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• Blog / About Decisions

  Raskolnikov as an Odd Metaphor on angst and deferral

  

  Caltech, which I was also applying to EA. I was completely in love with MIT ... because there weren’t enough interviewers available. But in the moment I ... /January deadlines. Aside from simping over MIT a bit too intensely, I wanted to get in

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 17, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Junior Spring From Student to Grader: My Unified Engineering Story

  

  , because I thought it would be mostly political theory, but I was assured ... statistics, because I'm very interested in satellites, satellite networks, and satellite communications, so I need to understand randomness and how random

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 3, 2020
• Blog / Events

  A sample of life in the past week A summary of a million events in 7 days!

  

  that if we got snowed in then they would send a helicopter =) Off we went ... I can’t imagine what it must be like to face such a tragedy, I think I can speak for all of MIT in saying that our thoughts and hearts are with

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 21, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Murals of Senior Haus "find where you thrive"

  

  one of my favorite things to pass. I often thought about how long that ... Last Friday night at around 2 am I finally got around to visiting the "Murals of Senior Haus" exhibit in the Wiesner Student Art Gallery in the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 8, 2018
• FAQ / International applicants

  How do I complete the visa section on the application?

  Only students who currently hold a visa complete this section of the application. The International Students Office assists all admitted students through the visa application process in May.
• Blog / Academics & Research

  school projects aka why i havent been writing in the last few weeks

  

  of hours on composition and i think i’m pretty happy with how it ... second solo; in the case of my 21m.301 project i wanted as high-quality of ... successful in either instance as i’m still inexperienced in writing music, but

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 12, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Veni, Vidi, Jamba I came, I saw, I conquered a lot of smoothies

  

  MIT. What’s it like? Is it hard? How much sleep do I get? These tend to ... had my first 9-5 job this summer in a California cancer research lab, I definitely saved time for fun. Case in point: daycations. I consider myself an

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • August 15, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  walking, walking, walking walking and/as coping

  

  been fantastic in a lot of different ways. I'm back in Cambridge, I did a ... sunshine and roses would be lying. I've never been very good at identifying ... ="61573" image4="61574" /] I always have a destination or objective in mind for my

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 31, 2021
• 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 ... MIT experience in a new framework. I appreciate that. I'll never take ... just finish the work in time to submit things. Additionally, I'm taking a

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 31, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester II: v. hosed tl;dr: *loud screaming*

  

  them in more detail than I will if you’re interested in learning more ... whether I want to double major in math or be a 6-2 instead of a 6-3, and 18 ... status early), which basically means that if I do bad in the class, it won

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 14, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  where is home? leaving your home is easy / it's keeping this one that's a struggle

  

  campus courtyard covered in snow. i've forgotten how beautiful it was ... . since moving in to simmons, i went on a subway trip with alan, which was ... i didn't know. with everyone gone, it felt closer to how i felt when i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 27, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Sentimentality a.k.a. Why I'm So Glad I Picked MIT.

  

  Cormick at about 11:45 pm, naively thinking that I would be in bed by 1 am at ... very same Walker Memorial in which I have endured many a painful midterm ... arrived, my joy at having gotten in was weighted down by uncertainty. Did I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 9, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  Bang! Update [3] Gotcha!

  

  , blog, and demonstrate how my shirt says TIM in the mirror. Until ... . If you'll recall where we left off, I was in the the hotel room after ... is when I was able to shoot. I shot in the first air pistol round of

  • by Snively '11
  • January 25, 2008
• Blog / Residential Life

  last fall / last fall it's senior year and i still haven't learned anything

  

  class or two and still graduate, and I have a little wiggle room in how ... first week of classes. It was a fun time, in the sense that I enjoyed every event individually, but, in combination, it exhausted me. I felt

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 10, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Love, organically Mitra and I feel it in our fingers and feel it in our tosylates.

  

  's lab that she would in fact be leaving MIT to move to New York with her ... I ever saw in my life. You guys are the best students ever, and I will ... course, if I were to become a professor (not going to happen), I would just

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Asking for Directions Two weeks of pondering, photography, and prose.

  

  computing than MIT? And so it went. I got in and my dream of being some ... at it as a job... so out went Course 6 and in went Course 1. I really ... the entire duration of the trip, and at the very end I'm left in the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  General Advice Application advice for HS juniors and sophomores, inspired by a student's question

  

  or test-prep courses I would suggest or anything like that. I recommend ... gained from it, how it has changed you, etc. Another piece of advice I ... In my previous entry, Joan Tran from Louisiana asked for some general

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Experiment… featuring Emily '22, Felix '23, and Alison '23

  

  work in admissions last July, and by mid-July I was part of the team to ... -Emily"]Everybody, meet Alison.[/annotation] With these three in mind, I ... ended up in my spam folder bc I guess my email decided that it doesn

  • by kellen manning
  • July 8, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  18.S190 that's .0093 more than 18.S097!

  

  there isn't a world in which I would give up the opportunity to teach this ... For the second year in a row, I am teaching a class at MIT. A real, for-credit, in-the-catalog-of-classes class, at MIT. That I teach. On

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 27, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing Workshop I just wrote an entire post and my browser crashed. dfsdfksdfojfoajwefoiajdwf.

  

  if you don't like what I'm about to say or how I said it. It was once a ... brought it in pieces over from Ireland (I meant Patrick the IRISH Irish, not ... zillions of essays. Over and over again. I literally wrote something in the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 12, 2006