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• Blog / About Decisions

  I Lived, I Learned, I Got Burnt not necessarily in that order

  

  reflection on the past year for a while now. A lot has happened in the past ... was no crash course for how to apply and make a strong application. I ... advice is important, but at some point you also gotta trust that you know

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 26, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  lin-manuel miranda scares me my final paper for an MIT class about musicals!

  

  note: did you know that MIT is a world-class school for humanities as ... a piece of media I’d been mindlessly consuming since I was 11 years ... is maliciously seduced in a moment of weakness.” If it were only for

  • by Allison E. '27
  • May 24, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bad Grades and Big Screw-Ups Pulling back the A's, B's, C's, and P's to see what's inside

  

  : Writing and Reading Short Stories  I didn’t write a single short story for ... ’t fully complete a single lab for this class, at least not after COVID. Half ... for me. But things were still a little, uh hit or miss.   21W.757

  • by Powers '23
  • January 14, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  what i ate in a month* *basically true to my word this time but at what cost

  

  neither a full week nor about food that much, so I’m here for my ... was a sorry excuse for an attempt at chicken. i was already full by the ... and hotdog (and my friend Nicole got a philly cheesesteak) for lunch one

  • by Janet G. '27
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What makes me an MIT student? Some thoughts about blogging and a special question for returning readers.

  

  my place. For the first time ever, I told myself, I'd have a true peer ... Requirements, to dine on your soul for a little while.) If MIT is going to work for me, I'll have to sew together the pieces of a student's life and my

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman FAQs and a cliffhanger or two.

  

  a game of time management.  For example, I was a perfectionist about ... workload.  Not yet, at least.  Pass/No Record first semester is a godsend for ... ", rather than "cure cancer" is a lot easier for me to work towards and agrees

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 7, 2013
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  my STORY of helping Wyoming students shoot for the STARS get it? do u get it??

  

  from over 200 miles all across Wyoming, here for what they called “a once ... made the journey from a rural upbringing to working at selective ... Arkansas! (I know that looks like a big bat but it's me!)[/caption] This

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • July 31, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  21st Century Education? Food for thought.

  

  learning for you? Last year, Time also had a fairly interesting article that ... college education, here are a few questions: 1. What are the skills you hope to develop the most in college? 2. What are the most important classes

  • by Bryan
  • December 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Number Game A few words of advice before applying to college.

  

  ? Numbers are one thing but there are a lot of other important things that ... So I had a little free time this morning so I paid a little visit to ... were along the lines of "Chances at MIT." I guess I was just a little

  • by Bryan
  • August 2, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Not an actual entry Warning: I am apparently in a run-on sentence/overuse of parenthetical statements mood today.

  

  , trust me, it was raining harder than it looked). My brother still had a ... *Warning: I am apparently in a run-on sentence/overuse of parenthetical statements mood today.* Although I'm back in Boston for the moment

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / Events

  hero’s journey with a splash teaching for ESP

  

  they have to trust someone to carry out a task.” “Motivation? Bro I wish ... browsing email in search of free food when I came across Splash, a program ... "]ESP[/annotation] in which MIT students teach classes for high schoolers on any topic

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 2, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  How A Blog Became A Community ...in which The Nance waxes philosophic about The Nance Effect.

  

  call the "Nance Effect" a home of sorts, thank you for your continued ... importantly, it does not rely any one individual for its success. Everyday I ... that this blog be a conduit for useful tips on the admissions process for

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Floating On A Whim [by Katharine Chu '09, Guest Blogger] An art UROP carries a curious course 9-er all…

  

  Philbrick, from my small apartment in LA and set up a time for a meet and ... yourself to explore your options. Nine months ago, I was in the middle of a ... realized that maybe it was time to try sometime new. So when I saw a UROP

  • by ARTalk
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A for EA Deferred and Regular Action students your last minute questions

  

  keep working hard!) We will also include a text box for any other updates ... to check on any such documents (there is a time for this later ... fee waivers for any student (foreign or domestic) who needs one. Using a

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 20, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More humanities than a humanities major Bitter complaining and fond reminiscing. Can't beat that with a stick.

  

  entry 2. Study for 10.213 test Monday 3. Study for a 10.302 test Tuesday 4 ... compositions for Monday 11. Laundry, laundry, laundry 12. Go to New York and ... story is... look for a majorly awesome update Tuesday night or thereabouts

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW at Random Hall! Plus lots of awesome advice from MIT students!

  

  campus for a 3-day Campus Preview Weekend.  Suffice it to say that those ... only covered a pinprick of what was in store for us. And to everyone who ... other dorms would be a good fit for you and where you would be happy your

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Blog Entry: Recession Edition At MIT, your spoon is too big.

  

  chowder, Kenan Diab '11 commented, “Yum.” A Junior currently enrolled in 14 ... considered a success, feeding 15 students in total for less than 0.1% of the ... warm homemade dinners. A late-evening meal at Random Hall tonight was

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 21, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Eleven "And the award for 'least creative entry title ever' goes to..."

  

  . I went home a few weeks ago for a weekend, since I won't be going home ... went for a bike ride and it's so beautiful outside that it inspired me to ... Cambridge for awhile to go somewhere with more trees, you will want to have a

  • by Karen F. '11
  • May 20, 2008
• FAQ / First-year application

  What should I do if I’m deferred?

  important, so keep working hard. The February Updates & Notes Form also includes an opportunity for you to update us on anything important that has ... your application was already strong enough to make you a contender in the
• Blog / Admissions

  MITAdmissions.org: Now 100% More Clickable also, report any other bugs you have here

  

  toupee" is not a bug, but expected operation. Thank you for your ... We've recently had a few readers email / comment that they were ... first blog weren't clickable. The upshot is that our CDN was for some

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 21, 2014