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• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Applicants: The College Essay part 3 of the Dear Applicants series

  

  did. I doubted each one of my essays. Re-wrote drafts. Edited the main ... prepositions at the ends of sentences and phrases. See how annoying I sound if I ... overcoming illness while mentoring the young as the captain of the swim team

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Week 1 ...of Year 2.

  

  free pizza, and I’ve spent three of the past seven evenings at Harvard ... blogger; this post is an introduction. I’m coming off the levity of the best ... ; I compared the impact on US peanut butter sales of two Salmonella

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 14, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  How To Fumble Your Way Through MIT and Still Turn Out Pretty Okay Step 1: Fumble. Step 2: Turn out pretty okay.

  

  -supporting adults do. The illusion of adulthood: it continues. In the last month and ... ; naturally, 99% of the words spewing forth from my facehole have been ... – they're not great – but as the blogs already have four years of Keri

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What kind of study abroad programs are available?

  Interested in studying abroad for an academic year in the U.K. or a semester in South Africa? Want to improve your foreign language skills by spending a summer in China or heading to Spain during the month of January
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Scratches On My Mind A brief introduction, so you'll know why I see MIT the way I do.

  

  school senior, the drum major of my marching band, the captain of the ... am now. The next nine years of my life fall into place during the ... graduate. It's a pretty sweet deal, with the exception of getting up at 6 AM

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • September 20, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  a week in europe pictures of munich, vienna, amsterdam

  

  on friday, loud, incessant bangs and whirrs of the never ... , which looks so artificial and strange and different from the bustle of stephansplatz or the shops of amsterdam. but it's fine: after two or so days, i

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 8, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freebie Part II My schedule

  

  competitive robot for an end-of-the-semester competition. 2.00b = Toy Design ... out the videos in the "Lectures" section of www.ToyProductDesign.com 21 ... As I've mentioned before, each semester the bloggers all get a

  • by Snively '11
  • February 12, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Zambia Ate My Neighbors We only get 20 minutes on the internet every night and I spend 15 of…

  

  during the day, and although I wore a hat and drank lots of water I got ... optimization problem for a group of five to select which bus out of the 10 ... with the Dean of Engineering at UNZA, and we have planned on meeting our

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 11, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  nothing & everything what i did this IAP!

  

  between the kerning of those letters, everything is hiding.) I ... Monday exam[/annotation]at the end of fall semester, and I stayed at home ... . Glorious! In the past few years of my life, any real breaks have been spent

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 3, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Meeting FAQ The answers to the FAQs at our Central Meetings.

  

  answer three of the most frequently asked questions here and now, so that you don't have to ask (not that I mind questions). All of the below ... more than 30% of our class during the early action round. Students who

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 28, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  2024 in Review the things and stuff of 2024

  

  This was one of the years of all time. I learned a lot, less about ... right around the corner but always out of grasp. I was bound by ... the beauty of the things you are graced with in your friendships

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  and they’re going to better places lessons learned from a hard summer

  

  , "What is the place you've worked at that you're most proud of?" My heart swelled as I talked about MIT, and MIT Admissions, and Petey, and all of the ... 't until I started working did I really understand the gravity of their words

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 14, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  what i’m doing this fall leadership tingz

  

  finances? Me?? It's more likely than you'd think... I'm the treasurer of my ... . Since I didn't care at all about student government or anything of the ... concerned with the quality of the learning and living environment of the MIT

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 2, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  PSA: Attend Local MIT Admitted Meetings! Note to ADMITTED, CURRENT, and FORMER Students

  

  MIT Class of 2021 has been assembled, it’s time to welcome them to the ... -together is a microcosm of MIT culture. (Note that, if you can't attend the ... range of MIT experiences. Have wonderful discussions about life, the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 26, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ushering in a New Era An open letter to Pass/No Record (with footnotes!)

  

  freshman anymore, so while most of my fellow freshmen will be on the ABC/no record grading system, I get the pleasure of being acquainted with ... now****** and next fall, you’ll meet the wonderful class of 2018

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 9, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  That’s right, you’re sick Thank you, nurse, for stating the obvious.

  

  ...") Of course, this eliminates the chances of getting a second opinion, and ... useful from my handy MedLink kit of over-the-counter medications.) My sore ... to drug myself and go to sleep for the rest of the day. Until 7:30, 8

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 8, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  c/o 2017

  

  at roughly the same time and grew in some sense of togetherness, and ... 'll excuse myself for having some extra level of fondness for the 2017s. i don ... people i wanted to. but i saw a lot of them in those last few days of the

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 12, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  uncertainty becoming a boring adult

  

  usually feel better than complete posts because the process of completion removes uncertainty, and in doing so shrinks the realm of possibility for ... empathize with the state of mind of not wanting to commit because you

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 31, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Prof. Catherine D’Ignazio on Urban Science for Public Good

  

  One of the strange things about being 10,000 years old is that, while ... some of the leading scientists, theorists and practitioners who are ... /change technology to make the world less awful, and Catherine is one of the central

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 1, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Toy Design Update How couldn't you enjoy building toys?

  

  . Luckily all of the time commitments are fun so I'm enjoying it. Toy design ... , presented the concept, and built a model of it. Using everybody's models and ... 's still kind of a nice look into the lab. Click To Play   This

  • by Snively '11
  • April 17, 2008