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• Blog / About Decisions

  context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?

  

  the richest university in the world. Her campaign’s top priorities ... response was “I wish my head was big enough to do this”. It didn’t take long ... , privileges, and confidence. This is a long introduction, but the picture needs

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
• Blog / Community Projects

  [guest blog] y(I)APping nothing crazy just another IAP blog

  

  massachusettsian". (shoutout DEAPS '23!) As stated in this post, IAP is one of the ... Delhi and Agra, we headed to the host university, living in dorms for a ... more about the culture and customs at other universities. i spent all my

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 13, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Turning the Tide My thoughts on an important report

  

  due to the mixed messages that colleges and universities are sending ... state, etc.)" And we continually ensure that our admissions decisions ... universities make are aligned with what we say and what we believe. It is my

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 20, 2016
• Blog / Summer

  and they were roommates living with "randos"

  

  that I'd be okay with whatever choice they picked, as long as they were ... on a river. The city was a hundreds of colorful pebbles on a beach of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 6, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  What’s happening to your apps right now? Views from the Inside

  long and hard, and I totally remember being in your shoes in turmoil ... reacquainted with Beatles For Sale--and Beach House. What're you eating

  • by DJ Rock
  • February 2, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Today A Trader Joe's monologue

  

  a particularly long time, so I opted to walk down eight flights of ... situated at the midpoint between Boston University and MIT, and just as I ... Boston University, because Boston College is so far. If he's wondering, I

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • April 23, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  Gettin’ Fancy Two formal events in two days?

  

  beaver. Figure 3. Students comMIT to an engagement with a university ... to make the university happy. Eventually, this engagement will end in a ... last week of April. This tradition will most likely continue as long as

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • May 3, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Meeting Neil deGrasse Tyson ASTRONOMERS! Learn to moonwalk. You'll need it some day.

  

  have imagined they had an interest in the universe, or in science at all ... responding to various offerings of the universe made in these media. Twitter ... and offer suggestions on how such efforts may benefit the long

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 9, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Week(end) [Read: New York] Adventures Parts 2-4 I’ve affectionately named these adventures: #metroentertainment

  

  Frida’s Soul Food near Columbia University 11:27 pm – more movies and ... assignments, summer project proposals, and chocolate. With a to-do list as long ... and the University of Pittsburgh. My favorite parts about these few

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • April 2, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The rest of my life is a black hole. But not the fascinating kind that's the topic of extensive astrophysical…

  

  adult who has led an interesting and fulfilling life and have LIVED long ... to try to figure out what's at the edge of the universe. Is there a plexiglass wall? Is there another universe? Where does that one end? Try as you

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 24, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Many Ways To Define “The Best” A long response to a CC thread in which I offer my opinions on AP…

  

  'll be sortof long, sorry. First, the MIT adcom perspective. I don't know ... universities out there (some of which actually admit kids with no AP's!). Many of ... GC's, the parents, the colleges and universities, the high

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Cognitive Processes or: i take a personality test again

  

  overrated and I think people should choose a different universe to immerse ... scale from "Not Me" to "Exactly Me." The test also states that ... state or sudden release of emotions. - Exactly Me This plays a bit in the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 2, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  goodbye goodbye goodbye what's in store for me?

  

  unknown, to open my arms out to it and welcome what the universe has in ... made this long list of things i was gonna do to improve myself and “glo ... longingly looking at a screen and envy a freakin’ sim. so i got my sh

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Three Tales of Junior Year Accidental Harvard Class, UROPs, Experimenting in College

  

  longing for lessons past” way. I discovered 5 classes like that junior year ... ). UROPs The MIT UROP program is... awesome! As long as you work with an MIT ... email a professor anytime to ask about life, UROPs, the universe, and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 10, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I Never Thought I Would Join a Sorority ...but here I am?

  

  sororities and fraternities at University X do have all of those problems, like ... her fears in college was that she would not make any real life-long ... new group. To make a long story short (one for a whole other blog post

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hwæt! Did you know that you can study Old English at MIT? The language of Beowulf and J.R.R. Tolkien's Rohan

  

  .R.R. Tolkien, Old English (also called Anglo-Saxon) is a language of long, cold ... up by those behind. The procession is very long and life is very short ... you a fan of the Lord of the Rings universe? JRR Tolkien studied Old

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Introduction to D-Lab Saving the world - just one of the many things you can do at MIT.

  

  as through UROPs or other initiatives. No matter how little or how long ... continue to be relevant long beyond they've left MIT. I first heard about D ... CARE; and helped strengthen ties with the University of Zambia (UNZA

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nicht Bach, Sondern Maurer The proudest moment of my life since figuring out that "Wok & Roll" was a…

  

  Decker fail to save the universe with his well-intentioned but ultimately ... 's seriously a genius. Long long ago, in one of my favorite MITblogs entries of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions advice from someone who’s been there

  

  a research lab at your local university...anything, really, as long as ... ...but this post is getting long, and I bet you get my point, which is that it

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  You’ve got questions… ...I've got answers strewn amidst an explosion of other stuff.

  

  a long time + great friends = pretty much the best night ever ... one summer through a program at Northwestern University. For the high ... , since this one is getting entirely too long. Admit it. It is. I'd say you

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 6, 2006