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• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Chose MIT On deciding where to go, now that you're in

  

  know what it meant. MIT is MIT entirely because of the people here. For ... (including asking for help). Another effect is that the intelligent ... you will live away from your parents for potentially the first time in

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 29, 2012
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  department tells me all the time that physics is hard for him, so he routinely ... , by no means for the first time, that he was only paying his respects to ... ! When I signed off the call I burst into tears for about 20 seconds, not

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Rain by any other name lagi na lang umuulan

  

  languages have a rich vocabulary for rain. The lightest is probably ambon, a ... never-ending)[/caption] Ulan. The catch-all word for rain is ulan. And the pattern for ulan is, as I mentioned earlier, a brief period of rain

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 22, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  You don’t have to be a founder move slow and fix things

  

  consensus was, in the best-case, five years. The "upper limit" for how long it ... , is my advice. Want to change something? Find the role that'll best let ... on for the people who'll take my place? I don't know. I tried my best

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 29, 2023
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Classes, by the Group Chats and their potential replacement, Interstellar!

  

  class, the less of a need there is for a group chat. The harder the class ... : Daniel S., Akshaj K., Vivek B., and Guang C. I'm guessing the name is inspired by "Stellar," which is MIT's platform for learning management. On

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  same way. I've written before about how the class is selected, but I ... . Your application is read by a senior staff member who will look for deal ... application is then read by a primary reader who will summarize it at length for

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

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

  

  -quarters classes (45 credits), which is the smallest number of credits that I have ever taken at MIT (the second lowest comes in at 54, which is four and a ... originally sign up for four and three-quarters, putting the last class on

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

  As We Approach Decision Day On getting in and on not getting in

  

  know you’ve put in a lot. Here is my deep life advice, for the next week ... best predict my chances for March. I’m going to tell you now what I wish ... keep doing it for the next four years. In fact, you want to keep doing it

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 8, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Things (That MIT Made) LISTS

  

  the site and my brain is a bit melty. So, as a bit of a break, in the ... this Guardian article about inventor culture at MIT, here is the Boston ... '36 The Human Genome Project, for which MIT's Whitehead Institute

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  been before (1-390) which is surprising, as for the last two years all my ... wasn’t something I’d be planning for in the short term. And yet, my last ... for 3 years (almost the whole time I’ve been here). But toward the end

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• 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 ... all the time - for real or under the guise of pset parties - exchanging ... is also a good time to explore who you really are. For several weeks

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

  Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2) My take on the MIT short essays.

  

  worsening stomachache is the initial sign for appendicitis, which needs to be ... revitalization of this system. It is no longer sufficient for us to stand on the ... 't worry too much. For the "Creativity" essay, I would encourage you to look

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to Freshman Days composed in the wee hours of morning

  

  I ever pset-partied in} The hardest thing you will do in college is ... to wear jeans. Nice things are for the early birds.   The easiest thing you will do in college is do too much. Try it. On the 1st week, you only

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 29, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Into the Smoke In more ways than one.

  

  bus. And along the route, when I'm not doing my best to avoid double ... being abroad is the milieu of people you meet and get to know. Most of my ... ). New York is a great city, and there has long been a Battle of the Titans

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Guest Post] How to Build a Three Story Fort by Zack I. '27

  

  is for the lighting team to put up the projects they have been working ... the line is his writing!  My name is Zack and this year, I was one of the project leads for East Campus Build. Every year, [annotation note

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 1, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions advice from someone who’s been there

  

  blogs, is the popularity of the "stats post". Some eager applicant posts a ... interested in me. I was a very good young runner, but I wasn't one of the best ... for MIT "hooks" and that there have been other threads asking "Is it

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  consider cross-registering for a Harvard class. The commute is only ten ... frustrating, for I still haven’t found the optimal waiting spot on the platform ... sense when you get stuck between the two. Neither college is, of course

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  How Wrestling With Snapping Turtles Can Get You Into MIT A student profile of an aspiring limnologist.

  

  beguiles me into poring for hours over topics like subtle differences in the ... networking. It opens a lot of doors--for example, my internship at the New ... . Tell us what working at the aquarium is like. Ridiculously awesome. I

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Bring your stuffed toys to class reflections on liminality

  

  Roll carts around campus. Marvel at the wonder that is the wheel. Learn where all the ramps and elevators are. Grumble when there's no ... . Ignore the deadlines for a week. Fret over which offer you'll take. Weigh

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 11, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to decide which classes to take amazing classes and how to pick them

  

  ="aligncenter" width="356"] this is based off the prereq chain for 20.375[/caption ... best way to know if you'll like a class is to take it. "Shopping" is the ... the class is graded, which is helpful for finding out how important the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 22, 2021