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• Blog / Admissions

  Interview Tips from an MIT Educational Counselor Thoughts on how to prepare for your alumni interview

  

  can’t believe I graduated from MIT 10 years ago! Each time I am lucky ... of where, when, and with whom your interview is with. 1. Don’t wait ... , and I don’t hesitate to include that in my interview report. Remember

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Help! Learn from my mistakes...and from the Beatles.

  

  …and which lay the smackdown on my morale for a couple of months. I couldn’t ... potential." A writing tutor?! Again, I was stunned. I couldn't believe it. He ... appointment with the tutor, but that would be a lie. I didn’t even look up her e

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 23, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Collective Apprehension Seems like my last entry freaked everyone out. No worries guys! You can do it!…

  

  someone. Yeah, sounds cool doesn't it? I can teach you now. Ready? If ... gloved hand, of course), that glove is now contaminated and can't touch ... something. I didn't bring my camera, but only because I knew Bryan would be

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Walking the Kerry Way journal of my fourth day in Ireland

  

  couldn't afford all the hostels along the Kerry Way, I was so afraid of camping. I didn't really know the territory. I would definitely not camp ... ="225"] the sheep are blue![/caption] I didn't see any routes on Google

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 10, 2023
• Blog / Events

  dtyd weekend all party, no planning (for once)

  

  freshman year. it was insanely fun. on Saturday, I didn't have any time to ... than a dead audience"]didn't cheer for us[/annotation] and we had to hype ... performed at 7:15, we were quite late. it didn't help that Bhangra costumes

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 19, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  by bike, by train, by wind, by rain getting around different cities

  

  translates to used cars — some are cheap enough that doubling the price wouldn’t ... cut you off. Bikes are parked everywhere. People don’t lock them to ... doesn’t seem to happen often, and the freedom of being able to leave your

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  work-life balance (without a life)

  

  's different. i don't feel as comfortable inviting someone to play board games ... , because they don't like the same things i do, or because they need to go ... learn. on weeknights, the ones where there aren't any volleyball games or

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 10, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  major uncertainty switch 2 A 6-2?

  

  that go twisty twisty and stretchy stretchy. The thing was, I didn’t ... didn’t feel like I would dislike the content of 2.001 that much. I wouldn’t ... child. Well, I was right on some things! I actually didn’t dislike the

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 2, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  to the skeletons in my closet an open letter to you

  

  couple of friends, but i don't think people understood that i thought we ... a pleasing "i don't need you to be successful." and with every accolade i added to my list i couldn't help but hope that you saw them, too

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 27, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2021 another year another book post

  

  ). Content warning for domestic violence. This isn't a short story, but I think ... a kind of breach to it, I think. You could say that my writing isn’t ... this wasn't even assigned reading in class, it was just mentioned in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 20, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  conversations with friends so many different ways to feel lost

  

  but it's weird cuz like, it doesn't fully feel like home anymore it ... time to be lost though right m: yeah! i don’t think ill actually ever have direction again i think most people don’t maybe direction is kinda

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 21, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rekindling and how mit is actually going to save my art career

  

  computer, and a wireless pen with six adjustable tips. There wasn’t a screen ... this time, LED tablets were either extremely expensive or couldn’t ... "]near-zero.[/annotation] Plus, I didn’t bring my drawing tablet with me, and my [annotation note

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  many thoughts head full

  

  Raymond and Aiden, two absolute saints who are basically the reason I didn't ... , and while I didn't mind this that much because it was nice and cozy and ... , just to repeat the whole cycle all over again. I think IAP for me hasn't

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 26, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  breathing in and out

  

  in every direction, eventually reaching manila. you couldn’t drive very ... the air, an engine breathing out the exhaust gases that it doesn’t want ... sounds like: there aren’t regular classes, but there are lots of activities

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 12, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A recipe for disaster Behind the scenes of the "giant pie" video

  

  so we couldn’t use them Kristen is an actual course 2 and made the ... Campus but the steel was so heavy, we weren’t sure if it would support all the concrete blocks we were going to stack on top of it. We couldn’t

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • March 11, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  The November Rule parete legi novembri

  

  and even failing tests, and you feel like you're stupid and you don't ...  suddenly find that you don't have a group of friends, and most friend groups have ... this won't happen. But most of us here have seen it happen, and that

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 1, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  love or lust

  

  coolness of the UROP that i had done that year, which i hadn't thought about ... , it is right. other times but most moments aren’t like that — most ... , panicked. most days are just days. most days, the stars don’t align; they

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • October 18, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Faking It self-consciousness and struggling and pretending to be cool, woo

  

  what happens when i don't. The week before my freshman year of college ... Phoebe (@phxbe) on Aug 14, 2014 at 10:56pm PDT (I haven't updated ... discipline when it comes to sleep. But the story is always, "I didn't go to

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 24, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 2 Tempering Iron

  

  -part post. That being said, I’ll assume for now that academics at MIT won’t change--indeed, it’s possible they won’t have to so long as the way we ... analytical vigor also only lasted so long. I felt helpless. I didn’t understand

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 28, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  So the rest of your decisions are coming in and let's take a second to talk about it

  

  you’re like 92% of kids who applied to MIT, then you probably didn’t get ... go!” and “a decision doesn’t define your worth as a person,” and “hun ... anxieties aren't miraculously cured. How many times have you been reminded of

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • March 27, 2015