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• Blog / MIT Life

  Epilogue An open letter about blogging, growing up, and the end of my first year at…

  

  deceptively suave, are nothing more than clumsy stunt doubles for the ... MIT for a week. I was comparatively oblivious to the importance of ... 's equations. I couldn't have imagined that I would cook for 30+ people on a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 21, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Shelby’s Amazing CPW Adventure A CPW Guest Entry by Shelby '13

  

  MIT, the more I was certain that MIT is the perfect fit for me. This ... Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research to learn about current cancer ... thrilling. The opportunities seemed endless, and for that, I knew at this

  • by Snively '11
  • April 29, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Deferred Students Update Some Q&A for deferred students.

  

  've got some answers (updated for this year's very competitive EA pool). Is it all over for me? At MIT, a deferral isn't just a "polite rejection ... before January 1 working on regular action applications for other schools

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Scratches On My Mind A brief introduction, so you'll know why I see MIT the way I do.

  

  Yeah, I know. It's a weird title for a first blog entry. But bear ... points for anyone who can tell me where I got the phrase). We all see the ... department of defense to pay for my education. I'm sworn in as a midshipman

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • September 20, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do you do with a BS in econ? Answering Karen's question about my degree

  

  list as many as I can. The most popular jobs for the graduating economics ... , different types of companies come to MIT to recruit for corporate positions in ... , health care, etc. And for people who want to take UROPing to the next level

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 9, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Cristen Chinea Cristen Chinea '10, for whom MIT might mean "meteorologist in training."

  

  back tight, lives with her mother in the same apartment where she grew up ... through a book of Sudoku puzzles. For as long as Cristen can remember, she ... student was poor enough to qualify for free lunch. She was the only student

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 31, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Cake Concert, Wing Dinner, and Senior Ball An action packed 2 weekends: Cake, a wing dinner, and Senior Ball!

  

  , Long Jacket, but neither made it =( ) They ended up playing for about an ... around the world - a Habitat for Humanity event, this year they built walls ... event and all proceeds went to the Cambridge YWCA, a shelter for abused

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 7, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Followup To Mailing Disaster Answers to your questions from my last post, regarding the recent mailing of EA decisions.

  

  what I would have done without you. This situation sucked for all of us ... they will be asked for very specific information about you to make sure ... avoiding this question for months, but you deserve an answer, so I will give

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  We Wear Matching Hats Very nearly one year ago, I wore the hat you're all wearing this week.

  

  hat acquisitions for others in my party. Very nearly one year ago, I ... . Then I mailed everything and sat back for a month, biting my nails and sweating up a storm and refreshing Ben's and Matt's blogs a few times a day

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Ben Jones Name: Ben Jones; Job title: Communications Dude, MIT Office of Admissions; Hometown: Baltimore, MD

  

  ). Favorite TV: The OC, Alias, and Lost are the only 3 hours I give up for TV ... . And if we're really getting into my secrets, I have a thing for the ... , Counting Crows, Coldplay, U2, Incubus, Mars Volta, Death Cab For Cutie, and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 1, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Comments on A Boring Friday lItErArY aNaLySiS

  

  Spoilers for A Boring Friday, you should check that first ... → Go back to sleep → and dream → Get up and get breakfast → "Oh yeah ... invisible—up to the point where this option draws attention to it again. It

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 13, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  My “Normal” High School What it was like going to an ordinary high school

  

  organization for lost orphaned baby whales in the middle of Africa, speak Spanish ... situations. If I was working on trying to come up with some new cancer idea, my ... ideas. In fact for Christmas, some of the faculty used their own money to

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 2 Tempering Iron

  

  after researching for weeks and giving up my entire Saturday to get ... -part post. That being said, I’ll assume for now that academics at MIT won ... think about them changes--for the sake of argument. Though I left my last

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

  Summer Decisions

  

  your project. ANYONE can show up at an internship for one summer, and ... competitive applicant, about what medical schools are looking for, the ... for the GRE. STUDY FOR THE GRE! It's a dumb test but your score really

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Illusion Of Validity look inside your heart. you know it to be true.

  

  basically, it's a perfect setup for the Illusion of Validity Why is MIT ... foundation for much of the social science research I love best. In his article, Kahneman describes his time working as a psychologist for the Israeli Army

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  Kevin: Kevin said: what does the admissions office look for in ... application than to sit in a classroom for 3 hours on a Saturday and pay someone ... think about that for a minute. (When you're done laughing at how

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

  Psets from hell Sometimes learning can be painful

  

  love for math kind of changed. Not into hatred exactly, but maybe ... ...another story for another day) learned the math as we went along. I got straight A ... computation as I go. Ask me to do math for math's sake, or to do an MIT

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to college, Kid. My first week at MIT.

  

  , resilient foundation for the educational, personal, and professional ... nursery room for other newborns. He saw twenty or thirty other boys and ... caught up with them at various events during the course of the week. One

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 2 and the power of the many

  

  , accuracy) and understanding the compromises settled for in attaining this ... memory and then add them up. But if available memory was limited, so that you could see the stream of numbers you needed to sum up one at a time

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / Community Projects

  Affirmations not unnecessary

  

  sentence up with a number of caveats all to the effect of: Yes, I do know ... “betterness” exist? Would such a ranking even be useful for any real purpose? I ... would be like. I didn’t know if I was prepared for how hard MIT would be

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 29, 2025