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  Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me

  

  keep in touch with me, offer informal life advice, etc. When I got the ... helped, but is not necessary) MIT was the most helpful in figuring out ... , in general. Where you end up for grad school has less to do with the

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Love In the Time of Corona lots of evidence that the people are the best part of MIT

  

  immense amount of support has come pouring in from MIT Alumni, offering to ... this sense of nervousness and uncertainty in the air. I had woken up to ... came out, I was sitting in the McCormick lobby, with our Head of House

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  non-stop / walang hinto what a mess

  

  . it is normally in boston university, but this year we are doing the ... happened. it’s as if the entire month has just been in my head. to be fair, this entire quarantine has been a blur, and i remember almost nothing in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 8, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Praise Of Holistic Admissions not an admissions machine

  

  be admitted to that particular university at that particular time. In ... In last week's blog entry Diversity or Merit? I included the ... socialization. And so we have to take a great deal of care in constituting the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye

  

  got an offer letter. I spent that summer interning in Google’s Los ... , to study at MIT. In 2017, this ongoing chapter of my life promises to close. I graduate in June, if all goes well. A short while afterward, I

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  senioritis not to be confused with señoritis

  

  i never really had senioritis in high school—it was probably the ... off the effortlessly forget to turn in an assignment thing. so i had grand visions for senioritis in college. i would go out all the time! do

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Sunrise, Sunset An MIT-Israel student shares his day

  

  University, Prof. Ilana Natan This post was first published on Ben Bell in ... -Gurion University makes this place a college town. Students are in the midst of finals ... I was at least three times. I live in the university dorms which are

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  focus on the aspects of MITese that are (in my opinion) universal across ... .112 lecture in 10-250" or "I have three psets due every week this semester and it's really hosing" or even "I'm doing a UROP in Course 7" don't mean

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  echoes through the universe in defiance of conventional physics as ... open your email. Hillary Clinton is offering you free food in 2-105. You ... Tuesday, May 5, 2015, in expansion of MIT Gothic. It is up to you to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] We’re Not in ~Kansas~ Missouri Anymore Going From a Small Town to Boston, by Claire S. '25

  

  research in neuroscience) offered me a position in her lab. I spent a ... : “Definitely not in a big city.” I’d spent my entire life in a small town in ... it. Comparing that to my experiences in places such as New York City

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 17, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  In the Realm of Giants imposter syndrome with a senior year twist

  

  school, or go to an extended retreat in the mountains of Italy, you most ... in charge that you’re not just great, but also necessary. For some, of course, this process is a little smoother—return offers from post

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Application dreaming

  

  University in Tempe, AZ. I visited here for the first time this summer, and I ... majoring in BME. I am a published poet in my country. Should I send my book ... "diverse" or "confused about goals"?   In the past week, I have read

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions of Travel a guest post by Spencer W. '15

  

  situation in South Africa, the severe class disparity. At their university ... 1,126 students joined the Institute as freshman in the fall of 2011 ... rebuilding in his backyard. Spencer sent us the equivalent of a Maker Portfolio

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the bridges I’ve crossed in Cambridge, ranked my civil engineering hat is off

  

  ’t fallen in yet. Rating: 7/10 Boston University Bridge (+ Grand Junction ... aforementioned university. When I was staying with my girlfriend in her ... alongside many of Boston’s universities and colleges: MIT, Harvard, and Boston

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  150 years of MIT course catalogs the mit history you want to know

  

  descriptions. MIT has published a new catalog every year since classes started in ... insights into the kind of MIT history you won't read in history books. I ... long Professor Artin has been teaching algebra in MIT. It turns out he

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Reading aka inhaling all the books i can before school starts

  

  obsession. These two books are semi-canon in-universe novellas that expand on ... think that like everything else in the universe, souls also obey the law ... of you who were will know what I’m talking about. The universes within

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An actual day in the life It's not the most exciting day... but it's a day!

  

  prospectives to a day in the life of an MIT student, I have rather uncreatively decided to present An Actual Day in My Life, Fall 2005 Version. 8:15 -- The ... Journal communities. I get dressed in my MIT Cheer shirt with a really cheerleadery

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the exclusion of everything else on making decisions, and how i chose mit

  

  Here's a post I made in my personal blog, around a year ago, talking ... fourth post in a four-part series, so here’s some context. I went to the admitted students weekend of another school in the Northeast, which we

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Move Fast And Break Things just make sure you have a net positive of unbreaks

  

  spend a night cranking away on it." In other words, organized, unpaid overtime in which developers stay up all night to work on projects outside of ... in one nonstop 20-hour spurt than in 40 hours of punctuated work time

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 25, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Putting Diversity into Context The diverse ways that colleges and universities define diversity

  

  great interest. In my role as the Director of Minority Recruitment, I ... . In my experience, individuals from multiracial backgrounds resented ... identification.  In reality, most of the confusion is about how to best leverage a

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • July 14, 2011