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• Blog / Admissions

  What My College Essays Were [Not] Unsolicited advice about writing.

  

  would not recommend reading) gave a lot of advice that sounded like this ... —I mean, these tips certainly make a lot of sense in hindsight, but they ... -achieving peers. I did not have a unifying passion, just a handful of scattered

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / IAP

  incoming how i’ve been spending my iap yes get ready for like 8 of these in a row

  

  again. I spent the two whole weeks of break just complaining about ... myself busy and attempt to be an actual college student. I made a lot of promises in the beginning of the year that I have not kept. I said I would

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 16, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m going to be a blogger! The words my family had to hear 635,382 times

  

  every flavour of Oreo offered in the northeast US, as there are many more ... As I write this we are just east of Buffalo. My mom is driving; my ... of those," my dad laughs. We are headed to Cambridge, to MIT. My

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 15, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Truth is Rarely Pure and Never Simple A behind-the-scenes special on directing a play

  

  . And even more-so, so many of the skills in GEL ... practice & growth opportunity. This fall I am directing The Importance of ... are the themes of the play? What kind of couch do I want? Should

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Poetry Prescriptions Things I've Made and Consumed. Sophomore Fall, All of It.

  

  dinner, I brought out my stacks of books and offered my friends ... , have dinner with an older one, and attend the latest iteration of the Wandering Cricket Night Market after a thunderstorm. Now, after dozens of

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 13, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How hard is it, really? Let down

  

  had nothing to offer me but to tell me to practice. At the start of the ... diagnostic when you first get to campus. The results of the diagnostic help you ... hardest) is best for you. The results of my math diagnostic said that I was

  • by Snively '11
  • April 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Productive, yes. Appropriately productive, no. You would think that my activities the weekend before finals might include studying.

  

  survey about perceptions of Goldman Sachs and Microsoft (they gave me $20 ... ), ate dessert at Coldstone, and saw Over the Hedge. We also saw a bunch of ... , yeah? Today I have given a tour of MacGregor to Zi Wen (a member of the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 21, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2019 everything from autobiographies to magic the gathering blog posts

  

  polynomial function of a real variable, and the degree of  is , then  is the ... have plans to. I’m also not the kind of person to have new year ... read for class All of these things I read for 21W.022, Reading and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 30, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Balancing Act… ...or not

  

  sometimes hard to maintain, and I live in perpetual fear of messing it up even ... out of my comfort zone in this sense by forcing me to deal with my fear of failure. My first few weeks at MIT have seen me pick out the major

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 28, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  Sexy MIT Engineers My

  

  of an accomplishment. But! I learned so much on the sidelines from the veteran players! How to play defense by being on the open side of my player ... form of shin splints. I asked around for advice and got plenty: Stretch

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Hacks

  This was meant to be written a week and a half ago

  

  ring around the barrel. Of course, it was not going to stay forever, and I'd heard rumors of Caltech coming to claim it. The Monday after CPW - I enjoyed seeing so very many of you, by the way :) - I was asleep

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  4 Jack Bauer, eat your heart out.

  

  . Lucky that I did, because the thing was FREAKING COVERED WITH A COLONY OF ... took it back to the bathroom to wash it off. 10:12 -- There's a bag of ... 's on the list. I hope something more interesting than this bag of Oreos

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Third Semi-Annual Q&A More answers to your questions.

  

  bearing on your application, as ~50% of our admits end up majoring in ... to the context of your overall app - what you're interested in, what ... , not to one of its 5 schools. ------------------------ Zack Yang wrote

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Goodnight Moon Or: The Senior Who Desperately Tries to Put Off Bedtime By Saying Goodnight to Every…

  

  my brain full of knowledge by 10:05am. Unfortunately, what I ought to ... cocoon myself in a swathe of green bedsheets. But tonight is different ... . Instead of sleeping, I watched some Spanish-language television dramas on

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Haiti Day 2: DINEPA and mosquito bites

  

  lot of health campaigns as well as water testing at the source, although most of the distribution is done by NGOs. Our first, rather impromptu meeting was with a man named Jean Francois, who was in charge of the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 27, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Answered Questions, answers, and Sam's face. This is the real MIT.

  

  conclusion of my EMT class and random dinner parties with friends. About halfway into IAP, I wrote Sam with the intention of stealing his infinite ... ." "OK LET'S DO THAT!" Anyway. Lots of questions, lots of answers

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 11, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  How to (Im)properly Get an Independent Study another step by step guide of our mistakes

  

  offered in the fall. So constructing an Independent Study seemed like our ... Email a third professor because you are starting to lose hope of getting ... get it approved because you haven't really heard of anyone else doing

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  soulsearching / naubos na in which i ramble about purpose

  

  of which I cared a lot about. I thought that, maybe, if I got an offer from one of them, then I’d strongly consider doing an internship there ... try to look for an internship, although several of my friends did. I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 22, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  You Got The Gig So excited about ALL the Things!

  

  Hi!! First of all, I'M SO EXCITED TO BE AN MIT BLOGGER!! When I got that message from the infamous King of the Internet, Chris Peterson ... and wonderful people in the world, some of which are also going to MIT

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Twenty-One Days Abroad in Twenty-One Photographs a curated photo dump of an IAP in Spain

  

  Over IAP, I had the opportunity to participate in one of MIT's IAP ... -language intensive course, MIT also offers Spanish 2 and Spanish Conversation and ... covering a crash course on Spanish history, an assortment of Spanish poetry

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 8, 2017