Search

Search Results

• Blog / About Decisions

  Everything Works Out in the End Even when it feels like it won't

  

  tumultuous fear about what life after high school might look like. Having gone ... of what my college experience would be, what I would do, and where I would go, but if things didn't go as planned, I was afraid of what would

  • by Richard O. '28
  • October 31, 2026
• Blog / Personal Projects

  loftblogging 2: acoustic boogaloo turns out that at mit, even the non-academics are incredibly hard and deeply rewarding

  

  week of school, and then write about it. And here we are, in the fourth week of school. But hey! I did build that loft! And she is BEAUTIFUL ... , after I realized that finishing "before school starts" was an illusion of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 29, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  The return of Questions Omnibus It's time to answer your questions...

  

  'm really excited for CPW!! I really cant wait to come up and meet all of the ... in terms of balancing time b/w them and with my host at CPW? I know ... , "If one of our parents is coming with us to CPW, is it okay for us to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 21, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Firehose Warning: insomniac blogger on the loose.

  

  anything I ever dreamed of encountering in high school. But that, I can ... of my time immersed in the intricacies of addition reactions to alkenes ... chemistry), not to mention the peculiarities of second-order ordinary

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It all comes to this The Senior Thesis (cue dramatic music)

  

  prove that all of your tooling has made you a better thinker? For most MIT ... must be completed by the end of your senior year and it will be permanently archived by the MIT Libraries. I did a little bit of web surfing to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Former MIT Students on TV Two in a flattering way, one in a potentially embarassing way.

  

  , a school reputed to have plenty of geeks to spare. Ankur, an alumnus ... where viewers choose which of three new science programs will get picked up for a full run. One of the shows, WIRED Science, is co-hosted by an

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  What I Have Learned From The Early Decision Process At MIT Here are some of the things that impressed me.

  

  of clubs in school to activities that help to relieve human suffering ... *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... covered that. So let's get to the meat of the matter (or for you vegans out

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer reading: “The Language of God” Consider adding "The Language of God" to your summer reading list!

  

  school, at which point he "gradually [accepted] the existence of God and ... As some of you may know, this summer I'm working at the NIH National ... entire human genome, so that we now know the location of all human genes

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 22, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Visit to the Museum of Fine Arts There's nothing like a trip to the Museum of Fine Arts to make you realize…

  

  I just checked off #34 on the list of "101 Things To Do Before You Graduate from MIT": Visit the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA). The drawing class ... my interest in the arts, so I thought I would make the most of my day

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meow Yes, you can have cats in some dorms.

  

  I was reading one of Laura's recent entries with a response to a commenter asking about cats. East Campus is one of the dorms with "cat floors" -- floors which allow residents to have a cat -- and Third East is one of them

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’ll bet you got waylaid! Wherein Portland, Oregon rocks my face.

  

  engineering graduate school of some repute. My return flight through Chicago was cancelled due to Chicago being buried under 20 stories of golfball-sized hail ... how different the school's research philosophy was from that of MIT, I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 25, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some Megaphone, Pressed Against An Insect’s Brain That is what this blog entry resembles.

  

  friendly mennonites. My high school friend Ben thinks that the point of the ... also took some pictures of my own outfit at the dinner, but I decided ... managed to get him hopelessly lost within like 20 minutes of my house. Also

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 21, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tests of the non-standardized kind Stop thinking about the SAT and start thinking about 18.01!

  

  will learn at MIT is not a collection of facts, but how to think about ... cards and reference sheets; a lot of my upper-division biology classes are open book and open notes. And it does help, sort of; I think you'd be at

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 12, 2005
• FAQ / First-year application

  How does MIT use my name in processes and communications?

  abbreviation of your first name, a nickname, or a chosen name. For example, if ... your name in the MIT directory.']financial aid offer and other
• Blog / Athletics

  The Craziest 3 Days of Soccer Ever broken records, halloween practice, and senior day!

  

  tournament, where all D3 schools in the nation set their eyes on the prize of ... On Wednesday, we had our second to last game of the regular season ... step closer to that goal.  But that was not the most eventful thing of

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 4, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  year 2 of the course 2 how do you become a mechanical engineer, anyway?

  

  untangled the unruly tangle of shoelaces that is my life schedule and turned ... totally a secret fanboy of (Hard News and The Panic Virus are fantastic ... gazillion followers on Twitter, so I'm hoping to pick up some of his secrets

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 5, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Trip Report: ISEF 2016

  

  engineering research fair for high school students. Every year, millions of high school students across the world enter their local science fairs. The best ... . No one at my small high school did research, and we had, to the best of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 13, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Full Circle Here's to yesterday.

  

  MIT. It's sort of contradictory - how many people go to summer school at ... second summer in Cambridge. Two years ago, when I was a rising high-school senior, I enrolled in Harvard's Secondary School Program for four weeks

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 7, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything is cool tl;dr I want to study too many things

  

  international relations class during my senior year of high school because I ... The theme of my (very short) MIT experience so far has been that ... interesting. EVERYTHING. I’m exaggerating, of course, but only a little. There

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 11, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  to the skeletons in my closet an open letter to you

  

  performed in school because of our friendship. i think i should be more fair ... and cry every time i saw one of you. my safe spaces in school no longer ... , [annotation note="hello cami here. this is? a different kind of blog. ranty blog

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 27, 2021