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• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  out our advising assignments. There are three advising options at MIT. First there's traditional advising, where you are assigned an advisor and you meet with them every once in awhile to make sure things are going OK

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  GRE, Boston love, and loose ends from last time Wandering around Boston lost is one of my favorite things to do.

  

  recreations, and is made possible by the fact that Boston is a very safe place ... actually knowing where I am. In some cities, this is a very foolhardy and ... ask if he could please get on the internet and find where the subway

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Admissions Decisions and Mystery Hunt A few thoughts and a lot of puzzles.

  

  I made it? Am I happy? Inhale. Exhale. You are super-cool. In the past ... going to say, I made it. Sometimes while walking through campus I notice ... lot about yourself and your interests and where you might fit into this

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 12, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  How To Fumble Your Way Through MIT and Still Turn Out Pretty Okay Step 1: Fumble. Step 2: Turn out pretty okay.

  

  -is-not-good-at-life-themed posts in the archives, what's another post on the pile? Here are some ... irreverent, and less charming than it was nine years ago. (Nine? The blogs are ... sense of who you are. I haven't been around here to write about it as it

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Straight from the Dean’s mouth Time magazine readers chat with the MIT Dean of Admissions, Marilee Jones.

  

  , Conn., where public schools are doing very poorly(poor test scores, many ... is it like? where and how big? what are the students like? what about ... children are interested in. MIT, to the credit of Amy Perez in 2004, has made

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  keep my job as an admissions blogger. There are a lot of things that come along with the roll of admissions blogger. We blog (duh), are asked to ... , what are my chances . . . .) Number one isn't so much of an issue with a

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

  Unpacking Surprises to sum up 4 years at MIT

  

  made sure to point out. First semester, I kept hurdling over the passing ... teaches that highs & lows and twists & turns are normal and ... forget Trying to navigate to a free t-shirt after a Dropbox info session

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 7, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Finals Blog but not the final blog unless something terrible happens to me in the next 48…

  

  kidding. Honestly, some days here are like working all summer to buy a new ... made sure that the “n” actually came after the “a,” I headed down to ... serving free hot chocolate to weary travelers passing by on their path to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 19, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Chalk of the Week chalk art at the welcome center

  

  there's flames in the background! For no reason! Prompt: "Where are you ... "Where are you from?" written on it in pretty lettering. I don't hold any ... wondering how large of a range of places people are coming from to visit the

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • July 27, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snacks on a Plane And other minor horrors of leaving MIT for the first time in a year.

  

  potency of “interestingly” on sentences that are actually interesting, like ... barriers, on a scale where Level 1 includes talking to Intro to Linguistics ... Boston, a city where thousands of intelligent college students learn how to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 20, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT, You Make Me Wanna Wait! Between high school and MIT, I took two years to travel and work as a…

  

  limit, and odds are, you’ll never have the chance to be so free ever again ... learning – the learning that helps you figure out where you’re going, who you are as a person, and what you were put on this earth to do. It’s a fact

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bicycle Race More things happen, and I pretend that I've read your comments.

  

  page from the Book of Mollie-valations, here are some answers to some ... . Are there any other opportunities for relatively cheap voice lessons ... Chicago. There are a bunch of opportunities for voice lessons, and Dr

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  grad school vs. undergrad should you MEng?

  

  funding. Many master’s programs are not free, so sometimes there is a ... ’m early in my grad school journey. There are a few major differences ... Real Job. This is a drastic social shift from my time in undergrad, where

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 9, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  A Texan’s Guide to Surviving a Boston Winter it's possible

  

  . To the point where it feels like I never left for winter break at all ... that are winter-naive (like myself), there’s hope. And for those of you that were born in a six-foot pile of snow, feel free to share your own

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 9, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’re 18, But You Aren’t Invincible Impressions of my first month at MIT -- both sobering and exciting.

  

  calling home once in a while. There are things to do at all hours, particularly where I live... I have not known boredom since moving here. There are concrete octagons, steel bars, soda machines that you log into to

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 1, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions updates ...including the state of the mail and EA application tracking.

  

  will be waived, as they are in other countries where we do not have ... application tracking system. We are receiving buckets and buckets and buckets of mail to open and process, and we are doing so as quickly as possible

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mistakes & the inspiration we need to move on

  

  mistakes I made this semester, largely losing sight about what I actually ... of evaluating ourselves based on what others are doing. I've never felt ... lot of things about where I wanted to be. I knew I wanted to go into

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 19, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  Low The first in a trilogy of Berlin photo entries, featuring Zinedine Zidane.

  

  feet or comfortable sandals. Too bad, it would have made a great facebook ... will start beating you. Did you know that Haagen Dazs is a made-up word? We first made note of the television tower, which has been turned into

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 13, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  In the Darkness of the Night one of the strangest things I have ever experienced

  

  Imagine a field where by day children play soccer among smoldering ... had. In lieu of a proper picture, I have made a diagram to try and explain the configuration. Bear with me, but my Paint skills are not superb

  • by Becca H. '12
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Flame War A play-by-play of the Class of 2012's first flame war.

  

  more insulting as the thread snowballed. Someone made a secure poll where ... sent a link to a Google Docs spreadsheet where we were supposed to fill ... . Minutes later, every freshman got another email: “Since people are messing

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 20, 2008