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• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Fifth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to blog comments from the last month.

  

  , and they responded: "We usually try not to conduct any telephone ... participation not that worthy to put down?" I'd put these down and explain them ... done there... which is quite a lot.) As I do not intend to write an essay

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Super Adventure Club In a little while, I'll be gone.

  

  there, we're driving not to my house, but to my grandmother's house in ... 've told this to basically everybody I saw today and I feel like I'm just recklessly complaining, but here goes: Today I had a to-do list of 23 things to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 25, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  The Art of Juggling please take away my balls

  

  literally just learned how to play poker that day. Shout out to poker club ... though it is definitely not normal to cough that much. I wasn't giving ... 'm slowly starting to learn how to quiet the small voice in my head that says

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 23, 2019
• Blog / Classes

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

  

  emotionally over with, so I'm not as scared to fail again. I know it's good to ... led to my ultimate demise was not starting problem sets when they were ... release how I managed to do this because it is so embarrassing to my core

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 11, 2022
• FAQ / Afford

  Does MIT provide CSS Profile waivers?

  Some students of certain incomes are able to have the their CSS Profile fees waived by the College Board. MIT is not able to offer a fee ... to your family, you are welcome to wait until you learn if you've been
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Activities, humanities, question-ities Will you have time to be in an extracurricular at MIT? Yes, you will.

  

  -the-waitlistee) '10, who asked, How many hours a week did you/do you dedicate to ... everyone how to stunt and cheer and dance, but it's really more for ... RIAA to see it. Answer: I used to use Kazaa. But I do not now, partially

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Our Essay Questions i am havink qvestion

  

  didn’t go according to plan. How did you manage the situation ... during the summer, so I wanted to share these with you. When and how you ... , as readers of this blog likely know, MIT does not use the Common App

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 1, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Reading folders A little bit more on evaluating applications.

  

  , how you relate to peers and teachers. Then, I read the secondary school ... Once upon a time, there was an application to MIT... It's a Monday ... down to read my applications, one at a time. I start reading the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Procrastination in the Time of Corona i have so much time and so many ways to procrastinate my work

  

  free time and loneliness. While I generally try not to literally do ... that's not possible, my lab is trying to translate all of our in ... , but I was LITERALLY allergic to the air pollution and could not get very

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 24, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, decisions Now that you've been accepted to college, you have to decide where you'll spend the…

  

  even how to write the Greek letters that filled the board. Let’s say ... . Don’t despair, you honestly do not have to go out and buy a “Nerd Kit ... all, they probably would be willing to teach you how to do those things

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 4, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  More On The Interview… You don't need to take up the crumhorn to look "different."

  

  something else of interest to your interview. This is not a requirement or an ... I wanted to offer a few more comments on the interview. While we have ... have somewhat different styles of how the conversations will go, the main

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 30, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger Application 2010 Apply...if you dare!

  

  you do not presently keep a blog, you now have 3.5 weeks to create and ... in the sun for the last two days, and when I got on it to ride to work this morning the grip literally melted to my bike gloves. 2) Vacations

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 7, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Karen: A Short History Finally.

  

  -developed countries. And not just because it's, like, a good thing to do, but because I ... need to learn how to cook, and I still have new music to discover, and I ... per person that pledges not to eat on Thursday. Go here to sign up or to

  • by Karen F. '11
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  getting back in the groove 🎵groovy groovy🎵

  

  and not painful to do. Having to sit down and listen to thermodynamics ... and LinkedIn, but not relative to most people or college freshman ... 'm not itching to go back out of boredom. School has always very much been

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 3, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Batman Picks a Username learn from him.

  

  Trouble thinking up a good Kerberos username? Take some hints from Batman.

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 8, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  the person you are now oversharing on the internet

  

  in whatever food I wanted. Absolutely guilt free. I have not been to ... blood pressure's kind of fucked and it's not a good idea to go on a high ... 't "Asian enough" to join it, not because of their advertising, but more of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 3, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Three things I didn’t learn from class behold, the listicle

  

  classes. How to use a bandsaw A bandsaw is this machine with a thin metal ... one of the East Campus events, I learned how to use an electric drill ... Lodge, a training program for first-years on how to use various tools. I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 26, 2019
• Blog / Events

  How many engineers does it take to change a light bulb? If you asked somebody what 'for' was for, what would it be?

  

  Answer to the subtext: Meta-phor! Also, a clue to the answer to the ... from high school are starting to come back to Boston for the summer, and ... proof that a post could be hazardous to your mental health. If you walk

  • by Cam T. '13
  • May 7, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  short term / long term on growth and learning

  

  out of place with recent events. I've tried a lot to figure out how to ... taught me how to code would somehow ease these feelings, quell them long ... feel, what I can do to fix it, and how I'm going to go about this summer

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 10, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Dah noo-loo Hey kah ay-ay u-nye

  

  actually were given a 15 minute talk in the bus about how to behave while not ... their "talk to people not from MIT" routines. It's funny, MIT is in a ... to get the attention of the representative. While maybe not as

  • by Snively '11
  • September 25, 2008