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• Blog / Challenges

  MIT is hard and I still don't know what I'm doing

  

  sorts of things I want to do. It would be helpful, sure, but a solid ... 'm probably going to switch majors. I wrote a two post series back in June about ... sounds great, I don’t think I’m ready to let go of physics just yet

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 12, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  From The Midst Of Selection A recount of EA selection committee.

  

  day with MadMatt and Nance Nance Revolution to make sure we're ready for ... until the group comes to a unanimous decision. If one can't be reached ... us head over to The Miracle of Science to decompress for a bit. MIT is

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Writing is difficult みんな、がんばってね!

  

  stop talking with yourself and talk to the reader? Oh god there's a ... attention since as a Senior Blogger I get to read your blogger applications! And also according to a recent emaill, if I don't blog, I will get fired

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • July 31, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Filled With Cute Babies The story of my IAP in India.

  

   or IDEAS/Global Challenge, or even dropping out of MIT to accept a Thiel ... that I would be going to India over IAP, working with AIM for Seva (a non ... 'm back now, done with my project report, and ready to share my experiences

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Letters from the 2023 decisions threads

  

  from the other side of the veil: I applied EA to MIT a few years ago, got ... months allowed me to discard a single vision of my future and evaluate what ... though you were waiting to see whether MIT would give you a chance. It felt

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 25, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  The Pink Hair Problem What do you do for your college interview if you have dyed hair and a…

  

  we can still learn a lot from the interview. And you should be ready to ... a point, then you should be ready to defend your position, if asked ... ). With the help of Kim, the EC Director, we sent it out to a diverse group

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 7, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  Above Ground now breathe

  

  , I completed two puzzles, and I'm finally feeling ready to start the ... to care slightly more about my [annotation note="maybe I should do a ... poetry workshop being run this IAP I hope to be a part of, and I've gotten

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 10, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Full Circle Professor Anna

  

  the external examiner (“extern”) for a PhD Viva, and now I’m trying to ... PhD. There’s a coda to that story. Over a decade ago (!), when I was an ... from being a postdoc to being a faculty member was the most abrupt of my

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2015 Graduates from MIT mind, and hand, and heart

  

  to the Class of 2015 as well, with a post on the wall of the class ... struggling into weird robes and wizard hats and getting ready to get in line to ... he ought to come to MIT. and he politely told me i was a condescending

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 7, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ETH Zürich, hier komme ich! A semester of all things Swiss German and chocolate to come

  

  I ready? Click to take a look!    Ja, you bet! ... out to a group chat, and we all drooled at the thought of spending ... a letter of recommendation, and also sent an email to my advisor. In

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 1, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Aftermath Literally.

  

  Internet related to a particular college decision as results were released ... for a while. No need to downplay that. Well let’s talk about it. One ... applications that asked a greater variety of questions forced me to think about

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 17, 2009
• Blog / How to MIT

  Super Sketchy Background Activity the experiment, part 3

  

  asked them to animate and score a Pi Day video…even though they had almost ... [/annotation], now seemed like as good a time as any to add to [annotation note ... shirts, to zoom backgrounds and cardboard cutouts, Wide Tim has become a

  • by kellen manning
  • June 5, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Paul’s Top Ten Common-Sense College Application Tips Patent pending.

  

  the list, though, I do have a few quick things to say. For starters, I ... was applying, I realized that talking to another person - whether it's a ... committee wants you to be. Admittedly, students at MIT share a lot of common

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  the pnr mindset vs. the grindset mindset pnr shall be missed

  

  going to my [annotation note="it was a bit of a shock going home for ... less a list of phrases and more the collective tendency to excuse poor time management decisions on being a frosh that doesn’t need to worry

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • January 15, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The View from 1000 Feet Life after MIT ... kind of

  

  first of the following month. This would normally total to a tuition ... room in Baker ready to begin my college experience. My mom always tried ... mental leap was a much longer one to make. Inherent in the word, research

  • by Bryan
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Ambulance! Ambulance! So I'm in this serious long-term relationship.

  

  , from 9 AM to 5:30 PM four days a week (which I took last year). This ... 49 hours a semester, but if you want to be really good at your job you ... concert (which actually turned out to be a very bad mistake, because Tom

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Advising Folders! Lots of fun discoveries about advising and such. Also, how I managed to confuse MIT…

  

  , MAS.A17 (Designing Technologies for Kids). Basically I get to play with ... Spanish-English dictionary and now I'm fully ready to take some Spanish at ... one box, so you can imagine that I have quite a lot of work to do over

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer in San Francisco Interning at PlayStation Network

  

  to get practical experience in a software company before even having to ... still under development but was starting to come together into a usable ... inside perspective on what it looks like to work as part of a software team

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Yes, This Actually Happened wwydfcfa - what would you do for chick fil a

  

  section to buy something for Loop kitchen-side cat, Zella, and a lighter for ... Chick Fil A had built up to the point where, when I awoke on that fateful ... into a Lyft, embarking on our 40 minute journey to this mysterious Dedham

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 20, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  So, What Exactly Happens? y'know, over IAP?

  

  was back on a plane to Massachusetts for the beginning of IAP. People ... cartridges). MIT is the perfect place to start a puzzle, especially when there ... was able to write autobiographically in a completely different ways, and

  • by Paige B. '24
  • February 2, 2023