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• Blog / About Decisions

  About Tomorrow Good Luck Tomorrow!

  

  be occupying many of your minds, and so I'd like to offer some brief ... miserable here. If it's not for you, it doesn't make you any less of a person ... place that makes you happiest. After all, it's YOUR college experience, no

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 13, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Jack of Some Trades, Master of Absolutely Nothing feeling mediocre at mit

  

  yesterday on account of being mediocre at MIT. These feelings have been sitting with me for a while. I quiet them most of the time, but occasionally they come up, bile burning in the back of my throat, to painfully remind

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 12, 2022
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Does MIT offer Army, Air Force, Navy ROTC?

  MIT is proud to offer Army, Air Force, and Naval ROTC programs on ... commissioned from MIT, of whom more than 150 have reached the rank of general or ... typically includes one or three hours of classroom training depending on year
• Blog / Blog Projects

  blogs that are marinating IS THIS POPULISM?

  

  lot of stuff left unblogged. Taylor V. '19 did something like this in August 2018 when she strung together some scraps of potential posts that ... going on, but I really want to write up at least some of my scraps. To

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Fixing a trapeze! then hanging upside-down on it

  

  most of what the studio above my old middle school had to offer, but at ... concepts of damped harmonic motion and centripetal forces, which is to say we swung around and spun each other very fast. The tire swing reminded me of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 29, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  So the rest of your decisions are coming in and let's take a second to talk about it

  

  the absolute absurdity of the US college admissions process. But you ... amount of “you’ll be happy at any college” could quell that type of burden ... Ahhh, yes. I know this time of year. Left and right you have tiny

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • March 27, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Dinner With Goobers Yeah food! Yeah people!

  

  't my grades, my afterschool activities, or other ways of bringing honor ... to watch important football games (read: all of them) during dinner. But come to think of it, the only thing lamer* than my parents' rule

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • February 27, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Some questions that I've received from prospectives.

  

  't offered at my school. Does that eliminate my chances of being accepted to ... replacement for the college level classes MIT expects out of a potential student ... get to college, you will be able to sample classes in a variety of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 8, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some comforting blogs to read while you await decisions

  

  college experience if you want to and if you work for it. Out of fear of ... released — the few quiet hours that Ben once called the eye of the storm — I wanted to take a breath and collect some words of encouragement from

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 13, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions process reflections from a crusty Junior Try not to bite all of your fingernails off.

  

  a list of 14 colleges that I was planning on applying to, but I had ... attack (i.e. stay off of College Confidential!) Really, stressing out won ... I’ve recently had a number of startling revelations: I’m almost

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  More Milk Please And a cookie too. If by cookie you mean an awesome metaphor.

  

  MIT is a lot like a bowl of milk. A really really big bowl of milk ... -loving entity of your choice). How big is this bowl of milk exactly? Well, I don ... . The truth is, like perhaps many of the 1,116 freshmen in the class of

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes from the Road: NorCal, Netherlands, Nick Cannon, and Nerd Camp where I've been, what I've been doing

  

  an offsite meeting at the University of DC, meeting with leaders of the ... College   Current levels of Vermont content are YUGE, possibly ... , because I work at a university, and because there aren't any admissions

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 22, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding heritage at MIT

  

  culture, but it's not quite there. How strange that I came to college, of ... disturbing. You go to college, supposedly become part of this "campus community ... this in part to Rush, in part to a slightly larger-than-usual number of

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Academic Things I’ve Learned no life lessons, promise

  

  of college coursework. So that's what I'm providing here: rough ... ! We got a lecture or two on the shape of the universe, and the Higgs ... In high school I always wanted to know what you learned in college

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2020
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  Am I rural or small-town? Read on to learn about what a taco bell index is

  

  stopped behind a cattle drive, or where your high school’s idea of a college ... -town story. Take advantage of the STARS College Network and the free programs ... Well, are you rural? You might have heard about the STARS College

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • May 19, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  The Story of Tonight (more like 730 nights ago)

  

  away. Who were a world separate from the encompassing universe of college ... application. In the span of a lifetime, two years is really not that long. And ... . The list of internship applications I need to fill out. The morning

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 1, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  finding meaning at the end of the world i alone determine my destiny

  

  thousands of miles away, who doesnt know anyone who went to a big college ... college student woe, it was an issue of wanting to do work but not being ... burst of direction. not running away from home, not any college acceptance

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 1, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rosalind Franklin and Kent State Two more short book reviews and some news of my summer not (directly) relating to…

  

  King's College, even though most of the people at King's didn't even know ... . The defendents were all universally cleared, leading the mother of one ... reading Rosalind Franklin: the Dark Lady of DNA by Brenda Maddox. I say

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  September Questions Omnibus 1 The answers to your recent questions.

  

  ). You can review the list of meetings at http ... specific major or a specific school/college within MIT. Students who are admitted to MIT are admitted to the entire university and may choose any

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Isaac Lozada Isaac Lozada comes from Texas to MIT.

  

  Class of 2010, here's one more... Central grad's MIT future a family ... the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, or MIT, and announced she ... this morning and land later in the day in Cambridge, Mass. - the home of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 27, 2006