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• Blog / About Decisions

  Culture, not the bacterial kind Some questions you should be asking about all the schools to which you're applying.

  

  hard, or do students in the program encourage each other to work hard? Is ... program, and since then I've realized this is probably the most important information I can ask students and faculty in the graduate programs to which I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  That Lovely Pre-Finals Period

  

  that the current structure of required/core classes leaves much to be ... while this isn't the approach most advertised to incoming freshmen, even ... -year class plan of the department in which you plan to major. I'm being

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Experience FAQs from high school counselors

  

  in the brain. Although the science on this is very new (the papers we ... the MIT Museum specifically to buy nerdy earrings (I recently pierced ... programs in the U.S. (Economics is #1, Political Science is #9), and many

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Home Sweet College Surviving first semester.

  

  home, and more about the fact that college is much closer to “the real ... , and the way I treat people. It is in part in physical things, like the ... Ethiopian scarves that I have. Mostly, I’ve just learned how to carry home in

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 29, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Mirrors Because reflection is not just that image you see of yourself in the morning, or…

  

  how to give an honest assessment of myself is probably one of the most ... it a chance to succeed is better than doing nothing. Lucky for me in ... Fun fact about me, on days when I don’t have much to do, especially

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 8, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When Econ Comes to Life This has nothing to do with econ, but you should watch it.

  

  most important for the US to do is to prevent the loss of total output ... 's already broken - what's important is getting to the root of the problem in ... of C. elegans, works in the lab right next to my UROP with the same

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  No Good Deed Goes Unpunished ...in which I introduce myself and set the tone for this "theater of the absurd."

  

  tawk? DISCLAMER: THIS BLOG IS NOT THE PLACE TO WORK OUT POLITICAL OR ... questions - remember, the only way out is to THINK your way out. Enough said ... populations. I've come to see the Internet (and now blogs) with a strong

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 11, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Deciding to Live on Campus a 4 month long emotional rollercoaster

  

  'd like to talk about exactly the opposite - deciding to live in the COVID ... trying to boot out of the country, nor do I have any in-person graduation ... the most stressful ones of my life, and is a saga that unfolded over

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 26, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What makes me an MIT student? Some thoughts about blogging and a special question for returning readers.

  

  has nothing to do with MIT, as most of the things in which I'm involved ... in more than a month, and the time had come to catch up on MIT ... commentary is perhaps more relevant to those readers who have followed on the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Going Home ... but where exactly is that?

  

  I'm currently sitting in the SeaTac airport, waiting for my flight back to Boston that's been delayed for ~2 hours. One part of me is ecstatic to get back to campus after a much needed break, to see my MIT

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 6, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Toga, Toga, Toga On being in a fraternity (info for parents too)

  

  , I'll be honest. I went to high school in the south, and you know ... opportunities, expose you to the realities of living in a house that requires ... in high school, I was a pretty shy person. I was very quiet, went to

  • by Bryan
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Days 4,5,6: NACAC Conference Part 3 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  hysterical). I got up at 4:30AM on Thursday to make it to the airport in time ... to be clogging our in-boxes. We located said wifi connection in the ... Harvard Admissions Institute. The first day of NACAC is mostly social. Some

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Listing It All Out you get a list and you get list and you get a list

  

  ’s Cafe- Conveniently located right next to the Koch Building in Kendall ... the Indian in me appreciates being able to eat with my hands hehe El ... makes the best and most authentic desi food in Boston. The biryani slaps

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 29, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  No Child Gets Ahead?

  

  There was an article in the New York Times yesterday about a topic that is very interesting to me (and you, I suspect): gifted education ... established Davidson Academy, coming to Nevada residents courtesy of the folks

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  lifting heavy objects and the grungy basement gym

  

  dust gathers in the corners. The equipment is shaky and old, and there ... .  I’ve come to love weightlifting, for the most basic reasons: the ... I met while backpacking in Italy showed me how to use the kettle bell

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  The View is Worth It but you have to make the climb yourself to find out

  

  the Highline Trail in Glacier National Park. This is one of the most ... to be mostly neutral in the end. Maybe even slightly negative. Honestly ... in the Green Building. I insisted to my boyfriend that I wanted to do

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 7, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  CMU / Parallel Universe i am not a clown

  

  they call UC, much like how MIT's is nicknamed the Stud. Thanks to ... tried to find the room the graders were supposed to be in. CMU's campus is ... , you have to use their language, right?" The joke is that Harvard calls

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Senior Gift Kickoff Make your mark, without (grade?) inflation

  

  campaign Our class's theme is the "5.0 Challenge" -- to achieve at least 50% participation in donating. Sadly, I don't think our theme is as incredibly awesome ... the grading scale in many of my classes. Not much Ivy -style grade

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to Maseeh! A look into MIT's newest dorm

  

  think the world knows much about Maseeh, so I'm going to give an e ... much that it's starting to get cliche, but I love the people here! I ... As you may or may not know, I'm a Maseehdonian (aka I live in the new

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 30, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Teaching Splash (and Overcoming the Impostor Syndrome) guest post by Haley C. '18

  

  the morning and headed over to check-in. This is a three-hour shift of ... , most recently in 11.124 Introduction to Education. I loved hearing about ... weaved through the horde of students in the Infinite to get to lobby 10

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 18, 2016