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• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Though the Odds A survival story.

  

  vividly. I remember running into one of my good friends who was also in 8 ... , and - most importantly of all - I ended up becoming part of a regular ... have passed. All that said, I got a lot out of 8.012. I walked into the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  The Five Stages of Grief (Jonathan’s Version) on a journey from New Hampshire to Next House [guest post]

  

  -floor printer. The question of what to wear is extremely important. Because ... .4 miles from home] I send a few messages of great importance to Vincent F ... be friends with Fatima, one of the bloggers of all time, and I am also

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 4, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, damn lies, and statistics

  

  that APs are important because of weighted grades and class rank. Um ... out. I think the biggest benefit of my APs in terms of getting into ... got a 2 on AP Calc and I still got into MIT! Hah!). Of those, four of

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Seattle The siren call of real adult life

  

  walkability of a city is, in fact, important to me. And although I do like ... resident of Green Lake, Seattle for a little over a month now. There's very ... parks and lakes, and lots of friendly neighborhood cats that love

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 3, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  glassblowing & me a series of memories

  

  through gentle sadness and into acceptance. I leave the lab with an image of ... them into the inside. And because of this, I can simultaneously love the ... of a glassblowing metaphor. When I thought about it more, I realized

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 18, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Island Paradise That's where I live. No, seriously.

  

  learned a very important lesson of interior design, namely, furniture ... -painted room with all of the furniture pushed into the middle, no access to the ... painted and all of the furniture shoved into the middle, another 2 or 3 days

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection-time Questions Omnibus

  

  write entire entries on many of these topics, and I'll answer more questions as soon as I can... "A Probably Not So Important Question That Might ... out of every 6 applicants. In one of the Oscar-nominated short films I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  for change in (expected + unexpected): print(change.get_thoughts())

  

  the kind of person that I'd grow into. It felt like a lot of pressure ... total amount of time I’d have to spend turning myself into the model MIT ... high school science tournament. More importantly, in the words of Hank

  • by Allison E. '27
  • June 19, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Decisions, Decisions decisions!

  

  school will likely be very different, but in many of the most important ... next four years of your life. It's a big decision. And whether you ... psychologists Dale Griffin and Amos Tversky (one of the discoverers of cognitive

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • April 26, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  For Deferred Students Some advice and answers.

  

  /college counselor. Often, their years of experience provide wisdom and insight into ... , regardless of when the application was submitted. In each of the past few years, we have admitted hundreds of deferred students during regular action

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What Is an MIT Community? ...a personal experience

  

  definitely join the club. (MIT SEVT team) Of no less importance are the less ... “hosedness.” My collective memories of group experiences can overflow into ... sharing and appreciating passions, regardless of major and background. The

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To a mouse (or nineteen) A eulogy for my UROP mice... in the form of me explaining my UROP.

  

  receptors, which suggests that it's important for maintaining the strength of ... actually sad here.) In their honor, today I'm going to talk about one of the ... connects other types of proteins. (I made that figure myself, in Paint

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 16, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  Language (die Sprache) MIT-Germany student discusses language

  

  place with a new language. It's difficult. I'm envious of those ... seamlessly into English. But also, those people are incredibly interesting in ... 'm reading a thesis of a friend; he could have written in English

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Class Crossover Using engineering leadership while stuck on the wrong side of the internet

  

  implementation up into a final product. Let’s look at the events of the past 4 ... During the first week of IAP, I took a class known as ESD.054 ... period of five 8 hour days. Now I could talk about my reflections on the

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 20, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Fortune Favors the merits of not working too hard

  

  by a professor of art history at Princeton? Of having been let into ... eponymous book. Lewis first became famous writing Liar's Poker, a memoir of ... small fortune and a new life narrative. All of a sudden people were

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s happening with the Digital Currency Initiative developing blockchain technologies here at MIT

  

  important new area of research. The effort will reach across the MIT campus ... managed to raise $500k in funding and a ton of faculty sponsors to ... for a sophomore year elective. Since then, that project has grown into

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 28, 2016
• Blog / How to Food

  REX and the City New York, New York, and other answers to your other questions, too.

  

  , it's a good one! Living group is one of the most important factors to ... ! Your dorm is really one of the most important contributors to your MIT ... A lot of you have written me to tell me you've voted, and it

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 10, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Reasons to Join ESG A Look at MIT's Freshman Learning Communities

  

  can grow into a community of people that define your Freshman Year. 21 ... and it's important you go to all of their open houses during CPW ... choices that come in the form of Freshman Learning Communities. Because most

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • January 4, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Big Dreams, Small Mind The troubles of being in school and doing research for too long.

  

  (except for you... you know who you are...) For those of you who don’t know, I spent the last year of my life in Shanghai studying Chinese at Fudan University. I am currently working on a number of blog posts that will be

  • by Ben O. '19
  • September 24, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Checking My Calendar I know I'll eat my words come late September, but I'm looking forward to three…

  

  important exams and problem sets, but for some reason, instead of completely ... The New York Times has had an interesting set of articles over the ... , while Europeans do something called "enjoy life". It reminded me of

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 17, 2010