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• Blog / Admissions

  My MIT Interview I think that I forgot to tell you about that

  

  stuff!" *Ho is Element #67, has a boiling point of 2973 K, and according ... Privet Drive, Little Whinging, Surrey, and -- Privet Drive is a large ... [thinking: this is getting a little weird]: The building is called Privet

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  chances the point is to let yourself be helped

  

  collaborative problem-solving happens is that one person figures out how to solve ... with the structure of a UROP, here’s how it’s typically gone for me. You work under a Principal Investigator (PI)—a professor who is the head of

  • by Kai V. '25
  • November 26, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Beard, The Name, The Response, and EC Why does it say E.Jones on my door when I am B.Jones, and why is…

  

  'm getting kindof hairy, much to the chagrin of my wife. There's a story behind ... . The reason that we don't have a separate form for EA is that the form ... residents yesterday. I feel compelled to note here how AWESOME EC is. If I

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 28, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Why Leadership? (guest post) Inclusive leadership and vision-building at LeaderShape 2018.

  

  frustration in a compassionate, fatherly way. It can be the feeling that one is ... skill is a blessing and you only have up to go, even though you feel so ... . Leadership is a moment of helping each other live — in this life that

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 21, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Do You Wanna Build A Snowman? And thanks to an awesome friend, I built my first one!

  

  like? >:( The backstory explaining this is relatively simple. A ... work. He showed me how to create the base—start with a hard-packed ball ... closer to our dorm. I couldn’t believe how much the morning had been full

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 25, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  i was sick when i wrote this :( a largely unedited post where i ramble about getting covid

  

  down and watch more Hermitcraft after this, so yeah. This is pretty much ... . My brain is filled with too much snot right now to remember what we ... before the semester starts is not a vibe. Wednesday wasn't the worst day

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 7, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Week 1 ...of Year 2.

  

  Here’s how things have been going lately: I run a lot, I eat too much ... liked it too much. Let’s say that Hong Kong is a city dipped in glossy ... , which is to say, not very. A whole slew of factors beyond my control

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 14, 2015
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2020 if you read even one of these i will be happy

  

  ). This is another technical piece, a dialogue describing how Kerberos works ... acted, which is a shame, really, since MTA's production breathed an ... the $64,000 question, my friends, is simple: "how?" Something is

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 23, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  feeling old and coming home

  

  a blog about the trip in the near future. This blog is about feeling ... since I got back, I keep noticing just how much B1 feels like home. I ... to Paolo, actually, for the recipe. in a quirk of fate, Paolo is the B1

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 12, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Moving Out oooh, I am, moving out, mmhmm..

  

  while rooming in Burton-Conner is done on in a complex floor ... represent how small this room is. It's smaller than my AP Chem teacher. She ... of the dorm. The design is a pretty big downside to Burton

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 15, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Blog] CourseRoad! A simple way to make your four year plan!

  

  majors is even more so. And therein lay a major problem: working out when ... .022 psets. (Still not sure how I pulled that one off.)   Yes, that is ... Danny B. '15 is an 8-Flex/6-3 major with aspirations in both fields

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 25, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  bumpers a revelation i had while bowling

  

  my seven a.m. flight to DCA, which is one of three airports that serves ... Adults by Elena Ferrante, which is a translated Italian novel. I'm not sure what it is about yet. In a Harvard class I took years ago, the lecturer

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 2, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  sophomore fall (sophomore decline? sophomore roman empire?) (actually the word sophomore comes from Greek but shhhh)

  

  about how much life there is left after college for learning, too. And ... responsibilities in a couple different clubs was too much. it's been mostly a ... good for me!) and feeling in my bones that this life is a good place to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 1, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  10 Things I Miss About MIT that i didn't think i would

  

  looked like a whole different person back then. given how much i used to ... was always much more fun—everyone in my living community is amazing, we ... in a setting where no one knows you is indescribable. one of my

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 3, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Starting over sucks but sometimes you have to do it

  

  how much effort I put into my classes, I can't seem to get a result that ... you can't predict how a robot is going to look like by the end of the ... myself when my exam grades can't hit the class median no matter how much

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 16, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  The Aftershock In memory of Kate Hunter ‘20 (1997-2017), who will always be remembered for her big…

  

  how grief manifested itself in me. Instead, it was a tangled balloon of ... every few days. And I’m sure it all is a fraction of what her family is ... how Kate got the flu a few days ago?” Wariness came, and this was

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • January 18, 2018
• Blog / MISTI

  10:31 I wrote this entry on my iPhone about two minutes after boarding the 11:10 train…

  

  MIT is paying for anyway), and I got a much better seat with much more ... convince myself of, not for any good reason. I spent a little too much time ... how short this is, the cab meter begins at - you guessed it - 710 yen

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 29, 2009
• Blog / How to MIT

  Invitation to Cross-Register Guest post by Katherine W. '17 :D

  

  PSA: This is a really cool guest post by my friend Katherine W. '17 ... class to make my way there. Step 6. Learn things Here is a list of ... completely at the chalkboard For this particular course, every class is a

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  More Information on the Waitlist Some answers for those offered a place on MIT's waitlist.

  

  uncertainties, we also keep a waitlist of students. Is the waitlist ranked? No ... waitlist. How many people will you admit from the waitlist this year? It is ... waitlist admissions. All of this is a standard part of the admissions process

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  academic struggles zig-zagging in a world of straight lines

  

  too much like a sieve. I saw a Tweet that says: if ur self-narrative is ... a university full of former valedictorians, all I can hope for is to ... don’t have a superbly high risk tolerance and the start-up world is so

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 20, 2023