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• Blog / About Decisions

  We Were Deferred

  

  /not sleep deprived we were to run the 10-minute-walk to our bus stop to get ... reevaluating everything we had done in high school to try to find that *one ... comparing ourselves to others we knew of that got in. We just thought a lot

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 30, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Reasons I haven’t blagged… hint: "I'm Busy" isn't one of them

  

  or two of some idea that I ‘keep meaning to get back to writing’, I ... ...inspiring. I mean yes, I could go to that talk about “In Vitro Vascularized ... all have the same amount of time and get to choose how we spend it. We

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 29, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Let’s Build a Snowman [CRITICAL UPDATE!] We can make him our best friend

  

  wardrobes come new and exciting activities for MIT students to take part in ... dorm to get some more people and to get stuff for facial features. We ... we'll all get to enjoy him for quite a while. So that was my yesterday

  • by Snively '11
  • January 25, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Autumn in New England The trees explode with color.

  

  I've been lucky enough to be able to enjoy autumn in New England recently. For those of you in regions that do not have four seasons: autumn ... yet reached Cambridge, the below photos come from recent trips to New

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 17, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dreams How MIT has helped me keep a life long promise

  

  . If you are new to the MIT blogs, mine in particular, there are a few ... mother due to breast cancer in 2007. The day she died I promised her that I ... was about as close as I was going to get to anything math

  • by Ben O. '19
  • August 22, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  West Coast Trip Report some work, some play, lots of nerd stuff

  

  well, I'll get back in Boston on Saturday morning, just in time to catch ... only did I get to do this, but I got to see Danny and Sabrina S. '16 ... proceeded to scream into an iPhone in a bathroom in the Mission so loudly that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 30, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A World of Pure Curation an interview with holly h. 18'

  

  work, but also have to make, to comment upon that in like one word or ... interested in, but hadn’t gotten to see anything. It was very cool. What does it feel like to put your art out there in the world?  Holly: It

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 5, 2017
• Blog / IAP

  My Entirely Unexciting IAP see title

  

  the SAT is bad, wait till you get to the MCAT. But that's enough ... opportunities (like what I did in my last two IAPs), to work on projects (both ... three different IAPs in three different countries. I think it'll have to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 28, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three Things That Are Awesome (And have been keeping me from writing recently -- Sorry!)

  

  Numbers 1: MEnging I graduated in June, but I'm not gone yet! Due to ... courseload. This puts them in position to finish all of the requirements for ... nitty gritty of discipline, lesson planning, and how to get students

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Embracing Change How I came to be a cook in a professional kitchen this summer

  

  have to start drinking it in mushy cauliflower smoothies. On the other ... , adapted to, put neatly in its new spot in the revised status quo. Bad change ... of my way to put myself in situations out of my comfort zone though

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 20, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  flowers of fire and light making art with printed circuit boards!

  

  , I finally receive it in the mail! Because I want to get these boards ... to lay out all of the components in a schematic. My main components ... to the reader (or in this case, the maker?). Properly labeled

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • August 16, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  i wish we’d grown up on the same advice alternate paths

  

  lot of my friends in industries like big tech or finance openly admit to ... fulfill me in different ways, and i need all three to be really happy me ... you could say the goal is to end up in a future where people have data

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 18, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  wayfaring a pile of stuff that's happening

  

  best of the blogs. As they used to tell us in grad school, done is better ... ) to the professional work we're about to begin. My primary role in this ... conventionally 'technical' work done in the class which force you to grapple with

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 28, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21M.285: The Beatles the most enjoyable class i've taken at MIT

  

  't interested in them enough to take an entire class on them. In May, I watched ... their music in the Beatles' earlier albums. With this, I was able to gain ... so I'd be able to get it! My team's analysis ended up being seven pages

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 3, 2022
• Blog / Announcements

  For those whose applications have been interrupted by disasters and disruptions providing what information and comfort we can

  

  allows you to get the rest of your life in order first. And, most ... possible in these situations. When you’re able to do so, reach out to us at ... you and figure out a way to make sure we get your application and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 29, 2019
• Blog / IAP

  Teaching Abroad: a Guest Blog Post by Elizabeth Q. ‘14 Learn a new language, teach science.

  

  me you now have 8 more tabs to MIT Admissions blog posts open in your ... to the GTL programs, which place MIT students in host families, I ... -year students, amounting to ~20 hrs/wk of teaching. In Germany I taught special

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 13, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  This Day, the Year I Applied what I learned in college about application struggles

  

  ’t get freaked out about classwork. I’d have class at 9 am and I’d have to go to bed early. This is all pure speculation, of course. But in the ... was a letter to the future, to be read in five years. But here’s what I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 20, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  a week of summer ft. cafes, lab, and assorted thoughts

  

  my first task was to get ice cream with my advisor, her colleagues, and ... questions about grad school, I wolfed down ice cream, struggling to get as ... ’t sound easy to balance two jobs in which people are famously overworked and

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 8, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Your credit history is too short and other adult things

  

  pay for it directly instead of using a credit card. One reason to get a credit card, then, is to get something called a credit score, which is a ... , which leads to a credit score, which leads to getting an apartment. Or

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Visiting MIT & Boston colleges Some tips for checking out MIT and Boston this summer.

  

  also suggest some good places to get lunch or dinner on campus or in the ... Summer is a great time to visit colleges in Boston. There are more than 50 colleges and universities in Greater Boston, making it easy to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 11, 2006