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• Blog / About Decisions

  Tips from Me to You 15% is standard most places, but my tips are 100%! (awesome that is)

  

  DO stuff. Whatever it is you like to do, get out there and get it done ... on my application, do you think that's enough? Do you think I'll get in ... what you tell them, so it's in YOUR best interest to be honest. Because

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  From Cambridge to You On the road again...

  

  America to meet with prospective applicants and parents in more than 70 ... meetings in New England: Jenny Rifken will be traveling to Portland, Maine ... Country Club Plaza If you're in one of these areas, I look forward to seeing

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 4, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  The first step ...is admitting you need help.

  

  in your first year at MIT isn't how to integrate that particularly ... complex organic chemistry reaction. It's how to ask for help. Help in the ... than your high school in ways you can't even begin to imagine. A thousand

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 8, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  the joys and frustrations of 6.009 this class will be the death of me, and i love it

  

  satisfying to feel like you're actually getting somewhere in accomplishing your ... school (before getting too busy in high school), so I took the Advanced ... -paid, people who choose to major in Course 6 are "selling out" or "only in it for

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 4, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  E-mails in French House "Seriously, people, what's going on here?"

  

  -mail, you're encouraged to write the body in both English and French. Now ... To understand most of the e-mails sent to the French House mailing list, there are three things you need to know: 1) Right outside our

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 11, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Fun in NYC Part 2 Hold on, this is a long one. Tons of pictures though!

  

  issues. It was hard to sleep on (bumpy) but we got some naps in. When the bus stopped it was 6 AM and nothing was in English. I took this to mean ... settled down in Starbucks to do some PSETing. That worked, um, kinda well

  • by Snively '11
  • February 23, 2008
• Blog / Blog Projects

  learning about Things!! cool classes explained in easy words

  

  carry really small things (as talked about in How to Power Things to Make ... , this class was so fun! 2.008 How to Make A Thing Many Many Times In How ... all how you want it to. In this class, we learned a lot about when it

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 16, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Your Questions ...and happy thanksgiving!

  

  decisions going to be online in December? I'm trying to figure out how heavy ... to answer the many questions that have been showing up in my blog ... could attend it for that. now i got a problem in november test due to

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 22, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  to now and forever

  

  lounging in my work office as I finished work. When it came to a close, I ... 's almost time. Almost time to see Kenneth. I hadn't seen Kenneth in a while ... really grown up. "I feel like in high school you really used to be the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 15, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  friday afternoon in the town of beans i'm freeeeeeeeeeeee

  

  . The restaurant is quite small, and so we get our orders to-go and eat in ... in South Dakota. It is interesting to see how similar some of our ... end of classes! Time to have some fun. Fun? How do you have fun at MIT

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 11, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  tidbits i answer a bunch of random blogger prompts

  

  respite from a very busy IAP (which I'll hopefully get to blogging about ... to every 24-hour day. How do   you use those extra sixty minutes? Sleep ... . Film (or write about, I'm sure) anything related to music in MIT. This

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 18, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I Wanted to Say to Prefrosh before CPW 2015 a resurrected freshman draft

  

  math major. I had a clear life plan to start in the first semester ... procrastination). What I’m trying to say in a haphazard way is that things will ... over topics of conversation for when y’all come to visit in the East

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 19, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  same for all the statements. Then when you get to item 7, put in a ... coaster of editing, getting feedback, and editing some more. In the midst of ... ://www.uni.edu/~gotera/gradapp/stmtpurpose.htm) How to Write a Great Statement of Purpose Vince Gotera English Language

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 1, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life (3)… [Biochemistry] Another biochemist sharing his experience as an exchange student.

  

  not know how to use a pipette: Cambridge teaches passion. It assumes ... equiped to look pretty in the lab. For example, I can pour a gel, then set ... up to that point are just differences in order. *** One thing I notice

  • by Cambridge
  • May 13, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I came to MIT A few reasons I chose MIT, and I few reasons that would have made me…

  

  manner. Furthermore, you don't have to beat down doors in order to get a ... different, and you get to choose which one you live in. I now think this is ... being in a small program is a really easy way to get to know professors

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 7, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  i saw twenty one pilots at td garden in boston live music is very much alive and here to stay

  

  overwhelmed by work and school and the thought of having to get good grades for ... that I cried to during some of my shittiest moments in high school, and ... comfortable enough in Boston to buy tickets for Rex Orange County for February

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 28, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Back to back to back maybe i am doing too much

  

  students coming to MIT to take hour-long-ish classes taught by people in the ... some puzzles, and slept over. On Sunday afternoon, I learned how to play ... needed to. But do I want to drop things in the first place? Do I really

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 27, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Answering your questions

  

  . Anonymous asks: "How many people on the waitlist actually get to go to MIT ... come to MIT?and...how stressful does it get on an average day? thanks ... easier to get in than stay in. Thoughts?" Once again, Borski '09 answered

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 31, 2006
• Blog / Personal Projects

  10 things I learned in 10 projects a run-down of my making misadventures sophomore year

  

  ’t the best of matches; but ultimately I was able to get it to stick, and ... needed to finish it; in this case, a [annotation note="they seemed much rarer back in September, before I had access to as many makerspaces, or

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Advice from Graduating Seniors to incoming freshmen

  

  your breaking point, and learn how to make time for yourself in order to ... visualization, or to watch a significant person in the field talk about it) 5) Get ... sooner. David D. '17 You're coming to MIT, one of the best universities in

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 28, 2017