Search

Search Results

• Blog / Admissions

  Yes, we care about your stories Reflections from the road

  because these issues are occurring in nearly every city across the country ... ’s because I’ve been on the road for several weeks! Every year, admissions ... obstacle that has affected my educational journey?” However, it was asked in

  • by DJ Rock
  • October 10, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Fourth Semi-Annual Q&A Even yet still more answers to your questions.

  

  to the word limit for the essays, a lot of space is left over in the ... that my school is not very active in these areas. For example, I only ... which was/is extremely difficult, in many ways and on many levels, for him

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  art and work i really struggled with titling this one

  

  what would happen if i worked in anti-aging and made no progress for ten ... skipping past uneventful scenes or zoning out for large portions of concerts during college i developed a method for watching shows very efficiently

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 27, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Making the Pi Day Video the experiment, part 2

  

  was in Texas and Audrey in California. As for the other “interesting ... in October, I was scrolling through the @mitadmissions feed when I came ... so cute its life-changing"]30 second short[/annotation] for 20 minutes

  • by kellen manning
  • March 12, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  I’M BACK!!!!! (and MIT is hard)

  

  **I've been having computer issues for a few weeks, so this entry was ... ’s not a particularly good study habit, but it worked for me in high school ... intimidated by going to office hours, perhaps in part out of pride, for not

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 11, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  A Complicated Synthesis Question starting materials include hard decisions and uncertain paths

  

  For most of the semester, I've lived and breathed in the ever ... 've been blessed. Can't remember the reagents for the reaction you have in ... again, I would spend hours locked away in a corner of the library staring

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 7, 2018
• Blog / Uncategorized

  168 Hours and how to spend them

  

  ’t due for 2 whole days (!!), so I was in no particular rush to finish ... reasons for this. For one, at this point in the semester, I had a growing ... extracurriculars in the last semester, and I was slightly annoyed at myself for

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • March 21, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [Joint Post] Interviewing Two MIT Physics Heroes An Interview with Two MIT Physics Professors that are Departing from MIT.

  

  is a lecturer in the physics department who has been with MIT for six ... for the students in a selfless way. “He's there to help the students ... . Peter then emphasized the numerous resources available for students in 8

  • by Richard O. '28
  • May 30, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Orgo and physics and math, oh my 57 units of academic fun fun fun. Now with humanities!

  

  of how to prepare for MIT tests in general. Although I had been ... particular topic. In the first week of class, for instance, we watched ... they know for sure. I know it's tough, but hang in there - I'm rooting

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 26, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home safe Bad guys don't hang out in the Infinite.

  

  I am back in Boston, sitting on my comfy couch after a lovely weekend spent in Columbus (where I ordered my wedding dress, yay! Now I just have to wait six months for it to come in). Like many of the members of the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 22, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  90-something days of summer (Part 1) MIT people around the world

  

  opportunities. I lived in Paris for about 10 weeks during the summer of 2009 ... Hello! Sorry for the recent lack of post! After an epic trip around ... approaching (of couse, after the horrifying super intense final week for people

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2012
• Blog / How to MIT

  Parting Remarks Part I: Leaving Marks reciprocal changes

  

  bug for me PLEASE in central square where tosci's used to be PLEASEHi, I ... for the past couple of days. IT's been wrecking me-- couldn't sleep in ... . The bug should be super easy to kill. It stays in one place for long

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 28, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s been 3 weeks the firehose is still alive and kicking

  

  (turning in p-sets and the like), prepared soup for everyone. It shouldn’t be ... , three expectedly busy weeks. I’ve gotten sick for a brief period, seen hundreds of vines, turned in seven p-sets and two essays, played Cards

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I chose my classes A graduating senior's perspective; results may vary

  

  interested in taking anyway.) Am I prepared for the workload? It's always ... -defined (for example, I know that I'm not interested in power electronics ... a specific tool in my research, but its usefulness can extend far

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 24, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  My First Semester at MIT a thicc recap and a look into our conversation

  

  percentages. But for the time being.. This Semester, I... ...participated in an ... . ...got a job for the first time. In fact, I got two. Having never worked a ... list in search for any video game based UROPs. This IAP, I'll begin

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 18, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  How to jump out of an airplane and live We have football, pistol, fencing, and TKD. . . but did you know we also…

  

  -nighter."  Apparently the club fell apart for a while but in March it was re ... Hello again from out in the real world!  It's been a little more than ... more difficult. In the summer between sophomore and junior year at MIT I

  • by Snively '11
  • July 31, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Go West, Young Man my mountain travels with yale and brown

  

  at a high school in NJ for five years, went to HGSE and now is an ... together for another 30-45 minutes. That night, we stayed in our hotel back ... for themselves: Friday, July 15 On Friday we got back in the car and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Hate the First or at least, I used to

  

  in. And for the first time during finals week, I wasn’t stressed about ... to store various mugs for when friends come over in the winter and ... experiences will end. But for now, I think this will have to be an issue for

  • by Paige B. '24
  • September 14, 2022
• Blog / Class Projects

  We made a website this is a filler post

  

  for feedback. Work on the website began in the middle of week 2. A ... competition.[/annotation] Teams can compete for over $20,000 in total prizes. We ... . For web.lab, which is an IAP class I said I was taking, we made a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 31, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  narrower. There's a big need for effective, articulate communicators in ... MIT? 2. What does a day in the life of a physicist look like? 3. I ... pursue in math/science. 4. I'm worried that I'm never going to find a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 8, 2012