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• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Re-Froshening A Story of Cynicism and Optimism

  

  . Everything was going to be AWESOME. I was going to double major in biological engineering and neuroscience and double minor in history and music and I was ... time off from MIT. I ended up attending classes at a local university in

  • by Piper '13
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  an outlook on emails a week of my inbox’s pain and suffering, compartmentalized

  

  it, and those who love it. You can find me in the former. If I ever ... hours perfecting my email’s filters, labels, and everything in between. I ... my Gmail account, and for the first time in quite a while I was so

  • by Waly N. '24
  • September 21, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pluto replies ThinkGeek.com rocks my effing socks.

  

  I can tell, they only make the problem more complicated than it ever ... asked: How much time does a sport at MIT really take up? I'm sure you ... may have sent in one of those little response cards asking if I was

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 17, 2006
• FAQ / First-year application

  How do I apply as a permanent resident?

  citizenship status. In the MIT first-year admissions process, you are considered ... applications from students in the process of waiting for their green cards. If there is a change in your citizen status during the application process
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My 2023 Libby Wrapped I have a problem with audiobooks

  

  , and oftentimes even while doing [annotation note="I can only do this if ... my brain. And now that I’m at MIT, I can only occasionally do this ... ever again! As a side benefit of obsessively using Libby, I can go into

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 3, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  uncertainty becoming a boring adult

  

  how good a post can be. i am optimistic by nature, so whenever i ... me now than they did while they were in school i have a bad habit ... description. i’ve written about this idea before in the context of meeting new

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 31, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Anticipation a little something to keep you company

  

  today too. And I'd love to hear how you're doing :) ... what the day holds can be scary. Or exciting. Or overwhelming. You ... a time. Because today is special. Because you'll never be in this

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 14, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  My “Normal” High School What it was like going to an ordinary high school

  

  getting into MIT, but I think having a little faith in yourself can ... Now, I can be pretty sure that most everyone applying to MIT has a ... high school. In fact I loved my high school. No matter where I went or

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  interested in the material and can therefore contribute and participate more ... journalism, how newsrooms function, and the science news coverage in daily ... So while I like to pretend that I don't procrastinate sometimes, up

  • by Bryan
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Harvard Friends, Part 2 finding my quarantine dream team

  

  student with some close friends at Harvard! In Part 1, I discussed how cross ... we met. In this post, I describe how we've stayed in contact (and even ... time zone mismatches and Zoom fatigue got in the way of calling. I took

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 29, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  FourFiveUnits all you could ever want to know about my semester schedule

  

  their classes this semester, I thought I would show off how naked and ... nothing. In fact, I think this will be one of my busiest semesters so far. I ... expanding to fill its container. I am enrolled in 45 units, which is 3

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 13, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  transitions memories of first snow

  

  't belong here, or like I was just in the cosmically wrong place. I didn ... , Asymptones, NaNoWriMo—but I enjoyed the camaraderie, enjoyed learning how to ... story still sticks in my mind. I've told it over, and over, in a way such

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 1, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Next Steps For the Deferred what to do next

  

  experiences. Can I call / email / owl in to find out why I was deferred? No. We ... interview has passed. How can I contact the office if I must? Same ways as ... as we reconsider their cases in Regular Action (RA). I've had a number

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  Different Perspectives IAP from the minds of a few different people

  

  as I can in my training to become an EMT.  Here are some of my friends ... for it! You don't have to put in as much time as I did, and you can even ... first of which is a swim class, so I can finally get the swim requirement

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 26, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  I’m leavin’ on a jet plane… and another plane...and another plane...

  

  how it looks, I found it to be very fun and interesting to drive. 10 ... before the meeting. 11:30am. I arrive in Ann Arbor a little early, so I go ... , 2008 The next couple days, I visit a few high schools in the area, and

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself Perspective and focus, brought to you by M. C. Escher

  

  I’m ranked in the bottom 39% on profile views among my connections on ... , in a word, frenetic. I loved all of my classes (or at least the idea of ... got locked into a narrow tunnel vision in which I only valued the

  • by Joel G. '18
  • August 2, 2015
• Blog / How to Food

  Healthy Eating Craze It is not difficult to be a vegetarian here at MIT

  

  . They scare me, but I take them because I can hear my mother in my head ... me of analyzing what is in the foods I am eating and determining which nutrients I am lacking.  So far, I've found that I was actually lacking in

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 11, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bruno Recalibration

  

  vision in our teaching, research, and operations; and how you can become ... front of the Senior House dormitory Now, I'm in New Jersey for the ... flexible about things, as classes can be added to your schedule in the first

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 22, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  setting things on fire and playing with flames

  

  briquettes (a dense fuel dominant in developing countries). They can be used instead of modern fuel sources in electricity-scarce regions. I’ll spend ... often rooted in the unknown. Fire spinning was foreign to me, and I

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • May 18, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  TERMinal Velocity My last term is flying by!

  

  address, and seeing how different just 25 people in the class interpret and ... .   MISC. In addition to all those classes, I'm helping students in 2 ... all about it, but I can't just yet. Very soon though....very soon...

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 21, 2012