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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Love Affair: 11.027 & New Orleans [by Janet Li '12] Spring break in NOLA.

  

  . MIT’s planning department is one of the best in the nation and ... down to New Orleans for the summer. What are your summer plans, and how ... [by Janet Li '12] A house decked out in Mardi Gras swag in the

  • by ARTalk
  • March 27, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Reasons I haven’t blagged… hint: "I'm Busy" isn't one of them

  

  start of class. It said something along the lines of “your true passion is ... often get distracted by other stuff and lose passion for the initial idea ... all have the same amount of time and get to choose how we spend it. We

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 29, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Breathless Why it's so hard to tell college students to ease up a bit.

  

  get excited about the Amharic class he’s taking at Harvard. On our way out of the dining hall, I stop to get some coffee and he chats with a ... about. Groups where your obligation is not a grade, but your commitment to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Application Advice v2.0 How to survive the application process without losing your mind.

  

  “trick way” or “back door” to get into MIT. Your application is not a game ... . Because the truth is that your SAT score, no matter how high it is, is not ... someone is going to look at your application and say, “Oops, well, if only

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 20, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Some Saturday Thoughts a meandering, journal-type blag post

  

  write a peppy post about personalities (which is still on the way for a ... advance by how meandering and rambl-y this post is about to be. Last night ... brother that destroys your things. Unhappiness is for the most part

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 11, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Late-Night Juggler In which I spend about twenty minutes trying to transcribe the Mass Ave cross signal…

  

  a dull, dirt-free sheen. In front of you is the Infinite Corridor: by ... brain." The first thing you realize when you go talk to Nicholas Ferri is ... night until probably 4:30, didn't get to bed until six in the morning

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 3, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hi, I’m Lulu ...a different kind of blogger; I take pictures.

  

  what? I'm here by popular demand so tell me what you want to see! If you're ... there in a valley between the mountains, moved to the outskirts of DC when ... wittled the list down to must-haves and can't-live-withouts and it made a

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  cleats on feet, smile on face thoughts on injuries and spring season

  

  learned that if something is taken from me, I will do my very best to get it ... is the feeling I wanted to regain the most. As the spring season ... like that, and suddenly there is a before and an after. Clawing your way

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 23, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 1 In this entry, I answer your recent questions left in the comments of previous entries.

  

  some forms, or, if he is unwilling to, document the extent to which your ... omnivores. For the record, I think the best place for veggie options is Steam ... you get to know the individual contexts of thousands of intl. apps? May

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 8, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  What I Have Learned From The Early Decision Process At MIT Here are some of the things that impressed me.

  

  covered that. So let's get to the meat of the matter (or for you vegans out ... ; The quality of the essays. I was constantly floored by the way so many ... forced to discuss them using only my inner voice. The fine ways that many

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  P(Happy Chanukah)

  

  asked of late. I'll address a couple quickly now, and get to some others ... decision letters by the end of Chanukah (wouldn't a big envelope be a nice ... questions, the first of which was: Having begun the reading, is the optional

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 17, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 2 Tempering Iron

  

  ’t change--indeed, it’s possible they won’t have to so long as the way we ... the problem is not how much we have to do, but how we think about it ... the culture--when there’s something wrong, people are invited to fix it

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 28, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  From Markets to Math Class

  

  "treadmill" that MIT can be: Sometimes it's hard to take a step back. This is why I warn my freshman advisees against getting on "the treadmill." "The treadmill" is the straightest path through MIT. It means doing the basic

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 12, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The Mystery Of The Missing Application Tracking Portlet A quick clarification.

  

  Application Tracking portlet in MyMIT. The system is supposed to display a message explaining why the portlet is no longer there, but it's not showing ... weren't in your file, we'd contact your school directly to get them.]

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 3, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Picking A Southwest Flight Seat How to Make Flying Bearable

  

  the person to your right will decide that your shoulder is the optimal ... . You're right over the wing and get to witness the beauty of flight ... you will need to be able to pick your seat. I warn you that all of the

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • January 22, 2013
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Worms, Revisited a reflection on decisions from here

  

  instance, younger you is a part of you in the same way your arm is). Hence ... for nothing because it didn't pay off in the way I had wanted it to. And ... time soon. The piece of yourself that you put into your application to

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 18, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2017-18 Application Essay Questions

  

  primary goal in reading these essays is to get to know you, the applicant ... way in which you have contributed to your community, whether in your ... to get into our (or anyone else's) headspace for your essays. One tip

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 31, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sabar drums, Rwanda, and the C.I.A Can you guess what all this stuff has in common?

  

  "Intro to World Music". The class is taught by Professor Tang, who is an ... 's impossible to rank the events by awesome, I've ranked them chronologically: 11 ... ? me either I just googled "hard math") To fulfill this, you're required

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three from MIT! Three MIT Young Futurists

  

  that were featured on the website. So for your viewing pleasure, I ... current students at MIT! <3 it!!!! Click the links to find out about ... . If you want to learn a little more about Dorian, check out his website

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • February 7, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Five Years of Admitted Student Gatherings MIT community is getting bigger

  

  branded balloons are tied to the mailbox. There is a poster of the Dome on the front door. Inside, we are welcomed into the MIT community by alums ... other 17's. It was my first time on the other side. My turn to tell the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 29, 2017