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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  senioritis not to be confused with señoritis

  

  for someone. there is enough positive work for you to do until you find ... to sit my butt down on her linoleum floor for a few hours to help her ... surprising amount of momentum behind me, but i don't think i managed to pull

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

  An Open Letter to MIT Applicants Don’t Panic (and know where your towel is)

  

  ’t offer it. I’m lucky my family is financially stable enough for me to ... to a highly technical school like MIT, yet for some reason they gave my ... grateful for the opportunities you’ve had to push yourself and find passions

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Comprehensive Guide to Crying on Campus It’s right about that time of year.

  

  ’t just have been you who did bad, right? You want to sleep, preferably for around 24 hours to catch up with all the sleep you’ve missed this week. Seriously, when’s the last time you went to bed before 5 AM? But alas, your

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 16, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  sea glass turbulent waves in these parts

  

  the time of publishing this blog since i like to let my writing marinate a bit before throwing it out there for the internet to judge ... 've held for so long, than to finally break the inertia and deal with the

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 5, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  , to his boat for a sailing trip. in the hours before we set sail, we ate ... direction is important. you'll need to develop a sense for it." "isn't there ... , even if i looked forward to it for weeks. three. "how do you sail, then

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 22, 2022
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Some Advice Sometimes I wish I could tell freshman-me that everything's going to be okay

  

  where you instantly figure out what you want to do for the rest of your ... for group psetting, it's okay to want to work alone. Maybe you work ... might be able to find funding for your travels. Take advantage of your

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the exclusion of everything else on making decisions, and how i chose mit

  

  Boston. It got delayed, so I had to stay in Boston for another night ... that it was fine to stay for the night because I had friends in MIT that ... that would be better for me.] David says he was going to do some more

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  basic proofreading to three figures for a full-blown rewrite - the irony ... ." That's all we're really looking for. To clarify, I'm not ... 's nice to have someone say "don't take for granted that

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  25 Stories of Getting Accepted to MIT told by students and alums

  

  quit for a few hours after decisions came out, and had to wait about 90 ... right before they came out, checked, felt happy, went back to sleep for a ... as not to alert my parents who were home at that time “for no reason

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 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?

  

  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 ... strategy. For the first week of classes, you're allowed to add classes as

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  The Future Is Grim check it out

  

  just for the day. After that, he had to move me back to my original ... easier for him to say "Sorry Charlie", but hassle he suffered for my sleep ... Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department (or EECS for short (or

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 28, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Train Coming on navigating

  

  decided to move to the east coast for reasons I'll get into later."] the ... ?t=5756 -- When I got to the airport for my first ever flight, I ... outline of what to expect when we arrived: how to check in, where to go for

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 15, 2023
• Blog / Featured Blogs

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

  

  , which means heading to Copytech for 10 minutes a week and as a result getting paid $10 an hour to go to lecture. I taught SAT Prep for ESP, which ... is trying to kill you. I'm pretty lucky. Stay tuned for two pictures

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend

  

  interests you - FOR A LIVING! You get to make connections with renowned ... have a penchant for running around, introducing myself to professors, and ... 38 I wanted to take this fall, and gave up. I had room for four. This

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  [Guest Post] We’re Not in ~Kansas~ Missouri Anymore Going From a Small Town to Boston, by Claire S. '25

  

  -school-senior-me didn’t know how to answer. So I gave the only response I knew for sure ... decided to sacrifice the comfort of a small town for all MIT had to offer ... for me to adjust to: Struggling to find people with my background. As

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 17, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Have Never Been to Beijing A (loose) translation of the previous post written in Chinese

  

  post. Additional thanks to my mother for more Chinese-language editing ... Chinese-language post not mentioned here. The content is a bit different for ... them :) I have never been to Beijing. Whenever we returned to China

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2016
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  This story has to do with professor accessibility. And something awesome that I got in the mail.

  

  professor in the physics department lent to me. For privacy, let’s call him ... notice him. And then for Shakespeare to actually send the book…” She ... ask for it take the initiative to reach out for them.

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  neighborhoods we move into and come to love. What do pregnant mice, cheerleaders, and four-foot light-up tinsel giraffes have in common?

  

  For anybody too young to have seen my name at the top of the recent ... and brain and cognitive sciences, which means that I'm going to have my ... 'm here to update you on the breathtaking life of a biology PhD student

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 27, 2008
• Blog / Class Projects

  HOW TO FORGE A DRAGON SWORD and other skills picked up in 3.096

  

  [/caption] I started looking for inspiration and was pleased to find that while ... , which is the temperature needed for iron to turn red"]cold[/annotation] by ... blade needed to be for the balance point to be 2-3”.  However, my

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 7, 2023
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  “You know what would be cool?” some pizza would be a start...

  

  universities that you can go to for your education. It's not like MIT teaches ... 's like to be here (as a sidenote, I recently learned that going for 35 ... 's 0400 Saturday morning, and my roommate and I sit listening to whatever

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 8, 2009