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• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Finals™ How to survive AND thrive this finals season?!

  

  ensures that I'll be able to get to everything I want to cover, and it oddly ... friends, etc. Gives me things to look forward to, in between studying and a ... classes in a separate binder. Makes it easy to compartmentalize different

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 18, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  CP* restored my faith in the universe i read...My Immortal...with prefrosh

  

  Lounge and talk around small tables, so prefrosh get to interact with us in ... !!!! I love talking to everyone and sharing in their enthusiasm so! much ... my floor pulling up to the event in our bright orange shirts; I'm glad

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 18, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Grad school admissions My (limited) insight into the graduate admissions process.

  

  application and wants to get to know you in person. I'll be meeting this weekend ... involved in research early. Some students wait until their senior year to get ... lab equipment). Importantly, you want to get really involved in a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 20, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  Places to Sit at MIT and study

  

  yeah, and to get an MIT degree. After four years, I've completed neither goal. Never fear, I'm taking another semester in the fall to finish my studies and to continue sitting in places. The two goals are related

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 19, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Omnibus Followup: Women in Engineering Melissa asks what the gender ratio is in engineering at MIT.

  

  programs MIT sponsors that try to get high school students interested in ... in the United States are women, and that number drops to 17.9% by ... experiences. In short, Melissa, you don't have to worry about coming to MIT and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Your Questions ...and happy thanksgiving!

  

  to answer the many questions that have been showing up in my blog ... could attend it for that. now i got a problem in november test due to ... August 2007 will MIT make a conditional offer i.e. I will need to get three

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing Document Deadline Extended to Wednesday

  

  time to login to MyMIT and make sure everything is in! To recap, you may ... .687.9184 Fax is the most reliable way to get us a document. It is automagically ... worried! We are here to help you get your information to us. Thanks for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 30, 2012
• Blog / Advice

  letter to my 2023 self from: 2024 janet

  

  in 2024 and wrote most of it then; but then i had to work on a bunch of ... relieved to hear that I’m actually travelling now, in contrast to last year ... to rizz' presentations run with multiple co-hosts and presented in

  • by Janet G. '27
  • January 2, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  Welcome to CPW! 'twas the night before cpw...

  

  :) Explore the different dorms!  I knew I wanted to live in Burton-Conner as ... the opportunity to ask any questions about the club or MIT life in ... -specific events! A lot of clubs will hold CPW events for you to get to know the

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • April 10, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Burning Question "Can you tell me why I didn't get in? Why was I not good enough?"

  

  school in the world to get into to begin with. I can use that fact to try ... 't get in? Will you look at my app and tell me what I did wrong? Why was I ... every right to be asking it. I certainly would be. I wish I could get

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 16, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  falling in love with october swooning over foLiAGe

  

  stars admiring from afar (to properly credit "we fell in love in october ... club event has been offering free cider donuts to lure in a special breed ... live and where you’ll be in a year, so try to give this fall a bit of

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 24, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What can you do in four years?

  

  . Question: "What about Are Four years enough to get advantage of all the resources MIT has to offer for a student?" In a word, no. No matter how much ... key is to try to maximize what you do get out of MIT. For example, I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 19, 2006
• Blog / Summer

  The Courage to Change Even Through the [Tough] Mud[der]

  

  strong enough to get things done on my own, and I shouldn't need help. In ... get back into running. I’ve been on break for too long, and it’s time to ... yet.  So now I know I need to make a change. But how? How do I get out

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 11, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  Lies in MIT, lies about MIT these are the lies that i tell myself at night

  

  lying, then, to call these lies? Five. In What getting an education from ... you've handled this many classes in the past, so I'm going to approve ... , chose to do difficult homework, chose to not go to parties. In these ways

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 27, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Days in the Life In which I overuse Instagram.

  

  who remember back in the day when I used to doodle in my notes. The ... from the other day in class and add a little something to them. Just. For ... afternoon spent in lab. Lab 1 is to build a fluorescent microscope. Our team

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Lot Can Happen in 365 Days 8,760 hours of work, sleep, and play

  

  wasn't getting out of campus enough. I knew I wanted to start a company ... I saved to travel and pursue my goal of getting myself out there ... plane for a Phi Kappa Sigma conference and spent a week getting to know my

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 31, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Pottermania hits MIT Excitement for the release of Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows.

  

  in the book. Psychiatrist David Jones of MIT advises parents to read ... the release of the seventh and final book in the Harry Potter series ... fandom in general and Harry Potter in particular have shaped contemporary

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 19, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  My Favorite Spots in Cambridge/Boston well-trodden and well-hidden alike

  

  dope! Keep in mind that it tends to get a bit crowded on weekends (for ... A summer in Cambridge did wonders for my knowledge of the area. While ... surroundings was limited to the MIT area, Chinatown, and the Back Bay. Now, I

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 19, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s like finding candy in your pocket… MIT in the media - Always a treat.

  

  in my opinion. I'm sure we all fall victim to surrendering minutes and ... getting desensitized to the negative connotation of procrastination so that ... ), things to make us react in one way or another (Linsanity), things to make

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 21, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  a day in my life as a MISTI student ft. research and friends

  

  train to arrive, and the trip itself is around ten minutes. I get off in ... try to be speedy in my getting ready. We still leave too late to be on ... would want to do MISTI; in fact, I was set to do it last summer, but

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 17, 2022