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• Blog / About Decisions

  Applying Sideways How to get in to MIT.

  

  and hawk their school. I recently returned from my travel, which took me from Raleigh, North Carolina to Atlanta, Georgia and a dozen places ... and small high schools, cities and villages, and performed what amounted

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  My College Essay Early Action / November 2005. ~500 words await.

  

  sky. And so my college application season began. My interview was at the Cosi at 13th Street and 6th Avenue with a young recent graduate ... liked the drawing I'd made while waiting for him and seemed really

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 11, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If man is five Then most people are six, and if most people are six then pre-meds are seven.

  

  just to be in the same room for a minute and catch a glimpse of his well ... no! He's not dead! He's still alive and quipping things like, "So I ... 's about all I remember. Battle on, Mandelbrot. My friend and labmate Steph

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Beacon Hill in the Fall More door.

  

  is behind us, the Charles River is below us, and Boston is in front of ... is vines and fire escapes up brick walls, streetlights leaning against steep slopes on narrow brick and stone streets; it is hidden alleyways

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 17, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Advice From The Elderly My last blog entry, at least from this chapter.

  

  To the class of 2016 - My name is Jess, and I graduated in 2010 ... improbably old. According to science (and by science I am obviously referring ... even knew anyone who was in their 20s, but now you do, and I am here to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some F Words ****!!!

  

  the semester where things get hard, and some additional unfortunate ... bridge, and I’m starting to apply for jobs and work in tech and do those things that make you realize your own identity, its advantages and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 15, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Defying That Sinking Feeling On learning to swim and envisioning success

  

  AP classes and participated in extracurriculars but still didn't know ... immersed in experiences beyond compare, and that'll be all the justification ... and rebuild new ones. Money can't purge your fears out of you. That's a

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Midsemester Night’s Dream Technically an All-Nighter's Dream, but hey, close enough

  

  and some iced tea, to my right is a notebook full of vectors and gradients and force fields that are all starting to blur together, and over on ... my advising seminar yesterday, and I’m currently trying to finish an 18

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  This Blog Post is a Bad Idea Not blogging for several months... that was also a Bad Idea.

  

  girls sitting at the table. Sarah R., '14, and I sat next to each other in ... foolhardy enough to enter the Bad Ideas Wings Eating Contest... and was it ... for the celebration and creation of very bad ideas. But since it was the

  • by Kate R. '14
  • January 27, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part 1 ECs are some of my favorite people in the world and you'll like them too.

  

  interviews has changed (though Kim's observations on the interview and our ... people. They are my colleagues, classmates, college roommates and lab partners, and many are good friends. They are engineers, scientists

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT women Rockin' the two X chromosomes at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

  

  I've noticed, in my travels around the country and the internet, that ... was for female students, and whether I had experienced discrimination as ... against for their gender. MIT investigated and found that they were, and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 20, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Distraction News Your internet connection is unstable

  

  Classes are happening again and I am not ready. I am looking at the little boxes on Zoom and everyone seems so calm and ready to start back up again. People are giving helpful suggestions and input. The [annotation

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 31, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Brief History of Cars on Fire at MIT You didn't think I would miss an anniversary, did you?

  

  while, it's not that uncommon to wander MIT's campus and find yourself wondering: How did THAT get there? Four score and zero years ago ... HELL"—the IHTFP-esque MIT motto of the 1930s—and hauled

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Super Blood Moon Eclipse bonnie tyler would be proud

  

  while I stare up at the sky. I break out of my reverie and I cant help but ... the Earth’s shadow on the moon, and we’re all here, casting this shadow ... supermoon and a lunar eclipse are scheduled to happen on the same day (night

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing is Magic And 15 minutes is all you need

  

  I have a personal blog that I write about my teenagers and I haven’t updated it lately. It’s not because I’m tired of writing- I’m not. And it ... lately with one kid on his way to college and the other on his way to a

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  It’s Friday, Friday… hacking Mikey

  

  plans. They were all very exciting, with lots of travel and warm weather and such. Then she asked me what my plans were for the break. "Work," I ... Campus Preview Weekend was yesterday, and we're already expecting more

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 25, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  self arrives to campus, you’re given a booklet with pages and pages of ... pre-frosh and MIT students alike were sprawled on the floor building ... hat. Others took turns playing Mozart’s Turkish March and the Mario

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  9000 Words This post doesn't have 'em.

  

   (or rather, Papa Matt!) a congratulatory card. B) On Wednesdays and Fridays, I ... something to my cello case while I was out of the room. G) My hallmates and I ... thinking spots (mine is right across from this one and is labeled "Happy

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 9, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thoughts for the New Year A semester's worth of thoughts, tbh

  

  I was reading through my old blog posts and realized that it’s been a while (read: the entire semester) since I’ve blogged about my thoughts and ... recently and more frequently than I’d like to admit. For the most part

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  --the research and academics are, of course, first-rate, but I wanted to know what ... stories that have stuck and relevant snippets of my own life. ([1 ... her parents rather than herself, hiding all signs of struggle, and

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016