Search

Search Results

• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Early History of International Students at MIT studying the people MIT made, and the people who made MIT

  

  a total of 984 students were international. Three times more students ... efforts, the number of international students doubled in just ten years. 1 ... proportion of international students in a U.S. institution. In a 1917 Boston

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Was Deferred And it was not the end of the world

  

  the president of the United States and pulled an all nighter chilling with my new best friends and a bunch of current and future nobel ... , which is sad because there are a lot of really cool people who apply to

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Today I hit my TA with a door I didn't MEAN to.

  

  't make this stuff up. It is against all the rules of absurdity (which I ... , terminating both his life and my dreams of graduating (as well as my reputation ... minutes into his lecturing, so everyone in my recitation was well aware of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 7, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice you’ve heard before and a story you haven’t you can just skip to the pictures if you want to, I wont be offended.

  

  There are going to be a lot of people eager to give you advice on how to survive college and maybe even leave with a degree and some shreds of self respect. At least that's the way it was with me. Something that

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  crushed by my first semester of college. I need to ask you, has anyone ever ... are much smarter than I. Also, I'm kind of an asshole about how smart I ... out of an A, but deep down I know I deserved that B. Not only that, but

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  To the class of 2016 - My name is Jess, and I graduated in 2010 ... food that has fallen on the floor. I am probably the age of some of your ... represent my decade of twenty-somethings (my least favorite phrase after "meat

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  When you last heard from me, I had just arrived at The Middle Of ... the most. Each of us is paired up with a Teach For America teacher; my ... 100% Navajo, and about a quarter of its students go on to graduate. Even

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye

  

  , to study at MIT. In 2017, this ongoing chapter of my life promises to ... celebrate my 21st birthday. Just a week ago, I imagined one version of what the future may look like. I suppose this is a sequel of sorts, one that

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Reflections

  

  only a few months old and restricted to a handful of colleges, which ... among the best -- and, at the same time, the hardest -- years of my life ... which I am not grateful for the privilege of having been a part of that

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  Chinese immigrants my freshman year of college, and since then I have worked ... I'll give you snippets of three actual conversations first. I. I was chatting with this guy at one of my med school interviews - HIM

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parents, Please Read Prefrosh and students, read this too, and make sure to have a discussion with your…

  

  I normally won't is explore the bowels of College Confidential (if I had my way, College Confidential would be wiped off the face of the ... they get here, and I like sharing with everybody the types of things I do

  • by Snively '11
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to MIT: Choosing a Dorm the good and not-so-good reasons

  

  college, adapt to anything. In fact, I was a bit horrified of my freshman ... This post is the second in a series of Guide to MIT posts. Check out ... one floor or lounge of a dorm, and it will be your family. Here are some

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 14, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Note To Self Please don't forget this.

  

  Most of my conversations back home seem to begin with this question ... bombed a couple of tests, watched a beautiful sunrise on nights when I ... freshman you, preserving five of those lessons in a blog post that the world

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / Advice

  Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me

  

  One of this year’s admits asked me how MIT sets you up for grad ... caveats: There’s more to life than grad school. And college. And school ... name of your undergrad institution and more with how you make the most of

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bye (for now)

  

  , so i'm doing things a little out of order. instead of walking last spring, i finished my last semester of undergrad in the dead of winter. i ... last few weeks of my last semester at mit were more of a slow burn than a

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 12, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brief Wondrous Lives A little too much thinking brought to you by four in the morning.

  

  I've been doing a lot of thinking about lives lately, in multiple senses of the word. For one, my floor is playing Assassins, or ... person is left. This creates all sorts of interesting mind games in which

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab How to lose a phone in 90 seconds

  

  , debugging a server at my desk outside the office of the graduate student I was ... one of many lessons the Media Lab taught me this summer: Lesson #1: The Media Lab has a lot of money This manifests itself in many ways

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  's drinking water from a bottle of what was once "Cloudy Apple"* juice. *Yeah ... ." There are a bunch of different things I could (should) touch on. Why ... that the Maryland Institute of Technology? Sameer had moved to London

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  17 Things I’ve Learned in the Past Year growing, growing, grown

  

  plan to not have spring break plans, but I feel like I have a lot of ... been pretty nice and relaxing to have a chunk of time to myself. Incidentally, there are a lot of great concerts happening in Boston this week, so

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  The bridge of one of my favorite songs goes: Malingap, buwis ... prefer to think of MIT as malingap, buwis-buhay, parang slow-mo, makulay ... of frats hosted a boat cruise, where my friend took me along as his

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019