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• 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 / How to Human

  how to meet curious people

  

  (and free food), but I don’t try to get involved with them at any deeper ... nobody in 18.032. Due to a mandatory recitation for another class, I would ... about twenty people. The kids in the classroom seemed to care much more

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 19, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Cambridge, Boston, and MIT in the Snow Santa and Poseidon in a winter wonderland.

  

  professions, in a way Santa and Poseidon both have a lot to do with to snow. I ... Here’s what I woke up to on Friday morning: massive snowflakes, falling sideways and sticking to everything. I wasn’t brave enough to take

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 10, 2016
• 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 / Academics & Research

  6 / New Year, New Me Looking back, looking forward & staying in the present

  

  firsts. My goal, though cliché, was to stay in the present, appreciate each ... after 7pm Got stuck in Stuttgart returning back to Zürich because of a ... Learned to cook a traditional Czech meal in Prague Went to my first wine

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 12, 2019
• 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

  Greetings from India: D-Lab Students in the Field D-Lab students Luke, Sydney, Jessica, Madhavan

  

  -credit basis to drivers until they’ve paid off and own their own vehicle. In ... Assam – it’s famous for its tea and it’s home to the hottest pepper in the ... intuition, was able to straighten the 1/4 in mild steel shaft to near

  • by OEL
  • January 28, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice On How To Approach Your Interview Advice on how to approach your interview.

  

  tell us in the essays. Think about why you are applying to MIT. Do a ... that the interview is not only a way for us to get to know you better, but also a way for you to get to know us better. Show up on time

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  scheduling woes advice for dealing with overenrolled/conflicting classes

  

  .  Even better, there is no standardized system for determining who gets to ... ’re notified of whether you have a spot in that class are subject to the whim of ... something related to course scheduling. In many of these instances, had I not

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 15, 2022
• 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
• Blog / Personal Projects

  loftblogging 2: acoustic boogaloo turns out that at mit, even the non-academics are incredibly hard and deeply rewarding

  

  midnight, trying to varnish the wood, getting dust in it and wiping it off ... freedom, and many people build lofts for their beds in order to acquire more ... another plan for this blog post: I was going to build a loft in the first

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 29, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So I said to Einstein… ...think of a name for my new theory while I go talk to my relatives.

  

  their moments, but it's all in order to prepare you for your ultimate pass ... 250 C or when I want to sparge the water with helium to get out any ... magnetism are actually kind of the same thing, I started to get a little

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Sneak Preview (to next) Weekend let's just pretend I managed to backronym CPW in the title

  

  replace your recurring nightmare of being forced to swim the Charles clad in only a beer keg with one in which you are compelled to eat far too much ... somehow forgot to submit the event on the left on time, it's not on the

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 3, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  and they’re going to better places lessons learned from a hard summer

  

  isn't meant to be an "Oh non-MIT people just don't get it" in a snobby ... connect with people. I have many friends in my work and I'm grateful to ... good. I never know when to shut up, and I'm the loudest in the room half

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 14, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  ignorance is a virtue

  

  information to come, and trusting that my gut can process it in the background ... until i can listen to it. in practice, no news is urgent enough that i ... , you can hit snooze on. you can keep hitting snooze until you need to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 8, 2022