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• Blog / Challenges

  everyone i know goes away in the end why i've never done misti

  

  . i was given the chance, in april 2021, to spend the first half of 2022 ... decision, and talking to people, and declined in the end, because i "didn ... knowing how badly i keep in touch with people, i'd have stopped talking to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 11, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a major road to trouble exploring interests as a baby beaver

  

  how college has led me to not pressure myself to stay in one lane or ... couldn’t pinpoint a simple way or the right medium to use. A way that would make it easy to understand, especially from a non-MIT point of view. In a

  • by Waly N. '24
  • November 23, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Something to chalk about “These murals are f*cking rad” – Petey

  

  ! Not with paint (as students used to do in East Campus and Burton Conner) or crayons though, but with chalk. I blogged about some of the awesome chalk murals in Simmons last year, but [annotation note="For unsavory

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 24, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Meant to Be What I've found at MIT

  

  , travelled to all parts of Boston in a mere 4 hours, had fun at REX events ... 't limited to pizza), spent a night in the New England Aquarium, and finished ... because you know they'll be helpful to you one day in the future, but you

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • September 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back-to-school special i'm a senior now :o

  

  structured than they did when i lived in EC or senior haus. i've also had to ... interested in and excited about. it is really, really, really nice to wake up in the morning and look forward to my work--i haven't felt that way for

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 17, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All Over Again Applying to college all over again.

  

  've just started to get exposed to interesting topics in bioengineering that ... starting with mechanical engineering and now going on to PhD programs in ... questions in science, but it will also be a little scary to give the next 5 to

  • by Bryan
  • June 8, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some Things I Wish I Knew Coming In in retrospect,

  

  seen. Seen in the sense of sending a message to someone, but they just ... verb in any language to act as the deliberate version of [annotation note ... or take advice, but there's some mirscucha valley in the middle where

  • by Abby H. '20
  • August 16, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  So, you’re applying to college.

  

  If you're applying early (to MIT or elsewhere), you're probably ... wanted to live here and study here. Who wouldn't want to be in the center ... ." If only I were to get in, I thought, I'd be set. My life would be made

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 31, 2005
• FAQ / First-year application

  What’s the difference between Early Action (EA)/Regular Action (RA)?

  difference in the review process or criteria used for admission in EA (non-binding) vs. RA, and thus no advantage or disadvantage to applying for either ... that time, you may be admitted, denied, or deferred to Regular Action
• Blog / Admissions

  Be a Blogger 2016! how to be a blogger

  

  ’s like to be in a Sadoway lecture, or planning stuff for REX, or UROPing, or deciding how to pick your classes, or a really cool new thing you learned today in class, and so forth. The day-to-day experience of your

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 28, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Winter Storm Warning Brr, it's cold out there. And snowing.

  

  EVENING TO 5 PM EST MONDAY... TODAYS SNOW AND FLURRIES IN SOUTHERN NEW ... FORECAST FOR SOUTH CENTRAL NEW HAMPSHIRE WITH 5 TO 10 INCHES IN THE CONNECTICUT RIVER VALLEY. THE JACKPOT... 10 TO 15 INCHES... WILL PILE UP IN THE

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 1, 2009
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  Reflections from the STARS@MIT Fly-In a 15-author guest blog, featuring the small town/rural students that visited us this october!

  

  for fun! What made you want to come to the MIT fly-in? “I live in a ... is home. I wanted to come to the MIT fly-in program because I wanted to ... my house, to running, backpacking, and skiing. I applied to this fly-in

  • by Sara N. '28
  • November 11, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  bags to make our car dip just a little bit. To my left in the line for ... inside of my skin, or are they in my clothes, or my friends, or my habits ... car. In one sense, I am bringing the old me to a new place, where they

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 15, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  the journey to PLAYsentations or, the conclusion to the best class I've taken at MIT...so far

  

  interest in design: “His Christmas gift to me would be one day of his time ... the perils of group dynamics in poorly managed projects.  People tend to ... head, of course.  In the first month or so of 2.00b we learned a lot

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 17, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s like finding candy in your pocket… MIT in the media - Always a treat.

  

  ), things to make us react in one way or another (Linsanity), things to make ... in my opinion. I'm sure we all fall victim to surrendering minutes and hours to the Internet - aka procrastination. But is it me or are we all

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 21, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  This one goes out to the parents It's been a while since I've written specifically for you.

  

  is not admitted to his or her first-choice school. In the face of ... consoled me when I didn't get in, celebrated with me when I did, drove me to ... little like falling in love: one trip to the campus and they "just knew

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In case you want to travel over IAP… You have a lot of options!

  

  —like an internship, or research, or going home to see family? In that case ... great. You get to travel and experience living in another country, and it ... to travel! (with the added benefit that you can escape January in

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 11, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Teaching Splash (and Overcoming the Impostor Syndrome) guest post by Haley C. '18

  

  , most recently in 11.124 Introduction to Education. I loved hearing about ... the morning and headed over to check-in. This is a three-hour shift of ... working in a haze trying to make sure I was completely caught up in my

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 18, 2016
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Be a Blogger 2022!

  

  it’s like to live on Conner 2, or plan REX, or UROP, or decide how to pick your classes, or a really cool new thing you learned today in class ... students or students at other colleges). This application is open to all MIT

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Hitchhiker’s Guide to CPW DON'T PANIC.

  

  - academic, athletic, and/or extra-curricular. In addition to providing you ... in deep space, that I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told ... 're not trapped in a Vogon airlock (or are you?), but I do have advice for

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 5, 2008