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• Blog / Academics & Research

  If man is five Then most people are six, and if most people are six then pre-meds are seven.

  

  freshmen and score lots of free food, but I had a class taught by Pulitzer ... ! It was for like 30 seconds, for a variety of reasons, but it was cool just to be in the same room for a minute and catch a glimpse of his well

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  [joint post] a guide to mit gyms big brains, big gains 😤

  

  sometimes your workout or run is punctuated by the click and conversation of ... exercise! We lift, run, dance and generally touch grass. One feature of MIT ... lifted in (almost) all of them and chronicled/tier-listed them below for

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • September 4, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Women’s Soccer Talking to the 2009 NEWMAC Champs after they returned from the NCAA National Championship Tournament

  

  of sporting events, some of which I had never seen before. I saw ... intramural pistol team and came to appreciate the huge variety of sporting opportunities available at MIT for students at many levels of mastery. But given

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 25, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  groundbreaking began on the new dormitories by September of that year. The reunion coincided with the graduation of the class of 1923, and so by the time ... by the engineers.)” Further realizing the technology-laden nature of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  So Chance Me Maybe? Hey! I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my SAT...

  

  anxious about the application process. JUST KIDDING! Absolutely everything ... convinced I failed my interview, I once almost cofounded half of a club, my ... ’t very anxious about applying because I knew beyond a shadow of a doubt

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The rise and fall of CPW all the cpw history, plus proof the weather machine is fake

  

  questions of current students, followed by a jazz social and dinner at Walker ... 70s through the 90s. In 1998, the yield was 56%, but by the end of 2005 ... -quarters were run by students. But not only that, hundreds of student volunteers

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Guest Entry: Stephanie Lin Presenting MIT's most recent Rhodes Scholar!

  

  parts of the process - because it forced me to think critically about my ... As promised, an awesome guest entry - written by the wonderful ... mostly I go by stephlin, steph or “yoooo.” I’m currently finishing up my

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 12, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s More Than A Job Thoughts On The Eve Of RA Decisions

  

  , but at least it's fair. (And by fair I mean fair in the context of the ... In response to an earlier entry of mine, this post appeared on College Confidential: You know, I get sick of college admissions officers

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  hours passed by with no signs of capture. I got some sleep at 7 am after ... message of kindness. Those moments when I was so occupied by work that I ... have when I pass by there every lecture. And when I have children of my

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I put on my robe and graduation hat It's sortof hard to believe it's time for this already.

  

  : William Yee We heard speeches by the Governor of Massachusetts and MIT ... year, I saw the graduation ceremony as more of a check-point than a finish line. I also think that attending MIT has had a side-effect of

  • by Kim D. '09
  • June 7, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Making Connections we live in a society (affectionate)

  

  find out by chance that two of my friends know each other in ways I would ... ="EC has two buildings; one is to the west of the other"]west parallel[/annotation]of ... ) rainy today, instead of going outside to get from one parallel to the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My dorm room’s 24-year history meet 16 former residents of my room

  

  , taken by Beth D. '02, of a "hall feed" with American flag themed cupcakes ... period covered by this blog post. And yet, in the scale of the room's age ... I live in East Campus, on the third floor of the west parallel, which

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 19, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Gee, my life’s a funny thing Remembering the bills I have to pay, or even yesterday.

  

  internship in Europe in my field of study by November with minimal effort on my ... fallen into disrepair, and yet probably ninety percent of its visitors just ... Morrison will probably also be forgotten in a hundred years, but it's kind of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  señoritis navigating work/life balance - and spring break photos

  

  simply do not have the energy to do so. here is some of what i have ... plenty of rigorous work. someone asked me if there would be at least a little bit of time every day to have to yourself—the unsatisfying answer is

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 28, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  how to change policies at mit [joint post with Rona W.] our CUP of tea

  

  policy is perfect for every individual by virtue of every individual being ... -president, elected by the student body every year, choose the rest of the UA officers ... meant to represent the opinion of the Committee on the Undergraduate

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 28, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Being “qualified” for MIT Let me show you how it's done.

  

  On Thursday, I sat in front of a camera for an hour (along with ... international students. Near the end, someone asked: "Can you give an example of ... of job applications. "Explain how you are qualified for this position

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The future isn’t the answer reflecting on anxiety

  

  tw: extensive discussion of anxiety, panic attacks; mentions of ... and we get out of bed We get dressed We clean up last night's mess And ... took a bad hit at the start of January. The anxiety that made 2021 a

  • by Jenny B. '25
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HERE LIES P/NR September 2018-December 2018

  

  The alarming rate at which the semester flew by shocked me, and I had ... the heady ecstasy of MIT materializing out of an abstract dream into a dome-shaped reality in the smoldering heat of the summer. September

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 16, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  e) Other Some pretty important stuff, and then just some pretty stuff.

  

  decision making process of where I was going to the degree that I am today ... schedule to include biology and neuroscience. By the end of this semester ... my talented friend Ben '11's camera, of which you can see more (and by

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  shaped by the people around us, and that process not only means that ... to be immediately answerable by any of our discussion above; all seem ... specialists or generalists, I find myself pulled by the allure of specialization

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021