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• Blog / Challenges

  Rain by any other name lagi na lang umuulan

  

  . There's even a word for the small droplets that fall through an open ... magpatila ng ulan—to wait for the rain to pass. You wait an hour, and the rain ... . Ask anyone who's lived in the Philippines for several years; they

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 22, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty people later ✈✈✈ (pronounced whoosh) ✈✈✈ (pronounced nyeowww)

  

  while having only half the answers for the round in an attempt to get ... for a reason, and each team carries its own traditions, culture, and in ... heart for that. The community There's a notion, becoming stronger in the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to decide which classes to take amazing classes and how to pick them

  

  out of the way. Pick an intro subject in a major you're interested in ... an opportunity to take something you're interested in just because you ... people who've been in a class for three weeks before realizing they weren

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

  Advisor vs. Advisee a '07 and a '21 answer a series of questions

  

  happily sleep for longer.I  never pulled an all-nighter during my time at ... that language, so what does it mean when I dream up an experiment in the ... for my faculty job, I believed I had a really great research project in

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s not fair! ... and why that's OK.

  

  for all the children in the world, but I will give you my take on the ... selection process that students initiate by applying for admission in the ... for all. I grew up in Florida. The state is flat. There are no mountains

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  What I wish I’d known, and what I’m glad I knew Before coming to MIT.

  

  that the deadline for MISTI-France, to give an example, is BEFORE THE END ... . Freshman year, I could hang onto a talk for an average of probably 5 minutes ... were some mistakes that needed to be made, by myself, in order for those

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing is Magic And 15 minutes is all you need

  

  wants to do that? When I do an info session for prospective students, I ... will get them to come. In my writing group we do an exercise when we all ... special arts program for his junior year. It’s because writing is hard

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  “You are capable of more than you know.” Reflections from six MIT transfer students

  

  teaching staff as an LA for some Course 6 classes. In my free time, I love ... -traditional” route (for example, opting to put their education on pause to compete in ... India and spent a lot of time preparing for the JEEs, an Indian

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 13, 2024
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Pictures from a Semester of Classes The Sequel Society Didn't Know It Needed

  

  can send him an email and get a reply in less than 5 minutes. So one ... feeling a little guilty, we all sent him a thank you photo in response for ... . As Aiden beautifully describes in his blog on studying for finals, this part

  • by Richard O. '28
  • December 29, 2024
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Advice From The Elderly My last blog entry, at least from this chapter.

  

  older brothers or sisters, with whom I am competing for a space in an ... country for an extended period of time. In my opinion it should be a ... with bated breath for an entry that never came. And by tens of tens of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Into the Smoke In more ways than one.

  

  approaching the end of an eleven-month stint in the UK, this time working at an ... Aviv's Ben-Gurion International Airport. It was just past six in the morning and the airport was fairly quiet, being just past sunrise on an

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  On Teaching and Learning Minimum requirement: read the last few sentences of this post. They're important.

  

  relations. It turns out that in Navajo culture, it is possible for an eighteen ... neither, in all honesty, do I. To recap, I’m here for MIT’s Four Weeks For ... ’ve been out here for two and a half weeks now. I’ve seen seniors in Algebra

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  about the feeling of walking down an empty hallway. In the fall, the empty ... in a way that ultimately is best for me? These are questions that I ... In that moment, I felt that my conception of [Next House] finally

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 31, 2022
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Sunrise, Sunset An MIT-Israel student shares his day

  

  to Work 9:00–Arrive in Lab! Switch media for cells 10:00–Start ... University, Prof. Ilana Natan This post was first published on Ben Bell in ... clever title for my daily activities and was reminded of the musical

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Are people on the East Coast friendly? An entry especially for those from the Midwest.

  

  Boston. Anecdote 3: One of my friends who lives in an apartment in a bit ... around for an hour until 7pm, when I was allowed back on (the reason the ... me back in for free since I had already paid once. Anecdote 5

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 21, 2010
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Reaffirming our commitment to diversity in uncertain times

  

  may narrowly consider race for individual students in our process is ... ’s precedent for more than half a century.']further a compelling interest in ... .[/annotation] For many years, we have [annotation note='As we say in our policies, “In

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 7, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  “Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” and other ways to improve your test scores

  

  testosterone and differences in brain wiring in capacity for spatial thought. It ... involved in performance.” This was an engineered induction of stereotype ... intelligence in our common thinking. Obviously, we reason, one scores an A on a

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  señoritis navigating work/life balance - and spring break photos

  

  above and ended up in puerto rico with my sorority sisters for spring break! it is always tempting to take an extra day or week to cram in more ... i participated in my last admissions telethon early last week! it was

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 28, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Typical Day on the Road Having grown up in NYC, I love coming back.

  

  eat a little something before heading out to get to Stuyvesant for an 8 ... alumni interviewers in NYC and Larry coordinates the interviews for ... in a plug for your having the interview. Last year I posted a blog

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 17, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  get SLAPped! it doesn't hurt

  

  suspect they chose the name at least partially for the sake of an amusing ... , I was looking for people in history with whom I can personally ... hung in my room for all of senior year, complementing the greens and

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 21, 2024