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• Blog / About Decisions

  I Challenge You Pi day approaches.

  

  ) – was not the fear of being unable to succeed without MIT, but rather a ... to unique resources and unique opportunities. A close friend of mine ... is the only path to success, which is a topic for another post.) I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Women’s Soccer Talking to the 2009 NEWMAC Champs after they returned from the NCAA National Championship Tournament

  

  year's Championship team to find out more about playing a varsity sport ... every day and travel to games on the weekends. As a reminder, this is MIT. Many students struggle to find time to sleep without playing a varsity

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 25, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Coping With Anxiety What is anxiety? What is panic? Definitions? Confusion? FINALS?! Cats.

  

  . If you are not in a safe space, try to find one. Whether it is your ... tattoos, too. I find it extremely grounding to sit in my room with a book of ... to keep going or are scared about the present or future. A panic

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 6, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science Out Loud! On teaching/making/producing educational videos and why it's so much fun

  

  where I really think I should’ve gone to a liberal arts or film or art ... I think I've accidentally begun a quest to be involved with ALL THE ... course to becoming a Educational Media/Multimedia Fellow for the MIT+K12

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  The Future Is Grim check it out

  

  what it's like to be a student here (he got his PhD in Mathematics here ... . I'd be tempted to say I'm a bit biased, as he was my 6.01 professor ... as a project was due to be turned in that day, as well as the lab work

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 28, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  I recently saw a comic where a professor says "This is not the type of assignment you can do the night before," to which a student ... considered a full course load (supposedly equivalent to 48 hours of work per

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the Deferred I feel your pain.

  

  choreographed a dance of my own, and how it felt to grow up in New Zealand. My dad ... page and this paragraph: When we admit a class of students to MIT, it's as if we're choosing a 1,000-person team to climb a very interesting

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  0.125 not a course 0 class, but a fraction complete

  

  how to cook. It turns out that cooking, unlike baking (where I had far ... , I can't even seem to get through a day on seven and a half. Knowing ... floor, and I've noticed that there's definitely a cycle: from 2ish to 7 pm

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 4, 2019
• Blog / Events

  halloween down the infinite

  

  close to the sun, because whoever thought that starting to write a blog with 30+ photos at 11:30pm is a good way to get a blog out on time is ... Daughter holding a mystery box to collect candy – so cute but they are not

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 1, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  suspicion that Lisa and I actually share a consciousness. Anyway, I wanted to write a blog post, but was struggling with writer's block (it's easier to ... because I liked to read the blogs. A few years later, I spent a summer in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  which you are used to seeing in print. (ii) Never use a long word where a short one will do. (iii) If it is possible to cut a word out ... once upon a time, I wrote a blog comparing the college essay to froyo

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

  Policies, Principles, and Protests thinking about responsible citizenship in a time of student protests

  

  , advocating for policies to prevent such a shooting from happening again. They ... and culture: we hold our students to a high standard and give them a ... fourteen students, were killed in a mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • February 22, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Setting up a Global Warming Research Center…in Antarctica Meet Zahir Dossa ’08 (Courses 6 and 15; Nu Delta), who could sell you your…

  

  profits from his NGO to fuel this expansion and establish a fund for ... ;What do you want to do after school?” “I’m going to set up a global warming research center in Antarctica.” “Why

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • October 25, 2007
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  I’m back! (And what I carry on it) "You can tell a lot about a person by what they carry" - Atlas

  

  to make a long story short, my senior year, I decided to start a ... commute killah. Need to be on a bus/train/plane for a long time, but not ... on the couch or laying in bed. Or in cases where a laptop is just too

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 11, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Back in Time I change my clock back three hours and read headlines on the magazine of the…

  

  of bed simply to switch out of a class that was too early before promptly going back to sleep. I had never met Regina Spektor, been on a road trip to Cape Cod with a few of my close friends or walked home when it

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Semester 1 fantastic dishes and how to cook them

  

  . At best. I tried to believe that it was a personal problem, but other ... door, and get a fan to ventilate the whole place unless you want to ... this amounts to less than a year. I guess prior experience in competitive

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 8, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Random Random Projects/Moving Out of Random Randomly zigzagging about until I find myself in the future, somehow no longer in Random.

  

  :)   Rose R. ‘17 Mural-ish thing :) In order to brighten up my room a bit, I'm creating a shattered glass looking thing on all of my walls (1 down, 3 to go ... it makes perfect sense to build a laser into a lip balm tube. It has a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 13, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Snively’s Cross Stitch Corner I really enjoy cross stitching

  

  in a city where I knew nobody, I filled my time with new hobbies and ... Park lends itself to cross stitching so a lot of my early work was South ... stitched the more and more I tried to figure out a way to monetize cross

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  Head over to /r/confession and you'll find this post lurking near the ... . I now realize that I am probably going to go a lame local college and ... to heart, it's some of the best advice concerning MIT you'll find

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  somewhat lightened up as I witnessed how many people stopped by to ask where ... back to Macgregor from the library? MITPD was always there to offer me a ... Officer Sean, wrote a note yesterday on Facebook that moved me to tears. It

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2013