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• Blog / About Decisions

  Being “qualified” for MIT Let me show you how it's done.

  

  German class now, but I thought you might benefit from a friendly null ... group of us were cooking fried rice when Davie got back from a run. He ... On Thursday, I sat in front of a camera for an hour (along with

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2011
• Blog / Community Projects

  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  schoolers, where teachers teach a series of classes over seven Saturdays, from ... "] from the tech, back when HSSP was a thing and ESP wasn't[/caption] Since ... things like dynamit[/caption] There were a couple messages from other

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Was Deferred And it was not the end of the world

  

  Flash back to four years ago from this upcoming March 14th. I'm sitting on a train that took me from Washington D.C. where I had just met ... with my new best friends and a bunch of current and future nobel

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 17, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  How to find your way around MIT mit building numbers are logical, but weirdly

  

  further they are from Building 10. Room numbers within a building also ... Building 10 is Killian Court. Imagine a line stretching from the back of ... from what we call MIT north, which is a little off from actual north, to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 11, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Reading aka inhaling all the books i can before school starts

  

  (Preface: This post is essentially a tribute/continuation of Selam’s posts from past summers - as she wrote, “sometimes MIT students like to do ... you would much rather write a paper than do a problem set, you’re not

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Classes, by the Group Chats and their potential replacement, Interstellar!

  

  seems to me like a much-needed upgrade from Facebook Messenger group chats ... , share resources, ask questions (and post memes) in a forum, and keep track of their assignments. I'll be taking a gap year this year, so I

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Why I wasn’t sad to leave MIT On shedding.

  

  commitments leaking over from a time when you didn’t understand what it is that ... This isn’t really a “last blog post,” since I’m sure that every now and then I’ll swing by to give an update on life from the other side. It

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  definitely next on the list. There is a mini-Bible from before college, but I ... So drastic and inevitable, the leap from high school to college seems ... . That hope was certainly true of me, and from chatting with friends

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Choosing Your Own Adventure and other things you can do when you live off campus

  

  'm not far from the Institute, going home feels a bit like "breaking out of ... away from campus can be a con, if also a pro. While the separation is ... really based on frame of reference though; coming from a dorm that let you

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?

  

  olympiad medals. I spent a good portion of my very first paycheck from my ... A few weeks ago, I stumbled across a Twitter thread describing the antics of Nadya Okamoto. Here is a summary. At the time of writing this

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  50 Things Advice for the class of 2010.

  

  drop by the blogs from time to time and say hi). As you begin your ... helpful. Here goes...       Your friends will change a ... home a few times a week, even if just for a few minutes. In college

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  , was moving day, in which a bunch of stuff was moved from the office to ... , tired from a fun day of teaching. But somehow, I wasn’t exhausted. It’s a ... “class” was actually a walk-in activity from 10 AM to 12 PM, so I had

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Brief History of Cars on Fire at MIT You didn't think I would miss an anniversary, did you?

  

  ; Yes, that is a Ford Model T, hanging from the roof. The car, which ... If you're the kind of person who remembers to look up once in a ... , on this date in 1936, a similar thought likely went through the minds

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  , my mom found a cowbell, somewhere, and would ring it from wherever she ... Wednesday, I got a cortisone shot in my knee from an orthopedist who is also ... and night asking for help from a sky that still seems a burnished shield

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Stove-Cook Your Oatmeal and Never Look Back To not-admitted applicants and anyone who knows anything about fuses.

  

  boil over from a few rooms away. Burning milk smells amazing. You turn ... Oatmeal cooked on the stove is so good. I wouldn’t know this, but a few days ago a fuse broke and all the outlets in our kitchen stopped

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 19, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  HERE LIES P/NR September 2018-December 2018

  

  the heady ecstasy of MIT materializing out of an abstract dream into a ... coursework, the realization that I had to drop a class, and the good sense to ... . That’s how fast it went. November. I looked up from my p-sets, exams and

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 16, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  This Is How I Read productivity hacks, but for reading applications

  

  encounter it in the case (a town I've never seen an applicant from, an ... , from the cycle down to the applicant. While I've always been a creature ... one, but it's a bit different for me right now, because we've started to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  How to date at an American college Things we never talk about

  

  very different from high school. In this regard, I am from a very ... different from what they wanted or expected, on both a physical and emotional ... it (I decided this at some point) and just take a break from it all for

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  neighborhoods we move into and come to love. What do pregnant mice, cheerleaders, and four-foot light-up tinsel giraffes have in common?

  

  professors from my program -- it's considered rude to ask a graduate student ... pi reunion this summer. (Yay!) I'm currently a third-year PhD student ... 'm here to update you on the breathtaking life of a biology PhD student

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 27, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  An Open Letter to MIT Applicants Don’t Panic (and know where your towel is)

  

  of a sudden you imagine competing with these people for a spot in a university. There is a ridiculous amount of pressure from both adults and ... since junior high, or came from a family of engineers and businesspeople

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014