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  Guest Entry: Stephanie Lin Presenting MIT's most recent Rhodes Scholar!

  

  Spanish. I was a beekeeper/researcher for a summer in high school ... medical ethics (which made for very interesting conversation), art in Boston ... ? Maybe I should watch an inspirational movie. A documentary. Something in

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 12, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  composed the draft right away in a stroke of inspiration—an occurrence so ... in the works, but I might need another Yultide for motivation to finish ... . Also in this post, I showed my face for the first time without hiding

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  MIT Gothic You are reading an admissions blog post. You are reading tumblr.

  

  required in payment for passage, and if the guest cannot provide it, an ... . There is an email about Boba sales in your inbox, and every time you ... . They want to take a photo in The Alchemist. There’s an endless line of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Halloween is the best day of the year. Yes, I recognize that it is now closer to Thanksgiving than to Halloween. Sorry.

  

  and ridiculousness emerge in costume form. Reason 3 of 1 bajillion: An ... Halloween is awesome, for a bajillion reasons. Reason 1 of 1 ... creativity and ridiculousness emerge in pumpkin form. Reason 5 of 1 bajillion

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  name, the ’93 Dormitory, opening for business in 1924; its introduction ... constructing dormitories on a site in Brookline, “for the purpose of bringing men ... match the expansion in undergraduate enrollment. The renewed cries for

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Blog Projects

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

  

  felt about the class. For example, I had a ton of negative reacts in 6 ... group chats for most of my classes. These group chats are somewhat helpful for: Resolving confusion about class policies. Getting hints about

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

  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  the recruitment events for sororities began early in the morning and ... Panhel and fitting in for other perspectives).      As mentioned earlier ... a city-wide Boston chapter and an event happening at BU. In the end

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020
• 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?

  

  rabbit (who did not attend MIT) in an apartment just north of Boston. I ... again -- I needed an excuse to get back in the gym. I spend the bulk of ... anniversary, he designed a mouse brain model in Solidworks and printed it for me

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

  Why I Chose MIT On deciding where to go, now that you're in

  

  you will live away from your parents for potentially the first time in ... , or, in this blog post, your home for the next four years—it seems to me ... and that you choose it for reasons you believe in. You’ll be here for

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 29, 2012
• Blog / Advice

  parallel universe for those feeling dejected

  

  Text transcript: Many times this semester, I felt disappointed in ... shame over a failure that feels misunderstood by others, and an emergence ... , except for the wet sheen of dejection, weighing upon you alone. But - look

  • by Kai V. '25
  • December 19, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend

  

  has made me feel like an imposter in the science research community ... Thursday; I had spent an hour in rapture, as our professor read us a piece he ... hours giving me a crash course in the linear algebra one needs to know for

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Burton 1 Social Club This Thanksgiving, I'm thankful for my ridiculous, hilarious, amazing floor.

  

  screaming for you in the stands of your final NCAA volleyball game, with your ... always be, and can be again in just under an hour of preparation time." ... culture, and while there is clearly no objective way for one to claim one

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  No Chance Why "chance" sites like AdmissionSplash are Bad Things.

  

  the application that we consider in understanding an applicant's context ... this. They can't do it for all of the reasons I mentioned in the CC ... selecting schools to send an application to easier. On Tuesday, the company is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

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

  

  contrast, did a UROP in the same solid state physics lab for nearly his ... and then I’ll swing by to give an update on life from the other side. It’s more of an “I now live a post-MIT life and therefore my weekly updates do

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

  MIT Is My Home Looking back and saying goodbye

  

  many different communities, what I am thinking in these last days as an ... about physical distance, or at least not for me. Brook E. ‘18 and I, in ... into, for example, and time to participate in the greater Boston

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 13, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  IHTFParadise – A Journey of Depression at MIT Guest entry by Angelina G.

  

  filter for the past few days. After staring at the ceiling for half an ... front of the statue of the Alchemist with an umbrella, I waited for her ... the cookies. I confided in her that for the first time in my life, I

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2) My take on the MIT short essays.

  

  into mere 250 words. In order for me to see what a 250 word word limit ... insurance, resulting in the exorbitant bill. An internship at an Asian clinic ... neglected in the county hospital for over two hours, unable to flag down a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions advice from someone who’s been there

  

  design lighting and sound for high school plays - there are an astounding ... living in Switzerland, I didn't really have a social life outside of work ... discovered these, for better or for worse, but I'm sure that most have not

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 17, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later what happened after pi day 2011

  

  they had their own agenda for that year. I devoted my gap year mostly in ... early, so I took an internship opportunity from Informatica in Feb this ... if I was selected to MIT, or else if I had gone for a degree in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions of Travel a guest post by Spencer W. '15

  

  Center for Bits and Atoms. In June, Spencer graduated with a degree in ...  MPhil in engineering (as well as an MASt in applied mathematics) at Cambridge ... . After receiving the Marshall Scholarship to attend postgrad in the UK for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015