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• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2016-17 Application Essay Questions For those of you rarin' to go.

  

  officers, our primary goal in reading these essays is to get to know you, the ... As the summer rolls on, we're starting to get a lot of questions from ... weeks, I know many of you are eager to start thinking about how you

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • July 26, 2016
• Blog / Events

  In Transit The people and ideas traversing MIT

  

  I got on a bus this morning to go home for Thanksgiving, fully prepared to entrust my productivity to a flaky Wi-Fi connection. Once I got ... app essay drafts - is on Google Drive. I am now drafting this in a .txt

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 22, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Sleep is (not) for the weak Myth: All engineers are insomniacs

  

  weekend! Wait, that’s a normal amount of sleep to get? Missed that memo. In all seriousness though, I actually do get sleep, usually about ... to function properly. When you don’t get sleep at night, you end

  • by Stanley G.
  • October 24, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Time to Enroll You have doubts, I have gifs

  

  experiences. ^_^   4. How do I enroll? Log in to your myMIT account and ... to college in the fall and can sleep soundly. But making a choice is ... the place for you, we thank you for letting us get to know you this year

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • May 1, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  soulsearching / naubos na in which i ramble about purpose

  

  major in? How will that tie in to what I want to do in the future? And ... how privileged I am. It would make me feel guilty, in a sense, to be ... impossible for me to get something to do over the summer. I remember thinking

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 22, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2021 another year another book post

  

  -deception.' 'How can a man live in perfect harmony?' To which YISUN replied, 'Non ... feelings; it's how I came to the word mudita, for example. In France, the ... piece despite being published in 1948. “They do say,” Mr. Adams said to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 20, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  institutional memory cruft are cool!

  

  get on a call with us, so we did. we talked about how no one's going to ... contrast to esp itself, which has been around for sixty years. how does any ... . this applies in sitautions like, not knowing the password to something

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  On Time That which I do not have.

  

  of Science/Museum of Fine Arts - MIT students get in free to a lot of ... least I know how to do laundry... 8. Watch every episode of Arthur in ... me to learn how to do it. Apparently, it comes in handy when you

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 7, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  23andme happy new year

  

  publish two novels anyway), and one day I might want to get an MFA in ... did what was needed to get a bachelor's in computer science. I ... and like, if I had Greg's attitude of "it's hard for me to see how I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 1, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fact: Architecture majors have to code I don't remember signing up for this

  

  when I planned to major in Architecture @ MIT, I thought I’d be drawing ... first project in 4.113, each one of us had to thoroughly research a ... chemical reactions (reactions that oscillate in time and space), so I had to

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The View from 1000 Feet Life after MIT ... kind of

  

  be insufficient in order to get where you need. With my research, it ... draw from in order to get the information I needed in order to be ... , you have to agree with the professor's solution in order to get the A

  • by Bryan
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  Piece of my Heart Hey, look, a Turkish internet cafe.

  

  any great updates until then. Anyways. I've managed to get myself ... schedule, and I figured out how to eat. Anyway, I've figured out that you ... DID YOU KNOW? The proliferation of "standing cafes" in Germany was

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 1, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Week of Music Eight bands in nine days, and I still missed five performances.

  

  ways, I was extremely jealous of him. He gets to spend the next four ... building to see three guys hammering away at their instruments in the back ... in the front row where we were treated to some of the best live jazz I

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Looking Forward and Backward 10 Memories and 8 Resolutions

  

  that I was in! 2. Arriving at CPW and getting escorted to the second ... back at how much my life has changed in just twelve months. It has, by ... dabbing to imaginary music, mind you in-sync with one another, with my two

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • January 2, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  happy LFDOC! my last semester of undergrad :)

  

  -than-the-usual amount of freedom this semester. It’ll be fun to reflect on how I thought it was going to go versus how it actually went when it’s all said and ... , getting tickets to a last-minute concert, etc.  Being present. I keep

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 3, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I think I can, I think I can The word "student" sounds like "study." I wonder if there's a correlation.

  

  me, "Isn't MIT supposed to be super hard? How do you find time to have fun?" I think this is a very interesting question to pursue. So one ... easy." And then when you get that problem done, you can say to yourself

  • by Bryan
  • October 18, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Poetry and Physics You don’t have to get theoretical physics to get Frank Wilczek.

  

  Princeton. This is an amazing talk. You don’t have to get theoretical physics to get Frank Wilczek, as he is also a writer, poet and is known to tell ... "how is it possible to construct heavy objects out of things that don

  • by Laurie Everett
  • January 24, 2007
• Blog / How to Food

  LET ME COOOOOOOK 🍳🍳🍳 I am stupidly excited about learning this Basic Life Skill, and not ashamed to admit…

  

  awkwardness get in the way of getting to know people. Asking people to eat lunch ... [annotation note="A program that sends MIT students to work/teach/study in other ... Dilijan, a neighboring city in Armenia. I thought about how I would rate

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • September 16, 2024
• Blog / Study Abroad

  From One Cambridge To The Other A year away from the Institute

  

  did this mean getting to spend some time in Europe but it also meant a ... got a list of what colleges we'll be living in and I'm going to be ... From EC to Trinity Hall Last year First East was graced with a

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 12, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Bachelor’s & Master’s in 5 Years An attractive option offered to undergraduates in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning.

  

  's all about how you want to structure things. In DUSP, there are four ... you have the chance to explore offerings in any field and see how you'd like to focus in the future. The topics are wide-ranging and can be

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 15, 2006