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• Blog / About Decisions

  Because one story just isn’t enough My tale of being admitted. Laugh. Cry. Both. Neither. All of the above?

  

  came, so she drove to school to give her the tube. Kris '10 and I were in ... going on? WERE WE IN OR NOT? Needless to say, everything our teacher said ... understand that you can use it in desperate situations to break into things

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  You Prep, I Prep, We All Prep How to prepare--or at least, how I did.

  

  guide to preparing (or at least a guide to how I prepare) in the hope that ... to gal for SAT tests, they are my forte in the world of arbitrary ... chance before early applications to get my best possible score on each, so

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 13, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Ballad of Sir Frankie Crisp (Let It Roll) Things just about get crazy-go-nuts.

  

  . Okay, so let's get right to the... MORAL OF THE ENTRY: Cook with your ... I made this at 2:00 AM and left it to chill in the fridge overnight ... started way back in 1997 as a part of a seventh grade cultural heritage

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Kevin’s Room Portrait of an MIT Student

  

  one of few places he was interested in, although he admits to not expecting to get in. Other places he applied to include Caltech, which turned ... Sciences) class in which he gets to create multiple design sketches, capped

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 26, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Return of the Frog Queen Okay, it snowed this morning, end of story.

  

  middle of the night to the basement of Building 4 to get some chinese food ... impending graduation, and now I have missed two classes with one week to go in ... even consider that picture to be in the realm of possibilities? If not

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 5, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Happy 375, Boston! Turning 375 years old is no easy task.

  

  one day do an entry devoted to ice cream in Boston/Cambridge, what do ... browsing through some stores, I returned home to get ready to head to an ... . Boston has a lot of other exciting events in store to celebrate it's 375th

  • by Bryan
  • July 1, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Seattle was gorgeous until the smoke came in

  

  I've never been to Seattle before. One of the things I love about college is how many opportunities you get to live in a new place for a month ... by rocky peaks[/caption] To get to the top of the cliff, you have to

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 22, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  Impressions of a Harvard Class I’m taking Irish Folklore and a writing seminar on fairy tales!

  

  four novels, to be read in the first four weeks, with additional craft ... Harvard it is societally easier to major in a humanities field. For example ... get from my Irish folklore class to a MechE class at MIT. I’m going to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 12, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist FAQ Some answers for students offered a place on the waitlist.

  

  application. You should, however, continue to get good grades, as we may call ... to fall in love with, so that no matter what happens with the MIT ... very interested in attending MIT. What should I do if I hope to be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why Course 2A is Cooler than You I'm back from the dead, to tell you all about my major and its ridiculously…

  

  : students often get very frustrated when majors are listed in alphabetical ... completely throws us off to not have the majors listed in the following logical ... Admissions site that this entry links to lists the majors in alphabetical order

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  starting over and over again

  

  'll stick to it for long enough to run a half-marathon in late summer ... change in focus. I'm hoping to at least submit it for publication, if not ... started journaling again in earnest – yet. I used to journal a lot, writing

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 11, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  end of semester reflections in conclusion, online school Ain't It

  

  really hard. Knowing how difficult it was to get my daily routine in check ... would've churned this out in no time, but writing The Words turned out to ... paper in over a year, so it was nice to revisit the HASS part of me that

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 15, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  What My College Essays Were [Not] Unsolicited advice about writing.

  

  if I don't get in, I am going to regret not working harder on this ... to get in!!!!!!!!!! (But you probably knew that, and if you planned to ... you feel that you have to misrepresent the truth dramatically in order

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  Story of a Lifestyle I'm going to kick you - No, for real

  

  class ended, I took a mini-break – only to return just in time for the ... Championship Cup in picture, we needed to win West Point resoundingly. The ... before weigh-in at the tournament in order to make a certain weight class

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • March 30, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Finding my place at MIT It's an ongoing process

  

  . College was a chance to both remake myself in a friendlier mold and to build ... starting to think I'd never find the warm live-in community that so many people seemed to have in college--but I ended up making friends with the

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 2, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Upside-down and Reversed: Photography at MIT [by Biyeun Buczyk ‘10] I came to MIT thinking I’d put art aside for the…

  

  (I won’t get into that in this post). To the right is an enlarger ... , and it’s where you can put his invention to work in 6.163: Strobe ... next four years in favor of concentrating solely on my classes. To my

  • by ARTalk
  • March 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Deadline where I attempt to reason through an approaching all-nighter

  

  don't mind a lack of sleep too much. In the morning, I get to watch the ... , have coordinated their Problem Sets to be due in almost symmetrical time ... . Challenges come in bursts and send an electrifying signal to the brain. "12

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 17, 2014
• Blog / People & Identities

  Quarantine and Social Life trying to maintain some connection

  

  see what people are working on and get to know what’s happening in each ... face-to-face interactions in the hallways and classrooms. Obviously, this ... mentor from my fellowship challenged me to reach out to someone in my

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 26, 2020
• Blog / Hacks

  This was meant to be written a week and a half ago

  

  sculpture that lives in the East Campus courtyard. We tried really hard to get ... . Because it was 6:45 in the morning. And I'd gone to bed sort of later than I ... the cannon, leaving a cute toy one in its place. We weren't supposed to

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Academic Marathon If Mollie's boyfriend can complain, so can I.

  

  . (Manchester photos to come soon, I promise!) I'll travel home on Sunday in time ... goes to this retreat at a Catholic college in NJ, and they make a banner ... of time with my good friend Sarah, visit cool places in NJ, and go to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 15, 2006