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• Blog / Challenges

  Some Saturday Thoughts a meandering, journal-type blag post

  

  graduating high school and moving into college, I graduated in a lot of other ... . Not out of writers’ block--I truly always want to write, but mostly ... energy, and the rest of the things that come easily are mostly Internet

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 11, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  papurgatory I am demolishing my print budget and my solitary working habits

  

  I have read slightly over 200 pages’ worth of papers this week. I procrastinated 115 of them until the day before I had an assignment due on said ... that I now have spent 1/15th of my [annotation note="we get $300 of print

  • by Alice L. '24
  • September 17, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  NY Times article on women in science Women in science...the debate rages on.

  

  Perhaps you have noticed my lack of blogging lately, unfortunately I ... Monday and Neuroscience today, and my last exam is for Thermodynamics of ... -tier institutions like the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where half the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 19, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  head above the water (intro post) an inner dialogue about my first month of classes

  

  I could slowly ease into the shallow end of the pool feet first so I ... trips down and back. I only made it down half of the lane when I grabbed onto a lane divider, gasping for breath as chlorine stung the back of my

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 9, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  A Year at MIT, by the Numbers quantifying my MIT experience

  

  with my friends this summer dozens of times. ... School starts in 21 ... had to leave MIT. I spent around 190 days at MIT. 185 of those days were as a member of my living community, the Burton Third Bombers. I had

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 6, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ushering in a New Era An open letter to Pass/No Record (with footnotes!)

  

  transition from high school to college can be a tricky one, but you were always there for me**. Like a rock. Or that piece of paper I accidentally ... freshman anymore, so while most of my fellow freshmen will be on the ABC

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 9, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Time Management Reading this article adds +15 to Time Skills

  

  I'm fairly sure all of you are familiar with the fact that MIT has ... Institute of Technology......) But one of the largest challenges, at least for ... psetted, whilst having plenty of time for movie-thons and Guitar Hero on a

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 1, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Things To Do While Waiting for Decisions, Part II Relax! Take it eee-aaa-sy!

  

  So I just read Ben's post regarding the official release date of ... school every day, uphill. Both ways. Anyway, I was thinking we could all ... finals. And that kinda blows because nobody likes finals. (Thus, in lieu of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 10, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Because one story just isn’t enough My tale of being admitted. Laugh. Cry. Both. Neither. All of the above?

  

  chunk of this, solely because I can. Three people from my school applied ... 'm posting my own tale of being admitted last year. Since this is the second ... came, so she drove to school to give her the tube. Kris '10 and I were in

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I think I can, I think I can The word "student" sounds like "study." I wonder if there's a correlation.

  

  pictures of my desk at off hours of the night or of the trail I traverse ... office hours, but I promise you I, like the rest of the students at MIT, take my academics seriously. There are also a number of I'll say

  • by Bryan
  • October 18, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  yo-yos, comics, and other adventures my junior spring schedule!

  

  'know?"]December.[/annotation] One of my close high school friends does a lot of art, and I'd been ... I signed up for a healthy and sane schedule of 48 units and a UROP ... : design and manufacture many many yo-yos. We're in groups of 3-6, and we

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 24, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Back to back to back maybe i am doing too much

  

  The last post I made was kind of a lot. Even beginning to write this ... ’ll continue my theme of talking about my problems in public, and I’ll walk you through my mess of overcommitment so far. February has just been a blur for

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 27, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Construction Thoughts on a major.

  

  given me my freshman year of high school; everybody had told me that ... probable choice of major (or however it is they ask you what it is you want ... , I built a bike. Working at MITERS, one of MIT's student groups which I

  • by Cam T. '13
  • December 26, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Days My traditional end-of-summer recap post, in technicolor.

  

  , began exercising on a daily basis, and even quit pulling the pigtails of that girl who sits in front of me in class. I also took out the trash and ... fined $25 for not doing our cleaning duties, and the serious shame of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 29, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Questions about Blogging Some friendly advice.

  

  my senior year of high school, after I had visited MIT for the first ... Yesterday, a prefrosh friend of mine sent me this Facebook message: I ... entered the lottery for advising seminars (and may apply for one of the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 30, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Mocktails happy new year new you

  

  ; seal of approval from an Actual High School Senior ™   4. Shirley ... year ago when I spent an entire day writing essays for a number of ... mom has introduced to the household.   why   To those of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 31, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  summer’s end

  

  --i'll fix it) done the whole esplanade - fourth of july - fireworks - picnic ... river played guess-the-summer-camp with all the high school students on ... , i see you MOSTEC...) driven a zipcar full of friends out to westford

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 5, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Watch a Webcast! get ya popcorn ready

  

  Some of you may remember my blog entry Inside the Webcast Studio, which consisted of the following video: So what was that all about? We ... person about what it's like to be a part of MIT. But even MIT hasn

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 14, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing Pieces Check your application tracking.

  

  As you may have read on the front page of mitadmissions.org, our fabulous Records Office team has processed all of the mail we have received ... the following: Application Part 1, Application Part 2, Secondary School

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 24, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Tales from the application process Results from the 'mini-contest.'

  

  , there's more to life than getting into "the school of your dreams." In ... process. Dozens of you wrote in with wonderful, funny, and sometimes ... getting good grades, and one of them is knowing how to cook amazingly simple

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 22, 2007