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• Blog / Academics & Research

  If man is five Then most people are six, and if most people are six then pre-meds are seven.

  

  Engineering?" It's funny, because I remember going to a choice of major fair in ... recommendation would be to get a UROP or two and see what you're more interested in ... cheating on me." "Get a UROP!" "It hurts when I pee." "Get a UROP!" But in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  journalists appreciate. I have the luxury of being able to be a purist in this ... As I find myself again, railing against something published in the ... to deny just how much of a curmudgeon I have become. I’m pretty sure

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Advice From The Elderly My last blog entry, at least from this chapter.

  

  older brothers or sisters, with whom I am competing for a space in an ... elderly-person advice. (Although I am not as old as a postdoc in my lab who ... start a dance party anywhere, any time. I fell in love and drove to the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  This Is How I Read productivity hacks, but for reading applications

  

  Killian Court. In both cases, I've got a standing desk, at least one ... each case, I also open what we call the "eFolder," which is a PDF of ... encounter it in the case (a town I've never seen an applicant from, an

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  On Teaching and Learning Minimum requirement: read the last few sentences of this post. They're important.

  

  ’ve been out here for two and a half weeks now. I’ve seen seniors in Algebra ... in themselves. A few days ago, I found myself sitting with a sophomore ... !” I pulled out six more coins, and arranged them in a 3x3 grid. The

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  As We Approach Decision Day On getting in and on not getting in

  

  . This one's a western, set in 2517 on a spaceship. Hopefully I’ll also be ... manifested itself academically. I had a close relationship with my parents, and I didn’t have a rebellious streak beyond my accidental goth

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 8, 2012
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  people in my class. In other words, I was a perfectly pitiable caricature of a nerd. I spent a good amount of time feeling sorry for myself in ... big fish in a small pond. I had developed a successful coping mechanism

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  I put on my robe and graduation hat It's sortof hard to believe it's time for this already.

  

  (through the MEng/VI-A programs). Since I am going to around for another year, I saw the graduation ceremony as more of a check-point than a finish line. I also think that attending MIT has had a side-effect of

  • by Kim D. '09
  • June 7, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  in tone as I approached the cash register. His moving from a soft and ... and in doing so I was not a part of us. When I first got into MIT, I ... I initially wrote this to my little brother. I debated for a while

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  “You are capable of more than you know.” Reflections from six MIT transfer students

  

  what are you up to? Gaurab: I’m a junior at MIT majoring in EECS. I do ... were you, and what were you up to? Gaurab: I lived most of my life in ... engineering exam. I thought I would go to a school in India for the longest time

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 13, 2024
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Grey and Other Colors

  

  in new ways, but as it stands, I am a project manager who doesn’t ever ... graduation). --------- A couple weeks ago, my friend pointed out that I had ... moving to a new place, falling in and out of love with SF, trying to stay

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 8, 2016
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Choice and the MIT lifestyle ...because "MIT" and "student life" aren't mutually exclusive.

  

  capable of doing a problem set in 45 minutes. Whoa there! I'm not that ... ... I just don't happen to be close to a lot of guys in frats, plus some ... , and we knew more people in the dorms. Adam and I are together today as a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Adventures of Flat Tim And his admissions officer friend!

  

  "]highway.[/annotation] I grew up in Nashville, TN, a driving city, but I somehow avoided driving on the highway while I was in high school. Living in the Boston area ... Before I started working at MIT, I had never driven on the

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • June 6, 2019
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  sibling dynamics at MIT yes lmao Nisha and I are related

  

  I got in, I was accosted by a lurking suspicion that it was because of ... A little while ago, I got my first(?) mention on MIT Confessions, and exploded with laughter in the middle of my physics lecture as soon as i saw

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 things I love about MIT and hopefully you'll learn to love them too.

  

  , I’ve written about this before (here , here, and here), but I thought I’d offer a list of 10 things that I love about MIT (in no particular ... . Rooms with a view and living in Beantown I love the river. The majority of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Hacking A performance art that lets students remind the teachers who's smarter.

  

  should make a point of getting on that train.* I get asked about hacking at MIT a lot, which is natural; I talk about it in my biography after all. There are times when I get asked, out of the blue, what made me decide to

  • by Snively '11
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2) My take on the MIT short essays.

  

  account on my.mit.edu so I can actually catch a glimpse at what the new ... into mere 250 words. In order for me to see what a 250 word word limit ... monolingual health system. After the internship, I participated in a medical

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Defying That Sinking Feeling On learning to swim and envisioning success

  

  up and down in the water. My classmates and I were in a pool shallow ... nostrils burned a bit, and in a panic I opened my mouth. I quickly leaped out ... On my application for MIT, I made it a point to mention that I couldn

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends

  

  idea Sabrina blogged about in the past too.  I've lifted 3-4 days a week ... Kiyoe."]where I can find a gym.[/annotation] In March, when everything ... strategizing. I live in a second floor apartment in Central Square. It's an old

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  i dissected a roach *cronch* *slurp*

  

  before I started dissecting the head, I leaned in a bit too close and saw a ... with the tweezers. I still ended up accidentally poking a hole in the ... food or drink water, I would catch a bit of hair in my mouth. Even when I

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • September 28, 2023