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• Blog / About Decisions

  If you’re scared of decision day Here's an exercise

  

  make the psychologically unhealthy decision of sitting unblinking in ... !" or "I'm scared I won't get in!" but things like "I am worried that when ... itself on my transcript, and my application will be tossed in the trash

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 13, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three Guys, Six Degrees almost better than a five guys burger...almost.

  

  ...they’re all a little bit off-the-charts in one way or another. And you ... Academy, 2012 commencement speaker (in one week!) --- Some of you might ... 't believe it's been one year already. In this intervening year, I evolved into

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 1, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Watching Birdwatchers And getting into summer programs.

  

  Program at the NRAO site in Charlottesville, Virginia. Your research topic ... year, but didn't get in - which makes this doubly sweet. I'll be there ... this sounds, the reason I haven't posted in forever is because I have TOO

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 3, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Challenge of Public Health Sometimes science and engineering only come so far.

  

  interning at a fairly large Asian public health clinic in Oakland, CA. During ... surveys, debated in health discussions, helped the clinic to fundraise, interpreted for patients, and participated in community health outreaches and

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 4, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  Montreal a.k.a my awesome birthday blog a.k.a the end of IAP Photo's! Adventure! It's like a comic book, but real!

  

  Caffeine is in the air my friends, pencils are writing, printers are spooling (unless you're the one I tried to print to in the Student Center....grumble grumble), and all this can only mean one thing. The MIT machine is back in

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 27, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Info Session Courtesy of Ben Jones

  

  what he says . . .twice. Woo-hoo! Here we go, we're in 26-100 and Ben is ... speech. He's now giving a brief history lesson of MIT. In 1861 MIT was ... 1865. It wasn't in Cambridge at first, it started right across the river

  • by Snively '11
  • March 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I will, I will set this schedule on fire This has been a long time coming. Text- and picture-heavy! Link- and acronym-happy! Take it…

  

  upcoming term. It hurt me to do it; 9.15, only offered in alternate fall ... , froshlings. You. You'll all be here in two weeks. Your friends at other ... yet and you're sitting around wondering what in the world a Math

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 10, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Application Advice v2.0 How to survive the application process without losing your mind.

  

  a read, because I give an in-depth account of how I managed to ... important points in there. A common question I get a lot was articulated by Kevin: Kevin said: what does the admissions office look for in

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 20, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Psets from hell Sometimes learning can be painful

  

  good at math. I was practically a math prodigy back in the day. Like back in preschool and kindergarden, I was adding and subtracting way before ... just wanted to talk to my mom about putting me in a gifted program

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  a text convo on failure and other stuff i guess

  

  ']Like you’re already in a Misti right[/annotation] omg so real This is for summer I'm in the IAP program Ohhhhh You plan to do misti after graduating ... ']weeb[/annotation] 🤭 I’ll probably be in DC or cali this summer Depends on what program

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • December 12, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Halls are Alive with the sound of mischief :)

  

  : lived in. The hallways of MIT are alive. From well before 9:00 am to well ... favorites from the past year: Impromptu Concerts There’s a piano sitting in ... started out--just one person playing the piano. And then someone joined in

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 2, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  B1ner Cribs come see 10+ rooms on Burton 1

  

  are in vogue, and we're not allowed to paint the walls anymore, but we ... think i made my room too cozy this year because i just stay in it all day ... with me which is super fun. two people who are not me have slept in my

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 24, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Blogger Wrapped 2023 For all of the Blogger/Spotify Data Junkies

  

  first time I even considered applying to MIT was in January of 2022, when ... Abby 2018 In 2021, my top song was The Monster Mash, and I listened to ... in March and then life happened and i didn't exercise in that way

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 10, 2023
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Blogger Retreat 2023 adventures in liveblogging

  

  A liveblog on the blogger retreat 2023 (check back in throughout the ... really be in our romanticism era. One month later, with an Airbnb booked ... month ago, in the middle of one of our blogger check-ins, Kano asked the

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 2, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer On-Campus #2 yayay

  

  Opportunities Program. Undergrads get to participate in real research with ... MIT). This is what I do in the day, except for weekends. Not only do I ... get that program working in actual robots. This process is called sim2

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 20, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  scheduling woes advice for dealing with overenrolled/conflicting classes

  

  ’re notified of whether you have a spot in that class are subject to the whim of ... writing class"]email[/annotation] or Google Form in early August, then ... classes I’m taking this semester, but they're still in flux. Instead, I

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 15, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  my last first day every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end

  

  ’ll be living in Central Square with three roommates - one of us a teacher ... master's student, I can't live in the[annotation note="There are graduate dorms you can choose to live in, but I wanted to get a place with my

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 5, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  9.00 with no context are you a cool rat?

  

  before you placed it in your mouth—and even then you might be reluctant, no ... in her dress, you marvel at how green the material of her outfit is ... really interesting in your class—say, that penguins engage in a form of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 25, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  what i’m doing this iap 2021 a busy busy house

  

  Mariia and some other friends who were quarantining in Boston like our BU friends Joe and Louis and MIT student Jacky (who was previously featured in ... friend, Mohamad, flew in to quarantine and stay here with us for break to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 10, 2021
• Blog / How to MIT

  Wandering through the Infinite 3.5ish years of wandering MIT, squeezed into like one month

  

  in the Stud, I realized that there were a lot of cool things on the walls of the Infinite that I hadn't actually bothered to stop and read. In a regular semester, I was always in such a rush to get to wherever I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 22, 2020