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• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part 1 ECs are some of my favorite people in the world and you'll like them too.

  

  each of you is looking to find colleges where you feel you can spend the ... about you and you get to teach them about what makes you different and ... . They are also teachers of a type when they talk to each of you during

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My first real internship

  

  battle, and hiking have to do with each other? hmmm... If you guessed ... your creativity, but you're wrong. If you guessed internship, you're pretty good at reading titles. If you guessed I'll be working at Los Alamos

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 16, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  random thoughts about choices why mit? why not mit?

  

  so much you can learn about mit, before any new info about mit doesn ... . some might say that you can't make a bad choice here, and that may be ... , there's only so much thinking you can make about the decision. the perfect

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 29, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT XC, looking sharp In which Maggie unveils the most awesome flowchart ever!

  

  ’s flowchart comes in-it takes all the worry out of pre-meet packing. You can ... ! So now you, too, can decide just what to wear to team dinners ... today I’m going to shake things up and show you what I’ve got up front

  • by Alina G. '11
  • September 20, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  leaving yet another senior writing about their last semester

  

  ’re a college student, for a brief time you can basically do whatever you ... time, though now i do so this is my answer now: you don’t get over no ... loneliness can be cured, and you gotta do that somewhere. When I am sick with

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 20, 2023
• Blog / Public Statements

  The Class of 2019 Graduates from MIT

  

  . You can watch these remarks, and the distribution of the diplomas (yes ... difficult done to you, is trying, as hard as you can, to tend toward the ... , you are graduating into a world where our entire shared political

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

  CPW Advice 2k19 come party wildly and/or play wii and/or perceive wonders and/or...

  

  miss, imo: i) The academic fair, where you can see all the courses MIT ... so you're honestly kinda meh. And that's all okay! I definitely can ... 'll share what advice I have, and hopefully it can be useful to some of you

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 8, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  head above the water (intro post) an inner dialogue about my first month of classes

  

  does that matter? You’re here now. me: but there’s people who can do ... actually been since I swam. This pool wasn’t like the neighborhood pool where ... could get used to the water temperature before going out further and

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 9, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  A slightly snarkier guide to visitors How to not be the kind of MIT visitor who drives me up the wall.

  

  't find secluded green spots where you can sit and enjoy life. You shouldn ... students in the winter -- once you get to the Infinite in the winter, you ... building 8. At this point, you can take a jag left, then right, and find

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Are you sure you don’t want to cancel? Double whammy.

  

  ." ...wow. Get ready folks, this is not an either or entry. You get both ... not think this is that important, but when you're rocking the twin extra ... 11:30 am. For those of you who don't know, the GRE is a computer based

  • by Bryan
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Self-Discovery Within An Internship guest post by Grace C. '21

  

  world as you solve new problems. Even if you get a straight-forward job that is traditionally accomplished through a certain way, you can create ... working with. The one thing you can’t learn from a textbook or a classroom

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 27, 2018
• Blog / MISTI

  “Heroes” The second in a trilogy of Berlin photo entries, featuring Michael Jackson.

  

  -language tour guide said, "You can tell the new architecture from the old ... picture of a broken chains statue that I saw on a postcard. You can normally ... les blues. If you got this far, you get a gold star in reading

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 14, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Fashion Free For All like the hunger games but we love each other

  

  Annual Fall Fashion Free-For-All, an event where MIT undergraduates can come in and get clothes for absolutely free. From formal wear to scarves ... you're gonna call me out for cutting but like that's literally just how

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 26, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Give the girl what she wants Ruth '07 wants pictures, she can have them.

  

  pretty well in high school calc or physics, you may want to get the credit ... recommendation I have is this: upperclassmen can be great resources. You'll have ... you through making your own decisions. Plus, don't forget you can always

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  #Winning the battle for awesome (fictitious) alumni

  

  good things" goes, but you can't deny that he's super smart. Maybe just a ... poll on Doonesbury.com asking readers where Alex should go to college. As ... Cornell isn't tired of losing yet. The whole thing can't even be called a

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Katharine Hepburn’s Brownies How Kate saved my kitchen cred.

  

  children...” or something, but I think you can see where I’m going. So ... . Because I truly, truly do. No, I can’t tell you my favorite flavor of ice ... not something that can be decided on a whim. So when I tell you

  • by Alina G. '11
  • July 26, 2010
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Letters from the 2023 decisions threads

  

  ongoing record of what happens after you don't get into MIT.  From @Wox, in ... nothing to lose. That's not something you get when you get admitted RD, nor ... I was in. I hope this can help provide some solace to you on this day

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 25, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  WTHBBQ! Chinese Buffet! Spring 2008 courses, with a really bad analogy, haha. (super long post o___o)

  

  's higher than Level 3 at MIT, you can actually get HASS-D credit for it (HASS ... feel like taking the Physics GIR is like being at a buffet with all-you-can ... difficult to get As in certain classes. However, in 8.02, you're told from the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 11, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  there was nothing further from the truth. So Ben what are you getting at ... tell you what you can or cannot do. For me I honestly did not believe I ... you from achieving anything you want to. I can’t give you the “key” to

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  One Day in the Life of Dora as told by the one and only Dora

  

  can’t believe you’ve never been to Zinneken’s. I got a Brussels waffle ... are interviewing me about my day. Me: Can you rate your day? Dora ... chill day. Me: Can you tell me your favorite part? Dora: Definitely the

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 4, 2016