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• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Parties Followup

  

  is not a "one size fits all" school. As a current student, I would ... to help address such concerns. Indeed, I would also try to evaluate a ... interests, how much if at all the teacher would have to dumb down the class

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 30, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  [Guest Post] An Overthinker’s Guide to Finishing Your Transfer Application by Warren K. ’27

  

  The fall transfer application deadline is coming up. I tried to remember how I was feeling last year when the deadline was coming up…and then ... university, and how MIT aligns with your goals.” The best advice I got about

  • by Jeremy W.
  • March 4, 2025
• Blog / Events

  eclipse chasing, undergrad edition compilation post by Kano '25, Allison '27, Amber '24, Ali '26, & Audrey '24

  

  , would my friends and I have woken up at 4:00 am to drive for 4 hours to ... mins I would take a photo of the Sun: After I got that last photo, I ... , I would only notice something at the last 10-20 seconds.  I

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • April 22, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  On Supplemental Materials Further information about application supplements.

  

  I'm often asked about supplemental material. None of the below is ... material unless the application did not sufficiently show who you are. I hope ... music and would like to be a part of the music community at MIT, you may

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 24, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  dance dance dance! a weekend of trying to try everything

  

  ="attachment_103439" align="aligncenter" width="220"] how i probably looked ... ="Summer Science Program"]SSP[/annotation] knows that I have the tendency to do everything. I’m in clubs and choirs, running events, and starting (and

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 17, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Celeste the best video game i've played in months

  

  with me. That's how I felt. That there's just something wrong with me ... I have run out of things to write about because nothing is happening ... the first video game I've picked up in months, mostly because my friends

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 13, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  My History of Task-Management boy, is it a long one

  

  "got into MIT" on 12/15? boiiiiii Here's how I kept track of smaller ... abandoned it in favor of Google Keep as soon as I realized how many things I ... Being organized is fucking incredible. I like limiting stress in my

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 21, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  I’m leavin’ on a jet plane… and another plane...and another plane...

  

  how it looks, I found it to be very fun and interesting to drive. 10 ... , and actually made the process a lot less painful than I thought it would ... This post is way overdue, but I figure - better late than never. Here

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 22, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  a peek in a week of my summer trying to enjoy it while it lasts

  

  with just bread. I cannot express how much I love bread; it brings me ... go to bed a little later than usual. Usually, by this time I would have ... I cannot and refuse to believe that school starts next week. I don

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • August 30, 2020
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  hello seattle i'm on the west coast!!

  

  . now that i'm about to start that experience, i'm not sure how i feel ... seattle felt foriegn to me as i walked its avenues, but i wasn't comparing how foriegn it felt from my hometown in long island, new york, but

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.009 Final Presentations Live Webcast Project Engineering Processes aka The Most Fun A Course 2 Major Can Have Without Their…

  

  ! Sleep Deprivation Time! I'm using so many exclamation points because I ... 5 hours or so! Well, not really! But hooray!  Sarcasm aside, I ... 've created something really cool, and gradually, those moments of I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 7, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Starbucks. I'm getting a little too familiar with it.

  

  jazz, I've been picking up some info on how this particular Boylston St ... about how annoying it is to be sick. I like it at this Starbucks! It ... With less than two months left till my MCAT, I've started frequenting

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 14, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snapshot of a Week Food, radio, James Bond, and soccer in an unusually eventful week.

  

  't completely worked out how I would be getting back, since the T stops running at ... . No takers. Seriously, how could anyone pass this up? I was disappointed ... 're smart. I'm not, so I spent most of the vacation on Reddit or Facebook

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  A Blog Entry About Transition This blog entry is about transition. The act of passing from one state or place…

  

  transition. And in one sentence, I've completely ruined your hope of being ... " painted on its side, but I'm not actually going to tell you what it is yet. Especially not that it's about transition. Okay, I'm really not doing too well

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 2, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eyes Wide a scandalous, unintentionally-devoid-of-meaning recent history

  

  open, because that is how you make friends in college. I met with my ... unceremoniously late. I would like to posit that half the notoriety of Unified stems ... mostly, uh, how did I end up here?!?!?! Anyways, unlike yesterday, I am

  • by Jackie M. '20
  • September 8, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Toilet @ MIT The Ben Schreck Shits 2015 Calendar.

  

  principles to do slightly different things. I really like learning about how ... this semester, I sat down with Benjamin Schreck, MIT senior and creative ... home in LA, we were talking about how we wanted to one-up it. The next

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 16, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ushering in a New Era An open letter to Pass/No Record (with footnotes!)

  

  . ***: I would not recommend supergluing objects to your fingers ... Dear Pass/No Record*, I’m breaking up with you. But don’t worry, it’s not you, it’s me. I’ve moved on. Don’t get me wrong though. We had our

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 9, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  in the pursuit of knowledge want to see a MacArthur Genius dancing to gangnam style?

  

  "I've always been a knowledge junkie; facts are my hit, and Wikipedia is my dealer." (I was looking through my old computer files and found ... my final draft) In spirit, not much has changed since I wrote that

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 19, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  72 Hours Later… I have the "morning-after" syndrome.

  

  next CPW would help? =p) and apparently I look a lot taller. 10. "Wow ... passions in high school, from research (I don't know how many ISEF and ... Has CPW left you with this? :) So I learned two major things about

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  the journey to PLAYsentations or, the conclusion to the best class I've taken at MIT...so far

  

  paragraph.  Because every time I step into 35-307, I'm reminded of how lucky I ... nicknamed it the Aquarium. To miniaturize Stepper, I learned how to etch a ... industrial designer Jony Ive discusses how his father influenced his early

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 17, 2013