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• Blog / Admissions

  Not in my own words. 90% of this entry = not written by me.

  

  "locked" in a room with 500 applications. Do you think this opening ... 's 45 words too. Do you think the admissions committee will remember this ... whole life doing it? At first Jennifer said no, but after more questioning

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 1, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 3) Thailand and Israel and Columbia, oh my!

  

  professors are top of their fields and do research as well. This summer, I have ... ten weeks, I’ll be doing biological research at the Chulabhorn ... really been a wonderful experience so far, and I would definitely do it

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 8, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  What is the value of college? Food for thought in your college search

  

  that they provide a reminder that the vast majority of those who do this ... ROI on most undergraduate degrees. It is incumbent on all of us to do better. Colleges and universities need to do a better job of centering

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 21, 2025
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  What is engineering, anyways? i promise it's more than just math

  

  school would incur wild errors – and I would never know what I was doing ... wandering to new things – I wanted to do something that mattered, and for me ... to do something, and the result of physics felt a little too close to

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  notes from a week of new classes the prettiest peril of higher education

  

  ="111203" image3="111200" image4="111201" image5="111202" /] I do enjoy this class ... of doing it logically by introducing a definition as it comes up in the ... class is review and we do practice problems at whiteboards, I feel like I

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 15, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  happy LFDOC! my last semester of undergrad :)

  

  of my other 7 semesters, this semester is one that I can do whatever I ... eventually ;)"]life in Japan[/annotation]7 months from now? What do I want my ... and it’s also fun to muse about them, but [annotation note="To do this

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 3, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Repilot A 10th vlogiversary for the 20th blogiversary

  

  thought I would largely contribute in a behind-the-scenes way, as I do with ... 't have a lot of other work to do right now. But as I've been chatting with ... . Look. I could only do so much at 2am when I had to wake up at 6am to

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i (kinda) studied for finals brought to you by "a PNR mindset"

  

  pass the exams Show up and do the psets but don't study at all for the ... just starting to study and trying to do well, I immediately decided it would be best to spend an hour doing phone-app math to find my current

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 22, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Saturday Night in Simmons it's so busy here tonight [i really need to study or go to sleep]

  

  think means "Cats" in Spanish, but do NOT quote me on that. [carousel ... [EVERY WEEK we say we won't ever wait this late again to do 18.03, and then ... sleeping or studying. I do actually need to lock in for my two finals next

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 15, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT EA Decisions to be Posted Tuesday, 12/17/24, at 6:28 PM ET exactly what it says on the tin

  

  there's SO MUCH MEDIA OUT THERE and I don't mind sitting/driving/walking/doing ... (speaking from personal experience), but you should at least do a gut check to ... to do things that remind you that you are, in fact, human. Take a

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 10, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  How I lost aura points i confess my sins

  

  " dictate how cool you are. You gain aura points when you do something cool and socially confident, and you lose points when you do something cringe ... kind of fire. But then I had no idea what to do for my last pitch. I

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 14, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Pics from the WMBRBQ! Do You Like College Radio??

  

  overbooked, but this is entirely of my own doing. I have a ton of blog posts ... doing their shows remotely, and we're still working on getting the number

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • September 20, 2024
• Blog / Summer

  a year of counting fish the shape of real work

  

  resources that MIT promised, I was excited to start doing “real work”, and the ... physics phenomena. [annotation note="this isn’t to say that doing the ... reared its head: in industry, how do you incorporate scientific discoveries

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 11, 2024
• Blog / Events

  4 comfort songs for your first day shake those jitters!!!

  

  inside Cause you can do-make-say-think-laugh-sing-drink all night All the ... Madelyn Grant All I wanna do is fly Why should I stick around? With my feet on the ground All I wanna do is fly away 'Cause I'm trying to find the

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • September 3, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  “What the hell is water?” Thinking about and understanding your own context…

  

  the trajectory and distance traveled as we do on the heights achieved ... something more concrete along the lines of "do this" or "don’t do that

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 27, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  A Picture is as much as Ten Hundred Words This is in fact a story that does have pictures.

  

  doing up-goer five, I had the idea to take pictures instead of struggling ... great game for the mind and body and I want to do it more. [carousel ... me and my friends have to do some food making. Here is some food that

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • January 26, 2024
• Blog / People & Identities

  requiem for the desert as temperatures rise higher

  

  edge of what is survivable? Do we plant our cacti where there used to be ... pilgrimage to each coffee shop I love, wondering as I do if it will be the last ... around. The desert survived; that’s what it evolved to do. It kept on after

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 30, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  ways of saying goodbye joint post with CJ '23!

  

  graffiti, but you can't be home again. from homestuck: TT: Please do not do this, Dirk. TT: Why not?? TT: Because. TT: I do not want to die. TT: I

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  every day it gets a little easier but you gotta do it every day, that’s the hard part

  

  when just doing so for a single day was excruciatingly boring, so i might ... took a break from school that spring to do an internship, i told people ... solutions do not work nearly as easily as they are advertised to: i personally

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 20, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  recently read words absorbed by my brain

  

  I’ve been doing more reading recently, so wanted to share! “Detail ... like “I didn’t know poetry could do that”. It isn’t quite the same ... think that’s what poems are supposed to do, and I think it’s what the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 3, 2023