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• Blog / Challenges

  Failing and perfectionism

  

  to how someone confronts failure. The goal of high achievement is to ... ; The goal of perfectionism is more similar to a survivalist mindset. If ... of shit I was going to eat, sometimes served on a high-speed conveyor

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 12, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Regular-ing Or: Over-justifying how much I eat out

  

  is having an internalized map of a place: a favorite table or spot on ... ’ perfect (which is why I don’t mind shamelessly plugging it on the blog). BUT ... reasonable, I can order on my phone, all the food is vegetarian, and it’s one

  • by Powers '23
  • January 26, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The Story of Tonight (more like 730 nights ago)

  

  week since I watched Hamilton on tour. An entire week of attempting to do ... the experience of watching Hamilton is to compare it to finishing a ... better version of myself. To shape tomorrow in whatever way I choose. To do

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 1, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT, Medicine, and Success from Any School thirteen years in a thousand words

  

  approached me after class to ask, "Did you see that LSU is taking out-of ... -threatening hemorrhage in a matter of minutes at delivery (which is why it was once known ... famous HM case, which is what spurred my interest in neuroscience in the

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What are the housing/dining options?

  Housing is a huge part of undergraduate life at MIT. You choose where ... choose to join a conventional meal plan with access to dining halls, or you ... ) community. (Or maybe you want a combination of both!) Just like our
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Three Tales of Junior Year Accidental Harvard Class, UROPs, Experimenting in College

  

  -affiliated mentor, you can get pay or academic credit. One of my summer UROPs is for ... article, the exact kind of piece I'd want to work on. MIT has one of about ... The Accidental Harvard Class It is possible to miss a class. Not in

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 10, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Cancer life-changing.

  

  a number of events and fundraisers on campus to raise the $65,000 we ... entire series of books on, and it’s not over yet. The main storyline is ... still need to be solved, and this is only one of them. I can’t wait until

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 18, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  How To Fumble Your Way Through MIT and Still Turn Out Pretty Okay Step 1: Fumble. Step 2: Turn out pretty okay.

  

  't redirect me to youarenotblack.com again." You can see why none of this is ... 're a troll or your argument is baseless. And on that inflammatory note ... introduction for the uninitiated: My name is Keri, I used to write here, and as a

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Killing Time…Not Really guest post by Sheila B.'21

  

  plan. Or improvise. After end of IAP rolled around, I was one of those ... excitedly spoke of internships at Microsoft, Google, or MISTI, I frantically ... summer, and for the later part of summer managed to persuade Amber H. '11

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 15, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Haunters what it takes to scare MIT students

  

  , especially when the thing you’re trying to anticipate is “how will a group of ... pigeon-themed elements, from the art on the outside wall to one of the ... Man, but also the producer of this year's Next Haunt! There is a lot

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Concourse, of course or how to make the most of your freshman year at MIT

  

  program changed their life. Nobody had to convince me. I spent most of the ... curriculum filled with theater, drawing, and jazz would help him to focus on ... of course, he should do it. And then I started to think about the kids

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 30, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  September Questions Omnibus 2 Questions Omnibus is the place to come for "official" answers!

  

  kind of supplemental material that is very useful. I look forward to ... on the computer printout of the part 1" Yes, we are happy to accept ... to you is to start the application well in advance of the deadline in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 23, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Discovering Yourself A bit more mushy than normal. . . deal.

  

  dropped, which will they be? On MIT's application you'll have to remember ... do just for fun, which was actually one of the harder things to write ... to college is as meaningful for you as it was for me. A big part of the

  • by Snively '11
  • June 13, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What’s new and exciting? You get to pick a blog topic! Yes, you! Definitely not me!

  

  in order to obtain a pair of shoes on a tax holiday (Columbus would ... on my way to biology recitation, I was stabbed by a deep, instinctive ... someone in our wide, mysterious world was once compelled to design a pair of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 16, 2008
• Blog / Announcements

  We have extended the Regular Action deadline to January 6th, 2021 in order to give our applicants (and our staff) some extra time around the holidays

  

  I am popping my head out of committee for a moment to [annotation ... applying to us for Regular Action, but we presume you're getting a lot of ... not need to do anything special to request or claim this extension

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 8, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy New Year! how i celebrated the coming apocalypse

  

  morning of the 17th, when it went live, I was on a plane to Denver with my ... generally agree that almost anything can be improved if it is shot out of a cannon and/or set on fire.   Ma! Pa! Big news from the big city

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 3, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  a quick and dirty guide to MIT jargon what is a 6-3 anyway?

  

  — it doesn't refer to course 3, which is materials science. 6-1 is ... decimal bear some reference to the level of difficulty or order you should ... either an acronym or a number. There's a quirky language to MIT, a handful

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 7, 2022
• FAQ / Academics and research

  How good are the academics at MIT?

  MIT is one of the best places in the world to be a student ... able to do everything on your own, so you'll find (or make) a few friends ... , currently on our faculty and all of them teach undergraduate classes. In fact
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  glassblowing & me a series of memories

  

  prompt for our weekly poem; this week, what we write is up to us. Purely on ... concert. The set is transcendent, and we're all in the frame of mind to let ... set. They changed the lights on each piece/shape of it individually to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 18, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This one goes out to the parent Fire! (she's comin' down on her own, now)

  

  like 3% of our current energy comes from renewable sources, to be honest ... will present a summary of the findings in class on Monday. In the mean ... --they were derived from your answers to Homework problem number 1) or

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 15, 2007