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• Blog / Academics & Research

  An End A whirlwind.

  

  , and tried not to think about the fact that we'd been in the car for ... the end of summer; one day, I was sitting in the office casually ... was wearing a nice dress and make-up and practicing my talk in the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 20, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist FAQ Some answers for students offered a place on the waitlist.

  

  waitlist, everything will still turn out well for you in the end. Who do ... for a class of about 1,130 students this year. Based on our estimates of ... . We will reconsider all of the waitlisted students again in May, when we

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  07/07/07 Speaking of numbers: the number seven in particular, brought to you by the birthday of…

  

  big in advance for my birthday - no one's ever around to celebrate, so I ... tell you? best birthday ever, right?), we headed off for breakfast in our ... out, though, that you need a reservation in order to go skydiving, and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 9, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, decisions Now that you've been accepted to college, you have to decide where you'll spend the…

  

  (+) years of hard work in the classroom, and months of filling out applications and studying for APs/SATs, have finally paid off. At Campus Preview ... is really like. You’ll get to stay in a college dorm, go to college

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 4, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Worlds within worlds

  

  got in. If you got deferred, don't take it too hard, plenty of people whom I know here got deferred EA and then got in. Eventually, those of you who get in will get to come to CPW. And some of you might have

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 14, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  on anger understanding and learning and navigating

  

  that their lesser than in the workplace. It shouldn't be okay for trans ... In a call with my boyfriend a couple months ago, I asked him the ... courage to ask the question in the first place, I was already predicting

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 12, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  everything is actually going okay and i think that's pretty cool

  

  's post: I lived in East Campus for a year, on Fifth West, which is a ... feel okay about everything. for example, i'm usually really self ... backseat to the other things in my life. in my mind blogging is either one of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  That fear of “falling behind” Exploring options @ MIT

  

  be engulfed in the so-called MIT bubble. Which basically means, getting ... existed! People live in houses! Dogs exist! Babies exist!" Here, I am ... dreams happen. For me, "being an architect" was not my childhood dream, or

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Community Projects

  Affirmations not unnecessary

  

  in myself. If I didn’t let myself try my best for fear of failing. If I ... papers for teachers—hell, I used to do so in my second grade class during ... school. To learn that it was okay for me to exist in this space in the ways

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Fixing a trapeze! then hanging upside-down on it

  

  embroidery thread that has sat untouched in my drawer for seven years. (The ... One time in Boston, my roommates and I were studying outside near ... psets and played around in it, demonstrating in a general sense the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 29, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harbinger of Doom, Despair, and Knowledge: PSETS Don't worry, not as bad as they sound.

  

  , but the only ones that end in "2" and "5" This went on for a while ... busy receiving the Nobel Prize in Mathematics for being so right about ... yourself into. As an expert in what he is and is not currently in, I'd be

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 3, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Hey VMars fans Wallace is Course 2!

  

  that in a country like Pakistan there isn't much opportunities for ... Maina asked:: I sat for SAT 1 and I messed up in one section in Critical ... ’m supremely disappointed in his lack of judgment. Still. Mechanical engineering

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 5, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Beantown, H-Town, Blue Hills, House of Blues With cameos by home, beatboxing, and happiness

  

  , or October 31. Three weeks ago, it was October 10, and I was in Houston riding a bike. October 09-10 (H-Town) I was in Houston for a conference ... the ice and prepare for an hour of sounding silly in front of one

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 5, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Year 2 at Hogwarts Holy Hell, I'm a sophomore

  

  friends I’ve made in MIT this semester. Before she and I actually spoke for ... since I started blogging. A year since robots in the FPOP and the free ... usually announcing an available UROP or a company seeking applicants for

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tales From Turning Twenty They range from "a little peculiar" to "utterly bizarre."

  

  weird. 4. Tuesday Nov 6: I voted in the presidential election for the ... come up with a relatively elaborate menu. I paid in sleep for not doing ... and asked for a ride. Only two of us were allowed in the actual ward, so

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 7, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meeting our new president! my very brief foray into professional journalism

  

  In case you haven't heard, MIT has a new president-elect! This ... able to make it to whatever he had in mind, sorry! He replied "okay!" but ... Center this morning at 9.45 am sharp, the arrival time for "press planning

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 20, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  1.1 miles as the crow flies and it takes me forever to run there

  

  No one marks you five minutes[annotation note=" in MIT time, classes ... mischief every time I jump on at 9:05 am. Fix my home-cut bangs in the video cam while the chat room explodes with questions. I’m scribbling notes in

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 17, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  Our 2019-20 Application Essay Questions

  

  phones back in Cambridge that we've gotten some inquiries about our essay prompts for the forthcoming cycle, so I'm posting them. I want to be clear ... begin thinking and planning in advance, which I respect and value (one of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 16, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lecture Notes: Biology of Culture highlights from Brian Farrell's open lecture at the Harvard Museum of Natural History (spoiler: contains…

  

  scribbles in my notebook, a smattering of quotes, points and diagrams: "I ... flower than he sees. I could imagine the cells in there, the complicated ... in the flower evolved in order to attract insects to pollinate it is

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Reference Frames Vision - of the present and for the future - is powerful

  

  memory. Set a reference frame there for now. What do you see? In one of my ... Even in classical mechanics, physics tells us about relativity, where ... observes one's surroundings. Even if you're circling the globe in a plane 20

  • by Emad T. '14
  • March 19, 2011