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• Blog / Academics & Research

  work thoughts on productivity and a post-mortem of my spring semester

  

  be there to catch me if I’m anything less than conventionally ... the content of this class. I found the homework to be more plug ... scores got cancelled, leading to the final being a whopping 45% of our

  • by Alice L. '24
  • July 5, 2022
• FAQ / First-year application

  Where can I find info on Graduate Admissions/Masters/PhD?

  The Office of Undergraduate Admissions handles first-year and transfer admissions. To pursue graduate study at MIT, you need to apply to one of our departmental programs(opens in new window). Each department
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds and the Order of the Phoenix Answering the important questions of those still making their decision.

  

  offered, which is much more likely to be untampered with. The best news is ... tough is MIT? If I score 800s in all my SAT IIs, will it be easy to ... Christines you are, but you can absolutely feel free to call the Admissions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 25, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  on success, meaning, and time existential musings about big questions with no answers

  

  ’re just things that happen to be more on the mind lately ... listening to if you have the time. This post is not meant to have answers — if ... actually wanted, and pivoted his life to be trying to find the things that

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 15, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  51 Things I Want to Say to 2022s one senior's autumn thoughts

  

  ’t be like the upperclassmen. Learn to cook now, while there are people ... craft the best resume possible. Go to Career Fair, even if you feel like ... yourself settle in the bubble. Learn to be alone and enjoy it. Take

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  miserable and magical oh, to feel moved

  

  sad because there was the fear that if i allowed myself to be sad, i ... . there will always be something new to do. if the ‘everything is okay ... myself the opportunity to be sad. i can be a nuisance to myself and take up

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 3, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Harvard Friends, Part 2 finding my quarantine dream team

  

  workout. Would I still be able to do that on the Zoom workout? If not, what ... Harvard students seemed to be approaching the fall was that (according to ... This is the second part of a two-part series about being an MIT

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 29, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Stories of Senioritis How to Procrastinate

  

  sections that were going to be on the test. Cue Facebook. The best and worst ... . Battle of the Walls: me: shouldn't you be studying like i am pretending to ... the "we expected you to be taller and more buff comments" at Meet the

  • by Bryan
  • May 31, 2007
• Blog / Summer

  bay area parties well, two of them

  

  mentions of peter thiel. wouldn't be surprised if people embraced the ... whatever. if it were any earlier in the day people would probably be handing ... parties. they compared it to the rise of tiktok's content houses. even if

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 15, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  And miles to go before I sleep. Here we go again.

  

  long night ahead of you." Great. The thing is, I know how to handle these ... over her equations, only to be jolted back awake by the heavy beat of ... working, this video will be to be the most important piece of art around

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So you think you want to be a doctor: Pre-med at MIT

  

  repeat, do NOT put yourself though being pre-med if you only want to hang ... are pre-requisites to the med school classes. If you're planning to ... your major's requirements. However, if you want to major in engineering

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  head down, marching on highlights of spring semester

  

  now, I could be the person who says, “I used to write novels.” Hard at ... , and I began to worry I’d be so exhausted from the semester that I wouldn’t have the wherewithal to jump back in to writing. I don’t know if people

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 21, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  H I C C U P S takeaways from a Bollywood film

  

  flower fails to bloom because of the environment. But because it fails to ... environments and situations can become the reason to fly, if we let them. We all ... /nLSaCFlXn-g (might want to turn on english subtitles for this) In short, the film

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 15, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Because one story just isn’t enough My tale of being admitted. Laugh. Cry. Both. Neither. All of the above?

  

  the phone over to my mom, because he didn't seem to know how to handle a ... that), what if I have a tube, and it's just too big to fit into the ... . And anyone else who cares to be in the pictures I've taken. *Speaking

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bad Grades and Big Screw-Ups Pulling back the A's, B's, C's, and P's to see what's inside

  

  resolved, which I’m hoping to handle this IAP… but let’s be real I’m still a ... much sooner. To be fair, both me and the assistant professor dropped the ... through! I got an 85%, 95%, and 88% on the last three psets… Only to fail

  • by Powers '23
  • January 14, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Strike! Strike! Strike! I. H. T. F. P.

  

  'd like to predict what a future blog entry may be about (specifically, the ... guess it's called a "Quiz," but they just call it that to lure us into a ... "What am I doing here, I suck at MIT, I'm going to fail, I hate life, tell

  • by Snively '11
  • March 29, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Parties Followup

  

  be a tough school and admit only the brightest, and were surprised to ... interests, how much if at all the teacher would have to dumb down the class ... not like at the respective parties, were found to be very attractive by

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  On keeping on keeping on It's pretty much the only option.

  

  what the conversation was going to be about. If you had asked someone ... being able to find tissues at the store (we were stocked on toilet paper ... famine, and idly wondered if you would have the inner strength to maintain

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 30, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hello, I’m Anthony.

  

  It's nice to meet you. I'm a new freshman at MIT, a member of the ... schools and committed my near future to the progressive locale of Cambridge, Massachusetts. This blog is an effort to share the journey with you as I shed my

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • June 8, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Let There Be Prefrosh! And let them build ALL the things!

  

  service projects.  However, this year I decided to apply to be a mentor for the Materials Science FPOP known as DMSE, as well as continue to help ... PREFROSH! Yes, they are still called prefrosh, and they will be called

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 22, 2013