i can never really change the color underneath. as i’ve stumbled ... difference in most people’s lives. i think that they can still be a good

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bumps, slumps, trips, and … Breaking out of a slump, now with more Cleveland!

  

  getting lazy. And that's okay: it happens. Now that I see it, I can do ... rhyming's necessary, but it was always a crutch for me. I digress. Let ... (still) parentheticals. Off to a rocking start). I'm sure at this point

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  A Half-Century Retrospective Revisiting the MIT Application from the 1972–1973 admissions cycle

  

  , I stumbled into some accidental admissions archeology. For nearly a ... of the campus COVID-19 lockdown—I was permitted to visit the office to ... professional movers got to work. Prohibition style, I met a colleague with

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Fireside Chat with President Sally Kornbluth get to know our president!

  

  Kornbluth tells me. I have to agree, that does sound pretty funny. She then ... in Cambridge and Boston? Did you know that she does needlepoint ... friends, and political drama TV shows? I didn’t know any of this.  In fact

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” and other ways to improve your test scores

  

  really loudly in my room. I can be introspective to the point of self ... feel like we’re representing all of womankind. I really can’t even begin ... intelligence. Example of a mental rotation test. I’m guessing that you

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  3 weeks in northern Italy Global Teaching Labs and MISTI-Italy

  

  strange but in the short-term, this minute, I am glad because I can sit here ... can be recalled but never relived. I am grateful to the students, the ... I spent the last three weeks in Italy through GTL, and the two before

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  An Open Letter to MIT Applicants Don’t Panic (and know where your towel is)

  

  highlight some of the awesome things that MIT students are working on, I can ... them to my dad and asked “Does this sound like me?” In my essays, I ... (embarrassingly) close to the due date. I can almost hear my high school counselor

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  moves to the back button, but before I can click, the page loads. To ... schedule does not have enough space for all the classes I want to take. And ... again, in wide-eyed wonder that I get to choose which classes I can take

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating The Tunnels…Of Freshman Academics You didn't actually expect me to write about hacking on the internet, did you?

  

  professional blogging career. How can I... ...get sophomore standing? The ... lot easier that I just didn't find out about until much later. I've been ... system, for a while, but after querying the 2015s, I discovered, to my

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the bridges I’ve crossed in Cambridge, ranked my civil engineering hat is off

  

  ’m including cambridge here but not the other cities, because i can. i love to be ... below fills me with fresh giddiness that I still can’t shake off. At the ... because all I can think of are MIT’s open bathrooms waiting on the other

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why My 5.13 Problem Set Took All Day Moral of the story: Don't procrastinate, or I'll never talk to you again.

  

  done, as it always does. But it's days like these when I feel I should ... I've always been a procrastinator. I've procrastinated on such tasks from toddling around on the carpet and thinking "I suppose I'll try

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  There Is No Formula A formula would take the human component out of our process, which is perhaps the…

  

  our applications. It’s not anything I can explain – you just know when ... , there is nothing I can say here to make this fact easier to digest. But ... dominating College Confidential and the blog comments makes me sad. I

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 16, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes I Won’t Be Able to Take also "What Is Pre-Registration?"

  

  about unless you read the course catalog. I can't believe it took me three ... Christian school until eighth grade, and though I can recite whole chapters ... binding as regular registration. You can resubmit your pre-reg subjects as

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 23, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  The Great Wifi Outage of 2007 Burton-Conner's wifi went out two days ago; Evan will tell you more by the end…

  

  , not the Claymation videos.) The only similar event I can recall would be ... certainly can't speak for all schools, since I have little personal experience ... ) pondered: How does the application fee waiver work? Do I have to wait until

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to trick yourself into thinking that you’re writing a report The most productive procrastination technique revealed at last!

  

  Do you have trouble writing? Does it feel like a daunting ... fear, for I am here to teach you how to trick yourself into thinking that ... Laboratory Fundamentals in Biological Engineering, this semester, and you can

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 17, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parents, Please Read Prefrosh and students, read this too, and make sure to have a discussion with your…

  

  other angsty 20-year-old emotion I can throw at them. Through all of it they are supportive and tell me to keep doing what I can. They constantly ... student does more harm than good. This is the first year I've gotten to

  • by Snively '11
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT, part deux The case study of someone else you wouldn't expect to have gotten in

  

  his writing score, since I got a 790 on the writing SAT II. Me: "Does ... , pictures of rockets on the wall -- and I can't imagine he hadn't dreamed of ... on how I got here is the most popular thing I've ever written

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005