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• Blog / Admissions

  Yes,The New App…It’s Really Here Or Why This Year's App is "Cooler" Than Last Year's.

  

  what was to come. As I made my big announcement, the shock wave rolled ... . It was an interesting thing to watch. For, as you see, we have made ... there are some interesting changes and we hope you'll like them. We spent

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • August 19, 2009
• Blog / Advice

  letter to my 2023 self from: 2024 janet

  

  you wanted to change. Taking root and settling down is hard. There are ... workload came to a head and ultimately you made the tough choice to drop a ... shooting stars are just streetlights you’re speeding past; biology research

  • by Janet G. '27
  • January 2, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  I Wrote an MIT Application Essay on Getting a B in Calculus College Search 2KChel, how I found MIT, and how I turned the B around

  

  wouldn’t be able to get in, just because you are never fully prepared to ... because they made me happy (maybe I also thought that it was normal to ... was tailor-made for this school, it was her, or so I assumed. (Edit

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 12, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  The Public’s Biggest Fear ...is no longer one of mine.

  

  unreasonable, since I think it's safe to say that there are few things less ... writing on the board and figuring out where you're going to put everything ... give are on topics in science. Now, like any talk, a science talk could

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  then and now a reflection on the very bad

  

  like that? Are you getting bullied? I can kill them. Who's hurting you ... little moments where I would crack. Where I would think about it for too ... end up telling someone, my friend had replied, "Who do you think you are

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 5, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Cooking in Quarantine making all the recipes

  

  . Here are some of the things we've made! Vegetable Rice Bowl by Maangchi ... , watching it being made, watching animated food being made (particularly in ... recipe we made of hers, and it surprisingly and sadly didn't turn out that

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 30, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  that time of year… ...when every day feels like 48 hours instead of 24. When's summer?

  

  on a loop:   You are in the front yard of your aunt's house ... rest are her sisters, The Little Sisters of Jesus. Askale is a sister of that order. Why shouldn't it be that all her sisters are your aunts, too

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  i (don’t) want to be alone on loneliness

  

  my situation, and feeling like it's my choices that brought me to where ... several minutes. i saw my friend, the one i made a promise to, at the front ... there. it reminds me of how, sometimes, it doesn't feel like i made any

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 12, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second Home You're in your room doing a pset. I'm in my lab making science happen.

  

  classes are 12 units at MIT), and I have been spending well over 30 hours ... only 1 mm in length as an adult - so NO, these are not earthworms! i can ... - but apoptosis was also one of the biggest discoveries made using C

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 30, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Making your college decision May 1st! Have you decided?

  

  think is) the biggest decisions in your life. Perhaps you are choosing between MIT, a state-school that is giving you nearly a free ride, an Ivy ... money and a big research grant, and a state-school with a free-ride. I

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 28, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in the Life A play-by-play of my day, along with some pictures.

  

  much free food, but the opportunities exist (if I only had the time and ... for (several) pictures. By the way, in their free time they model for AT ... results of my research. I made some decent progress on the Discussion

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 11, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  in honor of tau the superior circle constant

  

  ="aligncenter" width="724"] all diagrams are drawn by yours truly on my mit ipad. i ... circles as circle noun: a shape that is made of of the set of all points that are a fixed distance away (the radius) from a single point (the

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 20, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  speaker talks and gallery shows + other cool stuff yay

  

  and professors in the specific department. Their events, though, are ... decisions about what to include, where to put things, and how viewers would ... that new personal tech (like biometrics wearables or VR gadgets) are

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • March 18, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  bucket lists, grocery lists, and a li(s)tany of other things this is actually just an excuse to make people list-en to me talk about minecraft

  

  right after winter break where students are free to engage in silly and ... that are already a part of the game, he’s come up with his own challenges ... defrost in the winter anymore, but now the radius of places that are

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • November 3, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Eye Of The Storm Reflections in the brief moment between the last hours of selection committee and the release…

  

  my colleagues are still asleep - they deserve it! I'm sitting here ... every year.) Having said that, there are of course many of you to whom we ... . Having you in the class would have made it no less perfect. But the numbers

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 15, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  Up, Up, and Away how to get out of the 'tute (temporarily) and out into the world

  

  -neutral, which means getting and staying there is FREE. Just to recap, you get another line on your résumé, a language immersion, and free travel and ... list recently offered a free trip to Mexico, in exchange for a week of

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 10, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [guest post] time passes from spirit island a board game that i picked up 3 years ago is now my life

  

  spirit to play with first, if power progressions are being used. cj ... , there were at least 4 things that made me want to play more: the theme ... experiences with hanabi are very forgettable) the jungle hungers, which is the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring there will always be regrets

  

  made the experience so much better than it would have been otherwise. I ... . whether I know people who are in the class was not normally a factor for me ... weekend long program where MIT students run a lot of different classes for

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 6, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hello, I’m Anthony.

  

  in Toronto, where they tired of the cold winters and set out for the ... and went to enroll at the local primary school, where I was deemed a bit ... what life is really about. Loving who you are and what you do. I was now

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • June 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Orgo and physics and math, oh my 57 units of academic fun fun fun. Now with humanities!

  

  . There are a few things I like about this schedule, and a few things I don ... UROP, the profs are definitely wiling to hear you out and help you in any ... , MIT also has, like most colleges, teaching assistants (TAs). TAs are

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 26, 2008