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• Blog / Admissions

  “the worst they can say is no” the costs of trying

  

  happen is they say no, which is the same result as if you never ask" to be bizarre. The worst thing that can happen is much worse than a simple no. Don ... is true that I'm exposing myself to much less risk these days. But

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 10, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Important EA Processing Update! read this if your application is incomplete

  

  to fax the document to us. The fax number you should use is included in ... College Board to go directly to MIT, we will receive them in time for ... required from you. The most important rule of having a application missing

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  I’ve been reading applications And I'm still reading them

  

  , this blog is certainly not going to satisfy that curiosity. (You’re in ... ’ve struggled in the past to establish a healthy routine for reading applications ... a fast-track to burnout—an unfortunately familiar phenomenon in the

  • by Jeremy W.
  • November 28, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  packing for the road looking back on nights that last forever

  

  table saw my handful of plastic Ben Franklins and invited me to buy in. I ... dorms, at MIT. There is a narrative, I think, of fitting in to one dorm ... you get to MIT. I've seen how this is true for some. But for me, the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 27, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  And the Whistle Blows soccer post-season & my last competitive soccer game

  

  became a conscious idea in my mind. It is almost absurd to think that the ... bid to the D3 NCAA tournament, which is the national tournament. We ... bus trip to a random liberal arts college somewhere in the Northeast

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 21, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  NM – u? Sometimes there just isn't that much crazy in my life. Splish splash.

  

  secret life goal #11 is to get on television, I made a big show jumping in ... interesting things about which I can't wait to blog. The rest of the weeks ... blog. Last Wednesday, I knew it was supposed to snow pretty much all day

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 23, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dass ein Ende mit mir haben muss ...und mein Leben ein Ziel hat.

  

  to complain, but, hey, it's pretty much the same for ninety percent of ... old. The semester is winding down, like someone's demented yo ... assignments for most of my classes are due this week. That means that while the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 8, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  learning about Things!! cool classes explained in easy words

  

  [annotation note="why is 'teach' not in the ten hundred most common words ... year old. So I'll try to use only the ten hundred most used words to ... ="obviously class numbers are not in the ten hundred most used words, but I'm leaving

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 16, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger Application 2010 Apply...if you dare!

  

  in the sun for the last two days, and when I got on it to ride to work ... /Writing Experience This is your "portfolio", and is the single most important part of ... blogging). However, a blog is not required. Prior experience in the medium

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 7, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Journey back Home from PE Class photodocumenting the trek across campus

  

  and relative warmth is here to stay. In this final quarter of my time ... to the West side of campus twice, even though it is only a 10-minute ... about culture and architecture. The spherical building in the back is

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 26, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  starting over and over again

  

  Starting anything is hard. In fact, starting is often the hardest ... trying to decide what it is and if I want it to change at all. At the very ... to take to work the following day. I think the key, for me, is to not

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 11, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  How Are You? because it's not just a simple question

  

  Life is busy at MIT. Most of the time, our schedules and motivation ... failing to know how the people around you are really doing. In the past few ... lives. We see that one kid that sits behind us in lecture. And to all of

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 19, 2017
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  Ebony Affair as a Pre-Frosh A Recap of my Experience from the 49th year of the Program

  

  pretty much had free reign in what we got to do before the main event for ... not to attend the Ebony Affair program mostly because I wasn’t sure what ... the Stata Center for seniors in the Black Community to get recognized

  • by Richard O. '28
  • March 25, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Last Look Back 201920192019

  

  , I've been able to fall back into the routine of life at home. In ... about what the future is going to hold. Consider it the junior-year crisis ... study-abroad in South Africa, where I got to meet some of the kindest of

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Adam makes a guest appearance Adam's motto: Step one, get it done. Step two, there's always more to do.

  

  much work they have to do. I guarantee you that one day will not go by in ... conducted on warm, calm, rain-free days. The problem is that it's March in New ... I have not yet created the technology that allows me to be in two

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Eighth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 5PM on 01/24/06.

  

  new material comes in, the folder is returned to the primary reader to ... 've done in the last year. As this year's applicant pool is shaping up to be ... these exams is pretty much look for the right answer. Thus, if you weren

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 24, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Holding pattern undergrad | me | graduation

  

  Undergraduate Research The sad part is, as much as I try to deny it, I think I ... is, well...being old, I guess? For example, 2.002 is the follow-up to 2 ... basketball, as of late March. Our season ended in the first round of the NCAA

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • April 6, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s bigger than you, and you are not me. Consider this entry the hint of the century.

  

  environment would be more conducive to my learning, which is one of the major ... . But, of course, this is not the entire portrait of MIT's culture--much ... four hours in the 6.002 laboratory trying to figure out how to use a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 22, 2006
• Blog / Class Projects

  Make a Lamp! and cart the pieces of it from IDM to IDC, the forge, Metropolis, and back…

  

  most of the processes. The class seems to be designed for business and ... base of the lamp in wood, I knew I wanted the body to be metal. My first ... the metal base was going well. I'd cut it in steel, which is stiffer

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Greetings from MIT Labs! Introducing MIT: The Game

  

  Game, you will be able to participate in all the most important aspects ... ! It probably is. The flash file is packed with so much awesomeness that ... Game is a revolutionary breakthrough in admissions technology. Designed

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 1, 2011