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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every now and then, my mind = blown. Thanks, Science!

  

  at the idea of doodling a science-question post. I still plan on ... . Holy moly, I'm still reeling from the geniusness of this group. Now I ... this magical science place. But before I do, a big disclaimer is that I

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 11, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  immediately called my mom who was in Vietnam, even though it was 3a.m, because I ... street. Sometimes I was on campus until 3-4 am and didn’t feel a tinge of ... In my blogging folder, I had a draft post that sums up my senior year

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  study spots at MIT not exactly places to cry, but they'll do

  

  someone comfy seats next to a table so I can sit cross-legged I don't ... 3rd, I didn't see much there). there's a lounge on the second floor ... ="86710" /] 6th Floor I'm a 6th floor devotee. I romanticized it so much last

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  because they need to, of course). I didn't have a single class before 1pm ... tea off Amazon in September for occasions like this; I'm not really a ... I recently saw a comic where a professor says "This is not the type

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  , tired from a fun day of teaching. But somehow, I wasn’t exhausted. It’s a ... that it really wasn’t that huge of a time commitment, around two to six ... part, a tiny portion of how the whole program worked, and I still don’t

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HOW TO FORGE A DRAGON SWORD and other skills picked up in 3.096

  

  . This gave a degree of accuracy to 1mL, or 1g. I would be able to get ... I've been blacksmithing for just shy of a year. This fall, I took 3.096: Architectural Ironwork, a class which not only counts as both 2-A credit and HASS

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 7, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, by the Calories free food is everywhere

  

  , I was lucky – if I hadn’t happened to stay late in a classroom near 10 ... you don’t like free food, you’ll love it here, too – there is also a lot ... A few weeks ago, I attended a meeting for one of MIT’s many clubs. It

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

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

  

  and checked off a huge goal on our season bucket list! It really doesn’t get much better than a conference championship :)  [caption id ... like I just stepped on campus to begin preseason, and now I’m handing in

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 21, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  placed near each other was fulfilled, even if we couldn’t really spend a ... AM. I didn’t have that much stuff—I only had a suitcase, a box fan, and ... ’s not acute. I haven’t shouted in the courtyard in frustration. I haven’t

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Reflecting on 10 Years and Lessons Learned Happy Birthday, MIT Blogs!

  

  , and you probably don’t have responsibilities to a family of your own yet ... Don’t Know What I’m Doing Become okay with not having all the answers ... gave me a bookmark with a quote by Wernher von Braun: Research is What I’m

  • by Kim D. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Essay: Yogurt Edition! You like froyo? I like froyo! ^___^V

  

  applied to college 2 years ago (2 years! I'm old :( ), I wrote over a dozen ... trying to answer a question? If we don't conclude, how are they going know ... embellishment of protracted circumlocution. A note of caution here: I'm not

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  left. My heart decided to mimic my bed and turn into a rock. I couldn’t ... T O N. Enter. The screen refreshed. This time with a letter. Again ... To a lot of people, myself included, getting into MIT is the dream we

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  AOs write the “What do you do for fun?” essay Ever wondered what admissions officers do when they're not reading applications?

  

  person. But this isn’t a blog about how to write a college essay. If you ... ’ve never met, a person who technically doesn’t exist. Let me explain. When I ... best friends playing a sport that has given me so much. The joy isn’t

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself on choosing a college, and realizing one of many possible futures

  

  working to realize a future where I didn't work for MIT Admissions; where I ... , so I don't have anything to regret or not. Except: I'm glad I applied ... Sam, because that is not his name. As we sat on a bench in Lobby 7, Sam

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Unofficial Guide to Unstandard MITglish, 1st Edition The joy of jargon.

  

  Somewhere along the way, the MIT campus picked up a distinctive, localized dialect like a wandering hitchhiker on the sideroads of esoteric ... exaggerated clarity and make a point of crisp, rapid pronunciation in everyday

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Units of Measure A simple question with a lot of cool answers

  

  celebrity units. I'm not always the one asking the question, of course - I don't ... assigned to them by another member of Conner 2. I can't remember all of the units of my floormates but I remember a few. A Tang measured orthogonality

  • by Snively '11
  • January 7, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the Deferred I feel your pain.

  

  should have expected it, that I probably wasn't a good fit for MIT anyway ... believed the MIT Admissions Office when they told me that a deferral wasn't just a "polite rejection." I started to hope again. ~*~ Today, I'm here

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If man is five Then most people are six, and if most people are six then pre-meds are seven.

  

  're a chemical engineer (Course 10), you don't care about molecules. At ... ! It was for like 30 seconds, for a variety of reasons, but it was cool just to be in the same room for a minute and catch a glimpse of his well

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Christianity at MIT An intro to Cru!

  

  Harvard, Wellesley, Babson, Tufts, (and a bunch of others that I’m probably ... I’ve been trying to write a blog about Christianity and Cru at MIT for literal months now. Every time I start writing it I feel like I’m

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Dissecting emotion what is feeling

  

  probably won't be coming back as a senior. And after that, I'll be a senior ... . But what if that's not true? Four. I feel nothing. That's a lie. I'm ... knowledge that you won't experience it for a while. There's aching, and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 3, 2021