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• Blog / About Decisions

  Being “qualified” for MIT Let me show you how it's done.

  

  . I thought about how the MIT application was nothing like a job ... : that the only official qualification for coming here is a certain level ... handed me a complete horse chestnut, and showed me how to open it. As I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  about our high schools. Malingap is someone offering to grill me a burger ... of the night. Malingap is someone organizing a grocery run based on an ... , is a visit to Diana’s Baths. Several waterfalls form a stream, with

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Flying Close to the Sun a semester of fire

  

  built into it — research is truly a collaborative endeavor in how ideas ... like how Kellen wrote a whole blog waxing poetic about failing, but never ... Sun"![/caption] MIT Spinning Arts is a performing arts group that spins

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  study spots at MIT not exactly places to cry, but they'll do

  

  on, so I'm not sure how reliable of a spot it is anymore. last year, it ... 3rd, I didn't see much there). there's a lounge on the second floor ... everyone thinks this is a niche spot, but half of campus has worked here. fun

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] a space for women at mit by Nandini Choudhury (WXGS Assistant Director)

  

  , this blog is mostly about a really cool lounge, though I thought it was ... .']but much has changed since then.[/annotation]One thing that's changed is ... 308. The Cheney Room is a lovely space, and if you want to learn about

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • August 12, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  person. But this isn’t a blog about how to write a college essay. If you ... learn so much about all of you, so I thought it was our turn to share a ... carefully crafted prose, while others take a much more casual approach to

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] How to Build a Three Story Fort by Zack I. '27

  

  I've had all kinds of feelings about returning to MIT as staff a decade after I was a student here, but one of them is ✨delight✨ at seeing ... , driven by passion, and a feat made possible by community. In fact, when I

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 1, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Train Coming on navigating

  

   worked-- even the supposedly "simple" things. I had no clue how to even board a ... feel like this is a good example of what most of your freshman year looks ... . -- I've learned how to board a plane. I've struggled through three years

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 15, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” and other ways to improve your test scores

  

  affect students on potentially magnitudes greater. How about “Zeus is a ... There is empirical evidence to support the idea that males have a ... a stereotypical manly man who is tough, risk-taking, and does weight

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Am I Smart Enough for MIT? On second thought...don't answer that.

  

  , no matter how much there was (I really enjoyed, for example, doing ... about how "elegant" a math proof was, or how "neat and interesting" the ... much leaves a lot of that at the door (unless it comes up specifically

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] We’re Not in ~Kansas~ Missouri Anymore Going From a Small Town to Boston, by Claire S. '25

  

  Claire S. '25 is a Computation & Cognition (6-9) major from ... best way to deal with this is to find a community at MIT that can become ... that much?? This year, a friend and I took advantage of the deal and went

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 17, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Critter gaze upon my son

  

  is to optimize a tennis-ball-sized creature through a series of ... or even evolving something realistically; I think it is mostly a ... refusal to learn how to do drawing on a computer."]Day 1: Web

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 26, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Robo-CJ writes haiku “didn’t you already make a blog post about this?”

  

  Poetry Day! It's not very much of a leap to think that I could be bisexual ... are sad In its place is CP✱, a sort of CPW-turned-virtual, that ... undergraduates are juggling multiple tasks haikubot it is a fact which chemists

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bad Ideas Weekend 2019 good times

  

  consumption algorithm". Time complexity is a measure of how long a program (or ... and answers were: Q: What is a word starting with "E" that describes ... “The winter has come. The days are dark, cold, and dreary. There is

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-Med @ MIT The title says it all.

  

  question repeatedly: after all, MIT is primarily a technology ... is most worried about: will I be able to maintain a high GPA at MIT ... ended up at great schools. I guess my point is: don't let the idea of a B

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Essay: Yogurt Edition! You like froyo? I like froyo! ^___^V

  

  I think the college essay is a lot like froyo. It comes in a variety ... thousands of application essays in one application cycle, so how is your essay ... trying to answer a question? If we don't conclude, how are they going know

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  What I Did in High School in the actual sense of the phrase

  

  .” There is obviously a lot of your high school self that is conveyed when ... internship at Rutgers University, for which I pretty much functioned as a data ... exactly is this Robby fellow?” which might then prompt descriptions of a

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  And the Whistle Blows soccer post-season & my last competitive soccer game

  

  ’t get much better than a conference championship :)  [caption id ... became a conscious idea in my mind. It is almost absurd to think that the ... kind of hard. It’s only been a few days, and it’s hard to process how I

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 21, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  post about Splash. And this'll be a post about Summer HSSP, which is a ... linking my entire previous post. This is the MIT ESP team: We're a group ... they happen, who the students are, how large it is, and how long it is

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.

  

  little exercise. It's a timesaver, too, since my morning workout is wrapped ... might be thinking: biking in a city? Why is this deeply psychotic and ... internationally. BNB runs a bike shop and teaches kids how to fix bikes so they have

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2010