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• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  I’ve recently had a number of startling revelations: I’m almost ... was a no-brainer. My anticipation was compounded by the fact that I had a list of 14 colleges that I was planning on applying to, but I had

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 5, 2006
• Blog / Events

  The Igs Where Science meets Silly. Hello Silly!

  

  which point I had to confess. "Actually, I'm wearing a binary watch ... , now how about the Ig Nobels? The Ig Nobels are a humorous offshoot of ... yourself "I'm ridiculous! I can do really absurd research! I should win an Ig

  • by Snively '11
  • January 15, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Smashing pumpkins and other halloween treats Turning back time and dropping squash off of tall buildings

  

  couldn’t go skating this year because my sorority was putting on a ... backward correlates with a small increase in the number of fatal auto ... bustling with Halloween-related activities this weekend. SaveTFP, a group

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 30, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Temp assignments and cautionary tales

  

  you can't live in an FSILG until you're a sophomore. Unfortunately, in ... , for that matter) of Dorm Rush. As a result, they aren't quite sure what ... things that are often made. I'm using this entry to warn you against a few

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 2 Tempering Iron

  

  my professors--a move I’m pretty glad I took! Asking for help is ... me I’m fine with a C in their class. Back in high school, I was on the ... timid. I couldn’t even speak in front of a class of second graders. I was

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 28, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The Experiment… featuring Emily '22, Felix '23, and Alison '23

  

  [annotation note="You’re telling me we don’t even deserve a once upon ... help find the [annotation note="Wow, imagine being a blogger, couldn’t be ... have [annotation note="I can’t get over how much T A L E N T Emily and

  • by kellen manning
  • July 8, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  would have to abandon the other. I'm almost hoping that I don't have a ... get into graduate school and don't get a full time job offer. I get a full time job offer and don't get into graduate school. I get neither a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 7, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  blogger tag yourself: quarantine edition favorite hobby? looking in the mirror and wondering if i'm real

  

  if i didn't tag myself as, erm, myself, i'd probably say i'm Afeefah. damn, i'm always working in bed and it's SUCH an issue. who are you? let us know :)

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 1, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Love, organically Mitra and I feel it in our fingers and feel it in our tosylates.

  

  , we got a response. Now, again, I don't have the exact e-mail to quote ... address them if you write an e-mail back! Because you can't call a professor ... tomorrow for your integration by parts-ing pleasure. Right now I have a story

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 29, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  [joint post] a guide to mit gyms see Gloria's post

  

  https://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/joint-post-a-guide-to-dorm-gyms/

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • September 4, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview It's only going to be as fun as you want it to be.

  

  finally meet up with your EC, don't regard him or her as a foe. The MIT ... walk into your interview, don't think that you have to be a "typical MIT ... research in high school, don't feel compelled to provide your EC with a 40

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 26, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  last concert

  

  my last concert with the mit ohms, my a cappella group, happened around two weeks ago usually we hire a sound company to handle sound on ... concert, and four days isn’t enough notice to book another company so we

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 26, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Summer Decisions

  

  . Disclaimer that I haven't slept in 22 hours. - Last summer, a life plan took ... presented a poster at a winter conference, but the results weren't at a stage ... continued by saying that it really didn't matter very much - either would be a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More thoughts on classes However, I did not find Matt's stuff (see blog post below this one).

  

  acceleration a = (5=3) £ 106 m=s2 for precisely 30 minutes (as measured by his ... daily agenda, or even sources of Vitamin C. To start with a simple example ... classes. The first ten weeks or so straddled a slender line between

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 11, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  my freshman year playlist 2/3 of a year in 25 songs

  

  COIN — i don't have any particular memories tied to this; it's just a ... playlists is one of my favorite things to do, so i decided to create a ... freshman year was cut abruptly short, i'm doing this post now instead of in

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  19 Summers AHH I'm getting old :(

  

  admissions site about it) so here's a breakdown. If you aren't interested in my ... people - and I'm still friends with a number of them today. Occasionally, I ... family in Antibes that didn't speak a word of English - and my

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  The Public’s Biggest Fear ...is no longer one of mine.

  

  : You Won't Blank Out, but if you're really worried, bring a notecard. I ... worst, I could take a peek. I don't think that there's anything wrong with ... 'll think your presentation wasn't great. They'll realize you made a mistake

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The Minerva Delusion the political economy of an educational scam

  

  that doesn't have to worry about cultivating diverse perspectives in a ... Minerva has higher standards then Harvard, then how is a student who can't ... prestigious private school I was in love with. I didn't get in. I went to a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 6, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  visual depictions of my summer i've been a busy, busy bee.

  

  ="aligncenter" width="487"] Cinnamon rolls[/caption] A few days later, I travelled halfway around the world to start my internship, and was housed at a really ... Brewery[/caption] A meme that hit home-- I saw a bear!! [caption id

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 3, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Underneath All That Polish… ...lies a few things you wouldn't want to miss

  

  remembered there being a fancy couch where I could sit, and looking back, I'm ... 've gotten used to a lot of things about the Institute. And sometimes, when I have a lot of work to do (as has been the case for, quite honestly, the

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 7, 2012