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• Blog / About Decisions

  “what if I get rejected” for everyone nervous about admissions decisions

  

  're definitely getting in!" just increased the pressure. With how and where I grew ... time to figure out their admission status. Essentially, nausea is in the ... dorms I could live in. Some people around me--my mom who went to her state

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • November 13, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I LOVE MUSICALS!!! wicked just dropped and I am LOSING MY MIND

  

  beautiful about how observant and self-aware actors have to be, taking in the ... seen Wicked, I’ve been inspired to finally get to a blog that I’ve been ... depths of a character and laid bare in the theatre for all to witness. Show

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • November 29, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  My How Times Change… ...and yet, they are much the same.

  

  great schools, in fact some of you have applied to four times as many ... day to school. Even in those days MIT announced their decisions earlier ... nuts, would I get in or not, if I did which would I pick, and if I didn

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT Medical: A Freshman’s Story Worth sharing.Worth reading.

  

  appointment with a doctor (which we had to pay for separately) in order to get ... – and in the sheer time it can take to get medical care, time that should ... flexible, with open access, meaning we can go to any participating in

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 14, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Getting Back to Normal ...with some help from Macklemore

  

  'll take another step in getting back to normal. Tonight is the annual MIT ... Staton 1962: The Four Preps So, here's looking forward to a great concert ... It has been a rough couple of weeks in Boston and at MIT.  Wednesday

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 26, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Get psyched, stay with it, do whatever it takes Adam's dad's advice is succint. Mine isn't.

  

  need to learn how to do is fail, but not let failure get you down. You ... you're wondering how to make yourself shine in the application. :) ... situation anyone in our family encounters. 1. Get psyched. 2. Stay with it. 3

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 28, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What’s in My Bag? My everyday carry!

  

  put in my wallet, but conveniently seems to show up when I need it: “I am always doing that which I cannot do in order that I may learn how to ... I’m less organized and there’s less stuff in here... From left to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 11, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  For great justice…

  

  you get to college, student government (sort of a misnomer in the UA ... Orientation 2006 and the status and future of Orientation. It's finally in its ... contributed to it. Your Orientation experience can really shape your MIT

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  How to CPW! Advice from all the bloggers, with love.

  

  …no shame in being warm :) And get ready to have a great time! ERICK ... Station -> Red Line to Kendall/MIT), then here is how you get from the ... today! And third....the CPW weather machine appears to be in need of some

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 4, 2017
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Better ways to get around campus as in "better" i mean "objectively worse"

  

  I’m now in my third year at Next House, so the long walk to campus is ... because you had to write up that pesky problem set in LaTeX? Are you bitter ... knows how to resurrect dinosaurs. C'mon, it would be cool. Portal

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 14, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  how to move carts not an athletics post

  

  ’d want to feel each one day in and day out. how can i move my cart towards ... to stand behind the cart and push it in the direction you want to go: the second is to stand in front of the cart and pull it such that it

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 23, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  how to adult spoiler alert: no one knows

  

  phases of my life. a while back, i was waiting in atlas to get my ID card ... facilitated this. good thing i’ve now placed myself in a job where i get to ... , writing. it took me a bunch of bad drafts to get here (nobody wants to see

  • by Melissa Cao '20
  • November 3, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  How to Make Friends Disclaimer: Attempt at your own risk

  

  lately about making friends. People asked me how to make friends in college ... likes we get or how many people we Snapchat. Like I said in an earlier ... up with somebody in order to get something or someplace you want or you

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 30, 2016
• FAQ / Life and culture

  How hard are courses at MIT?

  how to use them. Professors aren’t as concerned about if an experiment ... to collaboration: problem sets (psets) are typically completed in ... getting in the way of their schoolwork.
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Musings of My High School Senior Self bring your best cringe face

  

  the air. I didn't know how to get around campus, I didn't understand the ... kickboxing every now and then so I know how to duck now. In attempt to ... I felt in myself when I had to drop and retake courses. I remember

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • February 16, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Reflecting on the great memories of my freshman year ☀️ When life gives you lemons, share them with others >:) ☀️

  

  in the US[/annotation] and to get to know each other before all of the ... amazing to get to know that we had so much in common despite us all coming ... ’d get to know each other outside of the academic setting. In spring, we

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 21, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Gap Year, Part II: Getting Murdered Less How to HelpX, Couchsurf, backpack, and hopefully not die

  

  women. How to use: Personally I would not opt to stay in a strange man ... looking back fondly on those days, so I want to share how I did it. Maybe ... resources I used, the costs, benefits, and how-to of using them, and tips on

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Was Great in the 1800s (and it's still awesome today)

  

  ’s history helps with your consideration of committing to MIT in the present ... of its peer institutions in accepting women, who also got to work in ... known as "Technology" or simply "Tech." And Tech students knew how to have

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 19, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 1 Dealing with failure and trying to move past it.

  

  knowing how not to have a breakdown. It means being able to look at failure constructively, no matter how bad it is, picking out whatever there is to learn ... taking courses in their majors. I went to the student talks that we have at

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 21, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Finals™ How to survive AND thrive this finals season?!

  

  , I thought it'd be fun to share my study tips on How to Finals ... ensures that I'll be able to get to everything I want to cover, and it oddly ... friends, etc. Gives me things to look forward to, in between studying and a

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 18, 2018