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• Blog / MIT Life

  Eleven "And the award for 'least creative entry title ever' goes to..."

  

  all year and he decides now, with two weeks of school left (at that ... wasn't hard, just very badly organized. At the end of every term, you ... it considering the tuition here, but at least it's over. As one of the

  • by Karen F. '11
  • May 20, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  A Protocol for MIT Admissions Essays Chemical SOP: Pen, paper: irritant if digested; Brains: gateway to thinking

  

  short sentence at the end of an essay or story to maximize its impact. Unfortunately this often backfires: a short sentence at the very end of an essay ... letting them read at the end of your second revision. Ask them to read after

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 26, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  Exploring MIT’s sports facilities there's so much to see!

  

  thrown at us. At the end of the day: I'm super grateful that MIT has turf ... It’s a beautiful spring day here at MIT – the sun is peeking through ... do it! As you may have noticed, I’ve been kind of into the whole tour

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 4, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I swear this isn’t an ad for Google But Bard is so much more fun than ChatGPT

  

  .) “What was Course VI originally known as at MIT?” We’re now in the realm of ... make ChatGPT give me a list of jokes while writing this post, but it just ... !” like five times"]ChatGPT[/annotation] and the previous version of Bard

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / How to MIT

  Boys like cars and money $1 billion is not enough for thefacebook, but $9 an hour is good enough for…

  

  . Check people in and out of the dorm at the beginning and end of the year ... -motivational posters online at this website. I was walking to the down Amherst Street ... going to the end of this block." MAN: "It's actually free!" ME: "No

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 25, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Long Overdue Q&A Post Sorry for the delay!

  

  Year Grade Report it says to return the form at the end of the second ... -year grade report at the end of January. Also, a quick question about ... ! Some of these go back pretty far, but better late than never

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Catching up What's new? Lots of things. I just haven't told you about them yet, because finals…

  

  elimination. (I kid you not.) I made a list of all 20 some odd majors here at ... found out that all of my finals were crammed into the first two days of finals week, I thought- "YES! I'll get out of here way early." So I told my

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  anxiety and feelings of depression often feel at odds with each other. in ... one day everything will change. in finding meaning at the end of the ... middle, to three of their friends flanking them. i glance again at the

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

  Out There kicking off spring break with some Chinese food, some anime, and some media studies

  

  One of my favorite classes this year is CMS.100 -- Introduction to ... latest book, The Soul of Anime, examines the notion of "collaborative creativity" in the context of Japanese anime production and propagation through

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 22, 2014
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Things I Know to Be True: Addendum One A post I hate, and some truths from my first year at MIT

  

  if I ever encountered a stormy sea at MIT, which I often do, I could ... artifacts of reality crashing to the floor. If it was a creature, it would ... behind it. I don't like the blog at all. I take some pride in saying this

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • June 20, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  unquantifiable growth progress that can't be measured

  

  quantitative measures of growth. I first realized my tendency to quantify at the end of last semester. One of my final assignments in a literature class ... easy to measure my life at MIT by courseload units, GPA, hours slept

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 5, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pie No, not pi.

  

  HORRIBLE! You probably just lounged around and laughed at all of us!" While I ... a giant party that you get to be the guest of honor at. Soak it in ... 't gotten in and spent quite a while fairly upset. Thousands of applicants

  • by Snively '11
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Sorry you didn’t meet me :( I missed Meet-The-Bloggers, and some things on this semester

  

  when I was a wee freshman and now she's all grown up and class of 2011 ... the little pine tree on the side of the road instead of the big huge ... , and good thing, too, since I'll be working at NASA this summer building

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • April 15, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  yet i maintain composure manu tenere “i hold by hand”

  

  felt, at least, to me. i’ve seen members of the esp team put in hours ... to lead me through any steps. i was taking a phase two waltz class, at the time, so i knew most of the basics. the cuer’s voice tells us the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 9, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some Things I Wish I Knew Coming In in retrospect,

  

  seen. Seen in the sense of sending a message to someone, but they just look at the message and don't respond. In Spanish as in English, you ... , in which case you should look and listen instead of just hear (protip

  • by Abby H. '20
  • August 16, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Physics A short novel.

  

  out instead of taking them all at once, there are a couple arguments ... classes you'll never need and don't even like instead of spending your time ... spent a lot of time and effort preaching to you about your high school

  • by Karen F. '11
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  December Questions Omnibus 1 Post-decision questions answered.

  

  applications. I've seen a couple of these cases so far this year. "I look at last ... whichever major they like at the end of the freshman year. 2b) Yes, you may ... account) really send their application? I guess at least 50% of those who

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Failing and perfectionism

  

  by itself was really boring. The challenge of winning a bunch of stuff ... -achiever-ism go hand in hand whenever people discuss either of those topics, but ... to how someone confronts failure. The goal of high achievement is to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 12, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Happy Birthday to m—-suck. I turn 20 and cry tears of blood

  

  are at least two reasons behind this, one that's my choosing and the ... entries is because I'm no longer a freshman, meaning all of my admissions ... tasty avocado. *My roommate found a box of 50 avocados for $3 TOTAL in an

  • by Snively '11
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  “I’ve Got 99 Problems… Admissions Is Not One” Really 52, but who's counting? I know that you love numbers, stats and checklists, so…

  

  at the end of an Ashante concert. (This is NOT an endorsement of ... it's time for me to lighten the mood around here. So to all of you uber-serious folk... back away slowly and no one will get hurt. As most of you know

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • October 21, 2005