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• Blog / Academics & Research

  an outlook on emails a week of my inbox’s pain and suffering, compartmentalized

  

  are curious of how this happened, don't ask. I'm still wondering too ... ’m realizing I miscalculated. Because basically, it turns out no matter how many ... visualization, I was pretty surprised how many emails the club portion made up. I

  • by Waly N. '24
  • September 21, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Uh-oh Spaghetti-O

  

  anonymous guy would ever say something like that, stop exaggerating," but I ... Yikes. It seems like I may have gotten Wenhao into a bit more trouble ... some profoundly absurd comment about being "appalled" that MIT would

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 21, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  making art for fun what a crazy concept!

  

  “art kid” for so long, and I was afraid that going to a STEM school would irreparably change that part of me. I was afraid that I would lose touch with a ... afraid I really would have trouble continuing to pursue art while attending

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • March 28, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything, all at once thoughts on science, ambition, and obsession

  

  note="I wonder how that'll hold up with inflation"]$20, 20 years from now ... the research I would do in the coming years. I applied for a long ... :)"]research fellowship,[/annotation] I found a new UROP that would challenge me

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 2, 2022
• Blog / Community Projects

  dormspam-the-game (Part 1) wits, skill, and the teeniest amount of luck

  

  strategy: I didn't really have one. While clearly I would want to maximize ... Field. In the next section, I talk about how this actually worked out for ... to the end to find out what this is ;)[/caption] Last month, I had the

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 13, 2020
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  Declared My Major :D aw yeah i'm a College Student™ now

  

  -9 would be ✨perfect✨ for what I wanted. When my student advisor suggested ... -3,[/annotation] I thought I didn't even need to consider the chance that I would ... during the spring term of their freshman year. I'm a fairly decisive person

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 21, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Leaving a Mark Painting a mural and turning my rat

  

  friends graduated, I would always notice that their ring had changed ... hastily switching it, I was surprised by how tense and disturbed it made me ... coming. I’d psychologically built up that moment as the moment I would

  • by Kate R. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Other Side The view from another cambridge

  

  from MIT. I was burned out after last semester, and I don't know how I ... say anyways.  When I applied to the Cambridge- MIT Exchange (CME) program, I was pretty excited about the grass. The CME program lets MIT and

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 31, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Fifth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to blog comments from the last month.

  

  involvement there. I would include it. ------------------------------------- Sam ... friends on which I can write on in my essays. I would be so grateful if you ... ." Your SATII scores are excellent - I would advise you to take the TOEFL

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  last first day (take 3) there are so many other blogposts with this title

  

  that I never would have considered. 21H.S05 - Encoding Culture. This ... 113 days. As of yesterday, I am officially a second semester senior ... wasted. I feel this immense pressure to do it right, even though I don

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 8, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How To Make (almost) Anything

  

  I switch between saying I study "computer science" or "math" but neither one can hide that I usually live my life lost in abstract ... hedge my bets, I've set out on a crusade to learn more about regular old

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 25, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Who’s that new kid? ANOTHER one?? Are you KIDDING me?! She doesn't even fit on the page!

  

  ", which would be nice if it were true, as I'm only 5'4"), a human rights ... come from one of those families where you are the only one who knows how ... be completed, they're yelling for (at?) you. Ever since I got accepted

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  Quarantine and Social Life trying to maintain some connection

  

  texting them, and those conversations would span a few days. I also tried to ... belief you have, would you do it?” I reached out to another friend F ... that we would relate to some of our answers. And we did! I had such an

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Question me an answer. I try to help somebody, for the first time ever.

  

  chemical engineer would do?" I've always been meaning to do the "how does a ... student Andy and I already know how the turkey carcasses turn into oil, kind ... see exactly how what I'm learning might be applied in industry. And

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 27, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  i wish we’d grown up on the same advice alternate paths

  

  , and i agree that they seem to be doing fine. but the question i would ... everything about you). c and i talked a bit about how he lives reasonably ... . in a previous post i wrote about how an mit.nano class made me feel

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 18, 2023
• FAQ / Testing

  What tests do I have to take?

  If you are planning on applying to MIT and would like to see our testing requirements, please visit our Tests & scores page.
• Blog / MIT Life

  More about Residence Based Advising Still have questions about RBA?

  

  professor both personally and professionally. How else would you find out that ... A view of Next House from across the river: I have gotten a lot of ... on it. As a prefrosh, I didn't know that much about the dorms so RBA

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Happy Valentine’s Day from MIT Because theobromine is delicious.

  

  I had known about The Tube beforehand, maybe I would have applied to ... of the MIT admissions process, since I think MIT would send Valentine ... taken a photograph of the card myself, I realized that would probably be

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 14, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  in a funk and salvaging hope

  

  was feeling... hopeless? (like, I held the belief that things would not ... felt like I let myself down felt guilty like, how dare I let myself ... content warning: mental health, trauma 1   I've been in a

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 31, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  hell. handling the hardest semester at MIT, virtually

  

  work. I couldn't help but wonder how I would've fared if the chaos had ... . I also haven't yet figured out how to finish all my psets on time; my ... ground? How do I get everything done reasonably on time without sacrificing

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 9, 2020