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• Blog / Admissions

  Checking in with EA Applicants because I just saw Chris' post, and you probably did, too

  

  about EA decisions being released next week. And I wanted to check in ... I come home each night and tell my wife over dinner how lucky I am, because I never seem to pick boring applications out of the pile. In fact, I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking 3 math classes this semester as someone who isn't a fan of math

  

  something I could ever establish an interest in. The weird thing is that I ... and how it works, I've found it difficult to figure out how to use that ... how to get to it is really satisfying. Additionally, I like the two

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 3, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Shot in the Life I now realize that this is probably a misleading title.

  

  coincidence that would never happen again, or whatever. And now that I'm almost ... is cross section of my semester in screen shots. 1) I hit exactly $0 ... ordering the Indian food I have open in another tab. Peace out, cub scouts.

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • April 16, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Circles, circles, circles week to week to week

  

  that anything in particular triggers it. I'll be sitting in front of my ... , filling my body like helium. All the energy would leave me and I'd lie on my bed, staring into space, thinking about how worthless I felt, or how

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Day 3 A recap, with pictures.

  

  ) where I got to meet a bunch of cool MIT alums (some of whom actually read these blogs!). Back to the help desk for most of the afternoon. At 5PM, I ... 6 a cappella groups. In true MIT spirit it got hacked (see pic below

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 9, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: When in South Africa guest post by a fellow '21

  

  University. I was thrilled, here would be my first chance to learn in an ... world. I remember the days when my mom would ask 7-year-old me what I wanted to be when I grew up and I would tell her about my plans to traverse

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 31, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  rating classes from this semester the good, the bad & the underrated

  

  days, I would be the only one in office hours. But I ended up learning so ... -inducing, so I would recommend this class for people interested in this area! ... . Right now, I'm sitting in Hayden Library, watching the sun sink over the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 26, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  [Guest Post] Why did I come to MIT? by River A. ‘26

  

  realize that at least for me, I won’t know what I am interested in for at least a few years after college graduation. And that’s okay. In fact, I ... like though! At MIT, I have explored areas that I never have before in

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 2, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  my semester in a word: oof or perhaps "oof: the party, the lifestyle"

  

  how i managed to slide in"]seniors[/annotation]. i'm starting to gestate ... to already, or how many i'm going to frantically apply to in the week ... while and i'm really excited to finally be in it. i was a bit irritated by

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 14, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  hello applicants, i don’t know what to say but i can try

  

  i guess this would usually be the time of year that there’d be blog ... lot of time thinking about you over the next few days. i wonder how all ... powerless. i wish love was the kind of thing i could package in a box and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 13, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Application season

  

  . Who would have thought I'd need to remember how to do things like ... year (or next year, or in five years... whatever, I don't discriminate ... 's one thing I hate in this world, it's physics). So, applicants, gripe

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To BE or not to BE Bioengineering, it's so hot right now.

  

  good thing. How else would I have learned about bioengineering? Fast ... When I was in kindergarten, I wanted to be a doctor. The summer ... surgeries and hold a defribillator in my hands and say "Clear!" As a kid, I

  • by Bryan
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Burning Question "Can you tell me why I didn't get in? Why was I not good enough?"

  

  The burning question in my in-box is "Can you tell me why I didn't get in? Will you look at my app and tell me what I did wrong? Why was I ... every right to be asking it. I certainly would be. I wish I could get

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 16, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  How To Fumble Your Way Through MIT and Still Turn Out Pretty Okay Step 1: Fumble. Step 2: Turn out pretty okay.

  

  less than stellar. I sat in my assigned seat at a table next to Jennifer ... making the final cut. This is not how my college applications went. I was completely myself without any pretense of normality, and I was sure that would

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Advice

  You only got in because you’re a… how to cope when good news unexpectedly gives you the blues

  

  where I was applying, and then I didn't get in, everyone would make fun of ... haaaaaaated dealing with this stuff in high school, or rather, I wasn't very ... sucked. After each round of decisions came out, I hated hearing my name in

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 16, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on fitness, health, and food a couple of moments over the years

  

  's something that my family members would poke fun at and point out and I think ... out, I was aware of my flesh body and form. In elementary school, I found a metric that determined how acceptably fit I was and stuck with it

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 24, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Moment with A Minister kevin rustagi '11 on MIT and entrepreneurship

  

  skills that would help me learn how to get my projects off the ground in a ... my sophomore year, pushed me in a different way. Any time I would go to ... . I asked Kevin to share some of his thoughts on his MIT journey: how it

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 11, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  We open in Venice We next play Firenze, then on to Pisa (lots of laughs in Pisa), our next…

  

  gondola ride. I would recommend to anybody going to Venice in the near ... check, I glanced in a vending machine and saw a mysterious brown ... every afternoon. Maybe they spray tourist pheremones too. I would. The

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Blog Entry: Recession Edition At MIT, your spoon is too big.

  

  decreased in a geometric series. It is predicted that Paul would have finished ... In times of economic crisis, Random Hall perseveres in upholding the ... “too hosed” with homework to participate in the social event, eventually

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 21, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  Useful items to bring for dorm room

  

  which to furnish their (or their student's) dorm room. While I am not going to list obvious things, like soap and shampoo, I want to say that ... of drug stores in the area, so unless you have a particular surplus of

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 1, 2006