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• Blog / Admissions

  How To Write A College Essay and other things too

  

  the degree to which the cliches and tropes of college essays had ... shorter way of explaining this now, though, that I sent to my high school ... Listen: writing well is hard. It is hard for a lot of different

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Note of Hope for Freshmen at Career Fair Yes, freshmen can find jobs!

  

  ; students are printing leaflets of resumes before the printers get tied up on ... laundry until after finals week. :D A lot of this behavior is motivated by a sense of resignation. Common wisdom around MIT says that freshmen

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 21, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  These are a few of my favorite things Silver-white winters that melt into Newbury Street shopping.

  

  out of 7.28 (Molecular Biology) at 1 PM, stopped by the lab for about 15 ... Newbury Streets; both are streets with a high concentration of shops ... morning! Ridiculous grad school stuff I got my official acceptance letters

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 22, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Matt Damon’s Commencement Speech to the Class of 2016 Turn towards the problems you see

  

  . Matt Damon was too. Yes, when he got up on stage, one of the first things ... ’s just put that out there. I mean, I’ve seen the list of previous ... of the World Bank. President of the United States. And who did you get

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 6, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  "philosophical" it is LOL) So hello from the other side of a terrible week of ... midterms in three of them (Spanish 4, Biology Lab, and Organic Chemistry ... last 40 hours because of studying for the test). Sigh. Any hints on how

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 21, 2009
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Rise and Grind and Build *dolly parton voice* workin' 9 to 5

  

  2017 Design Biennial Boston. We worked primarily out of the Architecture ... router to cut out pieces of the project, and tweaked some designs in ... -month fabrication internship at Sosolimited, a design firm that came out of MIT. Even

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 18, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  On MIT and Humanities I promise I will stop philosophizing (aka. sounding like an old man) in my entries…

  

  in college). Given all of this, I turned down offers to Brown ... school offers. (let's face it - as "great" as Harvard is, you can ... Department of Literature (21L) offers an exciting series of literature classes

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 19, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Re-introduction A summary, for those of you just tuning in.

  

  graduate school applications. I talk about my research in a bunch of ... the past three years, both in terms of getting me into grad school (the ... constituitively incapable of understanding, is people who choose other schools over

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  first week class reflections i am home

  

  to take choir in my senior year of high school. i played piano and ... in session and i have...an assortment of feelings. i guess my last post was a lot of feelings, but there's a lot of feelings still. too many

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 11, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  The Minerva Delusion the political economy of an educational scam

  

  (former head of the New School), and Pat Harker (president of the University ... the child of a well-to-do family in Beijing, by offering them a great ... the private school, but that was not because of the (lack of) prestige

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 6, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  Prof. Catherine D’Ignazio on Urban Science for Public Good

  

  time, I embrace ideas of participatory design and co-design where you ... One of the strange things about being 10,000 years old is that, while I've been tooling away judging teens, some of my classmates

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 1, 2020
• FAQ / First-year application

  Can my school use Naviance?

  our Letters of recommendation page; however, we also accept electronic documents submitted through Naviance, SCOIR, or other methods. Regardless of ... submit their additional documents (prepared letters, school profiles
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [Joint Post] Chatting with Hank Green, the MIT Commencement Speaker interviewing Hank + sharing student stories!

  

  Courses while in middle school. A lot of my early enjoyment of studying the ... high school years. I recall being floored and inspired by so, so many of ... ="aligncenter" width="300"] !!![/caption] Hank is a man of many passions: science

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 24, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Ops Air Force A summer spent with B-1Bs and C-130s.

  

  Development Training (PDT) program designed to give cadets a better view of Air ... school year, we are only exposed to a very small sliver of what the real ... Bomb Wing with a fleet of B-1B bombers as well as the 317th Airlift group

  • by ROTC
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freebie I love freebies!

  

  so I'm going to try to put a lot of effort into it. Toy Design = This ... Twice a year all of the bloggers essentially get a freebie post. We ... schedule means that school (and the accompanying work) is about to begin

  • by Snively '11
  • August 21, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Guest Blog: From the Life and Times of Cam

  

  kinds of opportunities MIT offers – and these only to a local high school ... intersection of my life and MIT – which is surprisingly large for a high school ... 't think of any other school where my story would have been even remotely

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 6, 2009
• Blog / CPW

  I’m nervous to meet you A letter to the prefrosh at the dawn of CP*

  

  , offer advice, joke around, and tell all of you, face to face, that if I ... on school nights, or having a constant stream of group chat messages ... Dear prefrosh, Today, Friday, April 17th, is the first day of

  • by Powers '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Happy May! Everything I owed you...

  

  final month of school! Somehow, I can't believe this year is coming to an ... How NOT to be a MIT Student (aka. my daily dose of stupidity) *sets ... , completely out of breath *TA passes an exam along* *gets mad at self not for

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 1, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  What are French House residents doing this summer? Round 2 Microsoft, brains, British accents, hiking in the Alps, weightlifting, HIMYM

  

  More flavors of an MIT student summer. *    *    * Xiaoyue X. '15 (majoring in Course 2: Mechanical Engineering) Geez, we have a lot of Course 2 ... non-work goals! What are yours? Take lots and lots of pictures &

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 30, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  What to expect when you’re expecting CPW Setting some expectations, discussing myths & realities.

  

  is because labs are not designed for large numbers of visitors, and in ... Since nearly two-thirds of the admitted students are attending Campus ... big MIT event, there's a lot of hype, rumor, and mythology surrounding

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 15, 2009