Search

Search Results

• Blog / Admissions

  AOs write the “What do you do for fun?” essay Ever wondered what admissions officers do when they're not reading applications?

  

  weekend in Vermont is the culmination of that—a chance to hang out with my ... in learning to make my own earrings is that I get to express myself and my passions. One passion that I have is in sustainability. For one

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  , which is a big reason that I'm writing this post. In one week, I need to ... that I have available is a job in finance. I’d be at the company I ... choose to get up and move to a different bench 20 feet away, one that is in

  • by Phi A. '21
  • April 20, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing is Magic And 15 minutes is all you need

  

  I have a personal blog that I write about my teenagers and I haven ... wants to do that? When I do an info session for prospective students, I like to mention that there is a writing requirement here at MIT. To some

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If man is five Then most people are six, and if most people are six then pre-meds are seven.

  

  Engineering?" It's funny, because I remember going to a choice of major fair in ... ." "Get a UROP!" "I need some money." "Get a UROP!" "My boyfriend is cheating on me." "Get a UROP!" "It hurts when I pee." "Get a UROP!" But in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  There is no such thing as a typical day on energy levels and productivity

  

  when I’m asleep. So if we graph my ability to do work in a given day ... something that looks like: This is a bit complicated, so I’ll just draw the ... done. I try to work, I really do. I spend time sitting in front of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 25, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  November 1st is my January 1st each november is a new direction

  

  chances of MIT were that of a coin flip. But I managed to get in early ... but about the person. Sure MIT's is a shortcut that opens doors, but if ... extensions, I finally handed it in and, to my surprise, I got a 0. Turns out

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 3, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  This story has to do with professor accessibility. And something awesome that I got in the mail.

  

  I love getting mail. Actual mail, that is: packages and postcards and ... a package slip in my mailbox earlier this week; I passed it to the desk worker, who put a big squishy brown envelope in my hands. I read the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Life is like a Game Elaborate metaphors from an amateur comic artist

  

  It's been a pretty rough week, so I took a break and drew out my struggles. For some reason (mostly the fact that I'm a media dork at heart), a ... beastly exams and self-doubt and stuff. Though I hope that bit was pretty

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 7, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  This Is How I Read productivity hacks, but for reading applications

  

  I really love the "day in the life" posts that have gone up recently ... , embodied, manifest in some material form) I think is just as interesting, at ... as an admissions officer at MIT, it is made clear in your contract that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Things (That MIT Made) LISTS

  

  the site and my brain is a bit melty. So, as a bit of a break, in the ... Happy Friday! Yes, that is an Oberlin College-produced parody of Rebecca Black. And yes, that is our former Communications Director Ben Jones

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 27, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  10 reasons why MIT is beautiful if I do say so myself.

  

  this post were taken with a compact camera that I carry in my pocket.  I'm currently doing a 30-day photo challenge where I take at least one good photo ... Sometimes MIT gets a bum rap for not having a pretty campus.  I

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  Favorite Classes at MIT! survey says...

  

  Processes(1) 2.009 is just a really hype class but that is not why I love ... inference, and other cool stuff. In short, I felt that this class was a nice ... 21L classes in general, since MIT has a great literature program that I

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  17 Things I’ve Learned in the Past Year growing, growing, grown

  

  has changed in the past year. I think that I’ve done a lot of emotional ... do remember that growth accounting is a way to decompose an economy ... mental health was the discovery that “being an introvert is a thing.” I

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Figuring out what I want to do with my life personal essay time :)

  

  fascinating, and space exploration is a mission that I believe is meaningful and ... [annotation note="i mean...hopefully lol"]eventually emerge with a PhD in ... I want to do after grad school. I was a bit taken aback, because

  • by Alex M. '21
  • March 5, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to trick yourself into thinking that you’re writing a report The most productive procrastination technique revealed at last!

  

  thinking that you're writing a report I would like to share with you an ... enjoyable. In the end, you might figure that is it too overwhelming or ... you have a pretty good understanding of what is going on in general and

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 17, 2015
• Blog / Events

  This Blog Post is a Bad Idea Not blogging for several months... that was also a Bad Idea.

  

  like wings, I do not like spicy. A one-pound plate of wings was placed in ... thousand cookies, that's a lot of cookies. I don't think you realize. That is ... I knew there was going to be a problem when I was one of only two

  • by Kate R. '14
  • January 27, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Was Deferred And it was not the end of the world

  

  computer, opening up the MyMIT page that I hadn't visited in a few months. I ... mentioned in his last post - "I actually do agree that the best thing you can ... 'm sitting on a train that took me from Washington D.C. where I had just met

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 17, 2014
• Blog / Advice

  My Product Design Internship in Austin how to build things: both externally and internally

  

  enough that I have to hype myself up to jump in. The initial plunge is an ... took me no less than a week to fall in love with. Austin is on top of an ... many awards for being a stud at her sport that I’ve lost count, a sister

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • July 26, 2024
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  I Miss the South Musings on a secret Instagram account

  

  that are relatively unprocessed. I would be doing readers a disservice to ... in my reservedness is a rare and mythical thing. Most of the time I ... habit, but I do think it is a compulsion, which I am uneasy about. So, a

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Search of Answers Seeking recommendations, rather than providing them...

  

  highlighted for me is that I just haven’t come across a lot of great resources ... point out that I am just a single member of an otherwise exceptional group ... I need to know typically comes together in a nice, tidy package. For

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 13, 2011