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• Blog / Admissions

  Ask me anything about portfolios Go ahead—don’t be shy!

  

  tl;dr Today I’ll be answering your questions about MIT portfolios in the comment section below. To tide you over before questions come in, I ... creative individuals interested in an education centered on science and

  • by Jeremy W.
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  scootin’ and zoomin’ a transportation saga

  

  Way back in September, I had the difficult, difficult task of writing ... whiteboard care to dotted lines on blackboards (i can make circles in both ... only if] true" and "i can only count to 3" and "i haven't seen you in

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 18, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  All the advice you’ll need for the next twelve hours not clickbait

  

  to handle, there's no shame in distracting yourself with things to do. Right now, it can feel like the most important thing in the world is what you'll hear in the next few hours. Your mental and emotional health are

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 14, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Celeste the best video game i've played in months

  

  in my life right now, other than finals week and Celeste. Celeste is the first video game I've picked up in months, mostly because my friends ... climb walls, but she has limited stamina. Madeline can dash once in one of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 13, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Designing dead ends A look into the "misc." folder on my desktop

  

  In August I celebrated my four year [annotation note="🍰"]workiversary[/annotation]as the in-house designer on the communications team at MIT Admissions and Student Financial Services. Essentially, in the months when I’m not reading

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 24, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything is cool tl;dr I want to study too many things

  

  interesting things in the world, and I’m feeling lost and confused in the best ... vaguely in order of decreasing personal importance: Physics. I’m taking ... , but I’m pretty sure that I want to major in it. Computer science

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 11, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  How does one write a first post? This probably isn't the way...

  

  —drafts that never made it past the first sentence and exist in a folder on his ... initial goal was a tad ambitious if not dramatic. With this revelation in mind, he did what anyone in his position would do: he spent hours on You

  • by kellen manning
  • December 12, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Countdown to Burnout the clock is ticking

  

  'll usually respond, in my experience, no matter how famous"]acclaimed author ... gets thrown around a lot in the context of life, MIT, what comes after ... training, and there's no time to dwell on anything else except the feeling in

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 12, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to change majors in just five easy steps!

  

  's, and C's do."] ABC/NR. [/annotation] For me, it came in the fall of my sophomore year, shortly after I declared a major in [annotation note ... between being unhappy with and uninterested in your classes and just being

  • by Alex M. '21
  • September 14, 2019
• Blog / MISTI

  visual depictions of my summer i've been a busy, busy bee.

  

  ="1000"] Badminton[/caption] The Glass Palace in the Lalbagh Botanical Gardens in Bangalore was used to host flower shows in the 19th century ... ="aligncenter" width="768"] Part of the President's House in New Delhi[/caption] The

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 3, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  trips and transit i'm spending obscene amounts of money on uber god dang it

  

  i mentioned this in my previous blog post about LA, but let me reiterate: LA is not a city made for walking. like, in any sense ... sleep in till 7:45"]i usually leave at 7:33 to catch the 7:51 bus

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 10, 2019
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  the summer before senior year you've changed...

  

  songs. I learned 3 things. The Girl described in "Girl All the Bad Guys ... between good and bad music. In keeping with the theme of nostalgia and high ... seniors in high school. I am now a rising senior in college. It's crazy how

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 9, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  Watch the 2.009 final presentations webcast!

  

  Engineering Processes is a capstone course in Course 2 (Mechanical Engineering ... out there, it's sort of like FRC, but for products. From the website: In 2.009, Product Engineering Processes, [150] students work in large

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 10, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  extraordinary and everyday beauty the city in fall is my city

  

  "world's smallest" Trader Joe's across the river in Boston (which I would ... time I had a half-dozen, I felt like I just had to blog them (in addition ... spring in your step, you're about to buy lots of delicious food to cook

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 4, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus Hall Rush: 1E So many packing peanuts

  

  Hi friends! I'm Jamie and I'm a new blogger. I'm a senior in 2A-4, (flexible mechanical engineering with a concentration in design ... brings me to hall rush! Each hall in East Campus has a different culture

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • September 14, 2018
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  All the Blogs I Didn’t Blog A memorial

  

  summer, in no particular order. Enjoy. I have one foot in the door of Jaded Senior and one foot still in the hallway of Dear God What Am I Doing ... Superfreakanomics Superintelligence Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • August 14, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Be A Blogger (2018)! welcome to THE INTERNET

  

  It's summer in Cambridge, which means three things: I'm taking ... ’s like to live in Conner 2, or plan stuff for REX, or UROP, or decide how to pick your classes, or a really cool new thing you learned today in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 30, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  SUMMER ROSES stop and smell 'em

  

  In the past five weeks or so, the pace of my life has dramatically ... ’s this tendency at MIT to start making summer plans all the way back in ... that are available in that time appear endless. It really makes you feel

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 25, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Remaking MITadmissions.org we are psychic vampires, please give us your ideas

  

  We're closing in on Pi Day and still in the midst of making decisions ... help in making MITAdmissions better. tl;dr: this summer, we're going to ... complete overhaul, probably exceeding in terms of potential transformation

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 9, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  ; You can log in using the same username and password that you use to log in to your MyMIT account. There are no interim screens, so you should be sure you are ready to receive your decision online before logging in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 14, 2017