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• Blog / About Decisions

  A letter for you (yes, you)

  

  how MIT can play a further role in your story. For others, it will be an ... find what you like about MIT in other places, or how best to showcase ... Dear Applicants, Each year at this time, I feel an overflowing

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • March 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lit Analytics How humanities classes can be analytically rigorous, courtesy of a Shakespeare scholar

  

  place in 2005), a parent asked me if/how MIT humanities classes were ... importance of collaboration originated from my work in theater long before I ... rigorous," but it hints at how even a music class can embrace technology in

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Dinner With Goobers Yeah food! Yeah people!

  

  to the family... but eating dinner all together as a family. I wasn ... against books at the dinner table is the fact that I was so stinkin' nerdtastic that I wanted to read at the dinner table... I DIGRESS. The point

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • February 27, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  An Interview about the Interview Remember: questions of science, science and progress, do not speak as loud as [your] heart.

  

  additional information: sign in, click the light green tab "how to APPLY" and ... interview required? No, it's not required, but I highly suggest having one. "Your interview gives us a vivid sense of you as a person and how you

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Remember to Breathe Chicken Soup for the Applicant's Soul

  

  million extracurriculars I was involved in. A word of advice: Take a deep ... mom in a frenzy exclaiming that I'm not going to get into any of the schools I want to get into. I was in your spot once, and I'm there once

  • by Bryan
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  NY Times article on women in science Women in science...the debate rages on.

  

  . Admittedly, I would have far less faith in my ability to “do-it-all” if it was ... Biomolecular Systems on Friday morning. In an effort to procrastinate, I was ... equal representation of women in science. When I casually mention to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 19, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  dont want to write ah

  

  i haven't written about what's been happening in my life at all in the past month, not here nor in my personal notes. i want to say that i ... were staying in mit for winter break. that night and the next night i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  This Entry is About (A) Lady Gaga (B) my MIT ID card (C) all of the above

  

  before. It was this: I would ask Lady Gaga to sign something that belonged ... card costs exactly $15. (In case you're curious or vegan, I blocked ... I might as well tell you straight away that this story ends with Lady

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 1, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  Apply to WISE! It would be WISE of you to do so

  

  ’d attend would assist in paying for her degree. She loved math, so she ... in,” she confessed, “until I got accepted to WISE.” Misconceptions ... “sitting in the basement with glasses on in the dark,” and she would not know

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • June 13, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Guest Entry: Leadership @ MIT You can become a leader on the MIT campus. Here's how...

  

  large events, get funding, and how to get involved in student activities ... , especially in a world where leadership, interpersonal, and management skills are required for competitive higher positions in all organizations

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 14, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Ask Me Anything no, really

  

  MIT, how I feel about them, what I loved, what I'd do differently ... really got used to it. I learned a lot in 21M.302; I looked at some sheet ... My grades for the semester have finally all appeared on WebSIS, and I

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • December 29, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I should’ve started this earlier A statement exemplifying my first month as a Junior

  

  'm pretty sure they don't actually see me at all in our room since I've been ... content of the class. But you should probably ask me how I feel about it ... stuck out to me because I enjoy blogging. It's all about how journalism

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 5, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Moved Off Campus A story told by cat gifs

  

  it was his home.  I wrote plenty of times about how it was my home ... think I'm special, in a way. The kind of way where life threw a lot of ... cat, Rory, and I live with the amazing Dan S. '17 in a tiny three

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Class of 2009 note #2

  

  ? MIT students/alums, what advice would you have for incoming freshmen in ... awaiting your Interactive Introduction to the Institute (i3) video introduction to MIT's dorms, you can watch the trailer here: 2005 i3 Trailer

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 8, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Things I Know to Be True: Addendum One A post I hate, and some truths from my first year at MIT

  

  Back in September, I wrote my first blog. I called it Things I Know ... behind it. I don't like the blog at all. I take some pride in saying this because it means I am a different person than I was in September. For many

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • June 20, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  I jumped into the river ...black-haired Asians swam with me.

  

  a spare pair of underwear packed discreetly in my back pocket, I ... could see how much fun I found it, but those pictures will remain unseen ... line up to surf in it. Kind of like the swan boats in Boston Common

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 30, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus visit, revisited In which I dissect the campus tour/ info session and forget to clean up afterward

  

  It's raining. I'm sick. No lab today, because the postdoc in our ... of this writing, I have exactly 11111 unread messages in Gmail. Initiative was taken. Somewhere along the way, I got lost in a cyber-attic of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 14, 2009
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  students in the coming weeks and months - about how our process works, what ... This year well over 18,000 students applied to MIT, the most in our ... students whom we would love to have on campus. However, we did place some

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blended Learning at MIT benefits of technology in MIT classrooms

  

  Learning website here.  Fourteen years ago, MIT democratized secondary ... technology in its classrooms.  Professors and students alike are engaged in an Institute-wide effort to translate traditional course offerings

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 23, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  More On The Interview… You don't need to take up the crumhorn to look "different."

  

  I wanted to offer a few more comments on the interview. While we have ... have somewhat different styles of how the conversations will go, the main ... in that regard. To that end, there is no expectation that you should

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 30, 2006