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• Blog / How to Human

  “Take care of yourself.” "Can you post something positive please?" - my mom

  

  of how far I've come. I remember the sleepless nights in high school ... skipped a lot of meals throughout middle school and high school without ... trigger warnings for mentions of depression, EDs, and anxiety I don

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 19, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus, Part 2

  

  are concerned, MIT was in the 1980s, as it is now, a school that offers ... applications after spending much of last week reading international applications ... , as I write this entry, I'm also half-watching one of my ten favorite

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Super Top Secret Spy Action Real Life Experience: Building a car in 2.007

  

  next few weeks, I'll be highlighting one of my classes in each entry. This week, I'll start off with one of my most popular classes, 2.007, Design and Manufacturing I. The basic goal of the class is to design and

  • by Bryan
  • February 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What can you do in four years?

  

  you take advantage of what MIT has to offer, there are going to be ... rush chair, or a member of my dorm's exec. Never designed and painted a ... whether you'll be able to take advantage of everything MIT has to offer for

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The second-best picture we took in Paris This entry is dedicated to Regis Philbin.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? I. M. Pei, who graduated from the MIT school of architecture in 1940, designed the glass pyramids in front of the Louvre. "Agh, I ... two-second timer instead of ten-second." "You better run." "Don't worry!"

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Train in vain Pulling my first official all-nighter of the fall term.

  

  . Of course, I also had to pay to get into the park; however, since Ling, Erica, and Simon were smart enough to buy a family pack of season passes ... that for the low, low price of only $20, which is actually pretty

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at CSAIL

  

  MIT had perhaps been a bit of a blessing in disguise. My high-school ... unexpectedly hear from students to whom we did not offer undergraduate admission ... , here, and here, as proof of what I usually say on Pi Day: If you are

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 16, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Coming Into My Own ft. an exciting semester and an exciting job lined up + making positive changes to…

  

  design class that I need to understand the basics of being a product ... first day of school, smack in the middle of my 7-10 class, I got rejected ... 'm going to do the best that I've ever done at this school, and I'm super

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 16, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Post-engagement, pre-Bahamas An exciting week!

  

  regard to our engagement. If you are a person who likes this sort of thing ... 've been saving pictures of things I like and sticking them in there for ... Museum of Science today to check out the reception site. Hanging in the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Autumn Questions Omnibus Answers to questions asked in my blog's comments. And there have been a lot of…

  

  are not part of standard school curriculum--how can a student take these ... section. The form was designed for applicants in US schools, and often does ... ! ------------------------------------- Brendan wrote, "My athletics coach only sends letters of recommendation

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 3, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  iCyd This, my friends, is a GREEN APPLE!

  

  set on pursuing a degree in course 16 (aero/astro engineering). After a ... classes were just so-so for me. At the end of last spring, I made a major ... ) program. This has been one of the best decisions I've made in the past 3

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  23andme happy new year

  

  want out of life. In high school, I only really knew that I had some ... first semester of my master's degree here. GPA isn't that important for my ... have secured a full-time offer for 2024 in the specific type of role I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 1, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My design won an MIT merch contest I don't know why

  

  merch design competition for the graduating Class of 2025 (that’s me ... “craft bold, memorable designs that capture the unique spirit of the Class ... grad student from each university. Each of the winners is going to win

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • July 23, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor Ernesto Blanco: A Lesson in Creative Engineering "Science and engineering are like two sides of a coin, where the value of the…

  

  teaches us about the FUNdaMENTALs of design and we have guest speakers share ... Instruments who designed a sensor that detects the weight of a passenger and ... ingenious guard design to pretty much eliminate the possibility of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 28, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  on happiness and well-being Coursera attempts to cure our depression

  

  are ones that offer a lot of fulfillment. Things are a bit hypocritical ... school ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Most of my classes this year were [annotation note ... Specificity — generally, the higher degree of quantitative precision with which

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 11, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  I’ve been reading applications And I'm still reading them

  

  amount of print and digital design, and this beast performs well enough to ... seamlessly with the design aesthetic of the Apple ecosystem. I use the standard ... —transcripts, school profiles, essays, etc.—which means lots of windows and tabs. Having

  • by Jeremy W.
  • November 28, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist Decisions 2011 MIT Class of 2015 waitlist decisions will be released today, via email, at approximately 3pm…

  

  offer (it is an understood part of admissions that some people will ... waitlist. This year, a high number of admitted students have chosen to enroll ... other school, but it is a standard practice to consider accepting a

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 10, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Season Taking things into my own hands.

  

  meantime, I'm out enjoying all that Oregon has to offer in the way of ... . As it turns out, this semester was.....well....I learned a lot of "extracurricular lessons". We'll put it like that. But an unintended side effect of

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Your Early Action Deadline Questions The deadline is this Monday, November 1.

  

  front of you. As best I can tell, your school gives a grade for each ... middle school. Can I still send in a Music Supplement without a Letter of ... of German in Middle School, I tested a year of German in High School

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The second-to-last first two days of class Having classes 3 days a week rocks.

  

  longer surprised me. Past professors or TAs of mine have also offered to do ... everything you learned over a year-long high school course in just a couple of ... School, and it promises a deeper exploration of vision and audition to

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 6, 2013