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• Blog / Admissions

  Derailment My Gap Year

  

  was going to do; rather, it was where I would attend college. As my ... I mulled the numbers over in my head, I realized that many of the ... doing, and why. I was sure James would be happy as a neurosurgeon. I was

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • September 18, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  Ciao, Italy! (Part 2) late post due to usual MIT firehosing

  

  -paced curriculum. If I had to learn computer science in Spanish, I would probably ... shrouded in a dense fog, but I imagine that in the summer, it would’ve been ... would take more language classes (in vain, given the hell that is this

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 17, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Special October Events

  

  :30 p.m. in the Porter Room. We have obtained carts full of the biggest (i ... Though I haven't had internet for the past week, there has still been ... Sunday the 23rd at 3:00pm in the Porter Room. Winners will be announced

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Calculus in Context 18.01 feels like an art history class

  

  , which I least expected to have anything to do with the humanities in any ... causing chaos in society. Excerpt from Jerusalem by William Blake I turn my ... the issues it addresses. In his words, “I thought it might resonate with

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 14, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  Always the Art Kid many many many identities

  

  the "reading kid." I read books with friends in [annotation note ... ="1022"] i have no idea why my face is so distressed in this picture but ... up in science. They tell me that they're equally surprised I attend a

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • November 28, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The View from 1000 Feet Life after MIT ... kind of

  

  subway back in 2003 with duffle bag in hand where I walked into my dorm ... to teach me when I would call home and complain about hard tests and feeling oftentimes overloaded that I would look back one day and see the

  • by Bryan
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Top Ten Reasons I’m Thankful for Thanksgiving Breaaaaaaaaakkkkkkk!!!!!!

  

  all to me - so now, I understand it in a kind-of-not-really sort of way. How I wish I were like my friend in high school, who would fall asleep ... 10. I won't have to think about the Crystal Field Theory... ...Which

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 24, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT is hard and I still don't know what I'm doing

  

  class whose lectures and recitations I regularly attend, at this point in the semester, is 8.033 – relativity. And yet, sitting in lecture, I ... meant to understand this in the first place," and, honestly, I stand by

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 12, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  a fun bet spicing up the admissions process

  

  When I was once a high school senior drowning in college applications ... going anywhere at all. I wanted to go to college, but how would I possibly represent everything about who I am as a person in 250 words? I couldn’t, so I

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 3, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summerteeth Are you afraid of the dark reaction?

  

  ." To summarize: one day in June 2004 I was knocked off my bike by a car and broke two bones in my wrist, and I would not even put that among the ... had one in the summer of 2004 I had a UROP with a professor in the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 2, 2006
• Blog / Community Projects

  dormspam-the-game (Part 2) may the data be ever in my favor

  

  For five weeks this summer, I competed in dormspam-the-game, a series ... later in the post, when I discuss the rules for each game. I somehow ... small prize of $15. In my last post, I wrote about Game 1: Hide and Seek

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 15, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Paul’s Top Ten Common-Sense College Application Tips Patent pending.

  

  pursue two years of research in high school, and I loved it. I loved it so ... fact. Even so, I am still 100% in favor of the traditional information ... Some point back in April, after all the decisions had come in, my mom

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Summer Decisions

  

  . Disclaimer that I haven't slept in 22 hours. - Last summer, a life plan took ... conference in January, I talked with a few MIT alums, as well as Random Astronomers I Stopped In The Hallway. Everyone said: your grades matter, but

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’ve got questions; I’ve got (some) answers Answers to your questions.

  

  ' classes you attend, I'm interested in what you do between classes, any ... been reading the blogs (and they are wonderful,) but I am still in a ... on what I've read, it seems like everyone maintains a balance in what

  • by Bryan
  • October 10, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  The November Rule 2: Electric Boogaloo the one rule you should not break (take it from me, kids)

  

  team bonding events because I would stay in my partner's room most of the ... later, in an ironic (and quite sad) twist of fate, I broke the November ... . although I had no relationship experience, or life experience in general, pea

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

  2020 Resolutions posting so i can be held accountable

  

  home, I have not stepped foot in the gym. For 2020, I want to see how ... freakouts in my last post. read at least 5 books Fun fact: I don't read a ... consumed more fanfiction in my life than I have non-fanfiction content which

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 1, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  what i talk about when i talk about running with apologies to murakami

  

  college was I going to land at in the US? I had a girlfriend then. We would ... never cracked a 6:30 mile in high school - I did enjoy the meets. My goal ... is setting in, I always told myself, "If I could do this 100, I can do

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  AROTC Day in the Life Notes from Cadet O'Brien, MIT '12 / Course III

  

  Hi, I am Cadet O'Brien. I am a Junior at MIT majoring in course 3 (Materials Science and Engineering) and an MSIII cadet in the Army ROTC program ... applied to attend West Point's summer training. I was placed in a company of

  • by ROTC
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  BEST WEEK OF 2007 ...a self-rewarded happiness.

  

  do well in my interviews before I'm accepted, but it's nice to have ... AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! So so sorry that I haven't blogged in a while. Life, we'll say has been a little exciting lately, and

  • by Bryan
  • January 20, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist, Etc.

  

  would have said in his entry - please read it. I'll just add that a couple of the people of whom I spoke in this entry were admitted today. I can ... Oh, boy, I feel like I have so much to tell you guys and yet things

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 9, 2006