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• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, Now A Goldwater Scholar finding her way four years later

  

  . Thankfully, I haven't paid much attention to that last bit of advice. In terms ... aren't all that important to me anymore. I felt so much more happiness ... , we always say to be true: Turning away so many kind, generous, super

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 18, 2018
• Blog / How to MIT

  HT@MIT: Academic Resources How I Learned To Stop Slacking and Love the Office Hours

  

  your psets and tests and it's much easier to fail a faceless name. Office ... 's important to have as much time DOING problems as possible. HKN Tutoring Now ... 've been using since Interphase to make my life a little bit easier

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 19, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Bit About Me Growing up on a healthy diet of prime time television and MMORPGs

  

  weeks were great, I was making a little money, I got to listen to as much ... Cailou (a show my young sister was adamant to watch) I'd saunter off to the kitchen to make some food before hopping on the computer for what little

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • July 22, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21L.011 Are You [film] Experienced?

  

  a couple classes to choose from based on the results of your placement ... other hand, you're given an enormous amount of variety to select your ... and math classes are arranged after you arrive to MIT, rising freshmen

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sometimes a whale is just a whale Humanities classes make me roll my eyes sometimes.

  

  presumably the last non-science paper I will ever have to write. In my life ... a biology major to read ethnographies in which the author (an American anthropologist) claims to have gotten malaria in Africa because a rival sorcerer

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Where are we going?

  

  a Halloween party. Much to my relief, Dean of Student Life Larry ... . Which means that we will have to find a new housemaster. The new ... held elections to choose the two student reps. A lot of people ran, more

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finals Week, Minus Finals all the non-academic shenanigans

  

  it! The main things I'm going to need to store are my whiteboard, desk ... and biscuits. It was good. I realized I have a lot of groceries to ... dumplings.I finished grading some problem sets for 6.0002 (Introduction to

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • May 20, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  High Class Brass [✔] Order a Brass Rat [✔] Feel swanky [ ] Become Iron Man

  

  . My dad, as you might deduce from the letters and the year next to his ... idea of me going to MIT when he got a small, gray MIT t-shirt for me to ... -shirts, and other MIT paraphernalia, primarily because I'm much older (and well

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 17, 2012
• Blog / How to MIT

  71 More Things to Do Before You Graduate the 101 things expansion pack

  

  that was very much a rewarding experience."]out to dinner ... Things to Do Before You Graduate." [caption id="attachment_49906" align ... ] While these are nice or whatever, I find them to be a bit generic. Here

  • by Abby H. '20
  • January 10, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What do you see now? they say genius likes to alternate between the soil and the sky

  

  ? Maybe we are too limited by reality – we need resources to survive, we ... 2 types of games. Finite games where the goal is to win on a finite time horizon. Infinite games where the goal is to keep

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • May 23, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [Joint Post] Chatting with Hank Green, the MIT Commencement Speaker interviewing Hank + sharing student stories!

  

  relate to so much of his experiences with my own ADHD. He wants to make the ... adulthood, sobered into a “learn as much as you can to help as many as ... profits to charity, posting thoughtful weekly vlogs — the list goes on. I

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • May 24, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How MIT students are trying to change education by biking across America.

  

  week (more on that soon) and am here to spotlight an incredible project a ... country from San Francisco to Washington D.C., stopping at high schools to ... Plants” and “Eyewire: A Game to Map the Brain”) Images from the Spokes

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 10, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  an absolutely non-comprehensive guide to email sign-offs or, how to inject some fun into an otherwise boring routine

  

  [/annotation] email, but you don't want to take up too much space. The email sign-off is ... ."]executive board[/annotation] and how people choose to divvy up the work from year to ... to occupy it, one thing is constant: email. During my two years on

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • March 9, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Regular Action Admissions Update Updates about application numbers, application tracking, and more.

  

  unlimited fax capacity, so you may need to try multiple times before it goes ... teacher may fax a copy to us. If they need another copy of the evaluation ... has been reported that applications to MIT for this year have increased

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 25, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  Froshmore oh to exist in a state of ~liminality~

  

  — there’s always too much to do and not enough time. I’m trying to be ... peace, an outlet to make myself feel whole and sane. I’m excited to ... get to overshare my life on the internet :D.  This year feels like a

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 2, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Three Weeks a short summary of this crazy place

  

  neighborhood. In regards to the latter, it is the exact opposite here at MIT. From my FPOP (Freshman Pre-Orientation Program) to Orientation to the first week of classes, I don't think I've ever taken a day off to relax

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 12, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  RainbowFloor@MIT Because at MIT, if it doesn’t have a mailing list, it doesn’t exist. Fact.

  

  making it an ongoing series—but then I remembered how much cool stuff ... -blocking girth and...er, sleeping habits, I suppose. (Yes, I happen to be a less ... its way like sweet nostalgia to my ears, I’m in good and plentiful

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • October 11, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT XC, looking sharp In which Maggie unveils the most awesome flowchart ever!

  

  Now, I know I’ve had a tendency to bury the lede a bit, (although I’d argue the sample size, n=2, is too small to draw conclusions from), so today I’m going to shake things up and show you what I’ve got up front

  • by Alina G. '11
  • September 20, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Still Going… haha... yeah. It's not over for all of us.

  

  least 100 pages. I replied, there's no way I'm going to write that much ... actual deadline for the senior thesis that I am now desperately trying to make. That is, next Thursday, May 21th. That is, if I want to graduate on

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 15, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesday is the new black. The world moves on MIT's hips. The world moves and it swivels and bops.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? After failing to acquire MIT no less than 3 times in ... . Baker to establish a school for engineering in Cambridge. This college is ... an entry this is going to make! Well, it turns out that MIT is such an

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 21, 2006