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• Blog / Admissions

  Long-Overdue Responses Questions answered.

  

  sacrifice your true passions to get that A in French, but at what cost? Let ... - I think it's always good to check in with a school between getting ... This is a long one. Apologies in advance! First, a quick response to

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 20, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wrapping Up First Semester Two more weeks to go.

  

  physics discoveries, and I tend to get a tad sidetracked in the popular science section in Barnes and Noble. I knew I was getting a book addiction ... semester was kind of in a lull period in terms of work, I vowed to finish a

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • December 10, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi on Pie So much pi[e].

  

  Day five years ago. In the weeks and years preceding, getting into MIT ... you get in this Pi Day, I hope that you are happy today, and that you ... ’s Random Hall weekly-ish study break. In honor of Pi Day Irina O. ’15 and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visual Arts @ MIT part 3 the people who make it all possible

  

  to write a final installment in our Visual Arts @ MIT series. In the ... to learn and practice these things at MIT. Now, in this post we want to wrap up by providing a bigger picture. When we entered MIT in our

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 17, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  i feel completely fine and maybe that's okay

  

  everybody who I have left on read this summer; I promise I'll get back to you eventually."]instead of getting back to the people I need to get back to ... sparing a thought for all the woes which continue to sit in the back of my

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 12, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  socializing over zoom it's been rough

  

  Last week, non-seniors who want to live on campus in the [annotation ... dorms was an experience in and of itself. In trying to figure out who ... then plan to form a pod with these people in the spring

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 24, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Characterization This might or might not enrage you.

  

  (too late for me to major in 11 now, but wish me luck on getting a minor ... get to living in the Internet," my hallmate once told me. And here, at ... family. "80s are good enough," my grandma once said to me in high school

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • August 28, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Warmth, Happiness, and Baked Goods (guest post) The best way to spend your time off.

  

  join a special program to study in France and get a side of buttery ... the secret recipe to get into MIT. Here it goes. Check off 4 out of 5 ... ’s easy to zoom in so closely on what you do that you never stop and wonder

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • July 25, 2016
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Leaving home…

  

  kitchen table on a daily basis is really starting to sink in. It's not that ... years to prepare for that. But I suppose you could say that in all of the eagerness to get the hell out of the desert, I lost sight of the foundation

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 28, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  That’s right, you’re sick Thank you, nurse, for stating the obvious.

  

  't really get to know other MedLinks very well. After training, you see them ... most people are quick to say that they're just fine. In fact, if there ... , and trudged across the street to MIT Medical. Sitting in the waiting

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 8, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  California, Here I Come… I begin my Fall Travel by heading to the West Coast

  

  trip because I’ll get to meet lots of you in the process. I know I ... :00 am alarm seemed just way to early) I arrived in Seattle in time to go ... working with the staff members in attendance to check in the students

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  this is the real life I love in-person MIT eom

  

  Whenever I try to think about the last year, it doesn't feel real. In ... a year isolated in one way or another, it feels incredible to just ... : walking through the infinite on my way to class, studying in Hayden library

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • October 9, 2021
• FAQ / First-year application

  What if I don’t have letter grades for some of my coursework or have chosen to take a class pass/fail?

  school can make available to us and consider them in the context of your ... assessments, or something else. In some cases, you may have the ability to ... help us get a better understanding of your mastery in a subject. We
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  self-taught dancing: a how-to how i learned dance through YouTube

  

  YouTube to practice dancing seemed like my best bet. as said in my ... over 250 dances! getting into dance through K-pop, at least in the self ... choreography?" ...and then I choose to watch the videos that fall in the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 4, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  on regression the to your shitty high school self, and not linear, kind

  

  's gone, time has slowed to a crawl. my area issued a shelter-in-place until ... tendency. when i'm with others, i try to exist in the moment, but when it ... of dopamine obtained from shading in an infinitesimal square to floss

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 7, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  running out of time the woes of every single graduating student

  

  world, and getting everyone in one place will involve significantly more ... to, especially when only two others in my close friend group are moving to New York City with me. there's also the fact that I'll be in Africa

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 27, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Blogging Scholarship Conclusion Rock the vote!

  

  that I've decided to live my life as a boy, and will be getting a court ... much to report (besides my first oral exam in Japanese). There'll be ... support! It's been a long month of spamming people I haven't talked to in

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 27, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  fun. the band, but also the form

  

  classroom on Tuesday morning and had to run to get there. I went to an extra ... few days in contrast to how much free time I had over IAP. I feel like I ... ’s hard to put in the effort to keep them. And sometimes, I think about what

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 11, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  a gcal september never really used it until now

  

  adding more of these... i use gcal constantly, in stark contrast to the ... items for me to do in the future. this has helped me go to more ... productive in general. using gcal is processual. events always get shuffled

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 29, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  wow. my first three weeks being an actual student actually at mit

  

  cool - the process that brought me from my hometown, to getting accepted ... 'm still in a state of shock (so try to forgive me if this post is all over ... . I didn't know what to expect going in to it, knowing literally not one

  • by Joe B. '18
  • September 19, 2014