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• Blog / Admissions

  Application Advice v2.0 How to survive the application process without losing your mind.

  

  a read, because I give an in-depth account of how I managed to ... important points in there. A common question I get a lot was articulated by ... : I an interested mother whose son (now 14 in 10), has talked about

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fight Fire With Fire How is MIT so hard?

  

  , your life, and your grades than they would in high school. I actually get ... school. In fact, (a brief tangent) I’ve always disliked it when college ... algebra” or “…and then I’m sure you guys can do the algebra, so in the end

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  secondhand stories an allegory

  

  reviews, and i ended up falling in love with a few of them. then i found out ... time, i've never actually seen an improv show in person, just read about ... months of waiting, i learned that i got the role. in fact, i was lucky

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 22, 2021
• Blog / En Español

  Sloan MBA Adetayo Akisanya works at Volaris, a Mexican airline, on their Commercial Strategy team “I really gained a new perspective on the airline industry, on commercial strategy, on competition,…

  

  the Field   "To me, this was all personal challenge. I thought I was a good manager, and wanted to give it a try in a highly competitive industry with ultra-low margins. It would be easier to come up with

  • by MISTI Program
  • May 21, 2015
• Blog / Residential Life

  Siblings, Scrabble, and Boredom we're bored in the house, and we're in the house bored

  

  'll be given a spot in the dorms"]never see again.[/annotation] I've mostly ... where it would be kept and for how long) or a storage facility in Boston ... everything in a box. No need to partition items into "do I need this at home

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 20, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  This one goes out to the parents It's been a while since I've written specifically for you.

  

  Earlier this week, I attended an event in Washington DC where I got ... those who leave comments are applicants, I would love to hear from some of ... consoled me when I didn't get in, celebrated with me when I did, drove me to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Associate Advising and the MedLinks Program I'm sick of unpacking, so here's a blog post

  

  Advisor Steering Committee, which means that I work with the other AAs in ... Overheard at MIT (from sometime Spring 2012 - I've been keeping a ... 1: "Any luck with 16b?" MIT Student 2: "I used erf." MIT Student 1

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 28, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  Kick to the limit! The Korean Flying Tigers! What could possibly sound more exciting than that?

  

  the Korean Flying Tigers, and since half of my floor is in the club, I ... MIT undergrad would major in political science or civil engineering. See ... school newspapers) for letting me sit in their special press section so I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  A point to clarify

  

  mentality of "This is absolutely the dorm that I want to be in," certainly not ... in, but my information is not even close to adequate, and I should take ... In response to my last entry, Drew asked: "So, how important is it

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Fall Semester Recap my classes so far

  

  class. I had done horribly in physics all my life and I knew it was ... coronavirus times. I found the contrast between my time in 8.02 in the spring and my time with 8.021 in the fall extremely jarring. I went from

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 24, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, musicals, teaching, research, sports, and wisdom tooth surgery. I think I can I think I can I think I can I think I…

  

  do between now and next Sunday than I have ever had in one week, ever ... cap over my face, explaining that I would be receiving nitrous oxide: laughing gas. This would, apparently, help to keep me calm and happy. I have

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Trip Report: ISEF 2016

  

  confronted by another line, in 104F midday heat, to order. I was told it would ... I'm blogging this from a Starbucks in Phoenix. I'm sweating ... . More on that later. I'm in Phoenix for the 2016 Intel International

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

  First day of classes What some MIT freshman schedules look like.

  

  excitement and anticipation I had on my first day back in 1996; I wish I could go through it all again! You might be wondering, what would I take as ... ) And what did I take, back in the fall of 1996? Student #Matt 18

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  you can care about things revisiting stoicism

  

  their life, i would suggest that they do X less often”. in other words ... choice that i think is obviously wrong?” in other words, most of my ... . i don’t think recruiters are actually emotionally invested in

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • July 18, 2022
• Blog / Events

  The sun comes up, then goes away Graduation day with pictures!

  

  graduation last night, mostly because I believe strongly in keeping up a tough ... . I was secretly hoping that he'd slip in a line at the end like "And in ... would be complete without pictures? Graduation was held, as always, in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Art Imitating Art well, at least blogs.

  

  Happy Labor Day Weekend y'all! I'm up north in my ancestral woods of ... something truly serendipitous. Back in July, when I created the 2010 Blogger ... stuck in Beijing. "I've gotta beat them somehow," I said, in an impromptu

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 5, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  in remembrance of the body affirming the mind–body connection

  

  there was this time three weeks ago, when i was still living in baker ... front of the house. i think that was the first time in five months that i ... felt my feet in contact with my slippers, i felt anchored, i felt

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Share Your CPW With Us! I can haz guest blogs?

  

  of view. Therefore, I would be open to blogs from all of you! Send me ... QUOTE: "Coming from Stanford [before MIT's CPW], I actually bought a Stanford pen because I really liked the campus but staying here over CPW I

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 11, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Thanks, man I'm feeling human again.

  

  happen this morning. I woke up dead tired in the house we're renting here ... would make me stop twitching and biting my lip. It didn't quite, but I ... in right-side-up, so I just left it. Whatever. Here's a toast to all

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • August 27, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  O’Reilly Primes?

  

  'Reilly animals would make a great component to a Mystery Hunt puzzle. I brought ... awe of Josh's ability to slip in the clue months beforehand. I feel bad ... important (such as the Mystery Hunt). Current music: Alice In Chains, "I Stay

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 12, 2004