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• Blog / How to Human

  It’s something unpredictable, but in the end it’s right

  

  the idea of an engineering school, and unsure what I wanted to major in ... toward the goal of getting into a top school, and it's been portrayed to ... -on stuff, outside of a lab, was scary), or any math beyond the General

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 7, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Application season

  

  deal of my downtime at the lab today studying for the GRE, and it sucks ... factoring polynomials and calculating the area of circles? I'm trying to get everything together so that I have the majority of my applications completed

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Attack of the Acronyms and the space between the letters

  

  !  But with REX being the opening salvos of the school year, this time ... “Massachusetts Institute of Technology” is a name with 37 characters, 12 syllables, and a state name that I am still completely incapable of

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 3, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Wonder ecclesiastes 1:9

  

  Arthur a little more than two thousand times over the course of high school ... …[B]ut string dozens of great events together, and none of them would ... what was previously new is now normal; that the wonder and mystery of MIT

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 25, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Birthday, Simmons Hall! 20 things I’m grateful for in my dorm

  

  note="Design and analysis of algorithms"]6.046[/annotation] psets ... guess it all worked out well in the end. 3. Kaito The heads of house’s dog ... my windows – all nine of them this year – are my friends. Opening their

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 4, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I?TFP

  

  this one, however, we were using CAD (Computer-Aided Design) tools to ... only one TA there, and lots of people who needed help, so it took ages ... hours later I was less optimistic. Also, I was tired of staring at the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First Days in NYC

  

  externs of any in the entire program -- NICE. There are freshmen, sophomores, and juniors here, and we come from all sorts of majors -- Course 2: Mech ... , etc. The project I'm on deals with mutual funds. Since so much of what

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Thanks Guys A thank you from a blogger to the best audience ever.

  

  week of grueling exams. However, during this time I decided to take a break from the endless hours of studying and just go through some old ... those of you that haven’t gotten there yet, Chris always has some of the

  • by Ben O. '19
  • December 27, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Growing Pains And Every Other Type of Ache

  

  thought of myself as exceedingly driven. High school Shorna was ambitious ... Shorna sets in. In high school, people were scared of me. I’ll sometimes ... , outspoken, vivacious person. I think many of my high school friends might

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • December 6, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW is for Parents too…really!! ...a helpful guide for parents (I hope

  

  we will welcome them to campus for the first time as members of the Class of 2015. We're getting ready to welcome lots of their parents too ... last many months helping their children survive the process of applying

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  notes on hope despite despite despite

  

  the tip of my tongue, and i can see it in the smiles that come more ... of your body love what it loves. i emailed him a few weeks ago in a particularly acute bout of despair, thinking of the wisdom he would share with us

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 25, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Why did the engineer cross the road? Maybe there was a cape for sale on the other side

  

  offerings of chemical engineering industry opportunities. Recently, I came ... of advice:  smile :) I wrote this entry a few weeks ago, but wanted to ... plant. Can I just point out that a sense of humor is “essential” for

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • December 14, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Outside The Bubble Life? Oh yeah, I forgot I had one...

  

  Sorry I’ve been a little MIA, folks. I am fully aware of my absence (though you probably weren't...). I got the "i know this is a busy time of ... posts planned and then the first round of exams hit us. Some of them went

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 28, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Freezing My @$$ off at CPW By: Andrea '11

  

  As promised, I offered the chance to write a guest blog to prefrosh ... they get to the author. --- CPW has been by far one of the best ... time. (Which I loved, of course.) The people there are seriously the

  • by Bryan
  • April 16, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What did YOU do this weekend? Laura's jam-packed-action-filled adventurous fin de semana.

  

  course offerings. In the meantime, feel free to poke around the websites of ... I don't know about you, but I had a pretty awesome weekend. First of ... , I'm doing better in 3.091 too! Sort of. Just remember, it's all about

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 14, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Radio Radio

  

  an offer to buy them. Since the purchase of call letters was not yet ... station. The answer is yes! WMBR 88.1 FM, former winner of Best of Boston ... . The schedule can be viewed here. One of the interesting shows on WMBR

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 2, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PSA: The 2016 Siemens Competition is now open

  

  also interested in high school research competitions, including (but not limited to) those listed on our enrichment opportunities page. One of these ... -12 during the 2016-2017 school year are eligible to win up to $100,000 in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 11, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist Wrap-Up 2008

  

  schools for the fall. To those of you who stuck with us on the waitlist ... was an extraordinary year across the admissions landscape, with some of ... their waitlists. Large waitlist movement at a few schools has ripple

  • by Decisions
  • June 24, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Time To Have A Sit-Down With Your GC. Can we tawk?

  

  case you didn't know, the GC is the guardian and gatekeeper of the college process for most high school students. How important is your GC? Outside of your parents and teachers, your GC is one of the most important

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 24, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  quiz: what halloween candy are you? based on your college applicant personality

  

  forty on my list, including this one obscure school in Antarctica but it ... deaths A few state schools, two or three smaller colleges, maybe MIT... Whatever’s in the top ten of the U.S. News & World Report rankings

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 22, 2019