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• Blog / Admissions

  AOs write the “What do you do for fun?” essay Ever wondered what admissions officers do when they're not reading applications?

  

  —similar to how I marked my height in pencil on my doorframe each year as a kid ... -Mobile, I knew this as the best place to buy jewelry. In front of T-Mobile was ... that still hangs in my grandparent’s house. I taught myself how to draw

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s going on inside my head It might not have been so very important.

  

  Here are ten important things that happened in the past week. 1. I ... I have to cover it in a bacon-sugar sauce before eating it. Actually ... and kind of learned how to skate from Moria '06 and Joe '08. I was also

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus Okay, so it's not even really half a bus. But I'M not the one asking…

  

  've been trying to decide whether or not to switch into 5.112. I'm in it for ... with classes every day at 3, which is great because I don't learn well in ... the class. (I didn't take it for credit. I took it for fun. In

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 11, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  it is okay to not know a note for hs seniors (and others, too <3)

  

  summer, I felt the need to hyper-optimize my time in ways that would be ... "how do i want to change as a person in college" or "what are my goals of ... an “uncommon piece of advice that I had heard or given”. And in that

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  it’s only a matter of time a post for the deferred

  

  decisions before I gave my speech. I would go in and talk about Imelda Marcos' conviction in the Philippines and then I would walk out and accept my fate ... , disappointment rapidly setting in. I refreshed the website a couple times to make

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So apparently the Media Lab figured out how to 3D print glass and it's pretty glorious

  

  the Lab back in June, but had no idea how it worked; at first, I didn ... I saw a tweet from MIT News late last week about how some researchers at MIT, centered at the Mediated Matter group in the Media Lab but

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 24, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT is just another place An article from The Tech - MIT's school newspaper

  

  the first three terms, I treated MIT like most upperclassmen have in the ... and objectives; then I would find something that I wanted to learn that could run in parallel to the course material. For example, I took 2

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • February 29, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Read This! All those questions you needed answeredvar gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");document.write(unescape("%3Cscript…

  

  school student and want to go to MIT. Tell me how to get in.” I just write it off and never think about it again. Sorry, “How do I get in” is a ... took all of that information from this website and it's always what I

  • by Snively '11
  • June 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Students Are Cool: Brian Chan edition These are the kind of people that you will go to school with.

  

  modest person so I don't want to embarass him by saying how FREAKING ... As an alum, people often ask me what I liked the most about being at MIT.  The honest answer?  THE PEOPLE!  So I'm going to tell you stories

  • by Dr. Dawn '04, MS '06, PhD '11
  • October 15, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  The Minerva Delusion the political economy of an educational scam

  

  paragraphs in this Economist interview: “I don’t want or need to disrupt ... prestigious private school I was in love with. I didn't get in. I went to a solid state school. I wasn't as happy as I thought I would have been at

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 6, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  decisions, decisions why are there so many of them

  

  decisions and let the little things in life pass you by. how would one even ... decisions I've made over the past few weeks across all sorts of areas in my life. In [annotation note='i don’t wanna order this by order of

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 9, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  what i’m doing this iap 2021 a busy busy house

  

  week, I start a brief program with D.E. Shaw in their Discovery fellowship this week and I'm really excited! In addition to this, I am also ... undergraduates work in teams of up to 3 and create dynamic websites according to a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 10, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  transferring student culture online virtual rush? it's more likely than you'd think

  

  't realized how much I blog about BC. Helping with the website made me really ... In the past few weeks, I've been pretty busy with [annotation note ... art. I honestly could not be happier with how it turned out...I feel

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  61 Photos from my Time at MIT from freshman to senior year

  

  D. '21, our hallmates, and I all went to Tasty Burger in Harvard ... later. In January, I fulfilled my blogger-career-long dream of taking ... , in the interest of learning to eat independently and healthy, I bought

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 3, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Laptop Stickers of MIT and their stories~

  

  my hall in EC, Beast, who are my best friends that I love greatly and ... in the gear); I found that sticker in the TechX storage room, when me ... I found on the floor in Boston Logan (gotta stay fresh and rock what

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 2, 2019
• Blog / IAP

  I Am Prepared! Getting ready for IAP! (Find out how to join our mystery hunt team, too!)

  

  So here I am (still) in sunny southern California where people are mourning the loss of the crystal football ie The Rose Bowl. While I can't say ... hope you had an umbrella, Mollie. (Yes, I decided to watch in on TV

  • by Bryan
  • January 5, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  42 Recipes for Surviving Freshman Year (Part 1) Feeding yourself without a meal plan and avoiding the (negative) freshman fifteen.

  

  . Four years ago when I was a senior in high school I tried to learn how to ... geese and seagulls from the bank. I spent Thanksgiving in Myrtle Beach ... past semester I asked my family to teach me how to cook the foods I love

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 3, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Doctor Who?

  

  UROP advisor) look just a little nervous? In a "I better give this guy a ... , and Rocco try to figure out how to prepare their chicken tetrazzini--I ... sauce. In all honesty, I'm sure that Russ was awarded his PhD not

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Passing along some e-mails, and my responses to them.

  

  would you come to MIT and major in French?" I don't know how much of this ... 'm asking is how do i put my passion down on paper and my capability in a ... , and I'm not sure that, if I was accepted, I would decide to major in a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2 / Keep Calm and Carry On Getting some much-needed vitamin D on the other coast

  

  — changed."   I ran into a friend who I hadn't seen in over a year or ... semester, and we talked about the MEng. At one point, he mentioned how I seemed *changed*, calmer. I guess going abroad changed me. Later in the

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 30, 2018