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• Blog / Community Projects

  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  February to April. For Spring HSSP, I was in charge of dealing with class ... everyone got kicked out, to elect directors for the summer and fall programs ... involves. I don't know what, exactly, led me to nominating myself for

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The Room(s) Where It Happens You've hit submit. What Comes Next?

  

  sometimes ask students to imagine who reads their applications and to tell me ... . That we are there to judge them and find flaws in them. The truth is, we are all in this profession because we like students. We want to serve

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • January 9, 2019
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Cozy Hobbit Times, Cozy Hobbit Food

  

  that. Chop things. I don't know what reference to give for how small ... best as I can remember, it was three cups water to one cup barley for the hulled version, 5.5 cups water to one cup for the other, cooking til water

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Burton 1 Social Club This Thanksgiving, I'm thankful for my ridiculous, hilarious, amazing floor.

  

  culture, and while there is clearly no objective way for one to claim one ... with balloons and herd everyone into the room to wait for you to come ... floors - from Burton 1 to Burton 5, and from Conner 2 to Conner 5 (Conner 1

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Back in Time I change my clock back three hours and read headlines on the magazine of the…

  

  chair kicked by the screaming kid beside me (a stereotype for bad flights everywhere, but for some reason, for me, it always seems to hold true). The ... Francisco to Boston - and the last time I was on an airplane, I'd envisioned

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We Should Take This Final and Push It Somewhere Else you'll need a lot of mOXie

  

  wrote flashcards for myself and tried to teach myself course material I ... , being bedridden for a month and your mom having to fly in to take care of ... my classes. One night, I stayed up late to help paint a banner for my

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 14, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  I’m Still Standing after all this time at MIT

  

  unexpectedly rainy shoots, to Elton John for writing the song that got me through ... a girl could ask for. for always knowing how to frame my shots and get ... rain to shoot even when I had nothing to offer but my company, and for

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  (Bitter)sweet home meeting high school teachers again, and visiting my hometown for (probably) the last time

  

  that this is probably going to be the last time I’ll be in Alabama for a ... achieve what I wanted. It was hard for me to do that for so long. Alabama ... i. I visited my high school over the winter break. I came back to my

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  name for MIT's famous class ring, whose design is unique to each class ... affectionate name for MIT. hosed (adj.) - Flooded with work, as if attempting to ... .) - Affectionate name for MIT. Sometimes shortened to 'tute. See Hell (n.) living

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  On identity f(x) = x

  

  for being good at math, and it felt good to be good at math. High ... up to called the IMO, which you can think of as the Olympics for high ... , but I was still pretty good for making it to the top twenty. Good

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2) My take on the MIT short essays.

  

  you if they do happen to be things that you do for fun). Just be honest ... 't worry too much. For the "Creativity" essay, I would encourage you to look ... out of the prompts for the 15 colleges that I applied to (number one was

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  look around for my mom and dad, who always try to see me off; last year ... unquestionable ability to thrive at MIT—lasted for maybe six weeks. Then, I hit the ... except for up. I did not know how to respond constructively to this kind

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  Fruit Club. I said hi to friends boothing for the Educational Studies ... schedule does not have enough space for all the classes I want to take. And ... for crying. Though he didn't understand why it was bad, he learned to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hard MIT Class ...or is that redundant? And yes, hiiiiii.

  

  that we had only two goals for the rest of the semester—to have fun in ... I tried to go underwater to practice my breathing, I stayed down for ... one end of the pool to the other, by now for the others without fins

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Today I hit my TA with a door I didn't MEAN to.

  

  It wasn't like I meant to do it. I was late for recitation, and I ... unknown to the universe I went for the front door, all while my TA just ... popular that I once came ten minutes late for and had to sit on the floor

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 7, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-Med @ MIT The title says it all.

  

  was the right place for me to be pre-med...despite the fact that I would ... I thought it'd be worth it to add my own thoughts into the mix ... 'm about to dive head-first into the craziness that is medical school

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer…” wherein Neil Armstrong's legacy kicks off a year of Unified Engineering, and I reflect on…

  

  challenges. So when my turn came to introduce myself and share my reasons for ... work in teams, and what qualities to look for in good teammates. I ... fulfilling internship at a company I never expected to work for: Amazon, in

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 9, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take a Load Off Quoting The Band's "The Weight" should make the wait bearable

  

  is visible from my awesome double.As much as I would've liked for it to ... time, all just to see MIT's decision, makes for a dramatic story, but it ... . And it's still true of everyone who wants to get in to MIT. And I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  The Great Wifi Outage of 2007 Burton-Conner's wifi went out two days ago; Evan will tell you more by the end…

  

  work set the basis for several new developments i.e. using yeast to ... in this area), I'll guess that it's probably similar to applying for ... other schools, you should know that 1) that isn't what you come to MIT for

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  “You are capable of more than you know.” Reflections from six MIT transfer students

  

  -traditional” route (for example, opting to put their education on pause to compete in ... engineering exam. I thought I would go to a school in India for the longest time ... strong interest in and love for economics. Janet: Before I decided to

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 13, 2024