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• Blog / About Decisions

  Preparing for Pi Day MIT decisions come out this Friday: what to do between now and then...

  

  . Keep Yourself Busy In other words, keep twiddling your thumbs. Get a ... (highly recommended). Make pies. Eat pies! If you keep yourself busy you won ... . Have some fun! You already deserve it for making it so far in high school

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 10, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mistakes & the inspiration we need to move on

  

  semester has been going. It's been incredibly busy, almost to the point to ... "too busy" to spend time in the dining hall. I made the mistake of ... school friends ended his graduation speech by reminding us to "just do you

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 19, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Some Hosed Down Hodgepodge In which I breathe, then return to my business

  

  of which has kept me incredibly busy. To put much of this in context, I ... semester would get really busy once I decided to take on one full-time UROP ... school 'em.) Guess what I got on my birthday? Not one, but two

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 23, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Checking In A brilliantly exciting recap of the last month.

  

  and the fallout kept me pretty busy for the following couple of weeks ... League schools, Stanford, and MIT. (Basically we share ideas and concerns ... the software, so the slow comments should be fixed before the busy fall

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Asking for Directions Two weeks of pondering, photography, and prose.

  

  has one of the nation's top undergrad business schools, and I could even double major in both computer science and business. What a winning

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  About MIT Recommendation Letters Some helpful tips and guidelines for your teacher letters.

  

  letter on your behalf. Please recognize that teachers are very busy ... one of the schools you're applying to at once. This is also a good time to tell them about why you're applying to each school, and how you see

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 16, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Allegiance "No, I'm not one of /those/ people."

  

  because it’s so different from the one in school. You are judged based on ... business emails. Also, I (and probably most of the workforce) function best ... ’m currently moving more and more in the direction of grad school/research. And

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 24, 2016
• Blog / Personal Projects

  loftblogging 2: acoustic boogaloo turns out that at mit, even the non-academics are incredibly hard and deeply rewarding

  

  a loft before school starts, and then write about it. Then I had ... week of school, and then write about it. And here we are, in the fourth week of school. But hey! I did build that loft! And she is BEAUTIFUL

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 29, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thank Goodness! "There are bridges you cross / You didn't know you crossed / until you've crossed."

  

  I struggled with in the past when I was sorting my high school papers ... more curious is that MIT doesn't append honors to degrees, so can one ... the drama), he decided to leave off continuing at MIT for grad school

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 21, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Round here we stay up very, very late Vignettes on my last day at lab, the Counting Crows, grad school, and pets.

  

  school, and about careers in science. He gave me a lot of good advice about ... scientist better half, is applying to grad schools this year. He had been a ... picking Harvard for grad school effectively meant he'd have to get into MIT

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 30, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  The most wonderful time of the year No, not Christmas... IAP!

  

  stuff is going on, and all my friends at other schools are going to class ... , or I won't go on the June degree list!) And so, in my last IAP, with ... competitions and going to Charm School. Some of my friends are doing/running 6

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 11, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  throughlines some things never change (but thankfully, only some)

  

  from my first sunday roast with some grad school friends and ... incredible[/caption] i'm here in Southampton on grad studenting business. it ... .5 years i leave this place that i call home. the grad school things are

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  art things #1 illustration, graphic design, ceramics, and photography

  

  has to be strengthened continually. So my high school sketchbooks became ... cartoonist. My high school English teacher was a huge fan of Barry, and I knew ... Boston Center for the Arts, and it offers workshops, panels, and booths put

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • December 1, 2023
• Blog / Blog Projects

  My Blogger App, five years later i've finally dyed my hair blue

  

  , what with most entertainment and businesses still being closed due to the ... ever offered a choice on what to do with my hair anyway. I gave it up ... my hair blue was as a junior in high school. After months of seeing and

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • July 16, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2018 Diaries what the weekend was like for me

  

  possible deity that I'm not a high school senior. To get my mind off all ... when people are extremely busy, and mid-April is certainly not an easy time, they are willing to offer support and are happy to share the magic

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 17, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Flood, an Ark, a Third Word I Am Missing Sophomore year starts out a little wet, and what is a community, really?

  

  lived in, my school, our church. Then, there was a network of our family ... life might have. MIT is different in a lot of ways from other schools ... Sloan Business Club or Dance Troupe, and many are cultural, like the BSU

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Whole 6.270 Story Where LEGOs take over my life.

  

  coding we managed to get our gyro (which drifts 5 degrees) accurate to within .1 degrees. That made it a very useful tool. By three in the morning ... . Dan and I showed up in lab to find a sleep-deprived Jared doing busy

  • by Snively '11
  • February 3, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  (another) postcard from GTL spain and an unexpected crossover with the Edgerton Center

  

  be checking in on the students from our school and offering advice ... this school, and particularly for how much the people are what make them ... , with work from the minds of Gaudi and Dali offering up an escape from the

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • February 1, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  how do i button up this coat? a clothing conundrum

  

  , "Rona, you used to dress better in high school. Then you went to MIT." It's true; I used to wake up at five a.m. even though school didn't start ... makeup, and then I had to get to school early so I could get in extra math

  • by Rona W. '23
  • March 29, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Burchard Scholars Program (old time stamp: 11-21-09) - this entry is five months late >___

  

  -seminar program initiated by the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Science at ... years in Taiwan (he actually attended my high school's rival school: Taipei American School). In March, we had an extremely rare opportunity

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 18, 2010