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• Blog / About Decisions

  The Burning Question "Can you tell me why I didn't get in? Why was I not good enough?"

  

  this question from someone with a 2.0 GPA, or some similar blatant app ... ?" But I'm only getting it from intelligent, accomplished, creative ... to "proove" to you that it's not a reflection on you, rather it's an

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 16, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Ranking Every Class I Took at MIT it's that time

  

  vigilanteism? What differentiates a superhero from the police force? Who ... the same thread of ES.100, this class was a lovely respite from all ... convinced me to fill out a transfer app to leave MIT. horrible transition from

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 24, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  e3 2k19 at long last, i got to go to gamer christmas

  

  ="attachment_44813" align="aligncenter" width="1000"] a train table from final fantasy ... los angeles, and i too am in los angeles, and i am working for a game studio...connecting the dots yet? i actually had a wild ride with e3

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 14, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ABCs of Senior Year friends, jobz, cats, "eight-oh-two"... + AMA!

  

  tapestry is the closest the artist could come to painting a scene from Disney ... postpone taking. Also the class that gave me a new friend and a renewed ... like the rest of us. Gun control: the subject of a blog post I really

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 23, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  On the Scattering of Senior House or: How I Learned to Start Worrying and Acknowledge the Bomb

  

  There’s been a decent amount of turbulence in the past couple of ... to say some things. As a prefrosh, I wasn’t really sure what I wanted ... “dorm culture” was a thing. I wasn’t (and still am not) in any MIT 2020

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 12, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  I decided to go with a) also. From: Sam Maurer To: Mitra Lhrnbq ... fewer people than the Harrisburg, PA metro area. OH WOW, it's been a ... is hard enough), a fuel cell that could theoretically be used to power

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 5, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Hydranting My Spring Semester 5 stages of courseroad grief

  

  feels a lot heavier :< All this to say, I've been browsing ... drafts for a bit :')"]post-finals[/annotation]and thought I'd share my very, very, very messy process for[annotation note="this is also a last ditch

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • March 5, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  nothing but time, a practice test book from the library, and her own ... give your brain a nice break from problem solving or quizzing yourself. I ... still a thing?) or your school is like my high school and has finals the

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

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Junior Fall we're back in person baybee

  

  assignment of the class is to choose a game (we choose from a list of A Short ... up getting a quick salad from Verdes and gossipping with Aidan ... things. CMS.616 - Games and Culture; A class that talks about the impact

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 20, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes: Junior Spring Edition + notes on MIT academics in general

  

  figures and tables from the papers. I couldn’t think of a better way to ... OF FOOD  Topics: Here’s a sampling of class topics from the syllabus ... -word reflections about them. The events could be anything from a lecture

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 25, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  the perfect choice doesn’t exist not the same river, not the same you

  

  interviews in general; usually a series of three-ish interviews ranging from ... blog posts. blogging right now feels to me like a sponge—it soaks up ... doing the internship application grind a few weeks ago. i've been doing

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 22, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Polymer Police Using spectroscopy to prove my mom wrong (except she was right and I was actually…

  

  scarves arriving in a box that literally said “CHEMICAL TEXTILE” in big bold ... little arguing I could do to change her mind. Clearly, I needed a ... a fire alarm and have everyone in my dorm freeze to death in the

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 16, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  MacCPW, et al. in case you couldn't make it

  

  through, and it's a sunny Fahrenheit 63 as I type this on Sunday afternoon ... actually No. 6) and New House. It's the tall one that looks like a hospital ... nine entries, A-J (minus I because it's ~imaginary~), in a highrise stack

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 9, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Yellow, Blue, Green, and Red Free art and how to borrow it at MIT

  

  still “under construction”, but I first wanted to give a shout out to an ... and hang framed, original works of art from MIT’s collection in their ... , this is a tradition that has been going on since 1969! So how does it

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 29, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Average The benefits of challenging yourself in high school

  

  As a freshman in college, one of the most important things I do is ... a strange idea. No one ever wants to be average. Society says that we ... to be different than everyone else to get into a good college. You

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 16, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger Application 2010 Apply...if you dare!

  

  -off for the summer months. I just got back from Alaska. More on that (with ... ; however, we have a few upperclassmen spots that are open for the fall, and if you feel you can make a compelling case for your inclusion among

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 7, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Hello, Layover (Part Two) Electric Boog-a-loo.

  

  hell of a lightning storm in Fort Lauderdale, closing the runway for an ... TO CHICAGO RAWR RAWR RAWR.) There's a discussion topic called "Advice ... want to throw a heavy glass object every time I see it, which is often

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 23, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  In which I show no restraint whatsoever But don't worry, you'll all probably benefit from it (unless, you know, you don't).

  

  the fifth day (fifth? What day is it?? Is it really Thursday???) in a row and everything is really getting to me, so when I was taking a break from playing yet another game of phone Tetris by looking at stuff on the

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 11, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Following My Passions At MIT [by Susan Shepherd '11] Can a writer fit in at MIT?

  

  [by Susan Shepherd '11] Choosing a set of colleges to apply to can be a daunting task. I discovered MIT fairly early on in my search, and when I read the Admissions Blog entries of a certain biology major

  • by ARTalk
  • February 12, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  The Coop What's a coop? You'll find out!

  

  college has books. Books come from one of three places: Internet, Library ... the rest of your life, which for a lot of people, is perfectly ... has a bookstore, most named something like this: ~> The Cornell

  • by Snively '11
  • January 13, 2008