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• Blog / Admissions

  A Protocol for MIT Admissions Essays Chemical SOP: Pen, paper: irritant if digested; Brains: gateway to thinking

  

  , in the sense that you can build a support network and enjoy things that ... your application will know you in a way you might not have known yourself ... person In other words, MIT wants to see from your application that you

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 26, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Post-MIT Trajectory College is not a destination.

  

  can tell you - but college is not a destination. And more than halfway ... the central decision-maker in this situation is ourselves, we can't help ... . In fact, the thinking has already been brewing. As I'm talking to my

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 4, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vacation = Relaxation, right? What I do over vacation...

  

  Apparently this is not the case in England. They do things ... counts for pretty much your whole grade. While this is not such a big deal to students in, say China, it’s a big change from MIT where our

  • by Cambridge
  • January 4, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Story of a Lifestyle I'm going to kick you - No, for real

  

  ’s like playing in a piano recital – except people do notice when you mess ... reached the quarterfinals in a tough bracket. Michelle Wang '13 in blue (2 ... about what makes someone “good” in Taekwondo. Should you kick hard? Often

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • March 30, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Welcome Susan Hockfield A recap of Susan Hockfield's inauguration.

  

  I've failed you in the photo department. But I'll try to describe the event for you as best I can. The ceremony took place in Killian Court. It ... up! I love how fast MIT is with that stuff... you can find it here.]

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 6, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  the children yearn for the snow quarry 120 bricks, 80 man hours, 3 tons of snow, 2 forts, and a partridge in…

  

  deep in the snow--you might end up with large amounts of goose poop mixed ... ability /j ojas: however the space that can be sat in will be a circle of ... if you can, where potential recruits can be coerced into joining

  • by Allison E. '27
  • December 13, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s Not Bra-Ket Science Building quantum computers to convince myself that they exist

  

  stuff you see in sci-fi movies and expect to learn at MIT (but never do ... . “Haha, that’s a real scary-looking trash can you guys have there ... I don’t believe in quantum physics. Yes, I know that all the math

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 7, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Escaping MIT Maybe if I just get far enough away, my finals will cease to exist!

  

  in time to realize I forgot to sleep the previous night (you don ... , but I’ll be too busy celebrating and reveling in the streets, regardless ... take a break from the sit-all-day-locked-in-my-room studying technique

  • by Joel G. '18
  • May 16, 2015
• Blog / Events

  What’s This Mystery Hunt Thing?

  

  addition, the Operator is responsible for "calling in" answers. When you ... So...there's this Mystery Hunt thing...you might have heard of it. It's awesome. It's lots of fun. You should do it when you get here. Or

  • by Evan B. '10
  • January 20, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on fitness, health, and food a couple of moments over the years

  

  from intermittent fasting and calorie counting. In spring 2021, as we ... content warning: mentions of calorie counting, vague eating disorder ... if I can really pinpoint where it first started but I definitely have a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 24, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Don’t Waste Daylight; Don’t Lose Sleep I've almost survived a whole semester.

  

  in a place as unusual as wonderful as MIT is that you lose perspective ... gulped down the wetness in the air like I imagine a fish would if it, and not I, were in that spot on the sidewalk of dorm row. I shuffled into my

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  LIFE! is my favorite entry title.

  

  processed more than enough thoughts to fill five entries. But let’s start in ... , in MIT lingo, is “accelerated” Calculus I, meaning we get a whirlwind tour of the second half of Calculus I in six insane weeks. Now it’s the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  The root of all evil Money, money, money, money... money!

  

  for it... if this is what you really want." My mom was glaring at me in ... worked both terms for credit. You can't get both money and credit for a ... ! 1. Steve asked, Hi Mollie, how do you conquer those open-book or open

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 29, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  What Essay Questions Should We Ask?

  

  on. You can think of essay questions as instruments which elicit a ... very close ended to the very open ended: before my time, in the days of ... answer. A) and B) are somewhat in tension, but we try to balance them as

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 27, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  I Suppose It Was Inevitable That We Have An Office Instagram a list of some other places you can find the blogs (and the bloggers)

  

  of an experiment of interest) here's a list of some places you can find ... besides MITAdmissions.org in case you want to read about science and cats ... of you know, the admissions blogs originally grew out of independent

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 10, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIA No More Why I haven't blogged in 23 days.

  

  lets you combine your passions and interests in many different ways ... it too. Here's mine for the week: Andd a second shot, with stuff you couldn't see in the first picture: Yup. Story of my life. A partial

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  EAPS Field Trip In which I pretend to be Course 12 for a weekend

  

  undergraduates. Please come along and tell anyone you know in the MIT community ... forwarded me this email: Greetings, On Saturday September 13th and Sunday ... spectacular places in the central part of the state. We will see dinosaur

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Ups and Downs Currently down.

  

  move on with my life. My grad student's policy is "you can make every ... moment. In the past three days, three separate experiments have gone wrong at lab. The procedures involved in these experiments (fluorescent in

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 12, 2011
• Blog / Community Projects

  Guest Post: Simmons Hall Finishes 18,239 Piece Puzzle in 40 days and 5 hours

  

  Simmons can do that well of a job of bringing people together. So thank you ... puzzle in private dining. In all of the reviews that I saw while doing research on this puzzle, nobody was able to finish in less than 8 months. It

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 29, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Attention local high school students interested science and engineering! Have you heard about BeaverDash?

  

  to invite new friends from all over the world onto our campus. But in ... participate in the exciting annual engineering competition, BeaverDash. Beaver ... competition to compete later in the day for great prizes. Free t-shirts and

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • April 17, 2012