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• Blog / Academics & Research

  close your eyes and put your finger on the map and other ways to make grad school decisions

  

  , applying is still scary and depends on a bunch of personal factors.   ... was a sample size of 20, and master's aren't required by any means, but ... ."]abroad.[/annotation] Some of the international scholarships in the UK would offer 2 years of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 22, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Is This All? how do i live without regret?

  

  experimental and hectic four years of your life, they tell me. You will feel your ... some silly 9-5, or throw you into 4 years of graduate school, and you ... college admissions blogs. Someone who didn't make use of her MIT education

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 3, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  well, well look who's inside again

  

  'd be locked inside of my home (aah) i would've told you a year ago ... a waste of my time" or "Yeah I really should've gap yeared but oh well ... wasted, too. If you wake up in a house that’s full of smoke, Don’t panic

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 11, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Interview Tips from an MIT Educational Counselor Thoughts on how to prepare for your alumni interview

  

  Please note that, as of August 2018, our process for assigning ... interviewers remain helpful). A description of the current interview process is ... of tips for applicants based on interviews I have conducted. Remember

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Appreciating America in Tokyo (or Things I Never Finished, Part Two) On Japan and America. And being an American in Japan. Happy Memorial Day!

  

  patriotic?)(Oh, alright. Duh. President's Day.) (For those of you who don ... would be hard-pressed to find a piece of technology as varied in usability ... unfortunately, at my work place, to the highest of high-end seat-warming bidets

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 30, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  hello from seattle This blog post hopefully not brought to you with an NDA.

  

  /weekend (maybe both, I’ve got a lot of work to do this weekend). Just kidding. Unfortunately, the only ones of you who might’ve believed that my post ended there ... wasn’t one of my intentions. However, I can’t say now that I regret it at

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 6, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  Money! Money! Money! Life is like monopoly, except you're not a pewter Tophat and it costs WAY more…

  

  months all of you prefrosh will shed the "pre" (presumably through the use of "prease" if Biology has taught me anything) and finally become fully ... 're adults now and that means you get to make choices. Of course that also

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 22, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Collective Apprehension Seems like my last entry freaked everyone out. No worries guys! You can do it!…

  

  So, a quick recap of my week before I launch into repsonses to the ... , people kind of freak out. So they want us EMTs to be familiar with the ... a pretty cool tour of the reactor and learned how to decontaminate

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  What Is This, a Crossover Episode? Jacob Collier and Yo-Yo Ma come to MIT

  

  , Fred Harris (the director of MITWE) was going through the semester ... the middle of the rainforest! But I was also a little suspicious. The ... in the Sonic Jubilance concert in the second week of the semester. You

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 23, 2025
• Blog / Announcements

  New bloggers? New bloggers! [cue fanfare]

  

      After several hours of discussing so many good ... Rico, and a writer of heartfelt birthday letters to her friends 🎂 ... enthusiast, lover of her homeland’s native birds, and always on the lookout for

  • by Jenny B. '25
  • September 7, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  things i miss and don’t miss who is this guy? 🤔

  

  In 1984, a book lots of people have read, the people in control made ... went to this Well Known School of Three Letters. That's like another life ... each part of my life since I left this school. Too bad for you if you are

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 31, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  transitions memories of first snow

  

  fall. I remember feeling like I was always out of place, like I didn ... of a combination of P/NR, taking easier classes, and just an ... 's New Groove for the first time with a bunch of people I barely knew, all

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 1, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  I failed the Swim Test! And now you can too!!

  

  1940s after a high volume of drowning-related deaths at war. It’s been ... continue for the foreseeable future.  The idea of the test is that if you ... one of the shores. The river is 200 yards wide, so you would need to

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 26, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  living having the time of my life

  

  differential equations and op amp PSETs, I’ve learned how to take care of myself ... high school was competitive to the point of being toxic, and that it ... going anywhere. I remember sometimes pausing in the middle of doing

  • by Anika H. '26
  • May 10, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  to now and forever

  

  my apartment. It was bizarre in a way because there was a part of it ... on and off public transit with ease. This felt like the kind of stuff ... felt a bundle of knots in my stomach and I braced myself because it

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 15, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  lifting heavy objects and the grungy basement gym

  

  . The gym is usually empty when I come down, however, so the lack of ... feeling of getting stronger and lifting big objects. I love the way your muscles tremble at the end of a workout, when you’ve pushed to the edge of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Ask me anything about portfolios Go ahead—don’t be shy!

  

  ’ve compiled some of my thoughts on the portfolio process and collected some frequently asked portfolio questions. A crumb of context The MIT application is ... student community made up of some of the world’s most intelligent and

  • by Jeremy W.
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT gave my pod free art supplies!! and despite being hosed, we used them

  

  grants of between $50 and $250 to pods and virtual groups for art supplies ... , pleasure, and community building," and anyone of any level could apply as ... me refine it a bit. They asked me what the purpose of my request was

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 7, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a brief walk to Caffè Nero alternatively titled: life update since i am comically bad at blogging this semester

  

  head: "ah. i haven't blogged in a while, have i?" a gust of wind nearly knocks my glasses off my face. i put on the hood of my sweatshirt and regret my choice of footwear (slides). i start to wonder if anything has

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 27, 2021
• Blog / CPW

  Who’s psyched? I’m psyched! It's gonna be stitchin'!

  

  't actually build it, we paid a company lots of money to build it, but it ... 's all sorts of other stuff, but that's not what I'm here to write about. I ... cross stitching livestream for all of the MIT admits in the class of 2024

  • by Snively '11
  • April 6, 2021