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• Blog / How to Human

  Making friends at college Lots of 'don't's and a couple of 'do's.

  

  Saying that I was excited to go to college would be like saying that space is big. I couldn't wait to start over - to create an entirely new ... commtment to the next. When classes began, I was fine: the academics were

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 2, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  finding good what i look forward to

  

  opened up, where you can sign up for a slot and you have the gym to ... events of the past week. But to sum it up I thought I'd put it in short ... , there was no possible way for me to pass 6.009 unless I did extremely well

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 4, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ROTC Is Life (In a Good Way) Everything you ever wanted to know about ROTC at MIT (and then some)

  

  year, you apply for a slot to go to Field Training over the summer, which ... program at MIT, and I myself got to know the program a little as their ... before I came to MIT (not even as something done at other schools), but

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 18, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Birds Are Real, and So Is Quantum Physics Monkey see, monkey believe

  

  just so oddly satisfying to me."]there are fixed slots where the ... was able to see these phenomena with my own two eyes, in the flesh, because I was the one to perform the experiments! I performed all these

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 6, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Advocating for Science on Capitol Hill, Part 1 My name is Anna Ho, and I'm here representing the American Astronomical Society.

  

  . Sound cheerful! BE cheerful! IT’S SO EXCITING TO BE HERE! Hi! Thank you so much for taking the time to meet with us. My name is Anna Ho, and I ... really like to think that it’s better to Engage than it is to Criticise

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’ve got questions; I’ve got (some) answers Answers to your questions.

  

  In response to this blog entry: (As a reminder) Don't hesitate to ask me questions any time; you don't just have to wait for a blog entry that asks you to ask me questions. I can always be reached via email at

  • by Bryan
  • October 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA-mazing Lots of tidbits about the biology program at MIT.

  

  /molecular/cellular biology department with a lot of people who like to do computational stuff ... do research next to grad students. (One of the classes I'm taking this ... departments place a strong emphasis on teaching students how to think about

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The root of all evil Money, money, money, money... money!

  

  a not-terribly-subtle fashion, because if I decided to go to Ohio State on my full scholarship, she was planning to get a pool in the backyard. So clearly I picked MIT, and I wore an MIT t-shirt to school on

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 29, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  September Questions Omnibus 2 Questions Omnibus is the place to come for "official" answers!

  

  Questions Omnibus is the place to come for "official" answers ... . ^^;; )" Call me Matt! Thanks for coming to the session. For those of you who have driven/flown a long way to come to a meeting, I hope it was worth the long

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 23, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tales From Turning Twenty They range from "a little peculiar" to "utterly bizarre."

  

  A week ago today, I turned 20. It occurs to me that something weird ... . BIZARRE THINGS - AN OVERVIEW Bizarreness from 1 (a little peculiar) to 10 ... . Thursday Nov 1: I learned from Alan Guth that “you don’t have to have a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 7, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Is This All? how do i live without regret?

  

  think it's going to be the same, but it's not. And you're going to sit ... in your suffocating little cubicle, and you're going to think: Is this ... computer science major just to end up as some strange cop-out major instead

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 3, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Richard III: Behind-the-scenes [by Grace Kane '11, Guest Blogger] What does it take to put on Shakespeare at…

  

  people who manage to struggle through their exams and psets and still put ... incredibly lucky to be a part of a production of Richard III by the MIT ... at the process of bringing our collective baby, Richard III to the

  • by ARTalk
  • March 11, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Unwinding how i destress

  

  to see and one of them suggested that I talk about how I personally destress! Also, this is actually just an excuse for me to talk about the ... likes of Dan and Phil and other creators within the British Youtube sphere

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Ninth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 2PM on 02/14/06.

  

  Happy Valentine's Day! Answers to questions received through 2PM on ... sort of decide to send in a supplementary essay can i do that via email in place of the snail mail?" Yes, send it to admissions

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  CMS.621: Fans & Fan Culture the class that changed my career trajectory?

  

  was incredibly excited to take it, before I saw it was no longer offered ... no one other than Ed Schiappa. But then to my dismay I saw that the class was also a 9am-10:30am class on Mondays and Wednesdays. To those of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 17, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  Finally, I Wrote a Post about Grad School "grad's cool"

  

  umbrella biology program would have 10-15 or 20-30 slots to fill. I ... note="tbt applying to MIT >4 years ago"]incredibly familiar ... "]need[/annotation] something to worry about for the future. Why did I apply to Ph.D. programs

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 30, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Questions Fall 2007 Here are answers to the questions posted in my blog over the last month or…

  

  . ------------------------------------- Dan wrote: "I was planning to write an essay, which would describe a ... Hi folks, Here are answers to the questions posted in my blog over the last month or two. I apologize in advance to the folks who have

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Est-ce que je suis prêt? Peut-être. Je dédie ce post aux chatons, parce qu'ils sont trop mignons à se noyer :(

  

  peux pas choisir entre mon travail au labo et des emplois dans le domaine

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 21, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  [guest post] hindsight in 2020 — about life after mit rejections, situated knowledges, and ultimately getting closer to the asymptote…

  

  tiles to taylor swift music blasting in the kitchen while the sun slotted ... who didn't get into MIT but went on to thrive elsewhere (like this, and ... write a post "about being someone rejected from mit & learning to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  5 days to May 2

  

  you on the wait list, we won't know if we'll be going to the waitlist ... to know anything until the following week. In the meantime, May 1/2 is ... that you would love to attend next year. Longtime readers may know that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 27, 2005