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• Blog / About Decisions

  Deferring Thoughts before 12/14 12:14pm to after 3/14 1:59pm

  

  good school based on how everyone spoke of it, but that was, for the most part, the depth of my knowledge. It was a school where people probably ... included when I was applying. This didn't paint a full picture of the school

  • by Waly N. '24
  • December 18, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  my semesterly planner mentally preparing for the trials ahead

  

  ritual to prepare for the start of each new semester. I think some bullet ... digital calendar simply wasn't going to cut it. Instead, I took advantage of ... , of course, but the act of writing things out really helps me

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • August 18, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hello world!

  

  Hello to all of you readers! I'm the latest student admissions ... 're one of his regular readers you might have seen me occasionally comment ... advice and chat about the UA (see fourth paragraph), of which he was

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Waxing nostalgic, in a zen kind of way I've heard of zen. This is not zen.

  

  . Anyway, I was hanging out with some of my friends from high school. (I ... update. My grades are all in, and for the first time since coming off of ... requirements. (9.10 would have been one of my six Course 9 electives had I not

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  relearning what i know now or: hi, i learned wrong my entire life.

  

  of fears swirling in my head being at this school. I praise it every ... Since January, I've been having a sort of crisis about my place at ... when it came to academics. Throughout high school, you see, I was taught

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 22, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Home(sick) for the Holidays winter break was weird: time capsule 2

  

  in the energy of my high school for longer, or asked friends more than ... Here’s part two of my “I wrote this but procrastinated on editing and ... On Wednesday, December 20th, I took my last final of the semester. I

  • by Allison E. '27
  • February 24, 2024
• Blog / How to MIT

  Schedules and expectations The do's and dont's of freshman scheduling, and what to brace yourself for.

  

  Class of '10: getting super ready and excited for school? I hope you ... both classes in my senior year of high school and let's just say that my ... !) so here it goes. IТƒфd like to preface this all with the statement of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  since i’ve been home

  

  activities and already-brimming corpus of memes has kept me sane in this quiet ... you are the type of person that would enjoy cute games that largely involve mindless daily chores and where much of the charm comes from social

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Roombaaaa The longest trip I've ever taken in my life

  

  to make my way through the hustle and bustle of suited up MIT students in the Z-Center... I tried to orient myself to the layout of the ... interesting experience because you'll get a variety of different kinds of

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 21, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  albums i like and why i like them pov: i ramble about music and won't shut up

  

  album, and was released after her senior year of high school. It features ... the albums that I like. So here is a list of cool musical [annotation ... wrestler that the singer (and presumed protagonist of the album) watched as a

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • September 8, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On being a lab rat I flail around trying to explain what I do at work every day.

  

  Wow, lots of questions to address today! I guess I'll start by ... few months ago, I wrote a summary of my last project; a paper describing the results of that project is currently being reviewed for publication

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / Events

  The Making of a Mystery A James Grimmelmann Guest Blog

  

  James Grimmelmann of New York Law School. Grimmelmann is flat-out one of ... organizations. While some people curl up at night with a copy of Sports Illustrated, or Cosmo, or even Wine Spectator (if you're a special kind of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 17, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An OME Welcome to the Institute I took Tsegball, and I have no regrets.

  

  school year’s resolution to get eight hours of sleep. Cheers to the school ... was selected as one of the seventy members of Interphase EDGE that is run through MIT’s Office of Minority Education (OME). That being said

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Mid-January Updates The latest from Cambridge.

  

  . Lots of reading to be done! If you are a regular action applicant, please ... early action deferred), and you are in an American school, please try to ... financial aid deadline is quickly approaching. Be sure to have all of your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 18, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Q & A Answers to questions on being in a fraternity.

  

  rigorous school, right? do u even have time for fraternity life? do they ... management.... My response: MIT is a pretty hard and rigorous school, but I ... that being in a fraternity gives you access to a lot of upperclassmen who

  • by Bryan
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  I failed the Swim Test! And now you can too!!

  

  1940s after a high volume of drowning-related deaths at war. It’s been ... continue for the foreseeable future.  The idea of the test is that if you ... one of the shores. The river is 200 yards wide, so you would need to

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 26, 2023
• 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

  Advanced Standing Exams: know your stuff, get out of a semester-long class! You should really consider taking them.

  

  sort of breadth requirement. MIT, being a technical school, has a weighty ... AP credit—the worst out of any school I researched when applying. If ... really sad, because a lot of high school students work really hard racking

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • May 24, 2016
• 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