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• Blog / Academics & Research

  So you think you want to be a doctor: Pre-med at MIT

  

  take anyway) -18.03 for the Harvard-HST Program English: -2 terms of ... for you. I have spoken to my friends who have been through the ... reputation for preparing you well! Also, you have to take the Medical College

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 19, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  To Those with Dreams Deferred in which Selam of Pi Day Past rants about how things are arbitrary

  

  , in spreading the message that Many Things Are Arbitrary. For one thing ... simmer with hatred for me now, but hear me out). Okay, I’ll admit that the ... , but for a Set of Inexplicable Reasons it did not go up in time and has

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 17, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons on How to Start a Hard Tech Startup, with Sam Altman hard tech is hard(er).

  

  in 3 months? The answer is to shorten your cycle time by aiming for ... right off the bat.  For example, take Tesla and its goal of creating a ... .  Here's the main lessons I took away from his talk: How to know when to

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 13, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Diary of an All-nighter 9-5 is so out! Try um, 5 to 9...AM!

  

  sophomore slump for college students i.e. performance drops compared to ... . (Also: I’ve had to accept the fact that at MIT, there’s only freshmen and ... late nights every week since school started, involving going to the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 30, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  random thoughts about choices why mit? why not mit?

  

  everything else that can be said about it. the fact that i chose mit says less about mit than it does about me. for the same reason, there's only ... one concern i hear from a lot of people on-the-fence is of mit

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 29, 2022
• Blog / Hacks

  “futility island” socially conscious hacking? in MY institution?

  

  art installation went up recently on "Walker Lawn", also known as the ... hollow blue pipes, pointing at the Charles so that you could see the other bank through them. Nature sounds were played around them, with the idea

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 25, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  MIT Regular Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2020 are now ... in the open threads for admitted, waitlisted, and not admitted students ... ;    You can log in using the same username and password that you use

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Hug Your History Teacher Because it's 9/11

  

  So, I manage the blogs. Interestingly, the best way to manage the blogs I found, is to do it by NOT managing the bloggers. Might take a second for that to make sense. But we have an agreement. I don't tell them

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • September 11, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Conversations with graders And other ramblings of a frosh...

  

  = verb for using the lathe to machine something) a pin for the pedalbox of the FSAE car. So far for FSAE I've made minor contributions to the frame ... hand by an actual human being. For example, on the AP Physics test last

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Deferred Early

  

  know Weekends, get it poppin' on the low Better days comin' for sure ... ’s okay, too. For now, just float on, and we’ll see you back here in March

  • by Decisions
  • December 17, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Deferred Early

  

  Our applicant pool for Early Action was really competitive, and ... is by no means the end. Many MIT students have been deferred; you can ... too. We have posted more information on next steps for deferred

  • by Decisions
  • December 19, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Another Cat Post We have kittens and people are sad - thus, there shall be pictures of cats…

  

  are all alone sometimes, you are not alone. MIT is here for you, the ... This is a really difficult week for every single student at MIT. I do not want to talk about that yet. Instead, I am going to show you some

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 25, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  Is this real? The party called IAP continues.

  

  One of my favorite things to do that I don't really have time for is ... I'm sure this isn't the best way to spend my time, I somehow can ... comment. As Matt mentioned earlier, on this season of The WB's Beauty and

  • by Bryan
  • January 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We even learn stuff here! There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium,And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium...

  

  pronounced "three oh nine one," which conveniently allows for the cute little ... really need to finish?) before dismissing us for the day. And now you know ... is included in the term "extended family," and she thinks it's great

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Alia Burton ‘05 Name: Alia Burton; Job title: Admissions Counselor; Hometown: Philadelphia, PA

  

  : Philadelphia, PA High school: Philadelphia High School for Girls College: MIT ... things about Boston: Museum of Fine Arts; the T (subway) is cheap and clean Favorite movies: The Mask, Moulin Rouge Favorite music: Hip Hop, R

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 28, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  who cares about poetry? lots of feelings

  

  an exhibit for the Singapore Writers Festival. So I wanted to write ... . Don't be. Be proud of the courage it took for her to cross an ocean into ... sifting through Goodwill racks, all for the American Dream.  In middle

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 10, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Mine hands are broken reflections on many a year of carpal tunnel syndrome

  

  myself, why are you stressed? For the first month or so, it just hurt. But ... , that I asked the owners for help. "I'll do it today," I said, "just one ... 'm just being dramatic. I didn't have to change my habits for the first

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 14, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  love languages in the little things

  

  station, macarons in hand. I've been yearning for the Le Creuset ... friendship. The same goes for collaborative playlists--you can see the other ... neighbor for blasting Mitski all the time, and since we actually have very

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 6, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  processing in which I visit home and take time to think

  

  are particularly out of place for my life now. It’s just that the ... graduate. For all I know, some of it might. I definitely won't be the same ... ’t think I actually fully realized just how much it all is until the first

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  “the worst they can say is no” the costs of trying

  

  there are other circumstances, too, in which the cost of trying for ... . For similar reasons (with the bonus fear of getting hate-crimed), I don ... ask them out. The reasoning was simple: it was embarrassing and high

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 10, 2022