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• Blog / Admissions

  The Adventures of Flat Tim And his admissions officer friend!

  

  walk in, even if only for an hour or so. My least favorite part of ... you are able to meet an MIT admissions officer at your high school, in ... regional term you use for a major road that you drive relatively fast on

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • June 6, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  and spent hours daily daydreaming up new stories for the characters in ... /minor/major, so I wound up not getting in. I spent a few days scrambling around for ... a serial, because I finished this story in about an hour, and honestly

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

  [Guest Post] a space for women at mit by Nandini Choudhury (WXGS Assistant Director)

  

  spacious. There are rooms for both the quiet and the conversational. In this ... In 1870, [annotation note='This was a “special case”, one-off situation that did not necessarily set precedent for admitting more women

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • August 12, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  demons on depression

  

  a pastor in a room for an hour. Although I don't believe that demons ... interesting detail. For fourteen years, the author didn't realize they had ... . My father was a professor, at the time, and got an offer for a research

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 28, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  The Long Road to Happiness Stuff no one likes to talk about...

  

  summer visiting China, UROP-ing for Mediated Matter with two weeks at Google in California, and successfully beginning well construction for my ... drop into a room in building 6 during certain times for a small, informal

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 22, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take a Load Off Quoting The Band's "The Weight" should make the wait bearable

  

  these words in an abstract for one of his papers: "When a man sits with a ... in. But part of being human means acknowledging some limitations. For ... know whether you're in. Right now. But that's not good for you, let

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  101 Things To Do Before You Graduate! 102. Read this blog entry.

  

  Tech - I wrote an opinion piece for them! :) 73. Learn the true meaning ... . Pull an all-nighter in the Reading Room - I've came close, but not quite ... ) 29. Attend Charm School - I actually was in town this year for Charm

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 15, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  HERE LIES P/NR September 2018-December 2018

  

  . Either way, it made for an exciting ride. Ironically, in spite of getting ... economics class in addition to everything else, and it was too much for me to handle because I had a really weak background in calculus. For other

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

  Reflecting on 10 Years and Lessons Learned Happy Birthday, MIT Blogs!

  

  bed of a pickup truck, climb Mount Hua in China, and explore the Deutsches Muesum with friends. Keep an eye out for opportunities to travel ... friends, read the books you read in high school, and make time for family

  • by Kim D. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  An MIT wedding Paper airplanes instead of rice and a reception at a science museum... what's not to…

  

  (For those of you just tuning in, I'm Mollie. I graduated from MIT in ... . When I was an undergrad, I UROPed til I dropped, participated in my dorm ... engineering major named Adam, and we dated for the rest of our years at MIT. In

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an Easter vigil alive at east campus

  

  in class. On Good Friday I have an exam. On Easter Vigil I am here. The ... performers gather in Talbot Lounge and pray. They pray for salvation, for MIT, for a burning revolution in campus spiritualism, for people to know God

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 5, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to trick yourself into thinking that you’re writing a report The most productive procrastination technique revealed at last!

  

  definitely opened up a brand new skillset for me to flounder in and ultimately ... grade. In fact, for nostalgia or for lack of more complex software, you ... fear, for I am here to teach you how to trick yourself into thinking that

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 17, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Fig. 6: Eigenverantwortung The time of my life. What responsibilities?

  

  for Switzerland in less than 2 months, so you just freak out, but ... local residential authorities and demonstrate that you've come in ... instagram and snapchat any more unless you're waiting 5 minutes for an

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • August 28, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.08: Intro to EECS via Interconnected Embedded Systems aka: the class that convinced me i belong at mit

  

  ) for each user in a SQL database. These talk goals are retrieved from an ... much I'm interested in), and I really have to credit one class for giving ... Class In January, I made the last minute decision to sign up for 6

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 21, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  , or none of my writing at all, or an author whose name was circled, or an images that were printed in color. After flipping through an ... stained. It sat crisply in the back of an army of papers simply staring at

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer…” wherein Neil Armstrong's legacy kicks off a year of Unified Engineering, and I reflect on…

  

  by an inbred desire to "succeed," in the vaguest possible sense of the ... work in teams, and what qualities to look for in good teammates. I ... company) for my entire life. I discovered a fear of getting boxed in, a fear

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Academic Conference and also things I have learned about publishing research in the past few months

  

  Universe Inside the MRI Scanner: An In-Bore Virtual Reality Game for Children ... CHI PLAY 2020, an "international and interdisciplinary conference for ... for all fields - publishing in human-computer interaction probably works

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brief Wondrous Lives A little too much thinking brought to you by four in the morning.

  

  I've been doing a lot of thinking about lives lately, in multiple senses of the word. For one, my floor is playing Assassins, or "Spoonsassins", in which one is given a spoon and a victim and told to "kill

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  (Bitter)sweet home meeting high school teachers again, and visiting my hometown for (probably) the last time

  

  that this is probably going to be the last time I’ll be in Alabama for a ... hometown in Alabama during the second week. I was staying in Georgia with my ... I were both in town and had nothing to do. Other than that I cut my

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye

  

  split into groups of three, and for an entire week, we were in charge of ... , usually trying to complete a challenging problem set, or studying for an ... . First time performing below average on an exam. Back in my Nigerian high

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017