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  My MIT Story How I came to be at MIT

  

  drive from my house. In fifth grade my parents and I were driving to my ... a ten year old. "Michael, where do you want to go to college?" Say ... ." "Alright, what do you like to do in school?" "I like math. . ." "MIT is a

  • by Snively '11
  • July 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Riddles, Research, and Nerds with Power Tools My week.

  

  . And since I can't really pick which one I most want to tell you about, I decided to blog about all of them. *** Part the First: Riddles As you may ... for me to join the official Simmons Hall team, which has played the Hunt

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 24, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  Finally, I Wrote a Post about Grad School "grad's cool"

  

  note="tbt applying to MIT >4 years ago"]incredibly familiar ... "]need[/annotation] something to worry about for the future. Why did I apply to Ph.D. programs? It's the thing you do if you major in life sciences and want to get a

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 30, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What do you see now? they say genius likes to alternate between the soil and the sky

  

  2 types of games. Finite games where the goal is to win on a finite time horizon. Infinite games where the goal is to keep contributing to the indefinite play of the game itself. For example, art

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • May 23, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  What I’m taking this semester! senior fall

  

  shudder every time I look back on [annotation note="Intro to Probability"]6 ... freedom to choose what classes I want to take now that I'm close to ... "smarter", I've just become used to working on assignments for longer periods

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 4, 2024
• Blog / Announcements

  We are reinstating our SAT/ACT requirement for future admissions cycles in order to help us continue to build a diverse and talented MIT

  

  At MIT Admissions, our mission is to recruit, select, and enroll a ... to find and admit students who will succeed at MIT and serve the world afterward.  After careful consideration, we have decided to reinstate our SAT

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 28, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  tryharding but still not enough

  

  legal and okay amount of classes to take, and it means that my schedule has a lot more free time for me to do other things and really focus on doing well in school. It's a lot of free time for me to be a tryhard. For

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • March 20, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  processing in which I visit home and take time to think

  

  remember why it was that I went home, but one Friday I took the train down to ... note="I’m obsessed with baths, which I’ll tell to anyone who cares to ... ’s not just academic exhaustion. If it were, I would know how to handle it

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Blog Projects

  mit bingo! as done by the bloggers

  

  super fun and hilarious -- and at the very least, you have to admit that ... ^-^ Abby: “been to verdes after 2 am”: I had a radio show from 1-2 in the morning my freshman fall and would often stop at verdes to shop in a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 7, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Second Semester Schedule + Thoughts A mind-dump of excellent quality

  

  minimum needed to pass your classes, usually resulting from MIT's pass ... apathy that they forget about their [annotation note="Brief Introduction to ... ="MIT's Writing course/major"]21W[/annotation] classes are HARD to get into. In the

  • by Powers '23
  • February 19, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  incoming how i’ve been spending my iap yes get ready for like 8 of these in a row

  

  This past week and a half I've been slowly adjusting to life at MIT ... California and practically begging my mother to send me back to the cold hellhole that is Massachusetts. In this time, I've been trying to keep

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 16, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  my application essays try not to cringe

  

  It's been four years since I applied to MIT, and while I've been ... again. Of course, this is only one approach to the essays. The most important thing is to be true to yourself. We know you lead a busy life

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 27, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  bursting the MIT Bubble when 🅱️ig 🅱️ome Energy gets too real

  

  college is supposed to be a stepping-stone to adulthood, where undergrads can attempt to be functional human beings an environment conducive to trial and error. we can turn in our psets barefoot and then binge

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 17, 2019
• Blog / Public Statements

  The Class of 2019 Graduates from MIT

  

  (webcast embedded from commencement website. I'll return to this blog post throughout the day to add pictures and videos).  Today, Friday, June ... , auspiciously, on Super Pi Day (3/14/15 at 9:26AM) to begin their MIT education

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 7, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  a semester i’m excited for to the tune of "a girl worth fighting for"

  

  semester is comprised of classes I actually really want to take. Here are ... fraction of classes per semester that I actually wanted to take and the ... want to take! I'm even excited for the required classes, which is really

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 7, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  Two Years and how it's changed me

  

  is time? I keep trying to type about things that are different, but there are so many things that come to mind that I've been pressing backspace on this line for the past twenty minutes, trying to convey this

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 28, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work Hard, Play Hard Me trying to find a balance between work and fun

  

  studying rather than going to whatever social thing my friends were doing ... always put in my best effort to try to make it up to them; however, for a number of reasons I feel like my ability to balance work/school with

  • by Ben O. '19
  • July 6, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Revolution Some really cool things are happening in Boston

  

  to the Freshman Pre-Orientation Program called Discover History and ... letters for saying that a group of us pre-frosh got to go tour some really ... had the gumption and self-reliance to strike out as their own

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 12, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I Remember…

  

  It is difficult for me to accept that the MIT Blogs are turning 10 ... in my own MIT application. I remember the day I brought it to the post ... downtown to pick up the envelope, and the rush of feelings that went along

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Stop and Smell the Seasons Before it's winter and your nose is so numb you can't smell anything.

  

  -lined asphalt to Honey Pot Hills Orchards. Laden with sleepy MIT students, the ... plastic bags and enthusiasm. It was like we had found a way to bottle the effervescence of autumn in just one day. Photo credits to Elisa '17. Thanks for

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • November 3, 2013