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• Blog / Advice

  You only got in because you’re a… how to cope when good news unexpectedly gives you the blues

  

  nothing was happening. To be honest, sticking my head in the sand like an ... got a low grade on an assignment in a science class and the teacher ... things that happened to me when I got in EA was that asides from an amazing

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 16, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Reasons to Join ESG A Look at MIT's Freshman Learning Communities

  

  and learn in an environment that better suits your style. The problem ... to Concourse in that what they look at is an intersection, the ... . Personal Mail Boxes! Personal mail boxes are a great storage place for in

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • January 4, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Dishwashers, parents, space: what do these things have in common?

  

  use of a dishwasher is the last frontier in an immigrant household, an ... grow 5'' and then write an article about how I took extra long beds for ... a bunk bed (to save space, #6 on this list), for the first time in my

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 9, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  day one welcome back

  

  other courses I want for the remainder of the day. Today, in artificial ... algebra class was very rigorous, and in an ideal world, I would take it ... counselor for. I find it amusing that I'm in the same math class as them. In

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 9, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Season Taking things into my own hands.

  

  , hastily labeled "Ideas for Later". And in this box I keep, surprise, ideas ... days coding, reading, and sketching out designs for my projects. In the ... becomes information, an exercise, a task, and a grade instead of tools for

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  scheduling woes advice for dealing with overenrolled/conflicting classes

  

  in full swing, but mayhaps you’ll find this useful for future semesters ... preregister for classes that you're even vaguely interested in?"]not preregister ... another semester I’ll have to take it with class C which is an estimated 20

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 15, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Gotterdammerung and The Barber of Seville [by Xenia '13] Art Scholars go to the Met!

  

  Wagner was many years ago, in a summer novel: an elegant, cultured but ... active community of students with an exceptional interest in the arts. The ... ending because it worth watching for yourself! In any case, if you know the

  • by ARTalk
  • March 20, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Good Morning, Sportsracers! *erases introductory post draft for the umpteenth time in the vain hope that he'll stick…

  

  judged for quoting HMS Pinafore in this person's presence? Would this be a ... post in one piece. I'm sitting here in my room playing ze frank's "An ... Introductions are generally a clunky thing for me. There's some basic

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Announcements

  The First-Year Application for the MIT Class of 2026 is now live

  

  depend on your email provider; in GMail, for example, you can write a ... I’m writing to announce that the application for first-year undergraduate admission to MIT for the aspiring Class of 2026 is now live. You can

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 31, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  As I Was Saying… My second internship entry AKA "How I copy and pasted my way to a new…

  

  in my last entry, the InternshipPlus is a requirement for GEL students ... company had a project ready for me to start work on the second I stepped in ... opportunities for me to get my work in one of these. I argued that even something

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Events

  science bowl we ran! a competition! virtually!

  

  competition that middle schools could compete in to qualify for Nationals. I ... things, we ran an invitational competition for high school students. We ... all of our own questions for this event — in total, over 600 question

  • by Phi A. '21
  • November 16, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Trains Make Me Think Of Bringing the focus away from miles and minutes - and onto more enriching things

  

  (in addition to still blogging for MIT Admissions - sorry eager blogging ... able to work close to home is a plus for me, but in my case, it still ... of 7:30 and 8:30 am. Thankfully, there's an incentive for my atypical

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 12, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Mist in the streets of Boston monday wanderings

  

  . The runners were going about the pace I’d shoot for in a three-mile race ... for a Green Line train, and were spat out in the middle of Allston. A ... in the chaos of MIT to make room for another. Frequently it takes time

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 20, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Summertime, and the livin’ is easy Unless, of course, you've decided to do something with all that free time.

  

  living in a dorm on campus. I was in this program for two summers (I took ... for college credit or doing field studies (in marine biology or medicine, for example) both in the United States and abroad. Boston University

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 13, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Notes on Cancer rate my handwriting

  

  note="director of the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, one of those buildings that course 7s and 20s spend a lot of time in ... .[/annotation] That's such a cool sentence to type out. In the past, I've had issues

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 10, 2019
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  Can I apply as a QB Finalist even if I did not rank any colleges?

  Regular Action. In the email, please include your full name, date of birth, and the email address that you used for your QuestBridge application. Do not begin a first-year application in our application portal until
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tales of a College Froshling Okay, so I'm not a frosh anymore. Meh, whatever.

  

  writing an "apologies for being too hosed to post" entry and never finished ... for the summer. After some panic that I'd be jobless and living in a ... job as an RA for the Center for Talent Development at Northwestern

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 3, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How did MIT’s GIRs come to be? the Tech has some answers. Plus, the SATs from 1918, and a mascot on a…

  

  to post something I've had in the backlog for awhile.  Last year, I ... was instituted in 1948 upon the recommendation of an athletics committee ... trained in social and humanistic concerns for the survival of humanity

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 1, 2018
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Joint Post] Build a robot boat with MIT Arcturus! Q&A with Arcturus captain Audrey Chen

  

  in recruiting? Audrey: We are looking for all majors and years! From ... creating a spinoff team, Arcturus Finance, for those interested in the ... development. It’d be an awesome opportunity to make connections in the robotics

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another one! The return to campus, round III

  

  of a thrill upon seeing the Dome for the first time in months. As soon ... , possibly bears. Horror movie? Nope, an awesome Energy Club retreat in New ... Gmail inbox was already filling up with promises of “FREE FOOD” in return

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • September 11, 2017