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• Blog / Admissions

  Application Advice v2.0 How to survive the application process without losing your mind.

  

  . Admissions is trying to sort through that pile and find the ones that would ... little old lady in the world to cross the street to no avail. No one ... ideas how to get him noticed beyond the normnal high scores in school. He

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 20, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on fitness, health, and food a couple of moments over the years

  

  progress in the gym is going to slip away. But I am most definitely in a ... 15 everyone had warned me about? I came home due to the pandemic in ... much higher than the amount I had restricted myself too, and it was in no

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 24, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a lesson in the feminine arts aka mfa boston and a rant on enjoying art

  

  the off-putting nature and seemingly no answers kinda pulls you in? To ... times in different lightings, trying to perfect how light works on the ... only photo I got and the tag wasn't in frame, so I'm sorry to say it and

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 30, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  I did not graduate on time

  

  that got us through high school to here. We become "jaded" is the official term.  In the fall of senior year, I got my first D in a mostly ... , that is, until I fell in love with Nerd Paradise.  The Harvard elective

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 13, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  A Monday in the Life So many to-do’s, so little time.

  

  getting anything done is really just remembering to actually do it, and I sometimes don't ever get past the recall part, so I decided to outsource that responsibility to an app called Todoist. A pen and paper could achieve the same

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • November 13, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  a perfect long weekend in other words: i did no work and now am kind of a mess

  

  with so much energy before.    the show went by in the blink of an ... with its other showings, so…   i wasn’t really in the mood to work ... made were in the sections i choreographed (the irony…). my parents really

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 18, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, damn lies, and statistics

  

  I decided that the comment would be too long. Because in addition to ... to get in somewhere good. You don't have to be valedictorian, be in the ... I read Ben's entry about the thread on College Confidential (in the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  the senior mindset gnothi seauton

  

  the lesson to take away from this is "when you're in the freshman ... this post a lot trying to break it down. In the end, I decided it came ... 's kinda a chonky set of claims, huh? I want to be very clear that this is in

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 20, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  The reading season begins

  

  promising and in good hands. Yes, it's Saturday, and I'm working. Much of the ... Boston, the ability to have so many colleges right nearby is a really great ... reading carefully every sheet of paper in your folder and summarizing the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 6, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Big MIT Career Fair Lots of companies are on campus today recruiting MIT students.

  

  , and much more. According to statistics from the MIT Careers Office, in ... , are making their way to the largest of MIT's annual career fairs. Today ... for them, or to do a summer internship. The companies span the spectrum

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2 / Keep Calm and Carry On Getting some much-needed vitamin D on the other coast

  

  , went to my first bar in Boston, and stayed up into the wee hours ... as amazing. I got to watch the sun set on the beach without a worry in ... opportunity to interview on-site at another company in the Bay Area in two days

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 30, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Global Poverty: ‘This Is Our Crisis’ People lead busy lives, and fighting poverty is hardly an extracurricular activity to which most…

  

  of others who were in line, I anxiously awaited the chance to hear ... extracurricular activity to which most can devote time – unless, that is, you ... . GPI is easily one of the most organized and sophisticated initiatives

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  The Art of Scheduling breaking and forming habits

  

  bright light, and rods allow you to see better in the dark, which is why ... , on the other hand, is much more rigid, depending on where you are. For the most part, I had to be at work from 10AM-6PM, Monday through Friday

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  the best thing i did for myself as a pre-frosh the one where i gush about burton one

  

  the warmth still feels like a tiny miracle. Campus is starting to ... home to the 41 and see that the alignment chart is being updated, and 5 ... get a text that there's pad thai in the 52, and one of our DJ's is

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • April 7, 2025
• Blog / Residential Life

  water wars, lovecrafting, and 361 other REX events your annotated guide to everything currently unfolding on campus

  

  for you [ed: in case you want to move via FYRE]. Most of all, REX is a ... experience. For the rest of you, REX is the perfect time to explore MIT's dorms ... The sun is shining, the birds are singing, and the Class of 2023 is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 27, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sunsets Academics at the other Cambridge.

  

  because the last thing you want to do is to waste a supervision. The good thing about weekly psets at MIT is that there's an end to the madness ... The sun always seems to hover near eye level. It gets a bit

  • by Cambridge
  • November 13, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  I walk a lonely road and it takes a lot of time

  

  ships on display. I take a diversion to The Alchemist and take in the way ... admire the reflections of headlights in the street. Simmons to Du Pont T ... is in the Forge and Foundry space below the Infinite Corridor, where we

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • October 20, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finals Week, from my perspective My finals.

  

  . That class is the most information intensive class I've ever seen in my ... airport I'm trying to fly into is about to get buried in the worst snow ... * final that could be equated to being repeatedly paddled in the face

  • by Snively '11
  • December 20, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Christmas in December and July

  

  place out in the suburbs, Strawberry Fair, then made our way down to ... West. Plimoth Plantation, which is mostly closed for the season, was next ... the past eight years I've been in Boston, and we've never strugged to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 21, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UROP Deadlines and Openings The deadline for Fall Direct Funding is September 15, so hurry up and find yourself…

  

  levels. Most important to us is that you are interested, motivated, and ... relevant to ongoing projects in the lab, help design experiments, and be ... of the speaker, in order to align head and hand gestures with the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 7, 2005