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• Blog / Challenges

  Failing and perfectionism

  

  to how someone confronts failure. The goal of high achievement is to ... " is a common buzzword nowadays, but it's a good way to describe how I ... point in moving any further. The universe seemed to be telling me that I

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 12, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Summertime I am often asked what we admissions officers do during the summer. Frequently, people assume…

  

  (ECs) in these cities, and more. Getting to travel the country, to come ... . I'll do a series of entries quite soon about how to visit MIT this ... Cambridge to Honolulu. Now, we're arranging our itineraries, finding rooms in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 10, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  fun. the band, but also the form

  

  few days in contrast to how much free time I had over IAP. I feel like I ... classroom on Tuesday morning and had to run to get there. I went to an extra ... ’s hard to put in the effort to keep them. And sometimes, I think about what

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 11, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  all time ever does is pass and all i ever do is remember

  

  things in my life right now. "how are you doing? what have you been up to ... how to steady my footing in this slippery world--maybe in another life ... to a time in sophomore year of high school when it made me so happy i

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 14, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Beantown. sketchbook showcase!

  

  nothing else in it, so I decided to fill it up with things that I've seen ... , Alchemist, Simmons Hall, Stata Center[/caption] I get this urge to keep every ... and topics in STEM, it gets exhausting when you're getting [annotation

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  fictional coping mechanisms learning to love unapologetically

  

  taught him how to get it on his Mac, which might have been a mistake ... in love with it. Not to the point where it was what I was thinking ... able to enjoy things without getting obsessed the way I used to felt like

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 11, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Before you Register for Classes: Tools, Tips, and Resources Scheduling Tools and Tips for Incoming Students

  

   for yourself. Popular HASS Classes: How to (Maybe) Get In Some HASS classes at ... in switching. Plus, you get to try different flavors of a subject. The ... 1st Quarter, in order to get into the desired one. This goes

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / Uncategorized

  We Really Aren’t Kids Anymore avoiding the part where it all has to end

  

  we (the class of '24s) were supposed to just get it. Like we were ... like we were supposed to know how to advise actual first years on where ... get to redo my first year at MIT. Whether I liked it or not, whether I

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 9, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  An MIT FAQ Because it's better to laugh at blatant stereotypes than to let them make you angry

  

  . If we spent all our time studying, how would we have time to be in all ... humanities major, won't it be easier for me to get in? A. Nope. Wouldn't that ... Recently, in my wanderings around the internet (that is to say, the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 28, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Students Operate On Hawaii Time! MIT's learning environment supports a wide range of learning styles and experiences.

  

  experienced faculty) so that students get an opportunity to engage in active ... also is remarkably active in exploring innovations to classroom ... engaged in tutorial (in groups of 4 to 5). An important point is that

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • February 28, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sounds of Summer What've you been listening to lately?

  

  along to alone in the car at 7 in the morning and other drivers stare at ... that you Elaine-dance to. When I was in 7th grade, I listened to Celine ... play as you're getting ready to head back to the 'Tute, because, well

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 30, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2014 FAQ

  

  to MIT, and are worried they will not get here in time, we will accept ... to get in touch with them, as it may take them several days to respond ... December 1st, we will simply email you instructions with how to roll over

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 21, 2014
• Blog / MISTI

  go alone or you may never go at all

  

  in the moment. It's also nice being able to think "I would like to do ... most may take a quick glance, but soon after get caught back up in their ... often think things like... How would I want to spend time with my best

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • January 6, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Surviving Self-Quarantine 101 tldr; memes (haha jk...unless)

  

  have a lot of time that we don't know what to do with. in fact, in the ... high school. wild... i can't speak to how other MIT students are ... changed SO much since then. at MIT, you don't really get time to read unless

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 19, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] A Journey to the W I D E by Wide Tim (Margaret Z. ‘23, MEng ‘24)

  

  in  IAP?”, “do I also get to Dance in a lion, or a kaleidoscope ... ’s hard to go through the semester without seeing him, from a poster in the ... do you mean  “I could choose to Double major in  Eating and sleeping

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • February 13, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  residential exploration, but without a residence on burton conner culture continuing to thrive

  

  just gotten to campus and was enjoying getting swept up in the excitement ... testament to how well our communities have stuck together in the past year and ... the period where freshmen get to meet and join living groups they

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 8, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures of a Prefrosh: My ‘Year On’ ...and why you should listen to Matt McGann. [by Vicky Thomas '12]

  fellow '12s in an effort to get to know them better") Matt's entry to see ... wrong, but hey, I was pretty stoked to be quoted in an article and have ... coming to an end and I was in denial about having to leave Alameda, I

  • by mitblogs
  • April 24, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 1 In this entry, I answer your recent questions left in the comments of previous entries.

  

  can press hope to get to university in U.S.The list you have supplied ... out how to do that in the awesomest way possible ... Here are the answers to the questions you've left in the comments of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 8, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  No Snow, and on singing badly me? singing? and posting it online?!

  

  't have to listen to how embarrassing I sound? Well, I'm trying to make a ... to forget. It feels all the more easy in places like MIT, where ... wrangle with six different tracks in Audacity to make this. But so what? I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 24, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions & Coca-Cola Check-in Last-minute questions, and Coca-Cola Scholars check-in.

  

  do this in Mollie's latest entry). Students who have to miss CPW for ... there get a chance to connect!). ... With CPW less than a day away, I'd like to use the comments for this

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 5, 2006