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• Blog / Athletics

  How I got recruited to play D3 soccer at MIT the college sports recruiting process

  

  scholarship? Does the school offer the majors you’re interested in? What ... ’s Women’s Soccer team! I was the first in my family of four kids (who all ... student-athletes interested in MIT or in playing college soccer in general

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 16, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT is hard and I still don't know what I'm doing

  

  generally feel out of my depth in that class, and every pset is a struggle of ... remember how insane MIT actually is. In a lot of ways, though, it ... myself be bad at things, even if it sucks in the moment.   The only

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 12, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Actually Doing Things or not...but actually, really

  

  offered in the fall), 20.109 (I think it’s bad form to drop a lab class and ... just did in 20.109 (Bioengineering Lab), engineering a system can mean ... bacteria that grow in the dark and the light. See this picture? I took it

  • by Stanley G.
  • November 20, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Dark Side of the Moon Mi vida. Nada m√°s.

  

  , in all seriousness: Wow - in just one more day, I will not have ... 've been MEANING to, but I just simply never got around to it! Actually, in ... memorization randomly in between) Me : MIT :: Linguini : cookingFor all you

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 24, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Kids These Days Don’t Know How Good They’ve Got It and they need to get off my lawn

  

  travel somewhere in the physical world to obtain information. Information!  Fortunately, you live in more civilized times. Nowadays, when you want to know ... practice in problem-solving and proof-writing.  But I got more than

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • October 26, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action versus Regular Action Use this link when you get to the end of the post, you'll understand.

  

  application, get it sent in, and find out if they made it in. Others feel that ... let you in. Some apply early to help space out their applications ... brilliant. EA applicants are more self-selective, but you'll never get in

  • by Snively '11
  • June 15, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  month in response to my choice of dorm has been astounding: “What does your room look like? Does all the furniture in your room hang from the ceiling?” “Are you this quiet all the time? You must be crazier in everyday

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

  Things that make you go hmmmm……. Obama’s transformative presidency………for geeks????

  

  ’ve been searchin’…. They’ve been wondering why….(In case you’re wonderin ... for the past few months. Well, I’ve been in Cambridge, same place that I ... in Iceland for the summer (unpaid internship, of course). I bumped into

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • December 30, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I came to MIT A few reasons I chose MIT, and I few reasons that would have made me…

  

  Well, I'm back in Boston, slowly recovering from jet lag, and am ... tomorrow. I already had a test today, in 7.28 (Molecular Biology), so I'm not ... undergrad four years ago. I am also adding in some reasons that I didn't know

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 7, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  My IAP Mugs, polymers, cats, and pineapples.

  

  Coffeehouse 1369 in Central Square with one of my favorite persons in the world ... offered during IAP and that we should take one together. We looked up the

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 3, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  On the Flip Side I'm a host instead of a prefrosh this year - but CPW has still been…

  

  excitement for being here, at MIT, with some of the most incredible people in ... crazy-successful at taking advantage of everything CPW has to offer ... guest-speakers at the event, when I myself had been a prefrosh sitting in

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 10, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Day in the Life of a MIT Mechanical Engineering UROP Student I built an underwater robot :p

  

  , working in Professor David Wallace’s lab. Alongside a grad student named Chuck, I helped design underwater robots for students at a university in ... [/caption] The biggest challenge in this was that they did not have the labs and

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • July 14, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  The One and Only Melis

  

  Women in 2007 Member of the 2008 All-USA College Academic First Team ... thought that it'd be imposing of me to ask if I could get help from her in person -- much to my surprise, she asked if I wanted to meet her in person

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • May 21, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  first week class reflections i am home

  

  in session and i have...an assortment of feelings. i guess my last post ... with pessimism either. i took physics c mechanics in high school and did ... in 8.01! and boy, did we mcHeckin SUFFER. we spent t h r e e hours on

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 11, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  42: The Answer to Our Changing Educational Needs a school with no teachers, no schedules, and no rankings

  

  to a remote Buddhist monastery in the Himalayas. In a place without ... the United States had twenty years ago. We live in a connected global ... his passion in technology to design a new educational system that gives

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 24, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Some recommendations about recommendations Some things to think about as you look for letters from teachers.

  

  At MIT, we require all applicants to send in two letters of ... -- teachers in this country are seriously overworked and underpaid; I hope you ... some face-to-face time alone with each teacher to ask them in person to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 24, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Worlds within worlds

  

  got in. If you got deferred, don't take it too hard, plenty of people whom I know here got deferred EA and then got in. Eventually, those of you who get in will get to come to CPW. And some of you might have

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  I’m still reading applications 5 years later...

  

  steps wide. In the throes of the pandemic, I spent every day inside my cozy 600-square-foot one-bedroom apartment in Cambridge, measuring my ... , digitized attempts at recreating our chaotic in-person lunchroom banter

  • by Jeremy W.
  • November 28, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summiting Mount Monadnock camping trip!

  

  with my living community :D. Saturday We left in the afternoon, driving ... a camera store in Malden to buy film, then Texas Roadhouse, and lastly ... ="119562" image3="119579" /] Finally, we arrived at the site in New Hampshire. Putz

  • by Victor D. '27
  • October 18, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  making solar cells lessons from my nanotech class

  

  .2540) because it was one of the few mit courses offered this semester that felt like magic to me - in the sense that the material was so far beyond my ... that can be stacked in a way which increases power generation without

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 15, 2022