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• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 things I love about MIT and hopefully you'll learn to love them too.

  

  semester to acclimate to the pressure-cooker of MIT. For more info, read the ... . The professors care about you One of the reasons that I didn’t go to ... undergraduate class, they really dedicate a lot of time to preparing the lectures

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  , or I revise for an ASE, or I’m walking over to the other side of campus ... the next night, or next week. But that part of me just wants to squeeze ... , or DEAPS. The highlight of DEAPS was a trip to New Hampshire to scale

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Boomeranging The day before classes start is Registration Day. It’s also the day we welcome readmitted…

  

  “typical” four-year timespan. 16% works out to a little less than 1/6 of the ... things are the end of the world. They happen to people, and those people ... can’t imagine me ever being unable to force myself out of bed in the

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

  isn't the piece of paper, but the lifelong ties to the people who I grew ... club, the place would recruit a remarkable amount of energy to help pull ... at the top of this summit is breathtaking and I'm taking a moment to

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 6, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an Easter vigil alive at east campus

  

  is the only food I eat all day. I am asked to emcee for part of the ... , simultaneously, this-broadcast-is-live. I live at EC, on the second floor of the ... not know her. The man on the stage insists that he is not here to

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 5, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Challenge You Pi day approaches.

  

  reason for wanting to come – and the primary reason of everyone I have ... ) – was not the fear of being unable to succeed without MIT, but rather a ... . “Who will get in? What happens to the people who don’t? Who will I become

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )

  

  of the summer, so I hope to continue writing a few blogs discussing ... Circuit, it's basically a loop for you to get the feel of your cart/bike and ... the hoops of applying to graduate school, you will probably not take a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  VEDA In which I try to vlog every day in April

  

  topics I need to cover before the end of the month, like asking one of my ... initial goals). I'm going to try and end strong and broaden the scope of ... going to appreciate the 1-3 hours it frees up every night because of all

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 24, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Dissecting emotion what is feeling

  

  something, you need to be open to the possibility of getting cut. When you ... feeling to the rest of the nervous system. When whatever blockage is removed ... 't tried to, yet. Seven. There's the feeling of having said too many

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 3, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s Not Me, It’s You How to kiss goodbye to a school that rejected you

  

  context of “I wasn’t good enough to get in.” That’s not the right way to ... . You’re going to hit it out of the park. ... ambition was to be an officer in the British army. Despite his repeated

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 29, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Thong I Should Be Wearing [UPDATE] Sexy sexy undies.

  

  to be catapulted to the upper echelon of schools in the contest. Drexel ... loose. The hack was sent to all of the class lists, meaning every single ... major delays to the site that you guys are. Also, I just did a measure of

  • by Snively '11
  • November 1, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  Enjoy Life Farewells and New Beginnings

  

  of my favorite poems, all about looking toward the future and starting new journeys. But as I get ready to start a new journey of my own, I ... maybe the best send off to you (especially to you aspiring scientists and

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 5, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  My College Essay Early Action / November 2005. ~500 words await.

  

  few extra days to submit our applications. The due date was moved to ... was a fantastic twist of fate. How much would have changed if the ... . Wouldn't it have been safer to submit the overly-edited essay? I gave MIT

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On Teaching and Learning Minimum requirement: read the last few sentences of this post. They're important.

  

  shy away from participating for the rest of the semester. Fail to ... , and ran to the cupboard. Flinging the doors open, I grabbed a bag of ... . The sophomore I taught to square numbers is one of a hundred kids in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dragons A blog post for deferred students (and everybody else waiting on decisions).

  

  didn’t make it. Holding hands on the way to class. Falling in and out of ... , and try to really get to know the people I loved before all of us ... applying to an art program rather than an institute of technology; the only

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bye (for now)

  

  unreasonable stress. i guess it's my contribution to the many student stories of ... spring, i finished my last semester of undergrad in the dead of winter. i ... my thesis. content warning for the following paragraph, for mentions of

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 12, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  finding place

  

  same time, it was a hard semester for me due to all the life changes of ... 't have the capacity to make it happen unless they do. At the end of fall ... . I haven't posted in a while. Too long. It's been one of the semesters

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • April 7, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On identity f(x) = x

  

  walking on the beach and talking to one of the upperclassmen. I listened to ... small, compared to the identities of the people around me, once I try to ... up to called the IMO, which you can think of as the Olympics for high

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  halloween down the infinite

  

  note="we're supposed to take 4 PE classes by the end of sophomore year. i ... guess it's the namesake of this post too!"] Infinite [/annotation] to ... (??) because I only heard about them and wasn't able to find them by the end of

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 1, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  easily because of the glare. And that’s why I’m out here, primarily: to ... ’ll get placed on, etc. Optionality: Humans tend to value the act of ... kinds of values you want to have in the future, between different people

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • April 20, 2021