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• Blog / Life after MIT

  Summer Decisions

  

  for the GRE. STUDY FOR THE GRE! It's a dumb test but your score really ... medical school: about the application process, about what makes a competitive applicant, about what medical schools are looking for, the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / Uncategorized

  168 Hours and how to spend them

  

  reasons for this. For one, at this point in the semester, I had a growing ... semester. I’ve been working with a Cornell student who’s in the area for the ... be helpful to the freshmen in my wing. I’m supposed to be a go-to for

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • March 21, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  A Year at MIT, by the Numbers quantifying my MIT experience

  

  note="we meet 3 times a week for 2 hours during the semester and like 20 hours a week during IAP to prepare for our annual show...those hours stack ... were as a member of my living community, the Burton Third Bombers. I had

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 6, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Christmas with the McGanns

  

  The Christmas holiday is a pretty big deal in my family. Two nights ago we did our traditional decorating of the tree. Just 2.8 miles ... always gets all gussied up for the holidays. It's great to be able to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 24, 2004
• Blog / Personal Projects

  An emoji alethiometer to help you make decisions I'm not saying I will use this in committee, but I'm not saying I won't

  

  a description elsewhere: The Emoji Compass is an alethiometer for the ... Longtime readers may recall that I am a big fan of the His Dark ... inspired by a line from the Amber Spyglass, as the ghost of an old woman

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 7, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  existential cubes a daily encounter with Ernő Rubik

  

  can scramble the puzzles for me. I can do it for a minute or for hours ... world record for fastest solve time by a robot. Yes, the cube is scattered ... had nothing else planned for the day, and decided to try something new

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • July 14, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Rejects, I feel your pain! I've never been stung by a bee, but I imagine it felt sort of like…

  

  Studies and Planning. The number of applicants for admission to the ... of us. Wait until you apply for jobs... then you don't even receive a ... a bit annoying - can't corporations spare the two minutes to write a

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • March 19, 2010
• Blog / Community Projects

  Moving Out, Up, and In Expanding, now in three dimensions!

  

  get a feel for the cultures and communities behind the different dorms ... ’ve been on campus for just over three weeks, and, according to the Google ... been a streaking blur of energy and spontaneity: starting classes at the

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2020 if you read even one of these i will be happy

  

  , turned into a prop for the glory of the other half.” “I didn’t have dreams ... favorite. The first issue can be read for free. Once upon a time, each of us ... 's list. UPDATE: Here's the 2021 and 2022 posts. Things I read for class

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 23, 2020
• Blog / Events

  DEALicious in which i counsel an FPOP and come out with free candy. also how to…

  

  stood in line for three hours to taste the fabled Ramen Burger. Best 8 ... freshmen. Totally optional, but a great way for incoming students to meet ... , important, life-changing activities. Building a home for an egg before

  • by Connie H. '15
  • August 27, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Final Blogpost With a heavy heart, I say goodbye to the MIT blogosphere. The journey was all…

  

  is always a cause for celebration. And, on the surface at least ... , and the break was truly wonderful. Apart from spending a great deal of ... . It was a beautiful week. Now, I’m back to the usual battle with

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 1, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  How to decide, when you’re deciding a pretext for productive procrastination

  

  Today is May 1, the conventional deadline for admitted students to ... MIT, but to make the best choice for yourself. Although of course you ... MIT students have to live in a dorm for all four years (they don't), or

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 1, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST fun And now...the much anticipated (but never duplicated!) photo-filled account of the coolest robotics competition ever!

  

  . In early January, a challenge is announced to the teams at the kickoff event. The challenge is actually a game- two alliances of three robots each compete in a fast-paced game. This year the game involved scoring in

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 29, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  I Don’t Know where am i going to be a year from now?

  

  students. A journalist for National Geographic, sailing along the coast of ... think one year into the future, and there’s a fuzzy semblance of what my ... year into the future, and it’s a crystalline, pure nothing. Or maybe

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • September 27, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Small Get-together Friday An informal reception for HMMT participants and others visiting Boston on Friday.

  

  'll have a small reception for any students visiting MIT. The reception will ... visiting MIT on what is a vacation week for some students across the country ... that there will be many students around tomorrow for several reasons

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 23, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  the one where i talk to ameer what is real again?

  

  got a question for you along the same kind of topic lines of WFH; how ... So, let me set the scene for the [annotation note="Some would call it ... Danielle, Grant, Christine, Julia, and then in the middle is a giant, egg

  • by kellen manning
  • April 9, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Standing out But what if you come to MIT and you're not the best in the class…

  

  for me both in terms of the way I was taught to be a first ... now, the real stuff A common concern voiced about applying to ... 's going to be difficult for a given student to stand out among his or her

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Season Taking things into my own hands.

  

  things! So what exactly am I up to for the summer? Well a little bit of ... for later. The way it typically works is I'll have a random thought or ... major challenge I'll need to mull over for a while. At the very least I

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  First Post A little about myself.

  

  , I went to MIT for college. I graduated about 20 years ago as a ... a great time and had some good crews (was voted EARC coach of the year one year — the EARC is our league with the Ivies and a few others). I

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • September 14, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Rats ! Foiled Again !

  

  . Despite that, I felt inconsolably bad about the exam for a few days. It ... … couldn’t deliver. The day after the exam, I laid in my bed for a while ... the bug in my 6.7930 (ML for Healthcare) PSET a bit faster. I wished I

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • April 3, 2025