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• Blog / Admissions

  Let’s talk about interviews The ultimate guide

  

  -dimensional person, which is what we strive to do with all the other parts of the ... based on the availability of alumni in your region of the world.  It is ... not, because it is based on the availability of ECs in your area

  • by Melissa Cao '20
  • October 24, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Two short stories My last three weeks in a nutshell.

  

  Recruitment, while giving people equal time to all five of MIT's sororities, is ... 's left is for me to stop believing that my cursory knowledge of all of this ... 've always been the first person to make fun of them. Between the claims of

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 24, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A catchup I answer questions, now that I'm no longer drugged...

  

  'm happy to report that I feel much better now. I was seriously out of it ... . Are you required to take 2 or 4? Is the CI-M required (for, say ... of that can be satisfied by 3 or so more classes. Daniel is exactly

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mini-Guide to the GIRs Now I've been through them - don't make the same mistakes I did.

  

  level of chemistry coming in to 5.112 or be comfortable with calc coming ... I feel slightly weird to be typing away on the MIT blogs again, when the farthest thing on my mind right now is MIT. BUT - I feel like if I

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 10, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  There’s a Story in Which My Eyes Shut Am I changed enough?

  

  changed. MIT is a school. Not a reactor. Not a speedway to prestige or ... reflection of MIT windows not who I want to see? Is who I was before not good ... ? Don't you know the sky is the same here? Don't you see it? The base of

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 25, 2021
• Blog / How to MIT

  My History of Task-Management boy, is it a long one

  

  random shit to keep track of, but honestly, I had so much going on in high ... ... Customization is annoying. Bro, what if I want to indicate progress on something ... had to stay on top of. Also, in middle & high school, teachers don

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 21, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  When I used to run A reflection on sitting still for a semester

  

  long of it is that I don’t know if I can do what I want to do with my ... could do all of my hobbies on the side, but you can’t do that here. Or at ... of me was hesitant to talk about that whole dilemma on the blogs, but

  • by Powers '23
  • December 16, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Life Rationing Problem how do you save a life

  

  general rationing problem in which some people must lose out on what is ... strongly depend on the moral measure of intuition to arrive at a solution ... scenarios, either of which will result in loss of life, what scenario is the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 15, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Premed and Me (frankly speaking) MIT is hard, but MIT premed doesn't have to suck. Here's why.

  

  the basis of at least 2-5 points on a test or exam, or whoever pulled ... pertinent to what was going on in my mind: is it right to feel like any less ... that is. That bit makes what I do an extension of who I am, which is

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 29, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  The Art of Scheduling breaking and forming habits

  

  bright light, and rods allow you to see better in the dark, which is why ... make it better. The first draft of that is here: [visually ... , in half hour blocks. On every day, Get Out of Bed is scheduled in for

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every Piece of Media I Consumed in My First Week of Class that was relevant to my studies, i guess

  

  class, it is a media studies class, we do listen to music in and out of ... , and how all of this is a system working together to produce noises ... This semester, I'm taking a wide array of classes, from music to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 13, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  My freshman year is almost over honest thoughts on it

  

  syndrome, but oh well. No amount of achievement is going to soothe that as ... , but I turned it into a source of motivation to make tenth grade better ... should’ve been kinder and gentler to myself instead of intimidating myself

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • May 16, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  Slay the Spire as metaphor i didn't waste 60 hours playing for nothing

  

  a set amount of energy or money that you can use to play your cards ... . Each act has sixteen floors, the last of which is a boss fight; beat ... , which increases the chance of you drawing good cards. This is one of the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 21, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Blogographical Biography ...although whatever 'blogographical' means, I somehow doubt it applies to a blog containing graphs.

  

  At 8:57 AM on December 15, 2007, I was admitted to the Massachusetts ... were: the process by which I knit a replica of the spawn of Cthulhu ... of my blogtastic tenure, you may find that I tend to describe concepts

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 9, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Schedule Is Awesome & it's better than Snively's / Sometimes completely unrelated entries are posted in pairs.

  

  . This is a weekly nighttime graduate seminar on 'Responsive Cities' which ... , and of course I have APO meetings on Wednesday nights... but that's just ... No class Fridays, the end. (actually the above screenshot is a lie

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • February 13, 2009
• Blog / Events

  So much to do, so little time There's always something exciting going on at MIT.

  

  . Yes, all of this is going on right this very minute. It would be hard for me to choose which to attend, if I didn't have to be working on ... are on campus to see a lecture upstairs by Nobel Prize winner Ted Hänsch

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  me, existing one day at a time

  

  is, I can only really make it on Thursdays, which is a bit of a bummer ... 's actually kind of funny—I was taking my cat to the pet groomer and on the way ... . I really like my lab! The short version of what I'm doing is to

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 2, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  You Are Welcome Here (and at Elmhurst College too)

  

  of teens at his school. It is about gender and how kids are choosing to ... things about MIT is that we are not part of the common application, which ... Dubstep. Okay, so someone please tell how this is any better than music from

  • by Kris Guay
  • August 29, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Preparing for Pi Day MIT decisions come out this Friday: what to do between now and then...

  

  then on pi day all you have to do is follow up that email or note with ... waiting for wifi access (especially on a retreat day where I was supposed to ... thrill of waiting for the admissions results page to load by proxy, via my

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 10, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  I’m Graduating Early??? [NOT CLICKBAIT] also: the unification of course 7

  

  to occur around the first week of June. The '18s graduated on June 8 ... minimized. However, graduating on June 8 means you have to move out of the ... decision[/annotation] to move commencement to the week of Memorial Day, which

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 1, 2019