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• Blog / Admissions

  You’ve got questions… ...I've got answers strewn amidst an explosion of other stuff.

  

  When I first got to MIT in August and checked in for Orientation, I ... those of you interested in keeping a running tally, we're up to 15 ... in my inbox: friends, romans, countrymen, significant others, others

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 6, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The swing of things MIT happenings.

  

  abroad or take internships in a foreign country. I might be getting an internship in Spain this summer, and I am super psyched. (I still have to send in my resume, and I haven't thought as far ahead as next week, let

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Keep it simple, stupid I try to choose classes for the fall. Things get messy.

  

  have cool things to talk about. I'm sure you're all excited. In the ... -epiphany where I kind of sort of maybe started thinking about majoring in 2A ... .900 because not only am I interested in the subject, but it fulfills two HASS

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Round here we stay up very, very late Vignettes on my last day at lab, the Counting Crows, grad school, and pets.

  

  crying in baseball? Well, there's no crying in science either ... crying in front of people. On Thursday, my postdoc took me out to lunch ... school, and about careers in science. He gave me a lot of good advice about

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 30, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobody’s Got No Class! I was browsing through the MIT Course Catalog, and thought these classes looked pretty thought-provoking.

  

  changes in gender role and expectation over the past two decades and the ... experiences of characters in "Sex and the City" are generalizable to people of differing racial, ethnic and economic backgrounds. Students enrolled in the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Middle School To those who are having or have had a bad experience

  

  realized we started reading the MIT blogs when we were still in the thick of ... to Miami, Florida when we were 10. We started 5th grade in Miami at a public elementary school, lets call it school A. In school A, we made

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 16, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Everything You Ever Wanted to Know All your wishes have been magically granted.

  

  the exact same credentials, I'm not confident I would get in. Admissions ... things you should do before turning in any essay, so they're pretty common ... . Don't flat out say X event changed me in Y way. Show how it changed you

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 13, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures of a Prefrosh: My ‘Year On’ ...and why you should listen to Matt McGann. [by Vicky Thomas '12]

  fellow '12s in an effort to get to know them better") Matt's entry to see ... one of the best decisions I've made in a while. Before I dive into what ... -by-play of my year so far. After I graduated from high school in June '07, I

  • by mitblogs
  • April 24, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  then and now a reflection on the very bad

  

  was in fifth grade, right before spring break. I was called into the ... . In a car ride to my dad's place, he asked me "Why would you say shit ... month after this. 2. The second time was in my freshman year of high

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 5, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I DECLARE BANKRUPTCY!! and also my major and also indecision

  

  . What follows is the very long and detailed crisis I had in picking my major, organized by what I considered, in a roughly chronological order ... , but in sophomore/junior/early senior year of high school, I told

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 20, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what makes fear worth it musical theater and anxiety

  

  Despite being a brief and shallow fan of Hamilton in middle school, I ... , to me, existed as a series of songs someone had compiled in a YouTube playlist. Somehow everyone in the comments was stringing together a coherent

  • by Kai V. '25
  • February 27, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fall 2024 🍂 aka, things settle down.

  

  note="until AC came in and confused the shit out of me"]coolest thing ... a sense that I’d really learned a lot in those three hours. My ... well with my learning style. I found it really cool to program in a

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 21, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  where is home? leaving your home is easy / it's keeping this one that's a struggle

  

  one Living alone is easy It's keeping someone that's impossible in ... on in my life: it feels like there's nothing going on. or maybe, more ... . since moving in to simmons, i went on a subway trip with alan, which was

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 27, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Why I Love Taylor Swift I finally explain the reason...or at least try to...

  

  times, it’s an exam I’m nervous about. In past years, the class average ... pressure building in my head that goes something like this: You’ll have to ... not pay it any attention. In those ten minutes before I’m scribbling

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 6, 2017
• Blog / Residential Life

  last fall / last fall it's senior year and i still haven't learned anything

  

  first week of classes. It was a fun time, in the sense that I enjoyed every event individually, but, in combination, it exhausted me. I felt ... to make the exact same set of mistakes as last year. I landed in Boston

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 10, 2022
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  Leavetaking and homecoming

  

  liked the house we already lived in, an old adobe building at the edge of ... Native artifacts, but which in hindsight were just fragments of floor tiles ... printed on semi-trucks, Fry’s and Coke and Target, coming in to the city

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 28, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  spring! semester! so apparently i'm doing a lot of random shit

  

  semester. Without further ado...   Classes: 18.065 (Matrix Methods in ... in high school, so I sent Professor Strang fanmail, and he responded to ... ’t taken a math class since Linear Algebra in my junior year of high school

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 3, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  How to not love CPW but love MIT (for the most part at least)

  

  feeling disenchanted by a place that had been previously shrouded in a ... the best at something and everything, while in high school, I felt that ... /social sciences person in high school (thought that I would go on to study some

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Give MIT Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences a Chance Yultide Day 5

  

  ," Day 2 - "Just 41 Pictures I Took in 2017," Day 3 - "College Life Changes ... experts in the field, and often the world at large. And all of the HASS professors are top academics of the world. MIT is the #1 school in the U.S. in

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  ADMIT ME PLZ? filling out the app. for some reason it's a lot easier this time

  

  is Chris - I graduated MIT in 2011, and now I'm a 4th year (!) med student at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City. Boy ... questions for Khan Academy and do Hepatitis B epidemiology research in

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 8, 2014