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• Blog / Advice

  an essay writing journey one of my MIT essays, as told through revision history

  

  To the rising seniors beginning to think about their college essays ... essays gave me the creative writing space that I never really got outside ... it and b. It timestamps every single edit you’ve ever made on the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 25, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  GELcamp project management… in the woods?

  

  Management), an intense four-day course for students in the Gordon ... leadership curriculum through weekly lectures and weekly hands-on labs over the ... continuing the program as a GEL2 during my senior year, where I help mentor and

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 6, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  sitting down no more sprinting

  

  the classics! I was only a ten-minute walk away during the summer, and I ... , Jenga-ed into the trunk of my roommate's parents’ car. The morning of August 20th, I carted my things up to my room on the third floor

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • October 12, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  major uncertainty switch 2 A 6-2?

  

  I realistically choose one?  Well, the truth is, I’m still pretty ... was super excited to take 2.007, which is one of the robotics classes at ... be pretty rough for me. To take the classes I wanted, I sort of had to

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 2, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m a physics major (for now) feeling scholarly, part 2/2

  

  Last week, I wrote all about the classes I took this past year. It ... myself having a lot to say about the impact those classes have had on how I ... ; though the earth science comes in through my research, and not through

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 26, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Navigating Offcampus Housing 101 finding housing is a fucking nightmare

  

  community. I went home until the end of the semester and moved in mid-May, so I wasn't involved in the process of finding an apartment. I'm told ... climb over a fence, but even so, it was all done the day we learned we

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 11, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Harvard Friends, Part 2 finding my quarantine dream team

  

  This is the second part of a two-part series about being an MIT ... with their [annotation note="the emergency grading policy of Pass ... ,[/annotation] in addition to the new stress of an unexpected return to family life

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 29, 2020
• 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 ... completely redesign our website (as well as the website for SFS). It will be a ... the move from our old site that Ben built back in 2006 to this, the site

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 9, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Slump and an unexpected summer

  

  good post to write on the occasion, or some significant reflection on my ... profound or at least informative on the subject. But the truth is, as a ... , and in the last few months, I feel like I’ve lost my way more than I

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • June 2, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  My “Normal” High School What it was like going to an ordinary high school

  

  number of things that they are worried about. Grades, SAT scores, the ... organization for lost orphaned baby whales in the middle of Africa, speak Spanish ... myself to my clubs and obtain a high position; however, the one thing I

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tales of my first Career Fair Among other things, shirts for the next 33 days

  

  the same day as the dreaded first 8.01 exam in addition to a 3.091 quiz, and an 18.02 exam on Friday. In the midst of spending the day studying ... my calendar. I have class from 10-12 and then the 18.02 exam from 2

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 2, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  3 Lessons Learned While Hiking and what they'll teach me here

  

  been in a position to take the semester off, to have supportive family and friends, and to have gotten exposure through the Boston Globe and various other news outlets, all of which contributed greatly to the

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An old man’s thought of school Whitman. X-men. Youth. Zymurgy.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The famous Pioneer Zephyr trains of the 1940's were named because a railway president wanted his trains to be considered the ... literally look up the last word in the dictionary, but decided that "zymurgy

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Al Kwon ‘08: Researching drug delivery Al Kwon, a Junior majoring in Biology, talks about some of his really exciting work…

  

  Robert Langer, an MIT Chemical Engineering professor, is one of the best-known biomedical engineers in the world. He holds 500 issued and pending patents and is in the National Inventors Hall of Fame for his

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus Okay, so it's not even really half a bus. But I'M not the one asking…

  

  .112, the next level of chemistry, which meant in order to keep the 18 ... smaller classes in which you review the lectures and ask questions about ... TA you like the best and go back to sleep.) So I finished my first

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Answering my own questions My perspective on the MIT student mentality about working hard.

  

  , headed off with the questions What is the student mentality with regard to work? Is the program composed of self-starters, with very little peer pressure to work hard, or do students in the program encourage each other to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 10, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  This One is for the Families… ...but applicants can read it as well...

  

  smart and when I called them from the airport as I was leaving in September they reminded me to take a moment in my discussion each day for the ... , or Waitlisted for the Class of 2013 and I know you all are waiting for

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 12, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Marching Band Refused to Yield Band in the name of love.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Kelly Clarkson was the most-played artist on American ... celebrate, I was going to do an entry about the MIT marching band's slush ... until I get a chance to get all the pictures together, here's a poem I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 4, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s the FIRST DAY of CLASSES!!!!! A summary of the first half of the day/how I'm feeling, with many exclamation points!!!

  

  HI EVERYONE~ It’s the FIRST DAY OF CLASSES and I haven’t blagged ... . Sometimes it turns out ok, I think. I’ve often had too much reverence for The ... a different country every month. It was pretty crazy. For the month

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: The Power of Intuition when making important choices

  

  The following is a guest post by Jorge T. '18.   The Power of Intuition   The deadline to accept college admissions offers is only a week ahead, so I thought I would share some of the things I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 21, 2015