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• Blog / Admissions

  Everything You Ever Wanted to Know All your wishes have been magically granted.

  

  ' better-like. Side note: I googled the advice, thinking there's no way ... I've done a couple of posts about life at MIT, so I figure it's time ... confused applicants. I'm not going to tell you how to get into MIT. That

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 13, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  E-mail It's like D-mail, only the next letter.

  

  I can remember, back when I was applying to MIT, there were two huge perks I was looking forward to if I got accepted. The first was a Brass ... just downright cool about having an @mit.edu address. Now, while I don

  • by Snively '11
  • September 30, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  The Art of Trying New Things V.2

  

  In my sophomore fall, I wrote the art of trying new things, where I wrote about all the clubs and classes I was doing. I've decided to revisit ... class is honestly the one I'm least excited about because I really, really

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 2, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice On How To Approach Your Interview Advice on how to approach your interview.

  

  .    Today I am going to offer my advice on how to approach the ... little research on the web, and think of some questions to ask. Remember

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 1 Dealing with failure and trying to move past it.

  

  You know what I thought I was good at after getting into MIT? You know what I thought was my shining glory, my thing to be proud of, the thing I would definitely do well at even at this really hard institution

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 21, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Roombaaaa The longest trip I've ever taken in my life

  

  . It didn't look that bad on Google Maps after all! Since I didn't want ... My story begins a couple weeks ago at Career Fair.... As I attempted ... in the Z-Center... I tried to orient myself to the layout of the

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 21, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  Bang! Update [3] Gotcha!

  

  It's 11:42 am Eastern time and I'm packing my bags. ¿Porque? The MIT ... guns, gotta love it. I'd never shot before coming to MIT, but pistol ... , MIT is awesome at pistol, and the range is on campus, why not join? I

  • by Snively '11
  • January 25, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  what i’m doing this fall leadership tingz

  

  completely stacked Google Calendar seems to indicate that I'll have much less ... I'm excited about the fall! Since sophomores aren't on campus, I won't be running from activity to activity anymore, but I do have a few

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 2, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  scootin’ and zoomin’ a transportation saga

  

  the act of collecting useless junk. i was googling about the word cruft ... Way back in September, I had the difficult, difficult task of writing ... , attempting to escape the zoom rooms which fill my life now. i love the color

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 18, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  I’m Awesome (at) Parkour! and other fun things i'm doing this Independent Activities Period

  

  meals, I tried out a new chicken marinade (it's the first one on Google ... IAP is in full swing, and I am having a blast! At MIT, the second ... internships, travel, take classes, and/or just have fun. Here's what I'm up to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 22, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  “All Aboard the Rage Bus” Travelling by bus.

  

  I’m very lucky in that my family lives in central Pennsylvania, which ... depending on traffic and wait time between connecting busses. I usually prefer ... happiness. I’ve collected 400 hours of bus angst over the past three years, of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 3, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions….. Don't Panic!

  

  with nerds from the future here at MIT). As I'm sure you already know ... students that means sweaty palms, quickened paces, and anxiety that WebMD can ... , then you are who I'm talking to right now. There's just one thing you

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 13, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s like a bag of sand! I go on a quest to legally obtain music and movies.

  

  I was going to save this post for whenever my summer job had given me ... of some less-than-important recent events, I decided to put up a short post. 1: I got pushed off the MIT Admissions front page. If you

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 29, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  A Post For Parents, Part 1 The next entry is for the kids...

  

  Applicants, if you're reading this, I hope that MIT is one of the ... . I am giving you a hall pass for this blog entry. This entry is for the people you call Mom and Dad. (I'm sure that you call them other things when

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  who cares about poetry? lots of feelings

  

  poem of mine I could find in Google Drive. It was my first-ever high ... than myself. Mostly, they lived in Google Documents that I shared with ... Hello! I have some new pandemic-flavored poems published as part of

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  scheduling woes advice for dealing with overenrolled/conflicting classes

  

  endeavor. Aside from making sure that I’m on track to graduating on time, there’s a lot of “darn I can’t take class A if I take class B because they have mandatory lectures at the same time, but if I push back class B to

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 15, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Winter Miscellania I'm (b)ready to go back to MIT al(b)ready.

  

  I have done exactly three things since winter holiday ennui sprouted ... keys obnoxiously expired while I was busy playing minesweeper* or something likewise pre-installed and useless. *I kid, because I have swept

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 27, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Good Will Mystery Hunting 63 hours of puzzle solving: a classic part of the MIT experience

  

  “It'll be over before sunrise.” The first time I heard it, midnight ... Virginia, the most important city in the world that night for all I cared ... explicable context. For two protein-deprived days, I had lived off the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 21, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  lifting heavy objects and the grungy basement gym

  

  basement gym, but I kinda like it. The paint is peeling off the walls. Thick ... . The gym is usually empty when I come down, however, so the lack of ... to open. There are big speakers to connect to, and I blast rock through

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2020 Reflections & 2021 Resolutions

  

  Hello and happy new year (kind of)! I was really bummed out to make this post since I feel like I didn't accomplish many of the resolutions I planned for 2020, but regardless I think it's good to always set goals! Gym

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 3, 2021