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• Blog / Challenges

  The End of an Era A no-longer-freshman's reflections on life, the universe, and MIT-specific details

  

  drifts off into the sunset. I’m not actually a balloon though, so I wouldn’t ... a second thought to the spaces between letters. We don’t think about ... pencil that I could take a step back and notice the difference. I didn’t

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 24, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  snapshot diary an image a day keeps the psets away

  

  went. But for this term, it was kind of a blur. I couldn't really think ... sorts. I didn't look around physically, since I'm not on campus. Through ... classes, which was a moment I was not prepared for. Why can't I just sit

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 3, 2022
• Blog / Events

  ZBT Soiree A part with many desserts and friends... fortunately, I left before the karaoke part. (9…

  

  this is a picture of you, but I'm not sure.) Some of my suitemates ... Tau (ZBT) for their dessert soiree. I'm not usually the shortest person in a group... In the picture below are my friends Elyse '07 (Course

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 29, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  My Application Story Modified (but mostly plagiarized) from my personal blog. Enjoy the copy pasta.

  

  regarded highly enough that there wasn't a significant difference. So another ... . Is it ironic or fitting that I, a legacy admit, wasn't enamored until ... I have an interesting MIT “story.” It wasn't my first choice school

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 17, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  looking at old journals gap year chronicles, ft thoughts on science, art, and moving through the world

  

  that list to the ones that are most palatable for a blog. # I didn’t ... shows a lot -- the curly, legible cursive when I'm thinking carefully ... don't know.) (No one told you that this was a good idea because it's not

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 23, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  This is where my decisions have taken me perspectives from grad school

  

  good to specialize. As a grad student, I'm responsible for every detail of a project. I own it, even if goodness knows it wasn’t my idea. When ... questions I couldn't have answered a year or even a few months ago. I answered

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 15, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT Perfect SAT scores and #1 class ranks are so last millennium.

  

  a bad score, and there are certainly a lot of people who think you can't ... with my EC. I didn't really worry about it. I was going to OSU on a full ... the class. I didn't really worry about it. I was going to OSU on a full

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Listening What's in your stereo?

  

  governing factors to guide my list-making besides "I'm just going to list a ... The Trash" by Punch Brothers: A really high M value for this one. Punch ... What all started as a blatant rip-off of Kris's post on summer

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 12, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I DECLARE BASICNESS!!!!! a major major update

  

  I made a whole ordeal out of switching into 10B, and now I'm just ... I come today as the bearer of some un-chic news. It is not only a frankly boring, overdone announcement, but a regression to my previous self

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 30, 2026
• Blog / Hacks

  Nerd movie update

  

  hacks, I'd be doing you a great disservice if I didn't close this entry ... my old Baker House housemate, who was a Sequence Supervisor for special effects company Industrial Light & Magic (ILM). He was a Digital Effects

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 24, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  New York, New York

  

  conclusions," Dr. Perelman said. "Because M.I.T. is a place where everything is ... I'm in New York City now, staying in a hotel a stone's throw from the ... assessments for entering M.I.T. freshmen. He fears that the new 25-minute SAT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything, all at once thoughts on science, ambition, and obsession

  

  made a comment, half-joking, something to the effect of "I can't wait to ... want to live a calm life and do a little science while I'm at it. We had ... burnout ever again. I had already made it to MIT, didn’t I deserve a break

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 2, 2022
• Blog / How to MIT

  Parting Remarks Part I: Leaving Marks reciprocal changes

  

  note="a freshman learning community that was great but wasn't for me ... subtitling that thing. I don't remember what exactly I wrote, but it was a ... go here and not change just a little. Here are those changes that I'm

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 28, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Q&A I asked current freshmen about the things they wish they knew for their CPW!

  

  you don't miss a thing (I actually did that) - but relax! Take advantage ... East Campus and ask for me, Array. I'm a Medlink here in East Campus, and ... into a rainbow! Also, our theme this year is the Great Depression. I don't

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 9, 2014
• Blog / How to MIT

  Pay it forward I used to have a guilt complex.

  

  QUESTIONS!" Seriously. I’m not making this up. People here love to teach. A ... the time. They are busy, and you shouldn't use them as a resource ... lend you a hand, so you shouldn't feel shy or embarrassed. This

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  decisions, decisions why are there so many of them

  

  Boston on 9/1, I didn't anything to sleep on. A combination of friends ... undergrad isn't the best idea since I'll just have to retake a very similar ... ) minor. i’m a firm believer in taking classes and just letting the minors

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 9, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Airplane boy strikes again Adam writes about his UROP.

  

  testing, and it introduced me to a lot of the software that I'm now using in ... year -- I had never taken a physics class before, and I just didn't ... sleep, and I hadn't figured out yet that there's a correlation between, um

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 12, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Downtown if you could see it then you’d understand

  

  -down and slacks; I’m wearing a t-shirt and shorts. “Couldn’t be wearing ... Filipino-Americans don’t speak Filipino, or how a lot of Chinese ... Saturday, 11 AM. Alan Z. ’23 sends me a message. Alan: what do you

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 26, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  oh, the places you’ll go

  

  didn't quite realize that these laminated words atop a dirty whiteboard ... scoffed and said that psychology was a fake science and didn't deserve any ... realities often, wondering if I hadn't gotten into MIT, if I would be in a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 9, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  My MIT Story How I came to be at MIT

  

  wanted to go to MIT, it wasn't just a name anymore. How did I know? A lot ... , MIT has a sense of humor, no doubt in my mind, I'm going there. Since ... wanted. MIT asks for a lot in terms of high school classes and if you aren't

  • by Snively '11
  • July 28, 2008