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• Blog / Life after MIT

  I may have been accepted to MIT, but I'm getting darned good at failing at other things!

  

  to it and how best to react. My first layoff helped me put the employer ... sometimes, no matter how hard you work, you're just going to fail, and it's ok ... from our floor lounge to the homepage of the admissions website and got

  • by Snively '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day at the Forge blacksmithing!

  

  ; everything you need, and lots of things you don’t know how to use. The place ... hammer to create a certain bend, how to heat just the part you wish to bend ... 't know how to bring them to fruition, the instructors probably do. One

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 19, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2022 Wait List An update for students who accepted a place on our wait list

  

  to assess how many, if any, students we will admit from our wait list ... have put in to letting us know how much you love MIT, and regret that we ... According to the admissions profession's Code of Ethics and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 8, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Monday A Boston institution.

  

  going to tell you how to spend your weekends, but do be sure to spend at ... ’m referring to the Boston Marathon (won by Kenyan runner Geoffrey Mutai in ... celebratory atmosphere. I made my way from North Station to Kenmore Square

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 19, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist We have admitted 20 waitlisted students.

  

  committee worked hard over the course of several days to determine how many ... For the second consecutive year, we have been able to admit students ... can then choose to accept our offer (it is an understood part of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 17, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Pre-Campus Preview Weekend GET PUMPED.

  

  weekend. You have no idea how excited I am to meet you all. See you soon! ... ! If you're not, well, to quote Phyo '10, "GET PUMPED!" I didn't get to go last year, so I'll be running around pretending I'm trying to decide

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 11, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s All About The Process Take a moment, then get back in the game.

  

  at MIT. So much so that I am proud to say that many are more like ... this class. For many there is a perception that the only way to increase diversity is to 'relax the standards'. I can't speak for other Colleges

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  a blog from the universe aka me + my tarot cards + finals season procrastination

  

  ’s my general understanding of how to approach tarot. I’m going to model ... tarot deck is how the artwork really tells the story, which I’ll try to ... feel the itch to blog. So, I turned to the world’s best enabler- a coin

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • December 14, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Our mother shoulda just named you Laika! Come on Alex, you can do it.

  

  how you vow to reinvent yourself, you will still be yourself at the end ... how many times your mom yells at you to pick up your clothes, you ... had intended to give mine to another relative but forgot to, and so they

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  I’m Poor!!! But I don't have to be!

  

  also worked a full time internship during the summer, in addition to ... . This turned out to be a good thing because it made the summer pass by quite quickly. Unfortunately, when I got to MIT, the work continued but

  • by Snively '11
  • April 5, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Your Profile On The Web: Can It Hurt You? Responses to questions on Facebook and other internet profiles and how they can affect college…

  

  could interview me over email for an article she's writing, on how ... responding to her questions, I realized that my answers may be useful to others as potential MIT '11s gear up to begin the admissions process. Below is

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hometown Heroes The first of articles about awesome MIT '09s.

  

  about how important it was to do well in school." [...] McGee recalls ... head off to college. I'll often get emailed them, though this summer I ... Heroes," based on local, hometown news articles about students goign off to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 25, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  soulsearching / naubos na in which i ramble about purpose

  

  when I didn’t know how to begin, he asked me what I, ideally, wanted to ... major in? How will that tie in to what I want to do in the future? And ... my choices. But how much does that really matter to me? How much

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 22, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Be a Blogger 2022!

  

  it’s like to live on Conner 2, or plan REX, or UROP, or decide how to ... time for those of you who might want to be bloggers to share your garbage ... posting the blogger app and prospective bloggers coming out of the woods to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2022
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2019!

  

  live in Conner 2, or plan stuff for REX, or UROP, or decide how to pick ... you who might want to be bloggers to share your thoughts with the world! What does it mean to be an admissions blogger? The best representatives

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Ops Air Force A summer spent with B-1Bs and C-130s.

  

  lead and how much they contribute to our Air Force. In ROTC, during the ... opportunity to attend a 3 week base visit called "Ops Air Force" during the ... Development Training (PDT) program designed to give cadets a better view of Air

  • by ROTC
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tale of Two Majors Trying an Evel Knievel approach with my studies.

  

  ?!?!? Yours truly. Well, not anymore but that's how I used to be. When I first started off at MIT, I thought that the only way to learn was to take a bunch of classes and try to get as many degrees as humanly possible. My

  • by Bryan
  • November 16, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Africans@MIT: The Accra Experiment This week in the series: a Ghanaian research initiative by a dedicated MIT senior

  

  , from how it emphasized research to how it started kids so young. He saw ... bent, so grows the tree’. Teach small kids how to do things, and by the ... wanted to teach students how to write papers and proposals, how to read

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 8, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  socializing over zoom it's been rough

  

  like, socially. And no matter how I try to frame it in my mind, making ... -than-acquaintances-not-quite-friends-yet, and a lot of [annotation note="idk how to characterize levels of ... to really tell how reciprocal it is. IRL, you can easily see the people

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 24, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  OUTRAGED. #ican'tbreathe

  

  therapy to get some sense of how to move forward. And yet, everyone around ... disparities, imagine how hard it must be to actually be in their shoes, and to ... do about it, or how to deal with it. I know that it's things like these

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • May 31, 2020