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• Blog / About Decisions

  Culture, not the bacterial kind Some questions you should be asking about all the schools to which you're applying.

  

  -graduate-student perspective that I never would have thought of a few years ago. Two weekends ago ... Triton, where I am hanging out after my UCSF interview, waiting for the shuttle to take me to SFO for my red-eye flight to Boston.) I'm really kind

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 4, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  throughlines some things never change (but thankfully, only some)

  

  them. and just like how whenever i bike to the department, i look across killian and up to the big dome, and think about how wild it is that i'm here ... place where i've felt settled, where i know how to get around without

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Feedback

  

  For those of you who attended: How was it? What was your favorite part? What would you tell those who couldn't attend?

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 11, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Why Leadership? (guest post) Inclusive leadership and vision-building at LeaderShape 2018.

  

  are, what you want, and how you hope to get there. Now I realize the ... world and consider how I'm taking steps (however small) in the right ... would not have known that I could and do inspire others in a way I don

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 21, 2018
• Blog / Class Projects

  I DON’T NEED YOU ANYMORE. the making of my final video project

  

  I figured I would talk a little bit more about this class. I'll start ... documentaries, I ended up not using the tripod as much as I would have liked and ... some shots where I thought it would be a great addition to zoom in, or to

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

  Nisha’s Restaurant Review: February this is extra but i'm doing it anyways

  

  - they're all excellent and I would highly recommend trying literally any ... would say it's super similar to how The Three Broomsticks is described in ... Note: I know literally nothing about food. I love food, but have very

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 2, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  on anger understanding and learning and navigating

  

  after she told me this. In many ways, I can see how similar my mom and I ... how I had really become a bitch. Or how I was always angry all the time. Or how I should simply "care less." I think this is the same mentality

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 12, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  cleats on feet, smile on face thoughts on injuries and spring season

  

  from the boot, I had to relearn how to walk properly. I had developed ... it: I did! Since my injury in preseason this past fall, where a ... watch the season slowly slip through my fingers. I remember going to the

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 23, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the (New) Bloggers! CONTENT COMING IN HOT

  

  and blogging about my projects. I never thought MIT would be the school for me. Then, while visiting I saw how students were meshing their ... comes to writing I like to believe that it is reflective of how my mind

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 10, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some F Words ****!!!

  

  I know, would have me help her take apart computers, and in our free time, we would cook dumplings or jiuniang. I never really saw my mother ... advancement of women, but not the advancement of femininity, and I would later

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 15, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  it’s been thirteen days since the Eras Tour began

  

  Criminally Underrated  How You Get the Girl, I Know Places, I Wish You Would ... and what about it. I would scream its bridge (for whatever its worth ... different perspectives in these three songs. If I had to rank them, I would

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 30, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  More Information on the Waitlist Further details for waitlisted applicants.

  

  the waitlist would put us over our 8% international quota. I'm still ... ). This letter is set to be mailed on Wednesday. Additionally, I would ... other information you think would be helpful. What should I not do? Here

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 17, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A for the Waitlisted Some (hopefully) helpful questions and answers for waitlisted students.

  

  letter). Additionally, I would recommend sending us a letter in mid ... I know that folks on the waitlist have lots of questions; hopefully this post will be quite helpful! How does the waitlist work? We are

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  The View is Worth It but you have to make the climb yourself to find out

  

  reached the trailhead, I fully realized how awful this was going to be. And ... appreciated the actual view in front of my eyes, just because how shitty I felt ... , it would have netted to a positive experience. But I think it totaled

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 7, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Do You Wanna Build A Snowman? And thanks to an awesome friend, I built my first one!

  

  why would you. But he seemed pretty excited, and I realized that I had ... closer to our dorm. I couldn’t believe how much the morning had been full ... friend and I were taking the same Intro to Java class this IAP, and spent

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 25, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  To the 2024s: Wishing You the Most don't be scared of growth

  

  how to handle fucking up in a more real-world sense than I ever could ... Hello 2024s. I'm about to go on another blogging hiatus, but I wanted to tell you some things before I go: Exactly two years ago, I was

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • September 1, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  November Questions Omnibus 1 As usual, Q & A.

  

  ) considered? If yes, how would you evaluate them? The grading scheme is ... theories would be quite interesting. I, for one, am intrigued and would like ... answer (and links) about how we treat test scores. I hope that helps

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  people keep leaving their things in my room and other stories from sophomore fall

  

  details as to why or how and what lessons I'm taking away from that, but I ... better. I would take my final, one way or the other, and that would be the ... , framing myself in a movie, I realized just how crazy it all is. That I go to

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 17, 2021
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  ¡Es-pa-ña! ¡Campeones!

  

  away from Colón, where I knew there would be thousands of people starting ... happen. (Don't ask me how I know these things, okay, I'm just trying to ... *then* it dawned on me. How STUPID I'd been. These thousands of people

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 5, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Don’t Neglect Your Creative Side And I don't mean the side of you that thinks up math problems while you…

  

  Physics , I'm struck by how much this place seems like an academic ivory ... First off, congratulations to the Class of 2012! From what I hear you guys are amazing. I can't wait to meet you. And to those of you who weren

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • March 19, 2008