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• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to train your sticking-together rock I am so happy that "computer" is not a no-no word today

  

  'll have yourself a full computer! How do sticking-together rocks work? Not ... usually do not (and should not) know how to add or remember numbers, but we ... do other rocks not stick together? Why do so few people know how they

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 17, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Passions (No, not that kind)

  

  college essay is a lot of work, but the work should not be bad; the reason ... process was Not Fun. I can certainly agree with that when looking at the volume of work most high school seniors get themselves into -- e.g. the

  • by Cam T. '13
  • January 1, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pass No Record, Oh How I Loved Thee. A quick look at first semester!

  

  more bearable by finding people to work with and understanding what organizational method works for you. Oh, and did I mention it's also about having ... occurs when working at 3am on this or that assignment. And while people

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • February 27, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Orientation and pre-approval In which I relate orientation to getting pre-approved for a credit card in a totally…

  

  to your questions - but this was too good not to post right away. So ... work this summer, my co-worker Nick insisted upon calling me 'Kim' (it didn't simplify matters that another Kim works there). "I'm with another

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 22, 2007
• Blog / Events

  This School’s Big Game: a fun way to think too hard (how MIT Mystery Hunt works, now in Up-Goer Five)

  

  and working hard all the time 🥲 Although this school does not say you ... 🫠. But because the point of using only simple words is NOT to make ... studying-people that might be hard for you to find if I did not say them. You

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 25, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I?TFP

  

  Thursday night was, well, interesting. I was working on my lab for 6.004. Usually the labs for 6.004 are not so bad - they take maybe five hours. For ... working on the lab at nearby computers, so we could help each other. Eight

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  An Open Letter Employers love students with dorm desk experience.

  

  , I do not work for Amazon… ... desk worker. Not only because future employers love students who have had dorm desk experience (Steve Jobs worked Desk), but also because it’s so

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 8, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In which I screwed up a lot So a bunch of my blog posts are dead.

  

  Things you should not do on Athena, not even accidentally, because it ... delete an item in your Public that you do not want there anymore and you ... working on fixing this, anonymous person who probably got assigned to Senior

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 26, 2010
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Week of UROPing in few words

  

  . Without classes this month to focus on, I started working under some teachers and students on Course 2 work. I talked about this in my last writing (with more words), but my work builds upon some of my high school

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 31, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  LIFE! is my favorite entry title.

  

  work while juggling the crazy new power/responsibility that is FREEDOM ... telling me to schedule a makeup exam. But it’s more like this is not exactly ... should try out lots of other activities during first semester, and what not

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  feeling grown up walking in adult clothing

  

  years, thinking about not only the first time, but when i felt like a ... a lyft, or the caltrain, i find myself sleeping. it's not that i ... myself i'm not tired all the time. offices. having a desk to myself

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 17, 2022
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Thoughts from the Other Side MIT through a different lens

  

  't really work together on them. Maybe it's beacuse examples papers not graded ... forced ourselves to buckle down and do the work... When I finally walked ... to be A TON OF WORK (ie, I'm working on the weekends) which can be

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • May 30, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Exhaustion Guess who's not ready to go to grad school after all

  

  week and not have a single ounce of work-life balance, because that ... to solve whatever I'm working on at my job, not the crushing pressure ... 've been having a crisis over whether to go to grad school or not. And as

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 5, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  ambition finding direction

  

  extremely wealthy? i wouldn’t mind, but it’s not a goal that motivates me day ... ) inconsequential problems to not be excited by intelligence alone. extremely ... good possible; that’s why i’m not an effective altruist of course there

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  were not admitted, know that we gave your application full consideration

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  were not admitted, know that we gave your application full consideration

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2014
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  love to have on campus. For those of you whom were not admitted, know

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2012
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  There were many wonderful applicants to MIT this year, which unfortunately means that we had to turn down some great students. For those of you who fall into this category,…

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2021
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  There were many wonderful applicants to MIT this year, which unfortunately means that we had to turn down some great students. For those of you who fall into this category,…

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  There were many wonderful applicants to MIT this year, which unfortunately means that we had to turn down some great students. For those of you who fall into this category,…

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2019