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• Blog / Uncategorized

  you’re on your own, kid

  

  92 days. Lately everyone seems to be asking me how I am. Are you ... doting quite flattering, to be honest, and it's been very sweet to see how many people do care about me, people I wouldn't thought to have

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  speculation also a post about touching grass

  

  ask me questions i often pause for a while to think before giving a ... think more slowly when under social pressure or if the right way to answer questions is to just go with your initial instinct instead of trying to

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 19, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  what I did this summer unoriginal title, original experiences!

  

  In third grade, my parents sent me away to sleepaway camp for two ... had the idea to measure me again. I had grown a quarter of an inch in a ... -- you may not be surprised to hear -- that being an MIT student gives you

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 24, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes 2.0 what i am/am i doing with my life

  

  Here’s to a basically mid-semester check-in to what I spend my time ... half in now, it’s safe to say that I will have learned a lot by the end of this semester. Perhaps even enough to compensate for the fact that

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • October 27, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Sorting of the Frosh (MacGregor Style) We don't have a Sorting Hat, but this is how MacGregor does In-House Rush

  

  Because freshmen are beginning to trickle onto campus and moving into their temporary rooms, what better time to talk about housing? Even though ... being admitted to MIT, students are invited to CPW and get to explore all

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 24, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Preparing for Pi Day MIT decisions come out this Friday: what to do between now and then...

  

  ...don't freak out. 1. Prepare Your Wifi I applied early to MIT ... morning (Pacific time). During that time, I was scheduled to be at a day ... 't have a smartphone. I sure wasn't going to spend all day in agonized

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 10, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  A Few Lessons from FLL

  

  choices: high school seniors are choosing where they are going to college (we just finished hosting Campus Preview Weekend to help our admitted ... might want to apply to college, and high school freshmen and sophomores

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • April 23, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  The Complexity of Simplicity Not as paradoxical as it sounds

  

  so inclined) took ~5 years to perfect and develop? And look at it. It ... 's hard to imagine a simpler mechanism. And yet, to get that simple took an ... , that last half of the sentence was difficult to type given that I

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 8, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Average The benefits of challenging yourself in high school

  

  a strange idea. No one ever wants to be average. Society says that we should try to establish ourselves as individuals by being the best in ... to be different than everyone else to get into a good college. You

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 16, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Announcing New Bloggers for 2010! A digital debutante ball...

  

  , in this case Chris Su - met to choose new bloggers who will be joining the team for the coming year. It was an incredibly tough job to do ... to land a job as a blogger than it is to get into MIT in the first

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 16, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A new semester but if I give you my daily schedule here, what will I fill my Facebook…

  

  Since everyone's doing it, I don't want to miss out on telling you ... schedule this term so lets get to it. (classes are arranged chronologically ... physics, grade a few papers, and in exchange I get to say I helped teach a

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 8, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  Time Management Reading this article adds +15 to Time Skills

  

  some pretty awesome classes and extra-curriculars to participate in. (If ... me, has been finding the time to try and pset all that needs to be ... see how that applies. But it IS possible to balance it all, and in fact

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 1, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  E-mail It's like D-mail, only the next letter.

  

  I can remember, back when I was applying to MIT, there were two huge perks I was looking forward to if I got accepted. The first was a Brass ... being able to write down "[email protected]." It's a

  • by Snively '11
  • September 30, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Mid-May Update Q&A: Athena tips and hints

  

  accounts. Any obscure questions about how to use certain things? Here are ... -- you can do so by going to these links, in this order: http ... solutions out there. You can get instructions on how to set one up at http

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Nance Nance Revolution! (+ My CPW Recap) New art and new memories.

  

  ). Well thanks to one of my favorite prefrosh, the dream is now reality ... awesome for creating my new banner. Not to mention the fact that you are a perfect fit for MIT and I can't wait to see you as a freshman this fall

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • April 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goldilocks and the n HASS classes too hot, too cold, just right. on picking a hass class.

  

  So while I like to pretend that I don't procrastinate sometimes, up ... class to last, so I have to find one that fits my schedule instead of really being able to just select a class I want to take just like I select

  • by Bryan
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  “what if I get rejected” for everyone nervous about admissions decisions

  

  I'll cut to the chase: it's November, which means that a lot of the ... application season, and are either trying to vibe out whether they want to apply to MIT, or they already have and now must wait a grueling amount of

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • November 13, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  Simple Harmonic Motivation a time progression through the semester

  

  I rapidly switch between wanting to do something and not wanting to ... motivation to do things. I was given weeks, but only paid my pistol club dues the very last day. I was supposed to send the email requesting an

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 8, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  old east campus working through feelings caused by news

  

  : thinking about this room makes me kinda sad. east campus is scheduled to get renovated next summer, and if that happens as planned, i won’t get to spend my senior year at ec. but more to the point, all the history of this room, all

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 7, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You should consider studying economics if… for those who aren't totally set on what to major in

  

  this was a really good decision, and continue to highly recommend it. I like to talk about my major a lot, but one thing that I guess I haven ... , it's hard to see what's not to love about the department. We've got a

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 8, 2016