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• Blog / Classes

  The Marks of a Student or, let's catch up

  

  I have to because one of my goals for this blog in general is to be ... of myself for doing so well in 8.021 this far, especially seeing as I ... high school, I was pretty anal about getting A's. In my freshman year of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 4, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Jigsaw Puzzle of Opinions Ramblings Of A Spring Semester Senior

  

  people’s opinions. In making this map of opinions I could pinpoint the ... that’s what you’re thinking so I can continue with this train of thought ... A year back I developed a deep interest in understanding what made me

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • March 25, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Entry: A Yankee in Cambridge Math, exchange programs, and why we love MIT.

  

  my mentor, Ryan Reich. I can't claim that this paper was in any way ... aspects of) the world. What's not to love? As for how I got interested in ... is not what you'll learn in your classes (much of which you can find on

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • May 1, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  Springtime for Interns in Germany Watch out, Europe: I'm going on tour.

  

  -down letter omega. Yesterday I had one of those quintessential MIT moments. I ... end of May (im wunderschoenen Monat Mai?), but I won't because I'll already be in Germany. The German Requiem is a really amazing piece of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 27, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Eye Of The Storm Reflections in the brief moment between the last hours of selection committee and the release…

  

  - I can't remember a time in which I was alone here. I hope that all of ... Hi all, I am here in the office preparing the blogs for the post-decision-release onslaught of comments. It's eerily quiet, which is both nice and unsettling at

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 15, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  A Word of Warning (Pay Attention) A guest entry by Kelsey Kennedy '12

  

  instance. At the beginning of the semester, I dutifully sat at my desk in my ... chunks of problem sets in one sitting. I'm not saying that this is the way ... April in front of my computer and went through the process of telling MIT

  • by Snively '11
  • January 4, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life or something like it Apparently this blog is supposed to be about my life. So here's some stuff about…

  

  I can write some sort of blazingly exotic blog entry full of ... class here. But it's kind of nice to know that I can until almost three ... finished in January. I have a lot of neurons to image on the confocal

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 30, 2005
• FAQ / First-year application

  How do I request a fee waiver?

  international applicants, and you can request one in the Fee Waiver Request section of the application. MIT practices need-blind admissions, so requesting a fee waiver will not have any negative impact on your chances of
• Blog / Events

  Scary Tails and College Essays Three bad puns, two bloggers, one post.

  

  , I would've burned rubber. We peeled out of there like the city ... the essay-editing process, I asked some pairs of fresh eyes (in the form ... -cat. ...moving on. Anna: I would like to mention that all of the "rest of the

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 31, 2010
• Blog / Blog Projects

  How I Write My Data Analysis Blogs just in case you were wondering

  

  cool patterns is to make visualizations. I can do this with a variety of ... of data points, lines, and bars to better demonstrate trends. I can ... my first ever blog post showing the number of steps i took, in

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  and i am afraid of falling a long winded chess metaphor

  

  . "I'm afraid of failure," I say. Well, yes, they reply, we know. "I can ... projects that exist as words and not in full because I am afraid of starting ... itself in a couple of falls. My immediate reaction was no. No I do not want

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 21, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In Our Bedroom After the Pandemic a bedroom is something that can actually be so personal

  

  after I first stepped foot in Boston. My things, my signifiers of home ... !"]when I was 14.[/annotation] I can stretch my arms wide in the bed and roll ... For most of my adolescence, my bedroom was painted as close as I

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • June 26, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  All Applicants Can Now Apply For Either Early or Regular Action MIT Admissions announces a policy change allowing international students access to either Early or Regular…

  

  I wanted to let you know of a change in the admissions process for the forthcoming admissions cycle. As you may know, in the past ... , regardless of citizenship or location, will be able to apply for either

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 7, 2015
• Blog / Hacks

  A Brief History of Hacks Unfortunately I couldn't get Stephen Hawking to narrate.

  

  friend". In the interest of furthering the human language, I propose we ... I was out meeting a friend and some of her friends that I didn ... was the most difficult and awkward sentence I've typed in a long time. I

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 22, 2011
• Blog / Advice

  Lies in MIT, lies about MIT these are the lies that i tell myself at night

  

  of junior fall, I lied to my advisor for the first time. He looked at ... you've handled this many classes in the past, so I'm going to approve ... dropped none of them. The next semester, this semester, I learned to hedge

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 27, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Checking in with EA Applicants because I just saw Chris' post, and you probably did, too

  

  , because I never seem to pick boring applications out of the pile. In fact, I ... again, I thank you and applaud you all. “In Praise of Holistic ... about EA decisions being released next week. And I wanted to check in

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 8, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  relearning what i know now or: hi, i learned wrong my entire life.

  

  of fears swirling in my head being at this school. I praise it every ... it's something that's become so ingrained in me because of the way I ... I can't help but feel like I'm some sort of impostor when I talk to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 22, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Take Only Memories Leave Only Footprints

  

  start typing. In fact, I started my first draft of this entry at 1:20AM ... people. I walked down the hallway of Baker House, dropped my stuff off in ... IHTFP, which can mean a variety of things to a variety of people, have

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Mirrors Because reflection is not just that image you see of yourself in the morning, or…

  

  fact, I wasn’t particularly interested in doing a whole lot of anything ... ’t help you improve. In fact, that’s kind of what I did after last spring ... whole week of GEL in the form of ESD.054 (8 hours a day actually), so I

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 8, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Post-Valentine Blog Roundup Valentine's Day capped off by a serenade.

  

  finest memories of walking to class in the morning from my dorm were on ... Tootsie Roll, Necco Wafers, and Squirrel Nut Zippers) in the city. Sadly ... more in the way of biomedical internships are quite happy). Tootsie Roll

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 16, 2006