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• Blog / Admissions

  a fun bet spicing up the admissions process

  

  , every essay that I wrote left me more and anxious about whether I was ... picked and pruned at what would make me seem most interesting, most full ... . MIT was my dream. Between the being able to make whatever you want and

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 3, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Stressful Times in my opinion, the best advice, ever.

  

  Institute," I must admit that I would have thought to try that. So after I ... time, I took those words and put them in the shelf of "things I ... just how powerful and true that piece of advice was. You see, as a

  • by Ana V. '15
  • December 11, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  Junior-Senior P/D/F, and they can't satisfy any Institute or departmental ... beeping oh god the beeping it's driving me insane I am so tired and then it ... update. My grades are all in, and for the first time since coming off of

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Pre-MIT prep How to prepare yourself for life at MIT -- hint: watch Chappelle's Show. Everyone else…

  

  As I sit back and reflect on my four years at MIT, I would like to ... numerals -- On some forms and posters, people refer to their course (major ... trip to Zambia had seen this show and quoted it nonstop. I had never seen

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt 2007 A final report from this year's awesome IAP puzzling solving funfest.

  

  coin and win the hunt in a mere 25--no, 15--no, 5 puzzles, if they'd only ... videos on how to be really really evil in various fields, and all the ... , which led them on a goose chase through the halls of MIT and down into

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 16, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fitting In Fitting in at MIT

  

  students, people from home, and the like is: "How do you feel like you fit in ... with me and my family, you might get confused and think you were at an ... somehow reflect or resemble them in some shape or form, and I think students

  • by Bryan
  • May 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Polymer Police Using spectroscopy to prove my mom wrong (except she was right and I was actually…

  

  ”. Short of having her come to MIT and feel the fabric herself, there was ... to… [annotation note="Synthetic materials like polyester melt and smell ... of the question, given that they might be made of real silk and my mom

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 16, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  unquantifiable growth progress that can't be measured

  

  I like to quantify. I like magnitudes and metrics. It's incredibly ... , money earned and spent (mostly spent). In fact, I often conflate progress with quantifiable successes—exam scores, for example. And sometimes this

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 5, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  Thanksgiving Nostalgia if MIT == home

  

  10,968 hours. That’s 457 days, which is 1 year and 3 months since I ... driveway as I had done thousands of times before (driving was weird in and of ... ’re often the place of absolute highs and lows, where epiphanies have occurred

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • December 1, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Short Thoughts Girlhood, editing, iPhone notes.

  

  a headache and wake up still with a headache. It's the first time in ... about girlhood and math competitions--it's under my full name, and it ... -school girls who compete in math (and their peers); if you fit that bill (or not

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 13, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summertime Happenings A summer of research and relaxation in Boston

  

  university just as much as its classes and campus. During the school year, I ... compilation of end of the year reflections from my lovely friends and amigos ... before summer’s end! After school let out, I hopped on a plane and flew

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • July 4, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Free-est post! un-free schedule

  

  In the hassle of getting my life and graduation requirements together ... professor at age 20. He frequently cites his own papers in lecture, and we ... line of succession from my high school robotics club, and an ex

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 28, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  Row, row, row your boat aka varsity sports at MIT

  

  what seems ridiculously early for MIT students to go and exercise for 2 ... clothes are kept, where I spend 2-3 hours every morning and some afternoons ... -wee soccer in kindergarten at the ripe old age of 4 and since then I have

  • by Becca H. '12
  • September 27, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Week in the Life: Optimism Edition In which I have a particularly tough, enriching week.

  

  working in studio for five hours and I hate my life but it was awesome,'" he mimicked in a higher-pitched voice and some sort of everlasting smile. It was past three in the morning and I'd just returned home from Studio 7

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “…being a geek works out…” A UROP at the Center for Sports Innovation.

  

  's Wright Brothers Wind Tunnel, where he tests cyclists' positions and new ... his expertise in fluid dynamics to develop and, he hopes, patent his own ... productive," Blair, a former world-class triathlete and ex-NASA engineer, said

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 12, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Formula SAE: A Turbocharged Experience Join the MIT Formula SAE team to design, engineer, and build a small formula-style autocross…

  

  Ever wonder how a Formula 1 car can reach speeds of 210 mph and pull ... , engineer, and build a small formula-style autocross racing car and then compete against 130 other vehicles from universities across the country? If

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  September Questions Omnibus 1 The answers to your recent questions.

  

  admitted to MIT are admitted to the entire university and may choose any ... takes me to the school and Yahoo maps. Interested in attending the Sept ... enter MIT "undeclared," and, at the conclusion of the freshman year

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I Never Thought I Would Join a Sorority ...but here I am?

  

  sororities and fraternities at University X do have all of those problems, like ... goal of which is community-building and fostering social interaction. If ... had the preconceived notion that many sororities were racist, and I didn

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Writing an essay using thumb tacks and arousing the suspicions of a snarky Nobel laureate

  

  -down triangle. Alan Guth, father of a theory describing the early universe and my advisor, stands in front of a blank board; he is grinning, hunched over, and ... cup and peers contemplatively off to his left. John Negele, who studies

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 5, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to get around MIT hunger pangs [by Sadie Scheffer '10] Culinary art = delicious art.

  

  [by Sadie Scheffer '10] College? It's about classes and professors and shirts and ties! What am I not prepared for? Nowadays, most high school students will be leaving home to go to a university knowing little

  • by ARTalk
  • April 1, 2009