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• Blog / How to Human

  the person you are now oversharing on the internet

  

  very isolated at school. It was there for me and grounded me in some of ... school again. The best parts of high school were my teachers and few close ... undergoing the very stressful, difficult process of being a high school senior

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  making solar cells lessons from my nanotech class

  

  .2540) because it was one of the few mit courses offered this semester that felt ... at the beginning of the semester i wrote a post where i mentioned ... good decision, as 6.2540 is now one of my three favorite technical

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 15, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Take Off Gate '21 Calling for Departure

  

  charged to your semester meal plan. We offer a variety of cuisines (even ... I’ve already been on three flights. And as I attempt to make sense of the plethora of information that has made its way into the gentle folds

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 6, 2017
• Blog / Personal Travel

  retreating and proceeding favorite thing about mit's campus? leaving it

  

  opportunities freshman year? Proceed) At least 1 out of 16 student bloggers agree ... don't think I have to detail the personal benefit of travelling, but I can assure you that it is much greater than the sum of the complementary

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • April 13, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Ambulance! Ambulance! So I'm in this serious long-term relationship.

  

  state of Massachusetts, many via the class which is offered every IAP ... 've really been home that I'm on the verge of emailing housing and telling them ... room has started to smell faintly of mildew, and old people. And all of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pursuing multiple fields

  

  same number of units as 3 ordinary classes) 8.ThU (Thesis) Either 8.07 (E ... DiffEq) math subject So, that's a total of 156 units beyond the General ... that three of those ten subjects satisfy GIRs (a reasonable assumption

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes Time may change me, but I can't trace time..

  

  college kids, kids who love their school and have never experienced many of ... senior two months before he leaves for grad school on the opposite side of ... [To be honest, I've had a little bit of writer's block lately, under

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 28, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  EA Decisions Some facts and figures to put it into perspective

  

  In a year of record early action applications, 590 students have been admitted to the MIT Class of 2014. There were 5,684 Early Action applicants ... between early and regular action admissions, meant that only 10.4% of

  • by Decisions
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  Trick or Treating Halloween Shenanigans

  

  the usual business of walking up long driveways and knocking on doors ... on my butt) around the ice rink a couple of times, sans costume. But ... phone when I discovered a picture of 6 or 7 year old me dressed up as a

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • November 1, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  many thoughts head full

  

  I've been hesitant to write things since my mind has been a bit of a ... 's a feeling of too much and not enough going on. During the days where I ... of it and the power rests in my hands. On days where I had my 10am 8

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 26, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Brain Dump This is going to be ~14 entries in one - my fault for being too…

  

  This is going to be ~14 entries in one - my fault for being too busy ... audience, all of us mentally picturing images of cute, fuzzy baby birds. So I ... visualization, oscilloscope showing the waveform of the music, and surveillance

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 12, 2006
• Blog / Personal Projects

  reflecting on 2020 goals and planning for 2021

  

  In high school, I neglected many of my personal interests to make ... time. I bought a DSLR in high school but it was mostly unused. A lot of ... books is nothing to the number of books I used to read in middle school

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • March 30, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  The Parent’s Guide to CPW ...it's not just for Prefrosh!!

  

  're getting ready to welcome the prefrosh and their parents to four days of events on our campus and we're thrilled that so many of you will be here to enjoy the weekend with us. Each one of us in the Admissions Office has a

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 6, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  The Mystery Of The Missing Application Tracking Portlet A quick clarification.

  

  I apologize for the confusion surrounding the removal of the ... did an incredible job of processing things well beyond the deadline. On behalf of all of us, here's a big public thanks to them.) So this is just

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 3, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A brief history of 2.007, the MIT class that inspired FIRST Robotics Complete with 1970s-era footage of Woodie Flowers

  

  If you're like me (and I'm willing to bet a lot of our readers), then you spent last Friday and Saturday eagerly awaiting the unveiling of the ... high school student, and which I have been involved with as a student

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mini-Guide to the GIRs Now I've been through them - don't make the same mistakes I did.

  

  - you would soon discover that a regular high school courseload of 7 ... from high school in the back of my mind, "You should be taking the MOST ... (yes, I got to go to school for the last two weeks of my high school

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 10, 2008
• Blog / Events

  I’m embarrassed to be writing this entry. The one where Matt regresses back to being a 12 year old boy.

  

  ) Huckabees, School of Rock, and Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle. There ... Yesterday evening at MIT had a fairly random pair of events: First ... advance screening of Blades of Glory by the Lecture Series Committee (LSC

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 23, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Trp

  

  poor family and a bad school, which would you take?" Well, of course this ... morning of reading, I had lunch at the Stata Center (or Building 32, or ... another of Frank Gehry's buildings, Disney Hall in Los Angeles, might have

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Ethnicity Information (Optional) No easy way in.

  

  -other-category-you choose students. The difficulty with school wasn’t due largely to rigor of ... mark it and move on to the next part of the application. For some though ... an ethnic category through no choice of their own, had it easier at

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • September 2, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview: 10/20 Approaches Some thoughts on the interview, as the EA deadline nears.

  

  , while you're thinking of it. And I certainly recommend contacting your EC ... Jeopardy-style questions. It will be more along the lines of Tell me about ... to MIT? What might you be interested in studying? Those kinds of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 17, 2006