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• Blog / Admissions

  An Astrological Guide to the College App Process We all know astrology isn't real...or is it?

  research and find schools where you'll be happy than just applying to a ... would cringe seeing this post), but I find it fun to read an analysis of ... hopes that you find something to relate to (and perhaps help you

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 20, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating The Tunnels…Of Freshman Academics You didn't actually expect me to write about hacking on the internet, did you?

  

  thinking about blogging a guide to something complicated, like the HASS system, for a while, but after querying the 2015s, I discovered, to my ... archives to produce a strew of incisively insightful oldies for your perusal

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thoughts for the New Year A semester's worth of thoughts, tbh

  

  myself a lot of questions. What do I want to do with my life? Once I find ... few weeks ago, I made a trip to 7-11 in a shirt, a long jacket, and no ... ratio approaches infinity, I consider it a success. Sidequest 10: Find

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  You Are Here a list of things i can't make myself do, and a few i can

  

  try to walk through to find my friends at a crowded party, greeting ... head that tells me I have to work, that begs me to find the concentration ... drawing me back to a cycle of self-blame, taking root in my head and placing

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 19, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  room hoping to find something to occupy my parading thoughts. A binder ... her I would find a cure to cancer. My binder was that promise. A promise ... To a lot of people, myself included, getting into MIT is the dream we

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  study spots at MIT not exactly places to cry, but they'll do

  

  embarked on a quest to document the best study spots at MIT. most of these ... those will continue to be gatekept by the student body :)) I tried to find ... polling my friends to find out where they like to study on campus and what

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what work is bite-sized senior spring

  

  the work of not working this is going to be a challenging semester ... night, working, working, working. i'm trying to challenge myself to do a ... (especially when i feel productive) because i have a tendency to over

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  An Admissions Excavation Chris gave me a box of stuff and this is what I found inside

  

  Flashback to about a month ago, when Chris sent an email to all the ... to help out with a side project. A couple back-and-forth emails later ... -lived time capsule, which was actually pretty fun to delve into for a couple

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  Great Gatsby, “the Great American Novel”, is a book most of us have to go through to graduate high school. It’s also a book that has left me with a ... common of a name and coming to MIT confirmed those suspicions; there are at

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s More Than A Job Thoughts On The Eve Of RA Decisions

  

  's supposed to be comforting, obviously, I just find it really insincere. I mean ... 'm too tired to dig up the post so I'll give a quick recap. First you apply ... . Three days a week, I take a random bunch of applications to the public

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  -wide chapter is the lack of housing options. It’s difficult to find a place where ... after she expressed her desire to join a sorority but was hesitant to join ... at MIT and was starting to accept that joining one wouldn’t be a

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Gee, my life’s a funny thing Remembering the bills I have to pay, or even yesterday.

  

  a rule I don't really pay attention to lists like that, except the ... I owe a lot of that to the fact that I went to MIT. As I've said in ... MIT helped me take care of that, too. Finding an on-campus job can be a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  16 for the 16’s 16 Guidelines to Making the Most of your CPW

  

  events is so much more than that. Food events are a great place to meet new ... the dining halls, now's a good time to check them out :) Especially since you guys will have a meal card! 2. Don't be afraid to randomly talk

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 18, 2012
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  I Really Just Cannot Write Anymore of My Thesis I wish I can bang out essays like blog entries.

  

  Hello MIT blogs! I love blogging. I applied to be a blogger on whim ... 's nothing else to throw up, so maybe I should take a mini-break? All the ... thesis first ;) so I'll just provide a brief update of what I've been up to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  senioritis not to be confused with señoritis

  

  for someone. there is enough positive work for you to do until you find ... remembered helping my (sorority) little (sister) on a project she needed to ... to sit my butt down on her linoleum floor for a few hours to help her

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 10, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Burton-Conner’s Renovation: A Saga on friendships that transcend shitty infrastructure

  

  somewhere. I love that students can find a family in their living group and ... community. Most of all, I love that dorm culture enables students to find ... and to be reopened in my senior year. Despite knowing this as a prefrosh

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 6, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  An Unofficial Guide to Unstandard MITglish, 1st Edition The joy of jargon.

  

  of mentioning this to a dinner table-ful of MIT students, who crisply ... Question #12 on your 18.03 problem set, which happens to use a lot of ... . Vacuously true (adj.): A statement is said to be vacuously true if it is

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice On The Essay The rules are simple: write your own.

  

  I recently opened my in-box to find an email from someone who " ... response: Hi, Essays are a wonderful way to connect with the selection ... basic proofreading to three figures for a full-blown rewrite - the irony

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / Community Projects

  Christianity at MIT An intro to Cru!

  

  I’ve been trying to write a blog about Christianity and Cru at MIT ... to nothing and would have LOVED a blog about that sort of thing when I ... coming to after spending a year with the group I would 1000% recommend it

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  Classes I Won’t Be Able to Take also "What Is Pre-Registration?"

  

  't a wrong way to do it, just as long as you submit something. Incoming freshmen do not have to pre-register. I panicked a little about this after an ... only have a year left at MIT, and there's no way I'm going to get to take

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 23, 2019