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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Cognitive Processes or: i take a personality test again

  

  look for universals. Often are gifted in the use of metaphors to bridge ... about it, he was going to do a slight analog of the quiz called the Keys 2 ... : Gryffindor + INFJ End of Freshman IAP: Gryffindor + ENFP End of Freshman Year

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 2, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  On Essay Writing A guide to essay writing for the express purpose of obtaining admittance to an institute…

  

  with a pithy line or a catchy hook to convince you to read the rest of this blog post, but unfortunately, the circuits in my brain in charge of ... three weeks, I've been spending most of my free time on medical school

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • July 22, 2016
• Blog / How to Food

  I’m a food blogger now enjoy reading through 700 words of personal digression to get to the recipes

  

  myself a glass of water, and taking ready-to-eat baby carrots out of the fridge. Learning to cook was the one thing I hadn't crossed off all of ... about same time, June/July 2018, I and the rest of the Class of 2022 were

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 26, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  ramen this is a ramen post.

  

  food court of Lesley University. That means they don't have an exterior ... screens of cooking asian dishes with korean subtitles. the waft of delicious ... 're familiar with another visit, and you've decided to get the worst out of the

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 15, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  My MIT Story How I came to be at MIT

  

  great school for math, one of the best." "Ok, I'll go there." *laughter ... of my head for the next 4 years, slowly growing into more than just a ... that you could get D's in most of your classes and it wouldn't affect

  • by Snively '11
  • July 28, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Advocating for Science on Capitol Hill, Part 2 With guest appearances by NJ Representative Rush Holt and MA Senator Elizabeth Warren

  

  , dangling with flags from all of District 7’s many universities and colleges ... most of us: the PhD physicist-turned-politician, one of two physicists in ... one of his constituents, and the last time I was in New Jersey I was

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 5, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST Robotics and Alumna-hood I miss my team.

  

  university. All hope is lost for the latter if you can't do the former. Of ... 's worth mentioning that I was on a FIRST team for all four years of High School. It was a huge part of my life. I initially joined FIRST because my

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 10, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The Undecideds VI: The Undiscovered Country Even more undecided students' questions & answers.

  

  hours, they've picked up and answered all of my questions. What if I don ... sent out postcards confirming the receipt of your form, but apparently ... dot edu. You haven't answered by question in any of the past few

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making the hard decision a couple of brutally honest stories from friends here that had originally wanted to study…

  

  I have always loved writing. I have always enjoyed the freedom of ... narrative. On the visual arts side, I spent a lot of time doing Blender (a 3D ... cancer research. As I have heard stories of friends, I have found a problem

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 17, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Google

  

  the Special Olympics with Googlers at the University of Southern ... With several of the core General Institute Requirements out of the way, sophomore year was really the dawn of my computer science life at

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 5, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, musicals, teaching, research, sports, and wisdom tooth surgery. I think I can I think I can I think I can I think I…

  

  four of my wisdom teeth taken out. Five minutes before the surgery, I lay ... into the room with a cheery "hello!", pulling on a pair of gloves. He looked bizarrely like the father of one of my best friends from High School

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 25, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Felicitation Answers... and hopefully minimal snark.

  

  matter how attractive you are, there are plenty of people at MIT who are way out of your league. Professor attention silly the willy asked, How ... is my UROP professor, who loves me because I do lots and lots of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  About MIT Recommendation Letters Some helpful tips and guidelines for your teacher letters.

  

  for MIT Admissions. While much of this advice is universal, YMMV1 with ... At MIT, we require all applicants to send in two letters of ... away. I recommend giving them all of the recommendation forms for every

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 16, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  a recipe for making yourself extremely hosed or, what i'm doing this fall

  

  Before we begin, a word of warning. This blog post is not representative of the schedule of a typical MIT student, nor should it be. It is ... 'll continue to remind you of this throughout the post, but I thought I'd be up

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 2, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Appreciating America in Tokyo (or Things I Never Finished, Part Two) On Japan and America. And being an American in Japan. Happy Memorial Day!

  

  patriotic?)(Oh, alright. Duh. President's Day.) (For those of you who don ... would be hard-pressed to find a piece of technology as varied in usability ... unfortunately, at my work place, to the highest of high-end seat-warming bidets

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 30, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  August, Airplanes, and why not throw in Spring Break, too? My traveling styles. And, I don't even know, maybe a catch-up thing?

  

  3/22 Welcome to the unfiltered stream of my consciousness. Please ... awesome things (including making this website)-- I'm so proud of them!) We ... want to see awesome pictures of the American Southwest and read about

  • by Ana V. '15
  • March 31, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Sleep is for the Strong getting through finals week

  

  in it. It is certainly not the center of the universe.” -Joey Rafidi ... geniuses, most of us are struggling just as much you are. And, as much as I ... de-stress. Avoid the junky finals food and eat well. Take care of

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 13, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 4

  

  full year of university before entering MIT as a transfer. I don't know ... outside of the times we're running the shuttle, you can take a taxi (~$25 ... come late for it? as in late friday night, all of sat and leave sunday

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 25, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Our nation’s greatest injustice I didn't exactly grow up in poverty, but socioeconomic inequalities have featured heavily in my…

  

  My hometown is a real-world manifestation of the phrase "the wrong side of the tracks." In fact, I'm from the wrong side of TWO tracks. In Middletown, NJ, the residents on the south side of Highway 35 look down on the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  then and now a reflection on the very bad

  

  November? Is this the universe saying it's proud of me?" I still don ... didn't know how to respond. My mom pulled me out of school after that, even though we had a couple of days before spring break. "Useless fucking

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 5, 2020