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• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Some questions that I've received from prospectives.

  

  't get in, because I'm not a genius. 5. Can I have some life advice? 6 ... MIT? 2. What does a day in the life of a physicist look like? 3. I ... pursue in math/science. 4. I'm worried that I'm never going to find a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 8, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Eating Disorder Awareness Week – The Secret I Kept by julia p. '24

  

  and I am a physics major in the class of 2024. This week is eating ... For as long as I can remember, the world has been a scary, anxiety ... down. In hindsight, I know that this was just anxiety about something

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 23, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The ‘How to College’ Masterpost A comprehensive guide for frosh, from all corners of the interwebz.

  

  , etc. I feel that it’s important to have knowledge on how to be safe in ... ; Academics   How to Study (well, how I study...) Putting the Organs in ... can’t wait to arrive! Remember to be careful around the muggles when

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Announcements

  We have extended the Regular Action deadline to January 6th, 2021 in order to give our applicants (and our staff) some extra time around the holidays

  

  your application in any way.  What if I can’t get my financial aid ... materials, so why don't I see them in my portal yet? Due to tremendous volume ... decision.     What if I can’t submit my transcripts and recommendations

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 8, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home sweet violet capital of Ohio We didn't see a stuffed whale, but we did see a bunch of primates. Nonhuman…

  

  to travel with an MIT airplane-scientist-in-training... I'm kind of ... burritos (I'm pretty sure they must have crack in them... so good. So ... assured that you can't find it in Boston. We made a trip today to my

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 30, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  A day at Seaborg Technologies interning at a nuclear startup in Denmark

  

  I can be the young intern who is distinctly swimming in a bra and ... because I didn’t know where to buy cake. I also had an end ... close early in Denmark, and I hadn’t been able to find anywhere with cake

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 9, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The coolest spring break ever? Visit a College Campus!

  with our check-in process, I get to see many of you who come to Cambridge ... and find out! I can’t say this enough - graduating from college is tough ... with certain students, etc. Can’t Visit? The last note I would mention is

  • by DJ Rock
  • February 26, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Totally awesome Incoming GEL students win big in the OnStar Student Developer Challenge

  

  This is an entry I’ve been meaning to write for about a month because ... descriptions, directions, ratings, and reservations. It can also let the user ... account! The contest was hosted by OnStar, GM’s in-vehicle operator, which

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • May 21, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Interning Remotely my verdict is that it definitely could be worse

  

  in precedented times, I really can't complain about my schedule. I do ... . Internships were cancelled, in-person opportunities can no longer happen, and ... this post by saying that I am extremely lucky to have an internship in

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

  UROP 101 – The Intro Entry Each week, I will explore a different MIT student's unique research project and the insight…

  

  slipping into a lab coat. In high school I was fortunate enough to spend two ... discovery. I spent my first few months on campus checking the UROP website and contacting professors who had research projects that I was interested in. After

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions…..*sigh* Is (Fill in the Blank) University the right school for me?

  

  questions like, "Do I want to be in community with lots of other high achieving students or do I want to be in an environment where more students are still in the process of actualizing their potential?" I know that

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • April 22, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  a house tour of mit sororities! meet aphi, axo, and theta

  

  're interested, I've also talked a bit in the past about what the sorority recruitment and experience is like, which you can read here. Because a lot of us spend so much time hanging out at our respective sorority houses, I

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 21, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  “the worst they can say is no” the costs of trying

  

  that rejection can bother me: if I ask a question in a group chat and ... , which is why I have always found the advice "the worst thing that can ... company (this has happened a few times when I didn't perform well in a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 10, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  will.i.am: An entry by Prof. Patrick Henry Winston The Black Eyed Peas' frontman hangs out at MIT.

  

  at MIT whenever he is in town. This time I took him to see robots in ... besides, I hadn’t been to a good concert since the Rolling Stones were in ... I got an email the other day from Professor Patrick Henry Winston ’65

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 2, 2010
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  dear kuya i promise this post is mostly in english

  

  doesn't help that code-switching is so prevalent in tagalog, so i can half ... , for older sister. kuya can also refer to any older male person. back in high school, for example, i called people in higher years "kuya", like

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 8, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Splash. Was. Awesome. I taught: 3 classes, 5 sections, 246 kids.

  

  astronomy class; she wants to know if I can teach him about radio astronomy in ... websites I find are pretty complicated. I think about how that can be fixed ... Saturday and bouncing out of bed. I love wearing headphones in a hipster

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 21, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Infinite Magazine [joint post with Kidist A.]

  

  in a less intimidating way, which I feel like email can be. I also ... mine 'NYC critters,' and I still have it tucked away in my bookshelf at ... high quality of the work I saw in previous issues.  I had no formal

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 27, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bio? My sort-of bio, but not the Course 7 kind.

  

  In my past entry, a few students commented with the request that I ... , course 14; I was born and raised in New Jersey (no jokes, please), but I ... power crisis. My family still lives in the Bay Area, so I am racking up

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 5, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  The Swim Test Saga Four laps (and zero displacement) closer to graduation

  

  ?" Me: "Hi. I'd like to take the swim test, and I was wondering if I can ... : "Um. I don't know anything about that, sorry. And the guy who does is in ... office lady: "You can leave a note for him and I'll get him to e-mail you

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 22, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life Tokens the currency of joy

  

  life tokens, and I collect as many as I can. P.S. I once convinced a ... When I was younger, one of my favorite board games to play with my family was “The Game of Life.” It’s a bit like the mobile game BitLife, I

  • by Allison E. '27
  • July 6, 2025