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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  You’re Not That Old [by Elise '14] Not having done it before should be a reason to try, as…

  

  Orchestra or Concert Band or other music groups. It’s a way to keep in ... you get to MIT, you’ll have had about eighteen years (or less for ... participating in art, dance, or theatre for just as long. I mean, you

  • by ARTalk
  • June 17, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Career Fair Thoughts In which I didn't try to acquire 50 different company shirts

  

  if any companies 1) interested me or 2) would be interested in a CMS/7 ... I'm not going to paraphrase all of that in text. But I think the most ... summer jobs pre-MIT! Do what you love, whether that's working in a lab or

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 21, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Not an actual entry Warning: I am apparently in a run-on sentence/overuse of parenthetical statements mood today.

  

  'm still supposed to be leaving for Maine in 25 minutes. I haven't decided yet whether or not I'm going to repack or whether I'm just going to take ... Adam and me up to their family's condo at Sunday River in Maine (because

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  DRAW TIM (the beaver) behold the artistic talents of MIT staff

  

  have to toss a ball around or [annotation note="I actually have a note ... the spot, so they can opt in (or not) on their own time and comfort ... to the best of your ability," where X=bike or car or Shrek or Tim

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 5, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  So the rest of your decisions are coming in and let's take a second to talk about it

  

  enough to yet be materialized as a concrete “you’re in!” or “we regret to ... , regardless of admission or non-admission to the Institute, you probably applied ... satisfied enough to embark on the eight-hour grind. I realized the error in my

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • March 27, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Ask Me Anything or discuss anything. or whatever really. what i'm trying to say is: open thread.

  

  various excuses and instead try to make it up to you. I'm sitting at home in ... decorations. Tomorrow I'm moving, and then we're starting to meet in Early ... for the next ~12 hours or so I will try to answer any question you ask

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 30, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Don’t believe everything that you read

  

  of excellence in math, science and engineering will tend to fare well in MIT admissions. But do any of the above things, or anything else ... Someone emailed to me a funny post from one of those rumor

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 8, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Lyrics to my MIT experience i definitely never, ever wrote songfics when i was in middle school

  

  't really like, and didn't end up pursuing in the long run. I worked hard to ... from actually loving it enough to achieve mastery. Playing the violin in an orchestra paled in comparison to playing guitar with friends. It

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 15, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The ‘How to College’ Masterpost A comprehensive guide for frosh, from all corners of the interwebz.

  

  , etc. I feel that it’s important to have knowledge on how to be safe in ... or two of these links will be useful. Many of them are to posts on my ... ; Academics   How to Study (well, how I study...) Putting the Organs in

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline Update Submit your MIT Part 1 and 2 by Jan 3, 2013 at 11:59pm EST

  

  least 75,000 to 100,000 documents or more in the next few weeks, and only ... As I mentioned in my earlier post, I wanted to follow up with more ... moment! To submit Parts 1 and 2, log in to your account on MyMIT. You can

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • January 3, 2013
• Blog / Blog Projects

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

  

  investigate or phenomena I'd like to quantify? Here are some things I've asked ... straightforward or quite tedious. The data might exist already, neatly compiled in a ... ready to analyze. In order to get it ready, I need to "clean" it. What

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

  General Advice Application advice for HS juniors and sophomores, inspired by a student's question

  

  -curriculars, either in an essay or on the application form, try to make it more than a ... schools admit you, you'll go on to achieve great things in life. This is ... the application form or application process, please leave them in the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT writing faculty comment on GPT and other AI assisted writing in education

  

  I'm briefly emerging from hard work in the application mines to share ... language text in response to prompts.  There has been a tremendous amount of ... college (or even admissions application) essay, to say nothing of broader

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 24, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things I Learned From Freshman Year Overanalyzing all my bad habits.

  

  trying to be positive. Still, I don’t believe in blanket statements. I like ... Tumblr is where I put a lot of this reflection. In particular, I seem to ... on the internet, I was surprised in the last couple years to find an

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 23, 2015
• Blog / Classes

  Sophomore Fall Goals So you can bully me when I write a post saying they didn't work out

  

  up in the morning? No. I woke up at 12:30 or 1:30. Horrible. I need to ... didn't have them in the earlier part of last year. I'm moving to a new ... because I enjoy them. I'm getting better advice, or at least I'm learning to

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 11, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Life, the Universe, and Everything I’m significant! …screamed the dust speck.

  

  moment occurs as soon as you arrive on campus. Or in the middle of your ... to this concept in high school,” and my brain cried out (silently, of ... down a list of things to remember. Things that, in an ideal world, we

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 13, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Application season

  

  Just thought I'd reiterate, for anyone who's applying to MIT this year (or next year, or in five years... whatever, I don't discriminate ... programs in cell biology and/or neuroscience for admission in fall 2006

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Observations of an MIT Sophomore Advice and insight.

  

  for high school. Sometimes it's possible to get extensions or have ... school. In my humble opinion, xkcd used to be a lot funnier than it ... a UROP in their lab, or anything else. This is how Melis and I got an

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in Internet in the bathtub! And a bunch of stuff on choosing a major.

  

  have no idea if want to major in science, engineering, or business, you ... to be home for the first time in six months, and I'm looking forward to ... does not have to be what you actually major in -- there are no quotas for

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Final Countdown

  

  applications. It's never good to put all your eggs in one (or even two or three ... stamped envelope to send their recommendation in, provide them with one ... and ask if their English teacher's recommendation has come in, or if we

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 20, 2004