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• Blog / Admissions

  What My College Essays Were [Not] Unsolicited advice about writing.

  

  long it’s like a reflex and you no longer actively feel excited about it ... this sentence here? What does it illustrate about you/your life/this story? What is the point of your essay, and how does this sentence move

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  “Why does my kid have to move again?”

  

  tends to confuse these groups of people is the housing system, and how it ... admission to MIT.how can i improve them.? any help would be highly appreciated ... , your living group is more than where you live. It's a way of life, a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 2, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Deferring Thoughts before 12/14 12:14pm to after 3/14 1:59pm

  

  eternity. It still does right now. So the prospect of this long wait was what ... someone gossiping about how their friend's kid got into MIT. I knew it was a good school based on how everyone spoke of it, but that was, for the most

  • by Waly N. '24
  • December 18, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  self-destruction my entirely self-inflicted problems

  

  have to figure out how to deal with it properly. this is a pretty low ... conversation in our suite lounge, and it’s just loud enough that it’s preventing me from falling asleep but not so loud that it warrants me coming out

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 27, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds and the Order of the Phoenix Answering the important questions of those still making their decision.

  

  dining programs struggle with this. MIT Dining does its best to seek out ... in their freshman year and goes on to graduate. You can do it. And how many hours does it take to do a problem set or understand a concept? It

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 25, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  A salty IAP post Taking a moment to be bitter

  

  SoOoOoOOooooo it’s the most wonderful time of the year: IAP! That ... it. When I was a prospective student, I thought that IAP was the ... narrow my eyebrows. When does IAP start for MIT students? Most classes

  • by Powers '23
  • January 22, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  past, present, future reflections and plans

  

  . Still, though, I’m glad I did it. I learned the limits of how much my ... made me realize how much of the physical world (pretty much all of it ... how it works. The platform is called TaleBlazer, and it’s available to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 11, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Sixth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 2PM on 12/22/05.

  

  : "How does anyone know if you've visited a school before? Do you have to ... , how should I go about doing it?" We have no idea who's visited and who ... eligible for fee waiver.I didn't know how to solve it so I created another

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 22, 2005
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Year of the HASS thoughts on single-tasking, cheese slicers, and the tyranny of the mind

  

  class, it’s the first time that the number of hours my classes are supposed to take is less than the actual number of units, although it’s a bit ... considering a Spanish minor, I’ve had to backload them. Secondly, it makes me

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 23, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Hardest Thing Ever FOP, family, and how I'm doing so far... plus some findings on frisbee and free…

  

  thing ever won’t happen for a long time still, and when it does happen, I ... calories), being with friends. This is what it looked like: The road to camp. Happy. And that above is mostly how I felt. Then I went back to Mc

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 4, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Answering my own questions My perspective on the MIT student mentality about working hard.

  

  desk instead of listening to the teacher. You probably know how it goes ... plenty of dorm rooms open, but I'm not really sure how it would work ... competition between students, and is it destructive competition? Before I give a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 10, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  And miles to go before I sleep. Here we go again.

  

  talked it over with me today. His final words as we parted? "You've got a long night ahead of you." Great. The thing is, I know how to handle these ... Of Toolage, cementing its place in history. As long as there is MIT

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 27, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Entry: Engineers Without Borders Environmental engineering major Tiffany'12 fills in on international development

  

  take a shower! What does this mean for term life? It's actually a lot of ... semester, it's easy to forget that there exists an entire world outside of ... not being able to take a shower after a long day's work. Now picture

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 14, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Fall Line-Up, Part 1: Classes My academic plans.

  

  metal surface after we beam light at it. Then, each pair does three more ... structure, and how it's rotating. THE SPEED AND MEAN LIFE OF COSMIC-RAY MUONS ... they stop moving, how long do they have before they decay? All these

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 12, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  These are the drones you’re looking for Aerospace engineers: what do they do in their free time?

  

  long-distance marriage thing. But I've had a pretty productive year: I ... hitching up my covered wagon and hitting the Oregon Trail. (Is that not how ... professional aerospace engineer does in his free time. Build model airplanes

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 12, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  looking at old journals gap year chronicles, ft thoughts on science, art, and moving through the world

  

  smells of wine, how long it takes to build a fire. (Although there is a ... . To quote: It's funny how I feel a little bit frantic a low ... surviving in a car. It's lovely to recall how much of myself I poured in to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 23, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT students do it all night. A salute to sleep deprivation, Aztec philosophy, and grape-catching.

  

  Tuesday, but it's dedicated to Tuesday, because on Tuesday morning I pulled ... the star of fire to reach the zenith. Once it did, the priest would remove the heart of this man, and replace it with a piece of wood, that was

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  October ‘06 Questions Omnibus Some advice from MIT interviewers, and answers to your questions.

  

  , "How does someone become an admissions officer? Was there an opening when ... , would it be too long in the past to interest the admissions committee ... your essay based on how well it's written; rather, we're reading your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  CMU / Parallel Universe i am not a clown

  

  and sinigang mix. It's weird how like, we're all Filipino, but the way ... express mine. It's wild how much the three of us shared. We're all Filipino ... " each other relationship. It's strange how the internet leads to these

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Philosophy Things liberty, property, consent - that kind of stuff

  

  which it most definitely does not actually equal? See here: One of my ... . Secondly: what does Nozick tell us about how property can come to be held ... proposition that “appropriation is just” as long as it is done in a way such

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 11, 2016