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• Blog / About Decisions

  Things to Do While Waiting for Decisions Like elevator music, except without the awkwardness of standing next to a stranger whose priorities…

  

  few things I can think of.. Things To Do While Waiting For College ... , I got into my back-up school!!'") 2. Have long talks with your friends about your future. Then write a song about it. Preferably in the style of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  These are a few of my favorite things Silver-white winters that melt into Newbury Street shopping.

  

  out of 7.28 (Molecular Biology) at 1 PM, stopped by the lab for about 15 ... Newbury Streets; both are streets with a high concentration of shops ... morning! Ridiculous grad school stuff I got my official acceptance letters

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 22, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Matt Damon’s Commencement Speech to the Class of 2016 Turn towards the problems you see

  

  . Matt Damon was too. Yes, when he got up on stage, one of the first things ... ’s just put that out there. I mean, I’ve seen the list of previous ... of the World Bank. President of the United States. And who did you get

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 6, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How Hard is MIT? A quantitative analysis

  

  results even refer to? And don’t even get me started on the lack of units. I shudder as I think of all the unsuspecting high-school students making ... MIT calls itself an engineering school! Luckily, all that is about to

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 26, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  CP* restored my faith in the universe i read...My Immortal...with prefrosh

  

  'm writing this after finishing my third and final CP* event, which was some of ... these chances to meet the Class of '24—they're wonderful and hilarious and ... ! These couple of days have been a testament to how amazing the MIT

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 18, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Quizbowl adventuring knowledge is (*) power !

  

  . Quizbowl at the high school level comes in a lot of different formats, and ... writing a blog post about quizbowl, somebody said, "What's quizbowl?" So of ... the ~personal experience~, but basically, the whole big concept of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 29, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fanboying at the Career Fair SpaceX, CubeSats, and free stuff, oh my!

  

  people you're in awe of, people you follow on Twitter, people you hold as ... and the fabulous glamorous divas of popular culture. Got it? Now ... of their new music, t-shirts, posters, bracelets, branded water bottles

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Space Robots II: Attack of the Paradigm Shifts why undergraduate research is so much more than an opportunity

  

  MIT, we have lots of professors doing research. We have lots of ... and informative lab working on the genetics of regeneration. Slicing up ... form, didn't seem like it was quite for me. When I started my next set of

  • by Piper '13
  • January 27, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Rush Course 12 what it’s like to study Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at MIT

  

  lot of undergrads choose to pursue graduate school in their chosen field ... Sciences (EAPS) and it’s one of the smallest majors at MIT, despite the breadth of our department. We study everything from the origins of life to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 6, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  what i talk about when i talk about running with apologies to murakami

  

  of laps around our high school track that the first 100 meter curve has ... high school track. I quickly became addicted. I ran all of the longer ... "At the core of many of his stories was a distinction between success

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2013 FAQs

  

  your rank list because if you do not match with any school on December 2 ... will not have a full set of tests by the October testing date, what ... complete and you did not match to a binding school. If you take MIT off your

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 21, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2016 FAQ

  

  of the National College Match. If you are not matched with any school ... your rank list because if you do not match with any school on December 1 ... will not have a full set of tests by the October testing date, what

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 20, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2015 FAQ All the questions!

  

  of the National College Match. If you are not matched with any school ... your rank list because if you do not match with any school on December 1 ... will not have a full set of tests by the October testing date, what

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 21, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  Gettin’ Fancy Two formal events in two days?

  

  school year, two events occurred last Thursday and Friday that required a ... ) and the end-of-season fencing banquet. Here are some thoughts if you’re into that kind of thing. The Photography of Ring Delivery: Ridiculous

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • May 3, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  regression and imposter syndrome let's talk about computer science!!

  

  reminds me of my old high school habits. In high school, I pushed myself to ... . During my senior year of high school, I managed to calm these habits down ... since freshman year of high school, easily looking at my 6.006 psets and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 11, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  things im doing during break things im looking forward to doing

  

  to New York City by 6:30 AM on Amtrak, immediately greeted by some of ... of snowy [annotation note="the jury is still out of whether Westchester ... former [annotation note="Putz is a hall in East Campus, one of MIT's dorms

  • by Victor D. '27
  • December 28, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  it is the escape living a second life as an art student

  

  -month internship in Seattle,[/annotation] a group of intern friends and I decided ... decadent brunches, going shopping, so on and so forth. One of our many stops that weekend was the Richmond Night Market, a local attraction full of

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 26, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Just Released: Report of MIT’s Ad Hoc Committee on AI Use reacting to the report on AI and our education

  

  final report of the committee. I have been spending my morning reading (and listening) to it, and I think it is one of the most important ... human beings develop their own powers of discovery, problem solving, and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 25, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  kindness friday and affording myself a little bit of grace

  

  kindness! My next order of business after waking back up was going to ... , okay?"]Mid-October[/annotation] at MIT is the time of Midterms Week 1, the first of three weeks of exams (not including Finals) that you will

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • March 26, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dyslexia at MIT Living with dyslexia, and the current state of dyslexia research, at MIT and otherwise

  

  University School of Medicine have found that the quarter to half of dyslexic ... or graduate school, when the length and difficulty of assigned readings ... enjoy it, for a glimpse of a hot field as well as a bit of the research

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 7, 2012