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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Being an Intern (And being an adult)

  

  school.)   * Some of you are probably wondering exactly what my ... . It’s already exposed me to a lot, some of which doesn’t even have to do ... their colleagues, discussing anecdotes of their families, children, or

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Jack of Some Trades, Master of Absolutely Nothing feeling mediocre at mit

  

  yesterday on account of being mediocre at MIT. These feelings have been sitting with me for a while. I quiet them most of the time, but occasionally they come up, bile burning in the back of my throat, to painfully remind

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 12, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  ‘Just Chillax’ [about your college essays] My little brother is wicked smaht.

  

  'd offer a bit of unsolicited advice (but puh-leeze, you know you want it ... offer a statistic for those of you obsessing over the "chance me" threads ... To those of you who sent in your early apps - congrats! You're done

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 22, 2010
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Where can I find info on the School of Engineering?

  The MIT School of Engineering is world renowned. Covering everything from ocean engineering to aeronautics, there's something exciting going on in every department, lab, and classroom. There's way too much to
• Blog / About Decisions

  Raskolnikov as an Odd Metaphor on angst and deferral

  

  late, I finally actually looked into what other schools had to offer and ... google docs made for MIT 13 School with the highest total # of words ... nothing at all.  During my senior year of high school, my dad told me this

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 17, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview It's only going to be as fun as you want it to be.

  

  the same-old "words of comfort" that adcoms offer to students," and ... quantity). -What activities do you do outside of school? Why do you do them ... student there. Why did he/she choose MIT over all of the other schools that

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 26, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Perspectives from Deutschland Ich bin Anna und ich studiere Astronomie!

  

  University of Marburg. In the morning, I will walk for twenty minutes to my German language class, down a steep hill with a beautiful view of the ... this, I’ll move back to the US for graduate school in astronomy at

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tweaching and Stitches Two things that happened this week, one of which I liked.

  

  redundant, apparently). When school starts back up it's like a whirlwind of ... in, and many of us are busy looking at our shoes as we walk. So to ... ring circus, except instead of elephants,it's nerds; acrobats, calculus

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 12, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Senior Spring! What I did (and didn't) do over IAP...and plans for my last semester!

  

  Day eve and all of a sudden I have to go to school again! Weird (in an ... I’ve never really understood the appeal of beach vacations. I spend a day relaxing and then have to recover from the effort of recuperation

  • by Alina G. '11
  • January 30, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Other ways I’ve been rejected over the past fifteen years [suffering-from-success.jpg]

  

  , Andrew J. '10 and I placed offers on a number of houses, all losing to competing bids. I hit up a grad school acquaintance in my new city who never ... themselves from the pain. The mere passage of time turned out to be that

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Keeping it Green On a visit to NYC, I learned a little about environmentally friendly housing.

  

  break, I took large bites out of the Big Apple on my two visits to New ... her high school, Stuyvesant, and on the way there she pointed out the ... unassuming, only the giant blue solar panels on the roof give any indication of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Apply to WISE! It would be WISE of you to do so

  

  in STEM and chemical engineering, MIT was on her list of schools to ... picture of MIT as a really depressing, weird school where she wasn’t going ... would talk about school when they didn’t have to,” she said. One of the

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • June 13, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA-mazing Lots of tidbits about the biology program at MIT.

  

  , particularly at MIT. Most of what I remember from high school was doing things ... biology courses at high-school level focus a lot on reciting things, and I don't believe it's the essence of the subject. Could you please tell us

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Introduction To ARTalk An introduction to the ARTalk guest author blog by Kerry Powell, Assistant to the Director…

  

  friends from other schools visit, they're amazed by the amount of ... . Both are part of who I am, and I'm very fortunate that I go to a school ... [by Kerry Powell, Assistant to the Director of Arts Initiatives, and

  • by ARTalk
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Return of the Frog Queen Okay, it snowed this morning, end of story.

  

  about fluid mechanics. Sorry, it's the time of the season for offers, and all of us poor chemical engineers planning to go to grad school and save ... never, think in bed anymore. During high school, after a hard day of work

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 5, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  work-life balance (without a life)

  

  board games with them. you live in a place with a high density of people ... for high school students i'm teaching for, a party i'm attending. there ... . this summer, and my internship, are different in a lot of ways. the bay

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 10, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Life Changing Classes at MIT ft. ec-discuss

  

  make games (yes, they exist). Most of the schools I applied to were in fact these types of schools. However, MIT's games and interactive media ... schools, so I decided to apply to MIT as a bit of a long shot after my

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 20, 2019
• Blog / IAP

  what I’m doing this IAP mostly physics and musical theater

  

  get pushed to the back of my mind during the school year. All my ... the month of January: some people treat it as a four-week extension on winter break, some people take classes or work on campus, lots of people

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Just a Yellow Lemon Tree… I wrote a rap song for you.

  

  ). I transferred to an international school in the middle of elementary ... a couple of times, but alas, I've broken that promise by two days. :( OK I know you guys are all sick of the whole "I'm hosed!" talk, so I

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 11, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let It Bleed There will be an answer, let it bleed.

  

  but think of the time in high school that my friend Allison was giving ... nuclear engineers) who aren't coming right out of high school. That being ... middle of it, in the process missing the first hour of our ultra

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 5, 2006