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• Blog / Life after MIT

  Other ways I’ve been rejected over the past fifteen years [suffering-from-success.jpg]

  

  themselves from the pain. The mere passage of time turned out to be that ... win, though I concede the meager pool of opportunities sought (can't take the risk aversion out of me, alas). But I couldn't help but to

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  greta gerwig’s barbie and insecurity aka moving to college

  

  rekindled my love of the movie and feel inclined to revisit it. Now I know I ... my feelings of self-doubt and attitude towards the “real world”. So ... here’s the (very long winded) beginning of my college experience, through

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 19, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorm Bathrooms Always look on the bright, side of life

  

  in the comments), but I've had some experience with the bathrooms of ... changes (except the length of the hair you find in the shower), so don ... subject. Begged. We're talking knees, clasped hands, tears, and offers of

  • by Snively '11
  • March 2, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Another FAPtatsic Start we're juniors?!

  

  up in our room on the fourth floor of the Student Center. The freshman ... sheets making door signs for the freshman  getting a LOT of cardboard ... reveal *everything* here. Instead, here is a hodge podge of photos from the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 20, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  THE APPLICATION IS LIVE! because why bury the lede

  

  my god... it's full of words       > > > click this button to apply to MIT < < <     

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 16, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Arma virumque cano: a guest post by Quynh N. ‘15 Why you should take Old English at MIT

  

  . The Dean of the School of Humanities, Deborah Fitzgerald, already wrote ... the power of the humanities at MIT—the work you do in the humanities can ... virology, and I can find others who share the same strange combination of

  • by Connie H. '15
  • May 11, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Thoughts from the Dungeon One night only

  

  I’ve been stuck in the same dungeon in Metaphor: Refantazio for the last two weeks.  The most frustrating part of this experience is that every time I turn the game on, it’s a new enemy that sends me to my

  • by kellen manning
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  AOs write the “What do you do for fun?” essay Ever wondered what admissions officers do when they're not reading applications?

  

  which are required of you. Tell us about something you do for the pleasure ... bit about ourselves. While we share many of the same values, our ... . It’s a rare and wonderful thing to get to read about the joys of others

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Letters from the 2023 decisions threads

  

  applicants with those who aspired to join the Class of 2027, and to add to our ... from the other side of the veil: I applied EA to MIT a few years ago, got ... possibilities. New cities, new paths unfolded, and MIT was out of the picture. It

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 25, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Bit About Me Growing up on a healthy diet of prime time television and MMORPGs

  

  ) and lounged on the couch through Judge Mathis. Around the beginning of ... second episode my brother would wake up and take his throne in front of the ... a LOT of television to pass the time. I could hum The Simpsons' theme

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • July 22, 2013
• Blog / Events

  MIT goes APE. Not your average Sunday night.

  

  took both of my calculus finals. But on February 21st, the building was ... absolutely love an encore – but this time, under the protection of Johnson ... exciting event at MIT last weekend. The Chinese Students Club (CSC) hosted

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 27, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sore Subjects state of affairs isn't so good. But here are some telescope pictures!

  

  ) symmetries of the hydrogen atom, using just symmetry and algebra of groups to ... light, is definitely by far the fewest number of units I've stood to ... objective was to use the doppler shift of the ultra-sharp 21cm hydrogen line

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • April 14, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Study Abroad Fair Learn about opportunities to study in another country (8 pictures)

  

  - 5 PM Where: 2nd floor of the Student Center (La Sala de Puerto Rico ... the face value of your education by coupling scholastic endeavors with ... . Take advantage of the wondrous opportunity to discover a different

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Your Questions What questions can I help answer about the application process?

  

  up the comments to your questions, and then tried to answer them (this is now much easier with the advent of threaded comments ... questions with answers that can be found easily on the website or that require

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 28, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Everybody LOVES a math joke Math jokes for a Monday chuckle!

  

  Judging by the facebook group "I Wish I Were Your Derivative So I ... ...here's one she loves to tell (copied from an article in the American Mathematical Society Journal, with a link to the article below). Seriously, she

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 6, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT: The Sunsical The sunshine of May 12th

  

    a musical by Erick '17 sung to the tune of "Summertime" by ... little something more than this at the bottom of my Verde's cup♪   ♫I ... The tunnels mapped out on the back of my hand While you were laughing I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  danceAP IAP: wonderful. sore muscles: not

  

  wouldn’t be the best use of my time.   thankfully, on the way to my ... , a grueling three hours of class so early in the morning is difficult ... scope of narratives.    this class is just one of the many options

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Soldering Things pronounced "soddering"

  

  tens of thousands of dollars of payload into the emptiness of space just ... . You see, one of the things I want most to get out of freshman year is to ... . But one of the things I learned to do in Design/Build/Fly was soldering

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 25, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  i (don’t) want to be alone on loneliness

  

  ? for example: in confronting the self, i discuss how my feelings of ... one day everything will change. in finding meaning at the end of the world, i talk about the contradictory feelings of feeling powerless about

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 12, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s a freshman like me doing at Career Fair? hint: I'm not wearing a suit

  

  If you're looking for an in-depth view of Career Fair and all the ... -shirts (the technical term is "swag"), and there was plenty of that. This story ... free stuff. Say what you will about the counterculture of Senior Haus

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 22, 2012