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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  “So what’s being a blogger like?” i spill the (lukewarm) tea

  

  Being a blogger is a bit of a weird job. Your only task is to write about your life, which seems easy as pie, but everything you write is expressly…

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 1, 2023
• FAQ / First-year application

  Can a family member contact MIT Admissions on my behalf, or ask questions about the content or status of my application?

  No, it is MIT policy to communicate directly with applicants about their applications, rather than with their family members. If you have a question, please email us from the email…
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tips for applying to UROPs

  

  UROP stands for “Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program” and it’s exactly what it sounds like. Undergrads get to work with professors, PhD students, and grad students on their research projects during…

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  the npc life office hours with lupe fiasco

  

  In middle school, I repeatedly listened to Lupe Fiasco’s hit singles “The Show Goes On” and “Battle Scars”, so when I heard he was teaching at MIT this spring, I…

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 26, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT writing faculty comment on GPT and other AI assisted writing in education

  

  I’m briefly emerging from hard work in the application mines to share with you some thoughts from MIT writing faculty on AI-assisted writing. You’ve probably seen some of the recent…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 24, 2023
• Blog / Events

  happy year of the rabbit featuring the wilg bunnies

  

  Happy Lunar New Year!! My living group, WILG, has pet bunnies, and conveniently, it is the year of the rabbit, so of course we had to incorporate them into our…

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 23, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  W.M.

  

  Last semester, I met W.M. in one of my classes, 3.019 (Intro to Symbolic and Mathematical Computing). They didn’t speak much and expressed a few strong beliefs about array indexing⁠04…

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 23, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  hike the desert pretend i am a lifestyle blogger

  

  This winter break, inspired by a chaotic night hiking trip in fall,⁠09 Josephine ‘24 and I led our group through the mist after nightfall, ekeing out spray-painted trail signs with…

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 21, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Purgatory My 2023 IAP

  

  This past month has been my first IAP spent entirely at MIT. IAP is a weird time. A lot of people say IAP is one of MIT’s best offerings and…

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  academic struggles zig-zagging in a world of straight lines

  

  Even as a kid, school never fit right for me. I recall my third-grade teacher told us all to “divide your page in half.” The other students made horizontal or…

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  i don’t know where you’re going but do you got room for one more troubled soul?

  

  I’ve been contemplating the future as of late. With just a semester of my undergraduate career left, it’s hard not to. Every second of my time seemingly is spent thinking…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  dress your wounds and stay in bed self care!

  

  cw: I discuss some injuries with varying amounts of needles and blood   I learned some valuable life skills in Denmark, from how to turn on an induction stove to…

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 18, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  i wish we’d grown up on the same advice alternate paths

  

  a few weeks ago i had a job interview. we had some extra time at the end so i took the chance to ask my interviewer (let’s call them p)…

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 18, 2023
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Diarios de Madrid: Semana 1 Cosas de Mi Primera Semana

  

  Hola! Estoy en España porque estoy tomando una clase que se llama “The Spanish Incubator”. Para esta clase, vamos a Madrid por tres semanas y estudiamos sobre la literatura de…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 16, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  the pnr mindset vs. the grindset mindset pnr shall be missed

  

  I had expected to adopt MIT terminology into my own vocabulary. Before I knew it, I was “pset-ing” or “UROP⁠21 Undergraduate Research Opportunity. -ing” instead of “studying,” and going to…

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • January 15, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  Bright IAP a post in two, kind of unrelated, parts

  

  part 1: My B. Song: Bright by Echosmith. part 1a: early action A week before I got into MIT early action, I was rejected as a QuestBridge finalist. My friend, was…

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 14, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 4) notes from the last day

  

  This is the fourth and last part of a series, consisting of a lightly-edited compilation of notes from my cross-country train trip from Boston to San Francisco. If you haven’t…

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 14, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 3) notes from the third day

  

  This is part three of a series, consisting of a lightly-edited compilation of notes from my cross-country train trip from Boston to San Francisco. If you haven’t yet, you should…

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 13, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 2) notes from the second day

  

  This is part two of a series, consisting of a lightly-edited compilation of notes from my cross-country train trip from Boston to San Francisco. If you haven’t yet, you should…

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  dont want to write ah

  

  i haven’t written about what’s been happening in my life at all in the past month, not here nor in my personal notes. i want to say that i’ve been…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 11, 2023