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• Blog / Admissions

  How to decide, when you’re deciding a pretext for productive procrastination

  

  years—it seems to me that what you choose is a lot less important than ... is. That’s not very long. It’s going to be as important, as fun, and as ... Today is May 1, the conventional deadline for admitted students to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 1, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  TERMinal Velocity My last term is flying by!

  

  understand things makes it easy to understand how the world is so complex ... Hard to believe but my time at the institute is starting to wrap up ... learning initiative, MITx, 6.002x is actually open to the world for

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 21, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Monteverdi to Mozart: 1600-1800 An organ, three harpsichords, and lots of learning

  

  description of the composer. It is so. cool. to look over a study sheet and ... a piece distinct.) 21M.235 ("Monteverdi to Mozart: 1600-1800") is ... movement or location or time period. It's like learning to recognize the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 11, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  here’s your reminder to follow @tinycarebot automated reminders to care for yourself

  

  because when it does, it breaks over us, and our office is deluged with ... they've hit the submit button. The simple answer is to fill out the FUN ... small but necessary acts of self-care. So here is something to help you

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 4, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  processing in which I visit home and take time to think

  

  ’t think I actually fully realized just how much it all is until the first ... remember why it was that I went home, but one Friday I took the train down to ... not just academic exhaustion. If it were, I would know how to handle it

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / How to MIT

  New Year; New Me! (Two Months Late Oops) I’ve been thinking a lot about what I want to do in my last semester…

  

  It’s difficult to not feel like MIT is a bubble, keeping you distant ... , style my hair, stroll to class. It is possible, I’m more convinced now ... take up.  It’s not hard for me to see why staying up late is such an

  • by ana~
  • March 5, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  But What Are They Really Looking For? My thoughts (advice) on navigating (surviving) the college application process.

  

  to figure out what admissions officers are looking for and it is the ... for me when I was a freshman and when I came to work at MIT it became a ... MIT is an amazing place and having the chance to discuss what, to me

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • November 11, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  To the Class of 2016 General life advice

  

  'm finally free to come back to the blogs (: It's not that I haven't been ... how you decide it'll be. Here's just some things to keep in mind as you ... Sleep. Eat. Exercise. It's easy to let your health slip, especially when

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • September 12, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  regrets about college and the pandemic

  

  thoroughly inundated with this misattribution that it is no longer feasible to ... ghost me, and it is meaningless to regret decisions that would only change ... than gratitude” is a refrain commonly attributed to anne frank, but

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 30, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  to the skeletons in my closet an open letter to you

  

  it harder to breathe harder to write harder to think. my life is still ... directions, and it is our time to find other experiences and paths. cami i ... a blog that explains it step by step i figured id just cut to the part

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 27, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Hitchhiker’s Guide to CPW DON'T PANIC.

  

  words, even beyond pictures. The only way to describe it...is to be there ... ? Whatever your question is, CPW is your time to ask it. #8: Shatter ... . #9: CPW is the only time when it's okay to take food from strangers. I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 5, 2008
• Blog / Events

  So much to do, so little time There's always something exciting going on at MIT.

  

  correctly: live action anime. It is being put on by the MIT Dance Theater ... chance to see it) The MIT International Science & Engineering Initiative, better known as MISTI, is launching its ninth country program: the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Overnight Program: Now Taking Requests Plus... a fun mitadmissions.org milestone!

  

  January and February, preference is given to seniors and to admitted students, and starting in March, the program is only open to admitted students Please note: host-matching is done by people, not by a computer (it

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 18, 2007
• FAQ / Life and culture

  How hard are courses at MIT?

  Learning at MIT is not about memorizing formulas, but understanding how to use them. Professors aren’t as concerned about if an experiment didn’t work, but rather if you understand why it didn’t work. It's not
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How did MIT’s GIRs come to be? the Tech has some answers. Plus, the SATs from 1918, and a mascot on a…

  

  important in education and how it has tried to build that into a lasting ... the SATs today. I remember how much it sucked to sit in a room for ... goes out to you. But -- it could, somehow, be worse! A hundred years ago

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 1, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Introduction To ROTC At MIT A new guest-author blog in response to a variety of inquiries regarding ROTC programs at…

  

  , it's my pleasure to introduce a new guest-author blog that will help you to better understand the ROTC programs here at MIT.   ROTC is more than your average student activity. Its primary purpose is to prepare MIT

  • by ROTC
  • August 14, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When I Grow Up In which I contemplate growing up and what I am going to do with my…

  

  up" is often completed with a "I want to be" or a "I will try to." We ... scary as hell. So what do I want to be when I grow up? Part of me is unsure. The other is like "Hell yeah I'm going to save the world with

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 8, 2016
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Self-Discovery Within An Internship guest post by Grace C. '21

  

  revenue bonds which is exactly what it sounds like: a way for hospitals to ... finally hit me. "While it is hard to see this initially and as selfish as ... internship, my advice is to not stress out! It is probably something everyone

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 27, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Class of 2010: Wondering Where Everyone Is Living? Find orientation housemates/roommates.

  

  that people can find other orientation housemates/roommates. Check it out! If anyone wants to add themselves, his email address is on the page. The address is: https

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  ungestalt twenty-one years of wandering

  

  it is difficult to return to the previous sensation, of seeing the ... feels like it isn't. to see the triangle would be a gestalt, then. but is ... 't perceived, and broken down to its component parts. in a general sense, maybe

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 4, 2021