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• Blog / MIT Life

  goodbye after so long and with so much love

  

  adventures, people with whom to get into trouble and then out of it -- was ... and I know that I know how to keep moving forward. All through this ... long ago. My own blogs are, to me, primarily a benchmark of how I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 1, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  2021 Applicants: Answers to Your Emails Inspiration, Process, Components, Stress Mgmt, and More

  

  . The website tells you what MIT is looking for and how to get here, in as ... and shouldn’t be used in essays). This post is addressed to all ... ’re not an applicant this year, but emailed me already, I’ll get to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 9, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  Physical Education: because your body needs problem sets, too My adventures in completing the MIT Physical Education requirements

  

  how to swim, just not with any style or grace. So I showed up on the first day of class, ready to get some tips on how to improve my strokes ... , and so I randomly rank classes that happen to fit in with the rest of my

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 20, 2006
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  How do I apply to MIT through QuestBridge?

  to be reflected on your Applicant Status page (located in the MIT ... QuestBridge Supplement, and they will receive directions on how to submit ... If you’re applying to MIT through QuestBridge College Match, simply
• Blog / MIT Life

  farewell, first semester p/nr-ing just hard enough

  

  people but not much to do.    Now that I’ve been living in Cambridge ... memory-saturated period I’ve spent on campus brings me to wonder how much I ... trips abroad in summer, so adjusting to being away from home ended as soon

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 19, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Hitchhiker’s Guide to CPW DON'T PANIC.

  

  in deep space, that I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told ... to be taking over MIT's campus in five days. You may have heard of it ... few other things you should know. #1: Get to know your host. For the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 5, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day of IAP 3 Classes and Soup

  

  fastest descent that can basically get from point A to point B in the ... my breakfast in my pajamas. 9-ish - I start to head back upstairs to ... :30 - normally, I end up getting to campus a half-hour or fifteen minutes early. My

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • January 16, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Be a Blogger 2016! how to be a blogger

  

  ’s like to be in a Sadoway lecture, or planning stuff for REX, or UROPing, or deciding how to pick your classes, or a really cool new thing you learned today in class, and so forth. The day-to-day experience of your

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 28, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If I had a nickel for every class I was taking this semester… I’d have 4.5 nickels.

  

  work; in 6.S965, we spent the first two weeks discussing how they work ... that we weren’t smart enough for/didn’t have enough time to cover in 6 ... , except now we get to use FPGAs that are more than 10x as powerful as the

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 12, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  FOMO: Fear of Mis-Optimizing ice cream teaches me a thing or two

  

  Undergraduate Education at Sloan. i was connected to him in my first week on ... will take an eternity to contemplate which ice cream flavor to get. sure ... wanted to live and which activities i was interested in, but i ended up

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 18, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  stories and decision paralysis

  

  have enough time to get to know everyone i wanted to even though i ... interested in film and theater lately i’ve been coming to terms with the fact ... there really isn’t any reason i need to be working in stem. for instance

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 8, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Let it snow What I did today instead of sleep for 29 straight hours.

  

  through until 9 AM Monday, when I have to get up to get ready for my first ... it snowed. So of course I had to get up and open the shade above my ... Today was going to be my sleep day. I was going to go to sleep on

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 4, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Stealing from the Class of 2016 And you'll have to work to get it back

  

  lists. It's impossible to avoid getting added to many MANY mailing lists ... group of PSETing MIT students at 2 in the morning to do when they discover ... freshmen at one point. No matter how hard it seems, you'll get through it, it

  • by Snively '11
  • September 27, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  We Were Deferred

  

  /not sleep deprived we were to run the 10-minute-walk to our bus stop to get ... reevaluating everything we had done in high school to try to find that *one ... comparing ourselves to others we knew of that got in. We just thought a lot

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 30, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  Sexy MIT Engineers My

  

  Freshman fall I decided to join a sport. I had never played sports in ... veteran players! How to play defense by being on the open side of my player. How to cheer very loudly on the sidelines. I remember the only time I

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Sixth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 2PM on 12/22/05.

  

  that the earliest I can start is in August? (I like to get things done ... can send in our January scores, I would like to take the SAT again. I have already submitted my RD application, without filling in the "SAT to

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 22, 2005
• Blog / Events

  The Week of Weeks 9/19-9/23: Libraries, MISTI, and Career Weeks. In other news, 9/26-9/30 hangs its head in shame.

  

  In addition to being Libraries Week and MISTI (MIT International ... get to eat dinner with former MIT students who now work at companies where you want to work SWE (Society of Women Engineers) Banquet -- you get

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  And then Trogdor smote the Kerrek

  

  that you had an interview, which we're happy about, and we get in touch ... bit murky: Are those that choose to interview more interested in MIT and ... I almost forgot: for you regular action folks, the deadline to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 30, 2004
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  #Winning the battle for awesome (fictitious) alumni

  

  that Alex was going to MIT. In light of this complaint, MIT and Cornell ... super hero group is a bit easier than getting in. Bullwinkle Moose Yes ... out of scraps in the desert, not to mention building his own mechatronic

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Can You Become Back at MIT, with excitement and pictures

  

  in Boston. On the hallway thingy that connects the plane to the airport ... did once I got back was go to Anna's Taqueria and get a burrito. I didn ... is great. I'm in the same suite as I was last year, but have moved to a

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 26, 2005