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• Blog / About Decisions

  “what if I get rejected” for everyone nervous about admissions decisions

  

  ambiguous goal of being a college student not just anywhere, but at a very ... it is). It’s not as if I didn’t want to go to Stanford initially, but ... of the most important factors in their future. It's not stupid to feel

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • November 13, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  Little Pieces of Living january & february & march & now, april

  

  more certain than ever that I want to work in, not just with, machine ... encouraged me to work on projects that interested me, even if they were ... biting. Some days I would come back from work with swathes of my face and

  • by Sara N. '28
  • April 2, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  can’t stop smiling a time capsule for freshman fall

  

  October, and kept working on it for the next few weeks. And then months. And ... to some group study spaces, and got distracted worked on psets with ... —one hour til nearby dining halls would close. I put my work away. I pulled on

  • by Allison E. '27
  • February 12, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  This is where my decisions have taken me perspectives from grad school

  

  Umständen weiterläuft, an dem man sich, wenn es not tut, halten kann…” “To ... deflect you. You should work hard so that you’re prepared to take advantage ... that I had to learn two foreign languages: outside work I was surrounded

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 15, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s been 3 weeks the firehose is still alive and kicking

  

  hug them. Not sure if that last sentence was full of wisdom or just ... of anything else. I’m not jaded though—far from it. Classes this ... ’s codes and see how well they work. This actually helped reveal a few

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer on the West Coast A visit to the west coast to see what life is like on the other…

  

  work at JPL, although not all of them end up staying on Caltech campus ... . '15, who is working at Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) for the second ... one that Herbert is working on.  Some of the major projects at JPL

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 19, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Junior Year: The First Week (Originally titled "Junior Year: The First Day" but I procrastinated too much)

  

  concentration (Philosophy, which could easily become a minor with some work). Don ... (as connectives, or words like "and," "or," "not," and "if...then"), and ... 'll be benefiting from the work of a ton of other scientists that helped

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 9, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Never Mind The Score Insights from the National Poetry Slam - for both MIT students and hopefuls

  

  . There's no reason not to feel the same way about your own work and effort. So ... when you do, either! Enforce a separation of work and play, and know whom ... -heartedly. Your work is important... This one should be self-explanatory. You

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  OCTOBERRR NOVEMBERRR will NOT be my next entry, promise.

  

  QUOTE: "MIT is a very good place; I'm not trying to put it down. I ... development in the United States, if not the world. It's like a New Yorker ... Philippines (on gastrointestinal worms) later, I'm back to working on my Ecology

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Presenting…the 2008 Brass Rat!!! As the only sophomore blogger, it is my duty, no, pleasure, to describe the unveiling…

  

  working, and like all those who graduate from Tech, has a good tough hide ... beaver not only typifies the Tech, but his habits are peculiarly our own ... of industry. His habits are nocturnal. He does his best work in the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A Part II Why the Media Lab is cool. Bonus: A great "You Know You Go to MIT…

  

  schools would read it. Now that I go to MIT...well...not so much. It ... 're assigned to your floor, you all sit down in a big group and just work it out ... into a few groups and set to work making whatever we wanted. One device

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  The American Astronomical Society’s Winter Conference: 2013 Edition THIS IS SO EXCITING I THINK I'M GOING TO CRY

  

  . "We're not far enough to be over the Rockies." He then explained that ... previous posts. Essentially, I worked on a new way to obtain precise ... the art of shaking hands. While chatting with an astronomer who works

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 15, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What happened since the end. Bringing you up to speed on life since I finished all my schoolwork. FOREVER. (You're…

  

  -sided... Well, the meeting was relatively painless- we finished most of the work ... afternoon I finished all of my work for 1.851 (Water and Sanitation in ... was not enough to make up for the previous....well, 4 years in general

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 28, 2009
• Blog / Uncategorized

  here’s everything i thought about in 25 minutes an uncurated and somewhat meta discussion on anything and everything

  

  thing with me and math is that it’s not necessarily as if i’m bad at math ... write it out by hand so i’m already not quite following the rules, but ... , but i did say i would work on that and i guess this is me working on

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • July 16, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  spring break in San Juan journeying to none other than the most popular MIT spreak destination

  

  tormented me. an MIT student not working for over a week? unthinkable. after ... morning since not working for a week gave me a lot of anxiety about school ... not fw blithely gallivanting in PR without educating yourself and being

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 11, 2023
• Blog / Announcements

  Welcoming you to the new MIT Welcome Center a new home for admissions, and all the institute's visitors

  

  questions." We have not yet resumed operating in-person information sessions ... auditorium for [annotation note="Again, we are currently not offering ... Jess and her unbelievably friendly team are wonderful to work with

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 28, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Trip Report: ISEF 2016

  

  to attend ISEF as finalists and present their work to expert judges to ... ) May 13, 2016 (Note: before I came to MIT, I did not know ISEF existed ... many talented, smart students not only distinguish themselves by doing

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 13, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Second Day of Class Course shopping and such.

  

  slightly, her calendar almost resembles the pointillist works of Seurat ... works the best for me is, "well, if I can't remember the event, then it must not be important enough in the first place." And thus I've mentally

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 10, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  I am lethally bored in the airport boooooo

  

  move out by noon. Not realizing this until after I booked my flight ... while waiting Get mad you're not that good at Tetris Check to see if ... for summer jobs Listen to Charli XCX Act like you're gonna work on

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • May 22, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  So, What Exactly Happens? y'know, over IAP?

  

  some form of a "month-long winter break". And it isn't not a winter break ... 's just a lot of work and memorization. But I love presenting. UROPing ... even say in this blog post given many things are still in the works. For

  • by Paige B. '24
  • February 2, 2023