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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Toga, Toga, Toga On being in a fraternity (info for parents too)

  

  "You're joining a fraternity? What?!?!?!?" I think this is what a ... in high school, I was a pretty shy person. I was very quiet, went to ... friends were going to be. All I knew is that I was coming to MIT with one

  • by Bryan
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  short term / long term on growth and learning

  

  . Something I've been telling myself a lot is to just try my very hardest in ... want to do yet in my life and I think part of that comes from the fact I ... expanded the program for me in order to get in. And so that's why when I look

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 10, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  MyMIT is live we're ready for you to begin

  

  with each recommendation letter. Also note that MIT is not a member of ... silver packet in the mail recently. This is our official MIT Application ... process and it’s not too early to start. You’ll want to do a few

  • by Kris Guay
  • September 4, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  It’s been a long road… ...gettin from there to here

  

  to do with my major. But I still think that MIT played a pretty big ... Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome myself, which is something I didn’t know in college (you can actually read a little about how I learned at that link). My

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  making things a blog about being a meche major

  

  in this major is a trip. I struggle with the concept of having one’s major be one’s identity; my major is a fun thing I like to do, a way to ... edits, so that nothing is glaringly wrong. But I want a better grasp of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 20, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer Reading What’s in your beach bag?

  

  that I find left out for the taking on a table in lobby 10. Emperor of ... This is a quick read and I read it one day after complaining on facebook to a friend that I wasn’t able to lose any weight. I think he was sick

  • by Kris Guay
  • August 4, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I?TFP

  

  optimistic and cheerful. I always do 004 projects in the lab so that I can get ... that I'm capable and can do engineering things in interesting classes ... that I did this lab. I designed a complete CPU at gate-level! It's MIT in

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My night with 8.03 MONSTER ENTRY AHHHH

  

  great. I guess I'd say it's a bit more touristy in that it's kept really ... in a very long time. So I heave the pretty incredible stash of lined ... let it be known that I really hate multi-part problems. The time is 2

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • November 11, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview (the EC edition!) in which you receive advice and an alum surreptitiously gets to blog again

  

  minutes late. The only thing that I'd add is that I do think it's a nice ... Jones informing me that I was selected to be a blogger...BUT every once in ... 's nothing on my beloved Hayden, but I must say that a library in front of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  One new blog, three post-college thoughts just popping by to say hello

  

  . I graduated in June 2014. Now I do astronomy research at the Max ... : I have a new blog now. Here it is. and now, here are three thoughts ... public transportation and in bed, and one on what I do at work. on where I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 1, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Which I Get Schooled By My Professor This video does not contain an improvised song, but it does contain Peter Reddien.

  

  came after I turned my camera off. See, a lot of you are probably in the ... may already be here. All of you must know that being a student is pretty ... ’ll be the first to admit that this semester is probably the hardest one I

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 22, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Soldering Things pronounced "soddering"

  

  circuit theory and printed circuit boards in general. I've discovered that ... work. I applied to this UROP because I wanted to work in a Real Science ... . But one of the things I learned to do in Design/Build/Fly was soldering

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 25, 2013
• Blog / Classes

  hazy mid-semester days what i've been up to lately (mostly, psets...)

  

  work. It's a long process, with breaks in between each step; I'll do ... 've really improved with practice!" /] Monday I'm lucky that Monday is a slower ... our weekly house clean-up from 11 to 12. After that, I settle in to work

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 2, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another take on pass/no-record and some other stuff. Hey look, I haven't pontificated about anything in a while.

  

  that advice. I do it myself sometimes, usually when I'm in a terrible ... choice of "this is what I am willing to give up", that wasn't a part of the ... , in cosmology, in engineering, even, and that's why I'm taking 8.07 now

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding Time for you know, things that aren't psets.

  

  increasing in uselessness.   I've been doing all that, and a lot of ... . One that I've been working on is lovingly called pybot, a terrible bot ... 't very, very quick (because it is), but I've definitely found that it's way

  • by Joe B. '18
  • October 4, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snow! Getting out and saving your sanity

  

  I have a real-ish job I can spend more time out in the mountains that I love. Heck, if I could do that for my job, that'd be a dream come ... people are excited by that, because the cold, bleak winter is a tough time

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 2, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 1 Dealing with failure and trying to move past it.

  

  ? Failing. It might sound a little weird, but I came here certain that if ... taking courses in their majors. I went to the student talks that we have at ... fact, I know a transfer student at MIT who did exactly that, and now he

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 21, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Remember to Breathe Chicken Soup for the Applicant's Soul

  

  mom in a frenzy exclaiming that I'm not going to get into any of the ... million extracurriculars I was involved in. A word of advice: Take a deep ... biggest things I think we want to get caught up in is the number game

  • by Bryan
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  We Stan Matt Parker i'll try not to mention the parker square

  

  want to actually do that math. Then, I found a maths comedy special by ... four dimensions to people in a comedy special is exceptional, and I ... student (at least, for a high school student). But I remember sitting in

  • by Paige B. '24
  • February 2, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Living in the Past The one where people drive up just to visit me.

  

  have a great time." However, still, it's one of those things that I never ... that moment, but in two hours I was able to finish up my research and ... weekend in Foxboro. Well, I guess they're a little more dedicated to the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 13, 2005