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• Blog / MIT Life

  Kevin’s Room Portrait of an MIT Student

  

    You’ve probably heard this a million times in various iterations, but MIT is a kaleidoscope of vastly different people, all of us united by this one weird thing or…

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 26, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biological Engineering at MIT My thoughts, feelings, and opinions (and slight ranting) about biology both at MIT and in…

  

  MIT is, at the very least, interesting when it comes to biology. You will find there are two groups of people. There is group A that despises biology and if…

  • by Ben O. '19
  • November 20, 2016
• Blog / How to Food

  making dumplings jiaozi / guotie / gyoza /

  

  DOUGH: clean your counter and wash your dishes wash your hands too pour a few cups of flour into big bowl add one cup hot water knead add another cup…

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 19, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dear High School Senior I know you're stalking us

  

  Dear High School Senior Stalking College Admissions Blogs: The purpose of me writing this blog post is to give you some ideas on how to spend your time instead of…

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • November 17, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Virtual Reality, Startups, and Donuts in a particular order

  

  Cue Monday afternoon. I’m hungry because I decided to not spend money for lunch and just wait for dinner. -Minutes later- I was walkin’ through the Stata Center, when out…

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 15, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Fears and Hopes how to move forward

  

  The world looked very different today. The presidential election is over, and many emotions are running through many people on campus. Many people are shocked, others are glad, others feel…

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • November 9, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wish I Joined the MIT 100K as a Freshman four years of this would've been great

  

  I look at the clock – it’s 5 am. I started working at 3 pm. What just happened? No pset, no exam, no looming deadline. I spent the past 14…

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 8, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Finding Inspiration encouraging motivational inspiration

  

  Warning: cheesiness ahead! Halfway through this chaotic semester filled with too many midterms for me and too many college applications for many of you, I’ve watched motivation jump off of…

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • November 7, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Failing” at MIT for the record, this isn't

  

  For a lot of incoming MIT students, the story is the same. Four relatively easy years of high school seem to fly by; SAT’s, ACT’s, TGIF’s, BYOB’s, and a whole…

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 2, 2016
• Blog / Personal Projects

  A Recycled-Material Selfie Stick Engineering and problem solving in developing nations (the most important problems only, of course....)

  

  I think (and hopefully you do too) that the title of this blog post sounds like a fun, silly mini-project that an MIT student would do in their free time…

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 1, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Deadline Tomorrow Questions? I've got answers.

  

  Hello party people!  I know. November 1 is looming and you are probably feeling like Gary here:   As admissions counselor on duty today, I've been helping answer your calls…

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 31, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  wayfaring a pile of stuff that's happening

  

  Earlier today I realized I haven’t blogged since my hack documentation more than a month ago. There are a bunch of long, thoughtful, well-considered posts I’ve been meaning to write,…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 28, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a hell week do not try at home

  

  let me take a second to talk about the week i’ve had: last thursday, i went to not one but two P.E. classes because it was the last day of…

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • October 27, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Night Off Campus and some dancing

  

  6.046 (Design and Analysis of Algorithms) and I have an interesting relationship this semester, one that’s partly tortured, and partly beautifully soul-consuming. Still, on October 10 at 6pm, I can…

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 21, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2016 FAQ

  

  This is a blog entry specifically for finalists in the QuestBridge National College Match. If you don’t know what this is, don’t worry! If you are a finalist – congratulations!…

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 20, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Flow: Writing Like Yourself *insert prospective 2021 clickbait tagline*

  

  Not every writer is an artist. Not every piece of writing is a work of art. I realized this last year as a high school senior when I was frantically…

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 19, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  October potpourri rambling about college admissions, stress, fun, etc.

  

  I checked my Timehop today and saw a tweet about how I was stressed about college essays. It’s interesting how life changes. A year ago, college applications were at the…

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 16, 2016
• Blog / How to MIT

  Invitation to Cross-Register Guest post by Katherine W. '17 :D

  

  PSA: This is a really cool guest post by my friend Katherine W. ’17 who is course 20 like me and has aspirations of owning two Australian Shepherds at some…

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  my day in pictures

  

  9:41 am: in lab   5:51 pm: in lab again…   7:44 pm: …still in lab       it’s been one of those days. we have a lab assignment…

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 13, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to miss deadlines at MIT Policies for late assignments, and ways to keep your grades afloat when life inevitably happens

  

  There is this class I’m taking called 18.100B (Real Analysis) which I can’t tell if I love or hate. I’ll be working on the problem sets and thinking like, “man,…

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • October 12, 2016